Wade Boggs is a legendary man. The star athlete kickstarted his profession with the Boston Crimson Sox in 1982 and shortly solidified his positioning as some of the profitable baseball gamers in historical past. By the point he retired 17 years later, Boggs had a powerful .328 batting common with greater than 3,000 hits over 2,400 video games. In 2005, he was inducted into the Corridor of Fame.
However whereas the baseball participant is thought for his prowess on the sector, he’s much more well-known for the time he allegedly drank 107 beers in a single day — 73 of which had been apparently consumed on a cross-country flight from Boston to the West Coast. It’s an iconic feat that two baseball followers determined to commemorate this previous weekend after they offered the Corridor of Famer with a customized 73-rack of Miller Lite at Fanatics Fest NYC.
In a video posted to the sport’s competition’s Instagram account, the 2 occasion attendees might be seen approaching the athlete, every carrying one finish of the huge case to be autographed. The field, roughly six toes lengthy, is even labeled with specialty “Boggs” packaging and a Miller Lite decal studying “A High quality Sky Excessive Beer.”
As he’s signing his autograph, Boggs tells the followers that they “want the forged from ‘All the time Sunny’ to signal it too” — a reference, in fact, to the comedy sequence “It’s All the time Sunny in Philadelphia.” In season 10’s pilot episode, titled “The Gang Beats Boggs,” the rag tag group makes an attempt to beat the variety of beers Boggs drank on his flight by chugging as many brews as attainable on their very own cross nation flight. The episode introduced the Wade Boggs legend again into the popular culture fold, and revived the questions surrounding what number of beers he really consumed that day.
The precise variety of beers Boggs really consumed on that fateful day has at all times been one thing of a thriller, a truth the followers within the video allude to. Some argued he drank 50 on the flight, others mentioned it was between 60 and 70. Rumor has it that Boggs himself advised actor and author Charlie Day that it was 107 whereas the 2 had been on set filming “The Gang Beats Boggs.” Now, apparently, the quantity is a agency 73.
“So what number of did you drink?” one fan asks. “73,” Boggs responds, affirmatively.
73 or 107, it’s nonetheless extra Miller Lite than most might drink in every week — not to mention on a single flight.
