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There was a popular news host here named Tim Russert who was at the game while in college. When asked how much he had to drink that night, he said "I went there with $2.00 in my pocket, you do the math."
In America the term teenaged
Implies the subject person is a minor under 18.
18 and 19 year olds are considered adults especially in the
early 70s when the voting age had
gone down to 18 from 21 in 1973
Also, don't forget that people routinely smuggled alcohol INTO the stadium. As was mentioned in the video, an umpire was almost hit in the head with a gallon glass wine jug that had been smuggled in. My uncle took me to a lot of Atlanta Braves games, and he loved sitting in the "picnic area" right down the first base line. It was just a fenced-in area with a few picnic tables like you'd see in a park. My uncle liked it 'cos they were the cheapest tickets and you were also in the middle of foul territory, so odds were good a foul ball would land near you. In any case, seems like there was always a church group at one table, and next to that you had a table with four young male friends in sleeveless t-shirts that somehow managed to sneak 48 beers in their cooler into the game (above the sodas and sub sandwiches, which were allowed).
I was gonna mention this too. They were letting them bring explosives in the park I doubt they cared about alcohol. The browns played in this same stadium and there were always bottles of liquor being passed around the dawg pound. I'm sure plenty people tailgated first and showed up to the stadium hammered also.
Trying to imagine the scale of destruction in the aftermath of a 10 cent beer night at a Philadelphia Eagles game🤣
Oh my!
The army would have to drop a nuke...😂😂
Philadelphia would look like Hiroshima in August 1945
I came to this video specifically because the Phillies have stopped dollar dog night because apparently we can't even handle that moderate level of debauchery.
@ANunes06 No way! I hadn't heard that. I heard on WIP their team bus was in a collision earlier this week in Florida. Hopefully that is not a bad omen for the upcoming season🤞
The legal drinking age changed from 18 to 21 in 1984. I was 20 yrs old in 1984 and was legal for 2 years, then I had to wait a year to become legal again. I celebrated becoming legal age twice.
My uncle had the same issue. He said at midnight the day it too affect the bar tenders told any under 21 had to leave .
@@adirondackmama7724 Nooo! Thats awful. It was hard to have the right and then have it taken away. Give your uncle my condolences, hah!
Yeap same here was pissed off dang it
@@lisaray9944 Hah, me too. Too bad I can’t go back and be pissed off again. 😏
Louisiana didn’t change until the late 90s.
"It was probably cheaper than going to the pub", Office bloke ginger is hilarious! A beer was around $1.00 in 1974. So yes, 10 for the price of 1 is cheaper than going to a bar or pub...
A six pack of beer was avg $2 in 1974
It wasn’t a dollar here. More like 50 cents in a bar.
To be fair I think he’s including the cost of the ticket, transportation to the game, maybe parking, in addition to the beer.
Beer was usually sixty five cents at Cleveland games in 1974.
Just the fact that Billy Martin was involved speaks volumes.
That guy was a nut
He was such a Hot-Head.
If anyone was going to rally his team to attack the fans with bats...
Yup, Billy Martin would have to be your first guess.
Major Asshole Billy Martin. When he died, drunk, on Christmas day, the attitude was "it figures."
@@hcombs0104 it was so inevitable
This was crazy! I was 13 years old listening to these games on the radio. After the 'basebrawl' in Texas, the Cleveland manager gave an interview saying "just wait 'til they come to Cleveland later in the season". Billy Martin, the Rangers manager told the media, "it won't matter because nobody will show up to watch the games in Cleveland". So they came up with the 10 cent beer idea. These were great photos, I can still name most the Rangers players in this video. Thank You for this reaction!!
Ohhhhhh shit, 10 Cent Beer Night, here we go!!! Next up should be Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in 1979, or The Heidi Bowl with the Raiders and the Jets in 1968!!
Yes, check out "Disco Demolition Night became a fan riot set to Take Me Out to the Ball Game | The Worst" by Secret Base!
Ah all the fun ones, can't beat the late sixties or seventy's for "Good old family fun".
@@thomasohanlon1060 Back in the day when you'd crack open a beer with your 10 year old, you take the family out for a baseball game, and if you didn't like your boss, a quick uppercut to the jaw said more than words ever could.
@@serpentisma I know and you always watched what you said because the results or should I say ramifications were dam near instantaneous.
@@thomasohanlon1060 Yup. The mild threat of an ass kicking could keep your ass in check. lol
I was at this game with my dad. I was 9 and we were there with a few other dad's and their sons. We left in the 4th after the first streaker hit the field, so we missed all the real violence. Those girls were high schoolers, so probably 16 or 17. The fireworks were about the size of cigarettes, which is how guys got them into the stadium: in cigarette packs. Also, you should realize that the old Cleveland Stadium sat 80,000 (and the Browns, Cleveland's NFL football team would routinely sell the place out). So 25,000 meant the place was still less than 1/3 full. So by the 2nd inning, people had already moved to the seats closest to the field, irrespective of what tickets they bought. By the third inning more than half the people there were falling down drunk. The group my dad and I were with had been sending one guy to get 6 beers and then all the guys would have one, so by the fourth, they'd only had 3-4 each. Some guys around us had had 10 or 12 by that time. The game was a mess, the fans were a mess, and the stadium was a mess by then end of it all.
Why would the fireworks be restricted to Cigarette packs? That's a popular way to get stuff in today but you could get in with tons of stuff even in the 90's. Bag's hardly checked.
Why was it so restricted?
@@josephgood2704 just ease bro. Cherry bombs fit perfectly in a pack of cigarettes
I'm from NJ and a Giant's fan whose family had season tickets since 1976. Dad and I went down to Philadelphia once in 1980, the only road game I was ever to, they served beers the size of small buckets and guys were pissing in the sinks and puking, and I saw at least 30 fights break out, I was 13.
The good old Vet! I was always curious how a bowl-shaped stadium with concourses going entirely around couldn’t have more bathroom capacity.
That sounds like a scene from F is For Family lol.
Philly's got the best AND THE WORST fans, in the world. Just ask Bill Burr.
45 year old Phillies fan, that certainly sounds like the Vet! Home of its own jail, courtroom, and judge Seamus McCaffrey.
I was stationed at U.S. Naval Communications Station, Londonderry, Northern Ireland in 1970-1971. At the enlisted men's club the going price for a beer or a mixed drink was 25-cents. Given the pay scale of the that time, many sailors found it difficult to make their paycheck last the two week period. The civilian management of the club was a bit concerned about the lack of patrons on the night before payday. It was normal for a Happy Hour each day for an hour starting at 6 p.m., during which all drinks were 5-cents. To entice a patronage for the night before payday, the manager extended Happy Hour but with one caveat. After one hour, the drinks would remain at 5-cents as long as no one went to the head (the loo). Once that happened, the price went back up to 25-cents. The intended results by the manager was achieved. The crowd was good as long there were nickel drinks. Whoever gave in and was the first to go to the head were ridiculed by their shipmates. This went on for a couple of months or four pay cycles until the medical officer got wind of it. He went to the manager and told him he could no longer have an open ended Happy Hour until someone relieved himself. The reasoning, he explained, was that the manager was not aware of what sailors were willing to do for cheap beer and booze. That they were at risk of actually tearing their bladders apart.
In 1974, in most states in the US to serve and drink is the age of 18. Eventually and gradually each state started raising the age to 21 in the 1980s
States has to raise the age to 21 or forfeit federal funding for highways
@@robertk2007 you’re right, that was bill that was earmarked
A young man can go to war, but not have a beer... seems legit.
@@badpop987 lol he gets his beer in the military. who are we kidding ?
But there were no age limits to serve alcohol.
You could be 16.
Talking about fights at sporting events, back in the day there was a saying: "I went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out!"
In Texas, in 1973, the age was lowered to 18 to match the new legal voting age, and in 1981, the minimum purchase age was raised to 19 to try to get the beer out of high school ages. In response to the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, the minimum purchase age was raised to 21 in 1986, where it remains today.
"Take me out to the ball game
Take me out with the crowd
Buy me some peanuts and crackerjack
I don't care if I never get back
Oh then root, root, root, for the home team
If they don't win, it's a shame
For it's one, two, three strikes you're out
At the old ball game"
I'm a Cleveland sports fan. You guys already watched the browns Jaguars game. We get a lil rabid .
Bottlegate... We, Browns fans, don't F' around.
Lmfao, no u guys dont.
Well it’s mainly cus your teams blow.
Easy when everyone has rabies.😂
That we do
That must have been a wild night. Imagine a stadium doing that now with how the world is.
Free Corona
@@liviawong6928 Facts
Growing up in Cleveland. I approve this message. ;)
the 70s were a wild time. No rules. Must have been a great time to be young
People that love living in Cleveland have probably never left Cleveland.
Wrong. Many do stay, but some like myself got out.
Cleveland is my hometown and when I was a kid in the 60s I did think it was the Greatest Location in the Nation. Then I grew up and couldn't wait to leave. I did in 1987 and have never regretted it. The Cleveland of my childhood makes for fond memories, but nowadays, I Love NY.
I went for 4 months .. and I was like yeah that was enough I’m out
Two generations of my family have been raised in Cleveland, left after college, and then moved back. I live every day fearing that I could make it three.
People living in Texas probably have never left that $hithole State.
FYI, $0.10 in 1974 is about $0.53 today. Not quite the same, but still a screaming bargain!
Disco Demolition next....
Imagine sitting in the stands, drinking, Tencent beer and watching professional baseball players beat the crap out of each other with baseball bats. My kind of game
Hilarious 😂
Dude's I was there that night. It was WILD. I sat in the stands drunker than hell and laughed my ass off. I was 16. No I D Check back then. Loved it.
Look up "Malice at the Palace," a brawl during a National Basketball Association game between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers where Pacers players rushed the stands and attacked Pistons fans in the crowd after someone threw a beer at one of the players, which turned into a near-riot in the stands. Similar energy to this, but much more recent and caught on video. Then watch Bill Burr's bit about the brawl. It's great.
They did it on Patreon.
Thanks for doing this one! Hahaha thruppence. Reminds me of Mary Poppins. Love you all’s banter. Very funny. 👍🏽
In the 70’s the Houston Astros were playing the Phils. The deal was if maybe the greatest third baseman of all time Mike Schmid struck out when the orange light was on we would get free beer till the 7th inning. And he did. My friends decided on my suggestion to go to the top level where there wasn’t a lot of people. Great idea, thank you very much. We were already drunk. Got 14 beers for free. Still don’t know how I carried all of them. Thanks Mike Schmid. Go Stros!!!
1:03 'Just a selfie' LOL!!
I was born and raised in the midwest. A good portion of the country folk don't buy fireworks. They make them. Ain't know small fire crackers in the making. My uncle once made a firebomb, put it on a small raft, and shoved it off into the river. I felt the heat 200 feet away. Best sunday morning of my life! (Just kidding hah it was the 4th of July.) I guess this was in Cleveland though. Idk what they do in Ohio. I suspect they weren't throwing firebombs.
This is the best portrait of American sports ever. Roll Tide and Go Braves.
Don't forget another promotional disaster: "Disco Demolition Night" in Chicago. Total riot too.
"Teen-age" likely means the girls were 18-19. Back in the 70s, 18 was the legal drinking age. It's not likely a ball team would have employed underage girls to serve beer in skimpy tops.
They were not employed by the club. It was subbed out by a sub. Some of those chicks might have been 16
@@robertprice6830 honestly who cares if they were?
@@nickpatterson6099 where do you get that I care. I was there that night. Drunker than shit laughing my ass off at the whole situation.
Lol. Looking forward to watching this one!
This Wierd History Channel has a TON of great content.
You should do more baseball videos, we are in baseball season now and it's a very big sport here.
I bought a 10c beer night tshirt in Cleveland, 15 years ago .. they still talk about it over there
Oh this'll be a treat
And back then most of those people got in their cars and drove home hammered the parking lot would have been more dangerous than the stadium
Guys this video only scratches the surface of what happened. The reason that Ten Cent Beer night happened in the first place was because the Rangers Manager Billy Martin said that he wasn't worried about retribution because "Cleveland doesn't have enough fans in the stands to worry about." If you get a chance to look up "10 Cent Beer Night- A Look back" on youtube, it goes into a lot more detail and has video of people who were there including the fan that started the riot on the field. It's only like a 5 minute video but it's much more interesting.
Ten cent beer night is big in Texas Ranger lore, as we don’t have a championship to remember. Billy Martin was a famous NY Yankee player and several time manager. He was always ready for a fight!
Disco Demolition was another moment of pride in the dark history of America's pastime.
25.000 people, 60.000 beers consumed...sounds like a normal football game.
in my ol town, college days. Hardcore it was called. 1989
6am , doors open , close at noon. open again at 2pm til 2 am. This is hardcore.
Homecoming. Its illegal to give beers away...but! Local bar figured out 1 dollar for 10 tickets. Each one is good for a raffle drawing on the hour AND 1 beer.
So every hour a key chain, or picture frame was won. But really.
Everyone won. two party's in one day.
Many a child with some sort of deformity was conceived those nights.
In '82 I was 17 but used a fake ID. There was a club called Mr. C's Rock Palace that served 10 cent beers and 25 cent vodka drinks once a week. It got really crazy those nights. One night, when we left the club, we found our ride's car on fire. We didn't know her well and we were drunk, so our biggest concern was who's going to give us a ride now? It closed that year after a murder in the parking lot. I was young and stupid and apparently, thought I was invincible. Such a shame. Jimmy Page, Rod Stewart, The Doors, and a lot of other big musicians played there. Unfortunately, that was before my time.
Back in 1983 I was a senior in High School where I lived Wisconsin it was legal to drink at 18. One of the local bars had a day time happy hour 10 cents for a tap beer. Me and my buddies would leave school at lunch time and go get hammered for a couple of bucks. Some days we made it back to class other days not a chance.
The thing the narrator failed to mention was that the Indians also gave away promotional miniature wooden baseball bats that were like a foot and a half long. Not great planning on the Indians marketing team. I remember this happening as I have lived in Cleveland my whole life and was a kid at the time of this disaster. Lol
I knew about the river catching on fire, that was common news and the reason folks make fun of Cleveland to this day. The streaker and 10 cent beer night i never knew. Great find.
Remember, this is the same city as Bottlegate.
I worked in a bar here in Texas back when I was in my 20’s we had coin night . For two hours you could buy drinks with any coin . People would bring a roll of pennies and drink for two hours . My husband and best friend came in to drink one night . I got them so drunk they both where beside their trucks picking . Tips where great that night of the week could walk away with 200.00 bucks in my pocket . This went on for 4 years gotta love the 80’s
That bar was on Cooper in Arlington....the radio ad went...any coin any drink.
It was low alcohol 3.2 beer.... those people came to the stadium drunk
Its pretty common to have $1 Beer Nights as promotions nowadays
In Cleveland not just the river caught on fire, but their mayor also caught fire
Cleveland sure was the mistake on the lake
This is a textbook what not to do at any large gathering anywhere ever. Billy Martin was an animal.
Also remember somebody had a gallon jug of wine -late in the game - so there must have been plenty of outside booze too.
😂😂 LOL I’m laughing my ass off!
Minimum age to serve alcohol is between 18 and 21 depending on the state.
Lmao Daz that was quick
The Cuyahoga River is the river that has cought fire several times. It actually caught of fire from a traffic accident involving a fuel truck only a couple of years ago.
This is interesting because I grew up near a city called South Bend Indiana where Notre Dame College is located. The bars around there used to have penny pitcher nights. Drinking age was still 18 and I can remember my brother and I entering one bar to get pitchers then leaving with the pitcher to hit a bar across the street that had pool tables but didn't have penny pitchers. We would do this all night with a police officer at the front door of the bar hosting penny pitchers.
Just want to que the Parks and Recreation meme, God I love this country so much.
There was also a guy who pitched a no hitter on acid. You guys should definitely check that out!!
I would have been the guy who goes through the line, get's 6 at a time early on 3x over then heads to the upper deck sits back and laughs watching the mayhem. Sounds like a hell of a game
Same
Ballplayers weren't doing roids back in 1974. Steroids, and PED's weren't a major problem in baseball until about 20 years later.
In the US now at Baseball games, no beers or alcohol is served after the 7th inning.
Sounds like a good time to me.
Not same, but more famous and way bigger crowd, Disco Demolition night at Comiskey Park in Chicago. Already a huge baseball stadium, drunk fans were climbing in from outside before the crazy really started between doubleheader with Detroit.
Oh man, "whammers." I gotta remember that one! 😂😂😂😂😂
There is a great picture on the inter web of Billy Martin lead the Rangers into battle with baseball bat in hand.
Go look up Billy Martin. He is one of the most unique and colorful professional coach ever. He was fired from several jobs because of bar fight.
I grew up and spent a good chunk of the 90's living and working in a summer resort area in the Midwest US. On the weekend following Labor Day weekend (Labor Day being the traditional "end of the season"), a bar I frequented would do Penny Draw Night. If you could get to the bar, which was generally 5-10 people deep, you could get a beer for 1/100th of a dollar. It was a mess, but great fun. And although it was a mess, the bartenders did certainly earn quite a bit of cash. Hundreds of locals, many of whom were also bartenders and waiters and other service providers in the area, throwing money at them was pretty profitable.
I don't know about 1974, but nowadays, fans at professional baseball games are not allowed to buy beer after the seventh-inning stretch.
Great content, blokes!
I'm from the philly area do this is solid gold to me bad behavior and sports are life to Philly folks , it ain't right , but we do have a whole jail in our stadium.
i think the OG m80's were legal in the 70's lmao pretty big bang
I'd get pretty stoked up over a 2.50 beer night.
For player vs. fan fighting, you need to see the Malice at the Palace, Pacers vs. Pistons brawl from 2004, lol, Absolutely crazy.
They already did it. It got blocked so it's on their Patreon channel.
Getting in a batting cage as an adult who's never swung a baseball bat? Wear a helmet 🤣
60,000 beers for ~23,000 fans isn't that much, especially when you consider they were 3.2 beers. Bunch of lightweights.
In the early 80's, I was selling beer at a gas station that had an on/off premise permit (basically a bar in the service bays.) I was 14-15 years old. That has definitely changed now, btw.
You blokes should look at disco demolition night at the Chicago White Sox. Also 1970s baseball chaos.
Check out Disco Demolition night at White Sox. Even stupider.
Let's not forget disco night at old comisky park.
Now do disco demolition night at Comiskey
There was a bar in the town where I went to colloge that had "Thisty Thursdays" when well drinks were 50 cents. You could get hammered for less than $5. But that was back in the 90s.
Last time I went to a game, it was $10 Beer Night.
Beers cost 20 cent that year , its called a bogo sale . Buy One Get One
I'll bet those girls were under 18. Remember, this was 1974, a lot of things have changed since then. The stadium management probably told those teenage ushers to go out to the beer truck and start serving beer because they were afraid of a riot if the crowd was forced to stand in line for too long. Of course, that didn't work.
I don't' know what the legal age to serve beer was back in '74, but I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't any age limit set at the time.
I was in college in 1999-2000 and we use to have 25 cent beer night..it was FANTASTIC.
Every video on Office Blokes Try should involve beer.
60,000 beers SOLD! They're not including the beers for free.
Cheap beer nights are still popular at minor league games. So fun
MLDA (Minimum legal drinking age) was 18 in 1974 Ohio.
In 1984 congress passed the national minimum age drinking act to 21, to be enacted by Oct 1986. The tied it to federal funding for federal highways. If the state didn't change the MLDA by that date, the lost federal funding in the offending states for building and maintaining federal highways. By 1988, all 50 and DC had sent the MLDA to age 21. That includes purchase and consumption
10:20 "I presume in America you have to be over a certain age to serve alcohol." - Not sure about the 1970s, but from the late 80's until now you have to be 18 to serve alcohol and 21 to pour alcohol. So, a waiter who is 19 can serve your beer or cocktail or glass of wine to your table, but if you order a bottle of wine (to be opened table-side), someone who is 21 would have to come out and do that for them.
in 1974 i dont think a draft beer cost much more than 10 cent in a pub.
I'd suggest the miniseries (or book) The Bronx Is Burning for anyone wanting baseball, involving Billy Martin, set against a city falling apart in the '70s.
Guys you should look at Disco Demolition Night in Chicago. They blew up Disco records on the field
5:54 Dave...(a story)... Daz: Allegedly. 🤣
Check out The Disco Demolition video (the 9:52 version). It was a Rock n' Roll radio station anti-Disco promotion in Chicago. In between a double-header they were going to blowup disco records.....you bring 'email and they will blow them up. (PS: in the video you will an announcer named Jimmy Piersall. He player for 17 years but suffered from a "bi-polar" disorder. He did some WIDE th u ngs. They made a movie of him, "Fear Strikes Out" (based on a book by the same name)
18 years old to serve beer 21 to serve wine/alcohol in California
Have you done disco night at the Chicago White Sox game? Same type of riot happend while destroying disco records. Lol
The Great Beer Putsch of 1974