For those of you that don’t know last weekend was the big college football rivalry game between the University of Washington and Washington State University known as the Apple Cup. The game was played in Seattle this year and it provided the perfect opportunity to take Das Boot out and introduce him to the WSU tailgate crowd. Honcho was kind enough to let me borrow his Jack Bauer messenger bag for transportation of Das Boot making it easy to move from tailgate to tailgate without fear of dropping and breaking Das Boot.
It took a couple of hours for the tailgate crowd to warm up but by 2:30 p.m. chants of “Das Boot!” could be heard sporadically through out the party. It was Yerzimbeck that pulled seven ice cold Busch Lights out of his cooler and said, “Let’s fill that fucker up!” to get the first Das Boot started. I kicked off the festivities with the first drink but didn’t last long once the brain freeze from the ice cold booze lights set in. Cory stepped up to bat about 10 minutes after the first Das Boot was finished and filled it up with Budweiser. You can definitely tell the difference moving from Busch Light to straight up Anheusers.
About six of us headed back to my place to watch the game on TV after the tailgate parties. We ended up doing two more boggs filled Das Boots during the game. Drinking a 7 beer Das Boot in a circle of 6 people is one way to get fucked up fast.

The best part about doing the group Das Boot is that you get to see multiple bubbles. In Beerfest one guy drank the whole boot so there was only one bubble. When you are dealing with a group, depending on the magnitude of drinkers you have got, you are going to see at least 2 but possibly 5 bubbles as people try to drink down past the ankle but then turn the boot upright again. Bubble 2 is usually the best because the drinker thinks the poor sap before of them took care of the bubble and then it hits them in the face. Here are few pictures of Das Boot making the rounds at the tailgate party. Just for reference the picture above is Das Boot with about 5 beers. It takes at least 7 beers to fill it up to an acceptable group drinking level.



5 responses so far ↓
1 paco // Nov 28, 2007 at 10:06 pm
My German roommate wants you to know that “das boot” means “the boat” in German and your column “Germans are ridiculous” sucks ass, but that is just his opinion…
2 paco // Nov 28, 2007 at 10:28 pm
is it me or is Hank breakin of a twenny twen twen for a huskie in that last pic?
3 Mitch Martin // Nov 29, 2007 at 5:17 pm
@Paco
I am just going with the name provided in Beerfest. If your German friend doesn’t like it then he should take it up with the movie makers.
4 Mr. Wonka // Nov 29, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I lived in Germany for 2 years, and I love Germany…but it is ridiculous…
5 Jake // Nov 30, 2007 at 11:38 am
The makers of Beerfest (broken lizard) started something with this one… The name may be ridiculous, but DAS BOOT is a lot of fun and here to stay. Thank you Germany for your 2.0 liter beer boots
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