Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Prepared To Be The Old Guy
This weekend, I'll be doing my annual visit back to Purdue. Some years I get back there twice in the Fall but, on average, it's just one visit a year. Tim and I get season tickets each year and I wish I could go to every game but it's just not feasibly from 800 miles away.
Anyway, this weekend, I'll be heading to Indianapolis on Friday afternoon and then to the Purdue-Iowa game on Saturday. After the game, I'll be meeting up with some other friends and we're tentatively planning on a flashback to our youth with a night out at the Purdue bars. And yes, I'm fully prepared to be carded and have the doorman being younger than me and somewhat bemused that I'm ten years older than most of the other patrons. Whatever, fathead. I bet I make more than them, too.
There's nothing like college bar specials. We used to go to -- and I'm not making this up -- Penny Beer Night at a bar called TA Tom's. You paid $5 to get in and you got a huge cup that they just kept filling up, theoretically for a penny a fillup (according to legend, it's illegal to give away beer, so they had to charge a penny). It doens't sound like a moneymaker, but Tom's was a place that was usually down the list of people's preferred bars. It wasn't a bad place necessarily, but it was older and had less cache than some of the other bars. So they offered gimmicks like penny beer night and Breakfast Club. Ohhh, Breakfast Club.
On football game day mornings and other big Saturday mornings, several bars will open at 7 AM for "Breakfast Club." People come out, often dressed up like it's Halloween (not sure why), and start boozing. Or continue boozing, in many cases. Since not many college students can get out of bed at 6:30 on a Saturday morning, the majority of Breakfast Clubbers simply don't go to bed on Friday night, leave the bars at like 2:30 and head to a diner or other party. Then they change and head to Breakfast Club. Oh, God, to have that kind of energy again.
Anyway, this weekend, I'll be heading to Indianapolis on Friday afternoon and then to the Purdue-Iowa game on Saturday. After the game, I'll be meeting up with some other friends and we're tentatively planning on a flashback to our youth with a night out at the Purdue bars. And yes, I'm fully prepared to be carded and have the doorman being younger than me and somewhat bemused that I'm ten years older than most of the other patrons. Whatever, fathead. I bet I make more than them, too.
There's nothing like college bar specials. We used to go to -- and I'm not making this up -- Penny Beer Night at a bar called TA Tom's. You paid $5 to get in and you got a huge cup that they just kept filling up, theoretically for a penny a fillup (according to legend, it's illegal to give away beer, so they had to charge a penny). It doens't sound like a moneymaker, but Tom's was a place that was usually down the list of people's preferred bars. It wasn't a bad place necessarily, but it was older and had less cache than some of the other bars. So they offered gimmicks like penny beer night and Breakfast Club. Ohhh, Breakfast Club.
On football game day mornings and other big Saturday mornings, several bars will open at 7 AM for "Breakfast Club." People come out, often dressed up like it's Halloween (not sure why), and start boozing. Or continue boozing, in many cases. Since not many college students can get out of bed at 6:30 on a Saturday morning, the majority of Breakfast Clubbers simply don't go to bed on Friday night, leave the bars at like 2:30 and head to a diner or other party. Then they change and head to Breakfast Club. Oh, God, to have that kind of energy again.
Labels: Breakfast Club, Penny Beer Night, Purdue
