Forty years ago today... (1 Viewer)

[johnnycakes]

Indians host 10-cent beer night.

I guess this is what happens when Indians drink?

 

[beavers]

 

[Frank Drebin]

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11025673

 

[Politician Spock]

I propose that the producers of the WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey Promotion episode produce a movie based on this event.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Indians host 10-cent beer night.

I guess this is what happens when Indians drink?

Not exactly a feather in their caps.

 

[zamboni]

Indians host 10-cent beer night.

I guess this is what happens when Indians drink?

Jeff Burroughs also won the AL MVP that year. I'm sure the killer glasses were a tipping point in the voting.

 

[Parrothead]

Indians host 10-cent beer night.

I guess this is what happens when Indians drink?

Not exactly a feather in their caps.

probably lots of red faces in the promotions department after that

 

[TheIronSheik]

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play?

 

[Captain Quinoa]

The game was called then because fans had stolen all three bases.

Surprised my dad wasn't at this game. That man put away a LOT of beer in the 70's.

 

[Amused to Death]

Q. Could you tell the crowd was drinking up a storm?

A. The late Tim Russert was there that night. When asked how many beers he drank he said that he had two dollars with him. Then he said, "You do the math."

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Q. Could you tell the crowd was drinking up a storm?

A. The late Tim Russert was there that night. When asked how many beers he drank he said that he had two dollars with him. Then he said, "You do the math."

Great quote.

 

[rockaction]

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11025673

Everything was catching fire

eta* laughing about the river and the mayor's hair during the welding incident making national news, not so much the game or the explosives being hurled. It was the deadpan way Golic put it that made me crack up.

 

[Fennis]

Hell, I wish we had $5 beer night.

 

[Joe Summer]

I propose that the producers of the WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey Promotion episode produce a movie based on this event.

"As God as my witness, I thought Indians fans could hold their liquor."

 

[mquinnjr]

I've heard about this, but never really researched into it. HFS, what a hilarious cluster-you know what. The cherry bombs and fighting was not funny, but everything up to them is why I assume beers are like $7+ bucks at a game - crowd control.

 

[Politician Spock]

I propose that the producers of the WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey Promotion episode produce a movie based on this event.

"As God as my witness, I thought Indians fans could hold their liquor."

 

[Norman Paperman]

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play?

Nope, that was twenty years ago today.

 

[17seconds]

19 streakers

that's kind of a high number

 

[Tom Servo]

I propose that the producers of the WKRP Thanksgiving Turkey Promotion episode produce a movie based on this event.

"As God as my witness, I thought Indians fans could hold their liquor."

 

[Tom Servo]

And it is truly sad that I'm old enough to remember this.

 

[Galileo]

I am embarrassed by the effort of my home town...

There were 25,134 fans.

60,000 Genesee beers at 10 cents each.

Fuggin' lightweights

 

[johnnycakes]

You take one barrel of Missouri River water, and two gallons of alcohol.� Then you add two ounces of strychnine (poison) to make them go crazy�because strychnine is the greatest stimulant in the world�and three plugs of tobacco to make them sick�an Indian wouldn't figure it was whisky unless it made him sick�and five bars of soap to give it a bead, and half a pound of red pepper, and then you put in some sagebrush and boil it until it'sbrown.� Strain into a bottle, and you've got Indian whisky; that one bottle calls for one buffalo robe and when the Indian got drunk it was two robes.�--�Teddy Blue� Abbott in We Pointed Them North.

 

[Native]

"The game was called then because fans had stolen all three bases"