It’s Fielding Yost’s Birthday
A good excuse to celebrate with a Yost Toast: Shot-a-Minute. Who's with me?
Lol, nice...
April 30th, 2022 at 10:24 AM ^
Back in the day in Ann Arbor, we used to do what we called “century club “. It was a shot of beer a minute for 100 minutes. With double shots on the double numbers such as 11 and 22, and on your birthday. What it meant was 12 to 14 beers in a little over an hour and a half. That would kill me now.
April 30th, 2022 at 10:33 AM ^
Ah, yes. Century Club. I have fond memories of those nights.
Now that I think of it, I don't have any memories of those nights. But I'm sure they were fun...
April 30th, 2022 at 10:49 AM ^
In a way I’m embarrassed, but I do remember those nights. We did it once a year, and it was no big deal, fun, no problem, coherent, and no hangover the next day. My, how life has changed.
April 30th, 2022 at 12:04 PM ^
Wow, you are so cool.
fish, just the opposite. it is a confession of the foolishness of youth, and a gratefulness that it was not a continuing part of my life.
“We did it once a year, and it was no big deal, fun, no problem, coherent, and no hangover the next day. “, sounds more like a humble brag than a confession of the foolishness of youth.
A confession of the foolishness of youth would probably spend less time glamorizing excessive alcohol consumption and more time expressing embarrassment.
Quite judgmental, aren't we? He expressed his embarrassment, so just let it go.
And even if he didn't express embarrassment, who gives a shit? Why be embarrassed about something he did 20-30 years ago when he was in college? He didn't say he did anything harmful, like get behind the wheel. And it's obviously not something he continues to do in front of his kids, etc.
Not sure why you decided to come into a thread just to be a prick.
Kids die from drinking excessive alcohol in college even when they don’t get behind the wheel, no need to glamorize it. If calling that out makes me a prick in your mind, I have no problem being called a prick.
Yes they do, and it's tragic. But he was neither glamorizing it nor encouraging it. And the expression of embarrassment or remorse that you expect from him or anyone else isn't going to prevent these tragic deaths in the future.
I'll leave it at that.
I actually don’t expect an expression of embarrassment or remorse, nor did I ask for one. Just not a fan of people who glamorize behavior that can and does kill. Sorry you find that so offensive.
Do you carry pepper spray?
fish, i appreciate that you are probably perfect. i'm definitely not that and made comment along those lines. if its any interest to you, i would be one of those people who even 40+ years ago would've been vigilant about alcohol poisoning. one of our teammates on the hockey team at U of M, jamie todd, was pretty harshly hazed with alcohol. very good guy and obviously a very good hockey player. he stayed in school but chose not to play after that incident. that was a bummer.
1, Interesting straw-man that making a snide comment about your humble brag about being able to drink 14 beers in less than 2 hours was in some way claiming that I was perfect.
2. The fact that you thought nothing of drinking 14 beers in less than two hours but still viewed yourself as a voice of reason when it comes to alcohol poisoning certainly says something about the culture of drinking on the hockey team.
As did many college students (and probably many members of this board, I drank way more than I should have. The difference is that 20, 30 or 40 years later, most of us don’t feel compelled to come into a thread on a message board and tell tales of our drinking exploits.
Sure, all the high school and college kids who visit Mgoblog are bombarded by imagery about excessive alcohol consumption in many different forms and one more story on Mgoblog, probably won’t make much difference, but you are one of the most well respected voices on this blog, why use it to promote behavior that you seem to acknowledge is unhealthy? You’ve got three choices:
1. Choose not to say anything positive about the excessive drinking you did in college - this is the choice most people on the blog and in life choose.
2. Say things that glorify excessive drinking - this is the choice it appears to me that you made and I feel no remorse for having called you out on it. I also don’t think that calling you out on it somehow suggests that I think I am perfect.
3. Speak up against excessive drinking - not really the choice I intended to make here. I was just making a snide comment mocking you for bragging that you could drink 14 beers in less than two hours and feel absolutely no ill effects.
BTW - 30 years ago the hockey culture did not appear to have changed that much. The only interaction I had with hockey players in my dorm (different floor) was seeing one of them being carried into our building as drunk as any human being I have witnessed helped by a drunken teammate babbling his apologies about a hazing gone to far. Don’t know who the player was, but luckily he survived the night.
April 30th, 2022 at 11:21 PM ^
fish--- please shut up
April 30th, 2022 at 12:49 PM ^
Whoa. That probably would have killed me "then". 😉
Century Club and progressives. Amazing we survived the dorms
April 30th, 2022 at 10:35 AM ^
Which Fielding?
(Happy birthday, Mr. Yost. Congratulations on your many offspring.)
I think his point-a-minute team just scored another TD against Stanford.
Happy Birthday, Coach Yost.