OSU LINEMAN DRANK BEER LIKE WHOA.

Thanks for reminding some of us we’re still hungover, Orson.

Pfffft. Lightweight.

burp

The calories angle is interesting.

What about the cost? That is a big brewski expense.

Perhaps instead of spending his tOSU money on Escalades like everybody else, he was drinking himself to obliteration daily.

What about the peeing factor?

What about the scoring with dames? Jr. can not get up when drunk. Or, if it goes up, it may go up in the wrong time.

What about academics? Well, who cares about that one, since profs can not tell who is drunk or not anyway.

Could there be some Wilt Chamberlin-style accounting going on here? Perchance?

Yes, kudos to Ohio State! They and Boone showed great pro-activity to end his problem….or, er, wait….maybe it was the fact that his drunk-ass got a DUI in April for being twice the legal BAC limit (or 8 times the limit for an underage person, if you want to be a dick about it) when he slammed into a stopped car at 2 am.
Link:
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/football/football.php?story=dispatch/2006/04/05/20060405-C2-01.html

Interesting quote: Tressel said Boone’s punishment “will not be made public,” i.e., run some laps, young man!

It’s case day every day!

Breathalyzers can go into the thousanths? I thought that they were only sensitive to the hundreths. Could there be some Enron-style accounting going on HERE?

I agree with the Wilt Chamberlain accounting statement. There have to be some fudged documents and outright lying about this. That amount of alcohol seems simply undoable on a daily basis, even if you start first thing in the morning. Hyperbozageration, thy name is Alex Boone.

Impressive. Not light beer but Budweiser. My grandfather(devout Bud Drinker) used to say when someone tried to give him a light beer,“If it ain’t heavy, I don’t want it.”

i believe the number simply because i lived next door to a devoted alcoholic and witnessed, first hand, drinking on this scale. a case of keystone tallboys before noon was the norm. although only about 50 this guy looked in his early 70s and once every six weeks or so all the blood vessels in his lungs would give and he would have to go to the emergency room.

between his weight, his physical activity and his history of drinking it is a disturbingly possible scenario.

this kid got the message after his first ticket and, thankfully, only accident. just for comparison, mel gibson, another admitted alcholic, got popped three times before his insane outburst forced him back to rehab. no matter how cynical you are, that’s a blessing and something to applaud him for.

while going through arraignments this morning, i just ran into this one. i figured this sort of thing would be your cup of tea:

“On 7-31-06 at 2011, I was dispatched to an armed dispute. Upon arrival, I observed the suspect, [name redacted], who matched the description (sic) given to me by dispatch of the suspect (white male, no shirt, blue jean shorts, and drunk, armed with gun).”

god i love jacksonville.

Having seen someone who drank like this—albeit at a lower body rate—it’s very possible for someone to drink this much beer proportional to their body weight for long periods of time. They’ll end up peeing every five minutes, sure, but it’s possible.

The head coach at Illinois was arrested in Jacksonville? ;)

Since he quit drinking, he’s lost a lot of weight…He’s about 315 now, but was actually over 350# this spring…

Wade Boggs thinks this guys drank too much.

Ohio teens used to down Little Kings (in seven ounce bottles) to artificially inflate their totals, but once you get to FORTY, that’s a hell of a lot of beer — even seven ounces at a time.

Andy,
Your just pissed Boone didnt get suspended and your boy from ND got suspended Yes, he was 19, and is underage. But it wasn’t during the season, (directly after a game) like the ND kid did. Still, he deserves some punishment (I already told you that on NCAA 2006, he was suspended the first two games of the season. Wierd..)

yea thats like 10,000 dollars worth of beer a year. Yikes. In all likelyhood he was probably getting it free somehwere.

I’d drink like that too if I lived in Ohio.

After reading this, all I have to say is:

“I gotta get my Goose on.”

Don’t forget your lint roller.

40 beers a day? Chuck Norris does that in his sleep.

This is to typical for Ohio State. They are a low class organization.

BHORS,

Powers-Neal didn’t get arrested for DUI right after a game. It was during the season, but he was at home visiting his family during a bye week.

why should the fact that this action didn’t happen during the season have an effect on the lack of punishment? that doesn’t make any sense. whether the guy got busted after a super bowl party (decidedly not during the college football season) or after a hallowe’en party (decidedly during the college football season), if the guy was actually going to get punished, the guy would get punished.

imagine all the money he could make recycling

Guinevere,
Would you get in trouble if you were drinking at work?
How about if you were at home and not on work time?

Good to see sensational journalism is still alive and kicking at this little blog. Yes, congrats, you got your link back up on Deadspin but at the expense of your integrity.

“Even during the season, I was drinking way more than I should have been. I shouldn’t be drinking at all — I’m not of age — but I just realized I’m not mature enough to drink. I’d have one beer, and it would lead to 24 or 36 — there were weekends when in one night I’d be putting down 40. "

This is the quote from Boone in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. (http://www.cleveland.com/search/index.ssf?/base/sports/115485384376540.xml?s2osf&coll=2&thispage=2)
Perhaps you lack reading comprehension, but that quote does NOT translate into 30 – 40 a day. It just means that when he DID drink, he was capable of such outbursts. Good work getting your link back up.

Also, Andy,
I remember a time in HIGH SCHOOL when you got drunk and drove thru a field and got picked up (blamed it on me) and didnt get suspended from baseball cuz it wasn’t during season. I didnt get suspended cuz i lied…

Well, Meat, thanks for assuming we have (had) integrity.

You are right on one thing—we didn’t include the link, which is now in the body of the text. It’s in the Dayton Daily News, and what we read was:

“Boone, a sophomore starter and former Parade All-American, said he was routinely downing 30 to 40 beers per day, a pattern of bingeing that began in high school and escalated when he arrived at OSU.”

So there you are. But feel free to go ahead and advance directly to huffy and hurt, since that seemed to be what you wanted to do in the first place.

Hufffy, hurt, and illiterate. At OSU, it’s not just a state of mind — it’s a major.

Better than beat up, black eyed, and raped- its a hobby

Only if you refer to the school up North, Bhors.

Thanks for straightening it out.

Bhors,
He was in spring training camps…if you read the link it says ‘he will not miss spring practice.’ Spring practice = Work time.
So even though you’re analogy about Guinivere drinking at work (which makes no sense because he can legally drink at home, Boone can’t, esp. when he’s driving) were to hold true, then Boone was on ‘work time’ and not ‘at home’.
And he wrecked into someone.

Guess what, I drink 50 days beers per day….Wait, make that 60 beers per day. There, see how easy it is to lie? The only thing more embarrassing than lying about how many beers you drink is writing a story about it.

“That amount of alcohol seems simply undoable on a daily basis, even if you start first thing in the morning.”

I’ve seen guys that weigh 200lbs less than this asshole drink that amount.

30 beers a day for a 350 pounder?

Pussy.

The hospital I work at has a place appropriately called “Special Care” that is attached to the ED. It’s our equivalent of the drunk tank. I’ve seen walking, talking, mentating people blow a .461 on the breathalyzer. The frequent flyers there typically blow >.30, and average a fifth to a liter/day, typically of vodka (equivalent to a case). Once your body gets used to it, you only get sick if you quit, so we send them out and consider them “sober” at .20. A 350-pounder could easily average a case/day

um, ok…thank you for the analogy. i still don’t see how drinking at a party (even if it is in season) equates to my drinking at my desk. i understand your sentiment, but i think it’s a little bit off. maybe i just don’t understand the college football sentiment or something. i guess i only see game time and practice time as “on the clock” time in all my shortsightedness. now, it’s one thing for me to go out an get plastered on, say a monday night and go in with a hangover on tues, but it’s totally different for me to actually be sitting at my desk with a screwdriver in a cup…
but i do think the fact that i can go into a liquor store and buy liquor without the use of a fake id or someone to hook me up has a bearining on the argument. i am a female who happens to be of age. if i want to have 10 shots of whatever, i can. my comment was more on the lack of punishment than the timing. (thanks, andy, by the way :))

24 hours in a day / 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?

Guinevere,
I had forgotten that it was during spring practice and not just in his time off. What I was trying to equate it to was if he was on his own time, it would be like you on your own time (except now i know your 21). my bad

gotcha, bhors…think nothing of it :) like i said, i guess in my short-sightedness, i really only see field time as “on the clock” time for a player. i wasn’t really considering the fact that Boone was actually taking part in spring practices as being work time. i mean, wrong is wrong, but illegal is, um, more wrong?
anyway, it’s all good :) it’s not like just about all of us haven’t gotten a hook up before the big 2-1…most of us are just too smart to go out driving after one.