Anonymous

Login / Create Account

Great story from The Windsor Star newspaper today about one Canadian's impressive NASCAR beer cap shrine. Sam Thornton's garage is festooned - yes, I just said festooned - with more than 46,000 beer bottle caps. (Budweiser and Coors only. And no, he did not drink all of those beers himself.) The beer caps complement the retired Chrysler worker's collection of NASCAR memorabilia. The garage is also where he and his friends and family watch races. 

Said Thornton, "There's lots of laughs and we razz each other because we all have our favourite drivers. It only gets quiet in here for the last 20 laps because that's when it all happens."

Catch that, NASCAR? Even Canadians think the Sprint Cup is a tad slow. And this is a country that gets fired up for the Winter Olympics, Bryan Adams concerts and the metric system.

Props to Thornton on the collection. You know you have an awesome Man Cave when the wife wants no part of it. According to Thornton, the wife wants no part of it.

Ever wondered what it would be like to drink seven beers at once? Of course, you have. You're a man. You think about things like that all the time. My brothers and I like to talk about how many 5-year-olds we could take in a fight. (The Web site says 19, but I know in my heart it is more; like closer to 70.) We're men. We think big. When a stranger hands us the business end of a drainage pipe and asks if we want to drink seven beers in a row, we don't walk away. We man up. We swallow hard. We take the challenge. Then ... we fall over.

Remember this photo next time some jerk-off tells you that NASCAR fans are all a bunch of drunken hicks. While it might be true that a certain percentage of us are drunk and, indeed, hicks, it is also true that bad fan behavior permeates all sports - including our national pastime. A fan at Wrigley Field last night dumped a beer on Shane Victorino while he was attempting to catch a fly ball. (Which, amazingly, Victorino caught. The guy's a pro.)

According to Deadspin, the perpetrator was this guy:

I know what you're thinking: What a douche. The stupid white sunglasses. The cocked hat. The unnecessary wristband. This guy has Tool Academy written all over him. And he is a tool. When security came, he fingered one of the guys sitting next to him and security tossed the wrong guy, leaving Captain Douche to get away clean. Chicago police are now asking for anyone who has info to contact them. Video after the jump.