TMJ4- Packers fans at one Milwaukee-area brewery didn't have to pay for a single beer Sunday during the game after the team was shut out by the Ravens.
The Bavarian Bierhaus restaurant and brewery offers a special during Packers games: free beer until the green and gold scores. On Sunday, that backfired as the Packers lost to the Ravens 23-0 and fans were able to drink for free the entire game. General Manager Scott Bell says around 200 people were packed into his establishment during the game, and he and his staff served between 275-300 cups of free beer. Some fans had more than others. "Wisconsinites and Packers fans are at least somewhat responsible," Bell said. Bell has no intentions of discontinuing the promotion, saying he believes the green and gold will get things rolling. -------- I'm calling shenanigans here. I don't know what aspect of the truth is being egregiously stretched here, but I'm more likely to believe that 275-300 pounds of cheese curds were ingested as Green Bay got railroaded than I am to believe that 200 Wisconsinites sat at a goddamn brewery and - on average - drank about a beer and half per person while watching their playoff hopes slowly die without a single point for 3.5 hours. I want to see the fine print and I want to see it now, because if this promise of free booze is as it appears then the Bavarian and its Bier would be out of haus and home. I respect a good old fashioned Sunday special, but not when there are bunch of unspoken disclaimers and qualifiers attached. Where is the "when Aaron Rodgers is under center" asterisk? Are we going to pretend there's no "null and void after the first quarter" clause? I don't know much about Milwaukee, but I know the fine folks that share a home with the Brewers love their beer in abundance, and that tends to disappear faster when it's unpaid for. So Scott Bell is either protecting himself from false advertising and over-serving or he's protecting his clientele from being labeled the type of binge drinker that any red blooded American would become if sentenced to a scoreless, bottomless afternoon that likely signaled the inevitably premature end of a promising season. I'd hope it's the latter so that those who were forced to watch Brent Hundley play quarterback all afternoon didn't somehow end up even more disappointed than necessary after kickoff.
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