I'm an ER nurse and have had a lot of cases of alcoholics who were walking and talking with me while having a blood draw verified BAC of 0.4+. Hell I've worked with individuals who were awake and conversational (though not the most coherent) at 0.55 once or twice. Given his size, tolerance, and passage of time I think it's feasible for him to have had around 40-50 beers. While the story is probably exaggerated, I imagine it beers more truth than some might imagine.
Ive been at house parties as a teen and been so drunk (underage) ive walked right into the house unkowning that the police had gathered everyone and were giving breath tests. Stating "guys i think the cops are here" when they got my bac is was like .48 or something. They laughed and said son im amazed your standing up right now. Luckily they called my parents and explained to them your son must have a very high tolerance to alcohol. And to take me to the hospital if i was feeling ill. All i remember was laughing and joking all the way home.
@@ifeelfantaastic2425 it was a crazy night my friend took off thru the woods running with his phone and all you see isnthis fireball type explosion. When i talked to him the next day he said he flung his phone accidentally and it exploded it was rad
I can attest to this.. I got a DUI in WI. In court mandated treatment I saw stats that showed people people arrested at .55 BAC. They do blood draws in order to prosecute.
Australian cricket player David Boon did 52 beers on the flight from Sydney to London. The captain and crew were keeping track and the whole plane broke into applause once he hit 50. After landing they went to a cocktail party were he had a few more before passing out for 36 hours and missing two practices
@@mj.l American and Australian mass market beers have extremely close alcohol contents. For example, Great Northern and Bud Light literally have identical ABVs.
You calculated the beer consumed over only the 6hr flight, but even in the episode of Sunny, they showed up on the plane having consumed beers. It is 100% conceivable that he had already consumed 10-15 beers over the bus ride from the stadium to the plane. Furthermore, due to the time change, he would have had enough time to eat a meal, drink more, and still fall asleep in time for an evening game the next day. The constraints that you're putting on it make it seem impossible, but realistically, with the metabolism of an athlete and more than double the amount of time, it is more feasible than not. Source: former D1 pitcher with a debatable drinking problem in college
I will also add that on a plane they serve 8 oz. Beers... so he could feasibly be drinking 1.5x more beers for the entire duration of the flight. I have personally witnessed friends put away over 50 in a night of drinking, we'll call it 6 hours... and work the next day. 100 in 12 hours? I don't recommend it, but I won't call bullshit either.
@@codyneptune4688 During that time period, the airlines would have been serving 3.2% beer, which would dramatically change the calculations. He could have easily drank 50.
I've watch my buddy drink a 30 rack and a 5th of jack in like 8 hours. I'm 140lbs and have drank 31 beers in about 14 hours. I think you severely underestimate how good people can get at drinking.
Were you 31 beers deep writing this 😭 so add on 76 more beers and in less amount of time then you drank 31. So that would prove your point. Yep you’re right man, put the bottle down it’s messing up your brain bud
This nerd doesn't drink. In my prime, I could drink a case of Bud, a fifth of Cuervo in 5 hours and still walk and perform another task that is frowned upon by most in society (but regularly occurred before the advent of Uber).
Seven years sober ex-drunk checking in here. You can absolutely drink a case (24-30) beers in the space of five hours. Lord knows I have, and remained upright. But the choke point is obvious, the bathroom. Drink that much beer, and you’re pissing more than drinking.
Yeah the math in this video doesn't quite make sense for a heavy drinker. I can, and I know drinkers, who can put down a 30 brick in a half day while still being pretty coherent. I definitely think Boggs could do this if he had access to a bathroom the entire time, or even if he didn't.
Guy I knew was such an alcoholic he sometimes wore an adult diaper to parties so he wouldn't have people notice him running to the bathroom all the time. He was a cop too, as scary as that sounds.
I’ve seen first hand people drinking 60+ beers over the course of 12 hours. Hell I’ve seen people do 30+ Over the course of only a few hours. Real drunk bastards out there know this is possible. RIP Boss Hog I believe your legend
On one of my favorite shows Wade Boggs said himself that the actual number of beers he drank was 73 on a flight to the west coast. Which would equate to him drinking a beer every 5 minutes and 45 seconds.
I worked in an ER for years. I can assure you people usually don't go into a coma by 0.4%. I've seen several college girls awake at levels above that and one guy who was at 0.6% and he was wide awake and pissed off
There are so many things wrong with this 😅 - from the flight/destination, to not accounting for him being a prodigious alcoholic, to ignoring the water in the beers in your calculations and how it'd contribute to his blood's composition (or even his weight)
@@adawg1125 No, it absolutely matters when you're talking about taking on close to 20 lbs of water. There's a massive difference between imbibing 30 beers vs 30 shots of everclear.
@@ryanjapan Actually, alcohol is filtered much differently than water. Once it reaches your stomach it's absorbed directly into the blood stream through the lining; this is much MUCH different than the way our bodies deal with water. 30 beers is definitely different than 30 shots of everclear, and the extra water ~does~ help the body deal with some of the effects, but not much. Either way, the BAC is more or less identical, which is what determines the onset of coma and/or death. not saying the math was perfect, but it doesn't need to be
@@jacobrowley4201 this claim that the BAC difference is negligible is simply inaccurate. While alcohol and water are filtered differently (and no one claimed otherwise), there's a huge difference between drinking alcohol of one concentration (say, vodka) vs another (like 4.2% abv beer). There's published research on this that I've responded with multiple times but TH-cam keeps blocking the comments (maybe because of links?). The paper titled "Absorption and Peak Blood Alcohol Concentration After Drinking Beer, Wine, or Spirits" shows that BAC differs by as much as 40 percent when drinking the same amount of total alcohol but imbibed as beer vs spirits
Food! Food makes a huge difference. On a full stomach a 12oz Coors Light takes about 25 mins to clear the system. On an empty stomach that same beer takes 1hr 18 minutes
You are forgetting about the fact that he has the stomach enzyme that processes alcohol quickly … he is built different so he actually can do these things … 75beers in 1 day is like 3 an hour, very doable
It is absolutely not doable unless you're the size of Andre the giant. One variation of the drinking game Century Club (I think it was called the Ultra Century or something) involved drinking 100 beers in 100 hours (a long weekend) and initially it sounds super doable but when you do the math it's actually incredibly hard. Basically drink a case of a beer a day, 4 days in a row. Definitely not totally impossible if you're a very large human and a career alcoholic, but for 95 percent of people it is comically hard. 75 beers in a day is essentially impossible for all but the most fringe, biologically unique people. You would pass out long before you could finish them and there's an incredibly good chance you would also die.
I love the "Parks & Rec" reference intro to when Ron Swanson says "bring me all the bacon & eggs you have" & then tells the waiter "wait, I'm worried you heard I want alot of bacon & eggs. What I actually said was bring me all the bacon and eggs you have."
I once saw a man in an ER with a 0.63 BAC. The doctor was dumbfounded the man was conscious. I'm still skeptical despite seeing the documentation. I have no idea how this man surpassed Jim Lahey levels of drunk, but he did. The man was in that room for almost two days before they could send him to the normal floors for monitoring iirc
Because BAC doesn't represent the brains ability to function. If someone who never drank had that BAC understandably they'd be gone, if not in serious trouble. With someone like Wade, that's before the night cap. The human brain works differently in many ways with substances. Especially with people with a tolerance.
@@rakuencallisto That's a great explanation, however is there an easy way to explain to a simpleton like myself why having 63% of your blood being alcohol didn't kill this guy? From your explanation it sounds like his brain was able to keep his heart and vital organs functioning despite being at a point where most others are passed out and literally dying.
As an ER nurse I have had multiple come in with .45-.48 BAC and they were ambulatory and alert and orientated able to have a conversation. That being said, that’s not common at all and they were heavy alcoholics.
My ex-wife is 5'4 and 112lbs. She was taken to the ER and was .54. Nurses couldn't believe that she was coherent and could actually hold a conversation. You see why she's my ex...
I remember the story in Sunny being over a much longer time frame than a commercial flight. From the time they arrived in the Boston clubhouse, the ride to the airport, a fuel stop (private not jumbo jet), arrival in Seattle, ride to hotel. This could be more like a 16-hour time frame. I think a hard-core beer guy can down four beers an hour and maintain a coherent drunk state. That's 64 in 16 hours. Over 100 seems high, but low 70's seems doable for the right dude.
I have drank more than 30 beers in 5 hours on the lake. I am 6’0 185, I think this Wade Boggs thing is legit. I am not a crazy drinker but I think it was from me sweating it all out during that time.
It's my understanding that Boggs is such a force of nature that he actually disrupts the spacetime continuum. From what I understand about quantum physics, that means that in a mere mortal human day, Boggs has actually lived through 3 days. Taking this into account, this is a totally doable feat, and he probably could have done 120 with just a few extra normal people minutes.
I thought in the episode, Boggs flight was going from Boston to Seattle, since Mac had said Boggs destroyed the Mariners the next day? That said, the flight time is roughly the same, so to L.A. works as well.
i’m 170 lbs 6’1” and i’ve drank 22 beers over the course of a day and didn’t even black out. i don’t think your math is factoring in for a lot of things. it’s better to go off stories of people consuming massive quantities of alcohol
Exactly but how many more beers could you have realistically consumed, even if you had a full day? I don't think the answer is anything close to 40 oor 50
@@adamcoe nah dude i had a roommate who killed a 30 rack by himself literally every friday after 3pm and was still coherent before he went to sleep. he had like 40 pounds on me but that dude could have easily done 40 if it was for a dare, maybe even 50.
Hell, in spring of 1993 I thought his bat had died and there was NO-WAY he could play third for the Yanks. MISTER Wade Boggs is my hero and can do anything.
Always love to see people's impeccable math skills while totally blasted off alcohol. "I can't remember how I got home, but I sures as hell can list off every drink of the day!"
The highest BAC I’ve ever heard of is an old couple that blew a .62 and a .65 in a hospital because their livers were failing. They would walk to the bar every night, get hammered, walk home and then repeat, they said that they had been doing that every night for about 5 years. My grandpa told me about it, he was a cop, and his friends backed it up too
I’m much smaller than Boggs, but started drinking daily in college, and by my senior I could EASILY go through a 30 pack in 8 hours. I quit drinking a couple years afterwards, but had I continued, 50 beers wouldn’t seem unreasonable in that time frame. I imagine Boggs not being atypical to how statistics are measured. A statistical anomaly.
I'm glad you stopped drinking. I was a light weight I couldn't drink too long before I was looking for a nap. Pretty much don't drink at all now because I have the same thing drink a few beers and I'm ready for sleepy time.
Not proud of it, but as others have stated, a mid 20s male who enjoys a robust nightlife, knows knocking out a case of Light beer in 6-7 hours isn’t a special accomplishment. It’s an average Saturday. Math is math, can’t argue the calculations, but the core assumptions are off. 107, no. 50? That’s not too hard to believe.
People are also forgetting that you can completely fill yourself with alcohol, throw it all up and start over completely sober. I've seen this happen during October fest, when drinking starts at 8 am and never stops.
I can believe the 70, though I’m not sure I believe the 107. Andre the giant, arguably the the greatest drinker in history, put down 119 in six hours. While I’m sure Boggs was a tank, I highly doubt he’s in that territory.
On 26 July 2013 a 40-year-old man from Alfredówka, Poland, was found by Municipal Police Patrol from Nowa Dęba lying in the ditch along the road in Tarnowska Wola. At the hospital, it was recorded that the man had a blood alcohol content of 1.374%. The man survived. I'm not saying that Wade Boggs did it, but it might be theoretically possible if he had the same unique biochemistry as that guy.
2:59 LOL ... also when Mac broke character one episode to show the Eagles winning the Superbowl in 2018 during a credits roll, that was great. What luck for the show.
When I was 24, I had 32 mixed drinks over a 2.5 hour period. I basically drank myself sober. I weighed about 180 pounds back then and am six feet tall. I could definitely see Boggs being able to drink 60-70 beers over a 7 hour flight. When you get in the rhythm of drinking almost every day, you can put back a lot more than the statistics say. The human body is capable of more than you think.
107 beers? No...He would have been too dehydrated to breathe at his weight.Andre the Giant did many times. He weighed 500 pounds.And for all those tough guys who say "I drank a case of beer by lunch one day,yea,but try drinking 4 MORE CASES on top of that case at a weight of Wade's weight...That's laughable.
Before watching yes I believe he can. I've seen non drinkers put down 20 to 25 beers in 12 hours. I think a seasoned drinksman like boggs can achieve so much more.
I’m going to call B.S. on anyone drinking 103 beers in a single day. Even if it’s weak and cheap 3.2 American lager, nobody can do this. You’re taking about nearly 10 gallons of beer. Pure B.S.
“I’m goin’ off the food and I’m goin’ on the liquor.” - Jim Lahey I drank 20 5.6 abv beers just last night between 2 pm and 11 pm. And that was a soft Sunday.
I don’t know how he think 10 is a blackout, in college I’d start drinking buds at 9pm and by 1am I’d have atleast 20 down and be walking normal and barely slurring. I’d also timer my dab pen atleast 8 times throughout the night
He did it. I was like Boggs, easy drink 30 beers in any sitting. At times , that would be 60-70 ,depending on the situation. Eating chicken somehow helped me drink more beer too.
It is confirmed that the great Australian cricket player David Boone drank 52 cans on a flight from Australia to London. Far more plausible, if you ask me.
Right, you pee so fast with a stomach jam packed with beer that im sure a lot, or at least a solid percentage, of the alcohol in the beer never absorbs into your bloodstream
I'm not arguing the science, but I watched a guy at camp finish off 2 cases of Milwaukee's Best in about 6 hours. He was a severe alcoholic and could drink unbelievable amounts of beer. From what his friend told me, it was a regular thing for the guy to drink 4 cases of been in a weekend if not more. It was sad to see but he was able to and seemed to liked doing it. The guy only lived to be about 40 and he died a slow horrible way as his liver and basically everything else shut down. Nice guy with a really bad addiction. On a side note, his van had about a thousand little dings on the bumpers and fenders...
Boggs is the type of player we need in today's MLB. A guy who hits to all fields, can get on base consistently, and is immune from shifts. Only guy I can think of who does a lot of that today is Michael Brantley.
All I know, is in one night, over 6 hours, playing beer pong, I put down 2 full 30 packs of cors light, and 2 flasks of captain Morgan. I puked, fell asleep at 12:30 at night, was up at 6:45 and at work by 7:30. Very hungover, but no issues at work. So Boggs could have done it.
I feel like something has to be wrong with these "beers drank" to "you're gonna die" equations, because I can recall several (and probably dozen I can't) instances in college where I should have apparently died but was completely fine? For instance, one fourth of July, I bought one of the special 36 packs of beer they were selling for the holiday after I got off work around 5, drank 24 of them, and then downed seven shots of 80proof Rum in a row, before drinking two more beers (and then sleeping on my floor next to a bag of popcorn), all within 5-6 hours? I'm 6' and 190lbs and lived with just a bit of a hangover the next day... So essentially, I'm saying Wade Boggs deserves more credit than you're giving him 😂😂
Also something I want to point out that I think is wrong is that people process alcohol differently from their stomachs into their blood, some people have enzymes that break down alcohol faster, and some people lack those enzymes (I knew a dude who had to chug a handle of liquor to get tipsy)
I used to drink a 30 pack of bud light every night then go to work the day and do manual labor. I'm about 5'5 and 130lbs. I quite drinking about 15 years ago. But, if I kept up with that at that rate I might have made it to 70 beers. I think if is very possible.
If it actual was true then he probably had a rare genetic mutation that limits how much the body metabolizes the alcohol along with a built up resistance
dude I've seen people pulled over for DUI, and they blew .237. They were walking, talking, hardly even slurring their words. you're underestimating the power of alcoholism lol
Your numbers are WAY off. Beer is mostly water and a LOT of people don't need 60 HOURS to drink 100 beers. I think your math might be correct, but I don't think your science and the way our body processes beer is accurate. You'd have to talk to doctor, but there is no way you would DIE after 20 beers in 6 hours. I'd be happy to take that challenge and put 10K on it.
As a younger guy, I knocked off 30 beers in about 8 hours. Definitely felt a bit shitty the next day, but didn't require medical intervention. Didn't even black out.
5'9" 215lbs and a thirty pack of light beer over the course of a day is a walk in the park. I've never pushed it but I think 45-50 is within range for me. If Joey Chestnut can eat 70+ hot dogs in 10 minutes, Boggs could easily drink 70+ beers in 6 hours.
This is horribly researched, How has no one pointed out that the plane was delayed, and that they sat on the runway for hours drinking on both takeoff, and waiting for a gate upon landing. It was closer to a 14 hr journey, and Boggs probably had at least 10 beers before even getting to the airport, maybe a couple at the gate... He was probably sitting at 20-ish by the time he got to his seat.
Not sure if Boggs actually drank that much but there was someone who absolutely did, Andre the Giant. His drinking stories are beyond legendary. If you ever listen to wrestling podcasts or shoot interviews, there’s eye witnesses to the incredible feats he achieved with alcohol.
Only a man named Wade Boggs could ever drink 107 beers in a day…and i do love when asked this question there was zero hesitation when the answer of “over 100 was given” 💀
I used to drink 30 beers in about 4 hours every day... when I was drinking vodka, I could chug 6oz every 1-2 hours and be going through withdrawals by the time I finished the bottle. Do I believe 107 beers in 24 hours? Probably not. I could definitely see a 107 beer bender on the weekend with little to no sleep...
Here in New Zealand we have crate day on the first Saturday of summer, People drink a crate off beer, starting at midday, which equals just over 300 oz, or 25 12oz cans of beer.
Wade Boggs is from Florida. So he is a legendary '" Florida Man ". And, as we all know, a " Florida Man " can accomplish amazing feats. " Florida Man " should be a Netflix series.
What's easy to believe: that Wade Boggs once drank a comical and absurd amount of 4 percent ABV Millers served in 8 oz cups that aren't even all the way filled on a long cross-country flight What's impossible to believe: that anybody maintained a complete and accurate count, much less the guy drinking them. Once you come to terms with the fact that all the numbers previously iterated have been rectally sourced it just doesn't feel worth it to further interrogate whether the real number was more than what would be expected to kill any human being who has every lived .
They charge for each drink, so the exact number he drank would have been on the tab. Not unreasonable to think either he or his manager saw the quantity on the tab.
I used to be an extreme alcoholic. Having a BAC of 0.4 or higher was not uncommon for me. I remember going to a clinic after a night of drinking and my BAC was around 0.24 still. I absolutely believe that Wade could've potentially had around 50 beers and been chillin the next day, especially considering that heavy alcoholics don't get hangovers, cuz they wake up still drunk and just keep it going.
I dont think the math is right here bc you can most def drink 10-30 beers in several hours (college). 70 still seems "fake" but also the plane altitude needs to be accounted for as 2 drinks on a plane is stronger than 2 on the ground.
Deemo in New Zealand can do 29 beers in under an Hour. He had his name up in the fitz pub in Palmerston North. He could do 70+beer day easy. True gentleman of the pint
Just a quick question. When you did the flight time between cities did you do the flight time from back then or did you use modern flights because I'm sure there's probably an extra hour in there at least.
I'm an ER nurse and have had a lot of cases of alcoholics who were walking and talking with me while having a blood draw verified BAC of 0.4+. Hell I've worked with individuals who were awake and conversational (though not the most coherent) at 0.55 once or twice. Given his size, tolerance, and passage of time I think it's feasible for him to have had around 40-50 beers. While the story is probably exaggerated, I imagine it beers more truth than some might imagine.
I see what you did there. Nice.
Ive been at house parties as a teen and been so drunk (underage) ive walked right into the house unkowning that the police had gathered everyone and were giving breath tests. Stating "guys i think the cops are here" when they got my bac is was like .48 or something. They laughed and said son im amazed your standing up right now. Luckily they called my parents and explained to them your son must have a very high tolerance to alcohol. And to take me to the hospital if i was feeling ill. All i remember was laughing and joking all the way home.
the fact that you remember anything from that nignt is impressive.
@@ifeelfantaastic2425 it was a crazy night my friend took off thru the woods running with his phone and all you see isnthis fireball type explosion. When i talked to him the next day he said he flung his phone accidentally and it exploded it was rad
I can attest to this.. I got a DUI in WI. In court mandated treatment I saw stats that showed people people arrested at .55 BAC. They do blood draws in order to prosecute.
Australian cricket player David Boon did 52 beers on the flight from Sydney to London. The captain and crew were keeping track and the whole plane broke into applause once he hit 50. After landing they went to a cocktail party were he had a few more before passing out for 36 hours and missing two practices
He must have pissed a river. Golden one at that.
Good story ha!
i bet that was full strength aussie beer, not american piss water too
@@mj.l American and Australian mass market beers have extremely close alcohol contents. For example, Great Northern and Bud Light literally have identical ABVs.
0:15 French Rugby jersey. Also Snooker player Bill Webeniuk and Paddy Losty. As can be said pint, men pint men everywhere.
I’m crying laughing at 10 beers putting you close to alcohol poisoning… you seem like a wholesome guy, that’s awesome.
My buddy at 17 years old im 37 now. But he literally drank 32 beers. It was insane.
10 beers hahahahahaahahahha
It's quite common around my neck of the woods for people to drink well over a case of beer themselves, it all just comes down to their tolerance
Yeah I know some animals that can put 10 pints of whiskey down and drive home we are not the same lool
I barely weight 125 and can easily wack down a 12 pack and pass a field sobriety test. If alcohol poisoning is close at 10 I’m in trouble
You calculated the beer consumed over only the 6hr flight, but even in the episode of Sunny, they showed up on the plane having consumed beers. It is 100% conceivable that he had already consumed 10-15 beers over the bus ride from the stadium to the plane.
Furthermore, due to the time change, he would have had enough time to eat a meal, drink more, and still fall asleep in time for an evening game the next day. The constraints that you're putting on it make it seem impossible, but realistically, with the metabolism of an athlete and more than double the amount of time, it is more feasible than not.
Source: former D1 pitcher with a debatable drinking problem in college
Couldn't agree more with ur logic, all these theories/thoughts/hypotheticals/only on paper stats people have read and never experienced first hand. 👍👍
I will also add that on a plane they serve 8 oz. Beers... so he could feasibly be drinking 1.5x more beers for the entire duration of the flight. I have personally witnessed friends put away over 50 in a night of drinking, we'll call it 6 hours... and work the next day. 100 in 12 hours? I don't recommend it, but I won't call bullshit either.
@@codyneptune4688 During that time period, the airlines would have been serving 3.2% beer, which would dramatically change the calculations. He could have easily drank 50.
@@jogleby 'easily'
This also doesn’t take into account the puke and rally technique.
I've watch my buddy drink a 30 rack and a 5th of jack in like 8 hours. I'm 140lbs and have drank 31 beers in about 14 hours. I think you severely underestimate how good people can get at drinking.
Were you 31 beers deep writing this 😭 so add on 76 more beers and in less amount of time then you drank 31. So that would prove your point. Yep you’re right man, put the bottle down it’s messing up your brain bud
@@Scheboygan8767 You're not taking in to account that boggs is a much larger man with a much higher metabolism than most people
Use to watch my father in law crush a 30 pack of Budweiser
this
This nerd doesn't drink. In my prime, I could drink a case of Bud, a fifth of Cuervo in 5 hours and still walk and perform another task that is frowned upon by most in society (but regularly occurred before the advent of Uber).
Seven years sober ex-drunk checking in here.
You can absolutely drink a case (24-30) beers in the space of five hours. Lord knows I have, and remained upright. But the choke point is obvious, the bathroom. Drink that much beer, and you’re pissing more than drinking.
Absolutely. Even if you were wearing a diaper, it would insanely hard to simply drink that much liquid in the amount of time required.
Yeah the math in this video doesn't quite make sense for a heavy drinker. I can, and I know drinkers, who can put down a 30 brick in a half day while still being pretty coherent. I definitely think Boggs could do this if he had access to a bathroom the entire time, or even if he didn't.
Guy I knew was such an alcoholic he sometimes wore an adult diaper to parties so he wouldn't have people notice him running to the bathroom all the time. He was a cop too, as scary as that sounds.
Your body can’t hold that much liquid and you can’t pee fast enough
Agree 100%. Alcoholics easily drink 40+ units of alcohol in the span of a few hours and they do not go into comas or die of respiratory failure.
I’ve seen first hand people drinking 60+ beers over the course of 12 hours. Hell I’ve seen people do 30+ Over the course of only a few hours. Real drunk bastards out there know this is possible. RIP Boss Hog I believe your legend
wade boggs isn't dead
When I used to drink 12 pints was a normal night of drinking and I’ve seen some of friends drink 18 pints on a night out.
You are right sir, i have seen people crush 30+ beers in less time, a suit case and a half
good news... wade boggs isnt dead
@@volusiasorange It's a joke from IASIP. It's even at the end of the video.
A great story told by a man whose never had a beer.
This is the kind of hard-hitting investigative journalism we need more of in sports
amen
@@bradynturner823 I've had 30 Guinness cans in one day
You joke but this kind of nonsense is more entertaining than the day to day or month to month happenings in most sports.
This is the kind of 3rd basemen that baseball needs
@@tigercap100
That's an average Wednesday night for me. Back in the day
The show says he flew to Seattle. And they didn't claim he went 3 for 5. They said he destroyed the mariners.
Later when Charlie is hitting they say he has to go 3 for 5 for it to count I believe
@@Cameroshaft I completely forgot about that part.
@@Cameroshaft so how did Seattle shift to Anaheim?
@@zkomins I’m wondering the same tbh
@@zkomins guy was drunk when he made the video.
On one of my favorite shows Wade Boggs said himself that the actual number of beers he drank was 73 on a flight to the west coast. Which would equate to him drinking a beer every 5 minutes and 45 seconds.
Seems possible kinda
And he'd also be dead with a BAC over 1%
@@drogerflav6350 no, it doesn't.
@@donnymcgahan1158 it defnitley is if you drink everyday
@@donnymcgahan1158 the official record was 119 confirmed beers by andre the giant. He weighed 239 kg so about 2 and a bit wade boggs.
I worked in an ER for years. I can assure you people usually don't go into a coma by 0.4%. I've seen several college girls awake at levels above that and one guy who was at 0.6% and he was wide awake and pissed off
There are so many things wrong with this 😅 - from the flight/destination, to not accounting for him being a prodigious alcoholic, to ignoring the water in the beers in your calculations and how it'd contribute to his blood's composition (or even his weight)
4.2 % is the number that matter water content does not it matter when youre peeing so much youre just sitting on the toilet drinking beer
@@adawg1125 No, it absolutely matters when you're talking about taking on close to 20 lbs of water. There's a massive difference between imbibing 30 beers vs 30 shots of everclear.
@@ryanjapan Actually, alcohol is filtered much differently than water. Once it reaches your stomach it's absorbed directly into the blood stream through the lining; this is much MUCH different than the way our bodies deal with water. 30 beers is definitely different than 30 shots of everclear, and the extra water ~does~ help the body deal with some of the effects, but not much. Either way, the BAC is more or less identical, which is what determines the onset of coma and/or death. not saying the math was perfect, but it doesn't need to be
@@jacobrowley4201 this claim that the BAC difference is negligible is simply inaccurate. While alcohol and water are filtered differently (and no one claimed otherwise), there's a huge difference between drinking alcohol of one concentration (say, vodka) vs another (like 4.2% abv beer). There's published research on this that I've responded with multiple times but TH-cam keeps blocking the comments (maybe because of links?). The paper titled "Absorption and Peak Blood Alcohol Concentration After Drinking Beer, Wine, or Spirits" shows that BAC differs by as much as 40 percent when drinking the same amount of total alcohol but imbibed as beer vs spirits
Food! Food makes a huge difference. On a full stomach a 12oz Coors Light takes about 25 mins to clear the system. On an empty stomach that same beer takes 1hr 18 minutes
I think you made an error in not considering that Wade Boggs was just built different. May he rest in peace.
He’s still alive
@@Bman1837 Denial is a coping mechanism. It’s ok to cry, let it out man
@@Bman1837 RIP Boss Hog
@@KIMG69 I’m literally crying right now 😭😭 just saw the news
@@Bman1837 Wade Boggs would be rolling in his grave if he heard you say that
You are forgetting about the fact that he has the stomach enzyme that processes alcohol quickly … he is built different so he actually can do these things … 75beers in 1 day is like 3 an hour, very doable
It’s not over 24 hours it’s over about 6.5
It is absolutely not doable unless you're the size of Andre the giant. One variation of the drinking game Century Club (I think it was called the Ultra Century or something) involved drinking 100 beers in 100 hours (a long weekend) and initially it sounds super doable but when you do the math it's actually incredibly hard. Basically drink a case of a beer a day, 4 days in a row. Definitely not totally impossible if you're a very large human and a career alcoholic, but for 95 percent of people it is comically hard. 75 beers in a day is essentially impossible for all but the most fringe, biologically unique people. You would pass out long before you could finish them and there's an incredibly good chance you would also die.
@@adamcoe how much do you want to bet?
You do realize your body physically can’t handle that much liquid let alone beer mans would have alcohol poisoning 😂😂
@@paulmarks6156 I would bet my house and my 401k that nobody can
I love the "Parks & Rec" reference intro to when Ron Swanson says "bring me all the bacon & eggs you have" & then tells the waiter "wait, I'm worried you heard I want alot of bacon & eggs. What I actually said was bring me all the bacon and eggs you have."
Glad we're all here to honor the memory of Wade Boggs, may he rest in peace.
@@mrman9333 its a joke
"Joke"
RIP Boss Hog
First off, Wade Boggs is very much alive.
I once saw a man in an ER with a 0.63 BAC. The doctor was dumbfounded the man was conscious. I'm still skeptical despite seeing the documentation. I have no idea how this man surpassed Jim Lahey levels of drunk, but he did. The man was in that room for almost two days before they could send him to the normal floors for monitoring iirc
**stumbles down trailer steps**
6 out of 10
Because BAC doesn't represent the brains ability to function.
If someone who never drank had that BAC understandably they'd be gone, if not in serious trouble.
With someone like Wade, that's before the night cap.
The human brain works differently in many ways with substances. Especially with people with a tolerance.
@@rakuencallisto That's a great explanation, however is there an easy way to explain to a simpleton like myself why having 63% of your blood being alcohol didn't kill this guy? From your explanation it sounds like his brain was able to keep his heart and vital organs functioning despite being at a point where most others are passed out and literally dying.
As an ER nurse I have had multiple come in with .45-.48 BAC and they were ambulatory and alert and orientated able to have a conversation. That being said, that’s not common at all and they were heavy alcoholics.
My ex-wife is 5'4 and 112lbs. She was taken to the ER and was .54. Nurses couldn't believe that she was coherent and could actually hold a conversation. You see why she's my ex...
My cousin is an alcoholic and he blew a .35 after sleeping a while in his car.
I remember the story in Sunny being over a much longer time frame than a commercial flight. From the time they arrived in the Boston clubhouse, the ride to the airport, a fuel stop (private not jumbo jet), arrival in Seattle, ride to hotel. This could be more like a 16-hour time frame. I think a hard-core beer guy can down four beers an hour and maintain a coherent drunk state. That's 64 in 16 hours. Over 100 seems high, but low 70's seems doable for the right dude.
This is the only comment on this shitty video that actually matters
lol at blacking out after only 10 lite beers, also in those days you know my man was keyed up
I have drank more than 30 beers in 5 hours on the lake. I am 6’0 185, I think this Wade Boggs thing is legit. I am not a crazy drinker but I think it was from me sweating it all out during that time.
Hot day on the river ice cold beers go down like water lol
Have drunk.
Can't wait for the next Historian video that dives into why Pitt the Elder was Britain's greatest Prime Minister
*LORD PALMERSTON!!!*
@@michaellyden2580 PITT THE ELDER!!
This is the sports content we need
In the episode he literally says “whooped the Mariners ass”
What Wade isn’t telling us is how much coke, acid and greenies were involved.
RIP Wade Boggs
It's my understanding that Boggs is such a force of nature that he actually disrupts the spacetime continuum. From what I understand about quantum physics, that means that in a mere mortal human day, Boggs has actually lived through 3 days. Taking this into account, this is a totally doable feat, and he probably could have done 120 with just a few extra normal people minutes.
Why not, Andre the Giant was known to drink a case of wine and like 30 beers all at once easily.
andre was also twice the size of boss hog rest in piece
I thought in the episode, Boggs flight was going from Boston to Seattle, since Mac had said Boggs destroyed the Mariners the next day?
That said, the flight time is roughly the same, so to L.A. works as well.
i’m 170 lbs 6’1” and i’ve drank 22 beers over the course of a day and didn’t even black out. i don’t think your math is factoring in for a lot of things. it’s better to go off stories of people consuming massive quantities of alcohol
Exactly but how many more beers could you have realistically consumed, even if you had a full day? I don't think the answer is anything close to 40 oor 50
@@adamcoe nah dude i had a roommate who killed a 30 rack by himself literally every friday after 3pm and was still coherent before he went to sleep. he had like 40 pounds on me but that dude could have easily done 40 if it was for a dare, maybe even 50.
True.
Wade Boggs walked more than double the times he struck out in his career, we may never see that again
Hell, in spring of 1993 I thought his bat had died and there was NO-WAY he could play third for the Yanks. MISTER Wade Boggs is my hero and can do anything.
Always love to see people's impeccable math skills while totally blasted off alcohol. "I can't remember how I got home, but I sures as hell can list off every drink of the day!"
What do you mean "could"? He did drink 107 beers on 1 flight. How did you think he died? RIP Boss Hogg.
When did Wade Boggs die?
@@dustinmorrow8184 he didnt its the shows joke they are repeating
What an unbelievable ballplayer. I'll never forget the legendary Wade Boggs.
Imagine breaking the seal on a cross country flight and 60+ beers on board
Andre The Giant once drank 3 liters of vodka
The highest BAC I’ve ever heard of is an old couple that blew a .62 and a .65 in a hospital because their livers were failing. They would walk to the bar every night, get hammered, walk home and then repeat, they said that they had been doing that every night for about 5 years. My grandpa told me about it, he was a cop, and his friends backed it up too
1.480% is the highest ever recorded
I’m much smaller than Boggs, but started drinking daily in college, and by my senior I could EASILY go through a 30 pack in 8 hours. I quit drinking a couple years afterwards, but had I continued, 50 beers wouldn’t seem unreasonable in that time frame. I imagine Boggs not being atypical to how statistics are measured. A statistical anomaly.
I'm glad you stopped drinking. I was a light weight I couldn't drink too long before I was looking for a nap. Pretty much don't drink at all now because I have the same thing drink a few beers and I'm ready for sleepy time.
I love the It’s Always Sunny episode where they try and break his drinking record.
0:57 lmao, 'Fowl Tips' as the title of a chicken cookbook by a baseball player is so great! 😝😝
great video, may he rest in peace 🙏
hey dingbat he ain't dead.
He’s not dead
@@insertstereotypicalyoutube7327 its a running joke
Wade Boggs is very much alive, he lives in Tampa Florida, he’s in his early 50’s
@Dennis Jeffrey Pippen First commandment of commenting. Watch the video.
4:12 - that's the nose of a man who's enjoyed a few beers.
Not proud of it, but as others have stated, a mid 20s male who enjoys a robust nightlife, knows knocking out a case of Light beer in 6-7 hours isn’t a special accomplishment. It’s an average Saturday. Math is math, can’t argue the calculations, but the core assumptions are off. 107, no. 50? That’s not too hard to believe.
People are also forgetting that you can completely fill yourself with alcohol, throw it all up and start over completely sober. I've seen this happen during October fest, when drinking starts at 8 am and never stops.
Pretty sure Boss Hoggs drank those beers.
SUNNY!!
3:41 FLAG ON THE PLAY
UNNECESSARY ROUGHNESS
Why tho why’d they have to throw that dig there 😂😂😭😭😭😭😭
I can believe the 70, though I’m not sure I believe the 107. Andre the giant, arguably the the greatest drinker in history, put down 119 in six hours. While I’m sure Boggs was a tank, I highly doubt he’s in that territory.
Andres record was actually 156 beers in one night
On 26 July 2013 a 40-year-old man from Alfredówka, Poland, was found by Municipal Police Patrol from Nowa Dęba lying in the ditch along the road in Tarnowska Wola. At the hospital, it was recorded that the man had a blood alcohol content of 1.374%. The man survived. I'm not saying that Wade Boggs did it, but it might be theoretically possible if he had the same unique biochemistry as that guy.
RIP WADE " The chicken man" BOGGS...dude was a legend
Rip boss hoggs!
10 beers causes a blackout.... I drank a 30 last night
To be honest if you watched someone drink over 20 beers you’d probably think they drank 100 beers also
2:59 LOL ... also when Mac broke character one episode to show the Eagles winning the Superbowl in 2018 during a credits roll, that was great. What luck for the show.
When I was 24, I had 32 mixed drinks over a 2.5 hour period. I basically drank myself sober. I weighed about 180 pounds back then and am six feet tall. I could definitely see Boggs being able to drink 60-70 beers over a 7 hour flight. When you get in the rhythm of drinking almost every day, you can put back a lot more than the statistics say. The human body is capable of more than you think.
No you didn’t
107 beers? No...He would have been too dehydrated to breathe at his weight.Andre the Giant did many times. He weighed 500 pounds.And for all those tough guys who say "I drank a case of beer by lunch one day,yea,but try drinking 4 MORE CASES on top of that case at a weight of Wade's weight...That's laughable.
Before watching yes I believe he can. I've seen non drinkers put down 20 to 25 beers in 12 hours. I think a seasoned drinksman like boggs can achieve so much more.
I’m going to call B.S. on anyone drinking 103 beers in a single day. Even if it’s weak and cheap 3.2 American lager, nobody can do this. You’re taking about nearly 10 gallons of beer. Pure B.S.
“I’m goin’ off the food and I’m goin’ on the liquor.” - Jim Lahey
I drank 20 5.6 abv beers just last night between 2 pm and 11 pm. And that was a soft Sunday.
I don’t know how he think 10 is a blackout, in college I’d start drinking buds at 9pm and by 1am I’d have atleast 20 down and be walking normal and barely slurring. I’d also timer my dab pen atleast 8 times throughout the night
Why would you do that to yourself?
Love this video. Great work
He did it.
I was like Boggs, easy drink 30 beers in any sitting. At times , that would be 60-70 ,depending on the situation. Eating chicken somehow helped me drink more beer too.
Light beer i believe it i can drink 60 regular beers Wade had 20 years of practice before that day too
It takes decades of drinking
It is confirmed that the great Australian cricket player David Boone drank 52 cans on a flight from Australia to London.
Far more plausible, if you ask me.
I gotta think there's alcoholism involved here.
*Even Andre the Giant couldn't drink 107 beers*
Yea idk man. I've drank a case/24 beers in like 6 or 7 hours and felt ok. I think 50 is possible. Don't you pee some out of you? Lol
Right, you pee so fast with a stomach jam packed with beer that im sure a lot, or at least a solid percentage, of the alcohol in the beer never absorbs into your bloodstream
Okay then add another 57 on top of that and think how batshit insane that is.
I'm not arguing the science, but I watched a guy at camp finish off 2 cases of Milwaukee's Best in about 6 hours. He was a severe alcoholic and could drink unbelievable amounts of beer. From what his friend told me, it was a regular thing for the guy to drink 4 cases of been in a weekend if not more. It was sad to see but he was able to and seemed to liked doing it. The guy only lived to be about 40 and he died a slow horrible way as his liver and basically everything else shut down. Nice guy with a really bad addiction. On a side note, his van had about a thousand little dings on the bumpers and fenders...
I beg to differ…I’ve seen frat bros put away a case of 30 beers in about 3 hours in college. This could definitely be accomplished.
You simply aren’t accounting for that dog in him so I will ignore this data
Boggs is the type of player we need in today's MLB. A guy who hits to all fields, can get on base consistently, and is immune from shifts.
Only guy I can think of who does a lot of that today is Michael Brantley.
jeff mcneil too
Joey Votto.
The beer is the actual key. The slight delay from the high ABV is a shift killer.
Freddie Freeman?
All I know, is in one night, over 6 hours, playing beer pong, I put down 2 full 30 packs of cors light, and 2 flasks of captain Morgan. I puked, fell asleep at 12:30 at night, was up at 6:45 and at work by 7:30. Very hungover, but no issues at work. So Boggs could have done it.
I feel like something has to be wrong with these "beers drank" to "you're gonna die" equations, because I can recall several (and probably dozen I can't) instances in college where I should have apparently died but was completely fine?
For instance, one fourth of July, I bought one of the special 36 packs of beer they were selling for the holiday after I got off work around 5, drank 24 of them, and then downed seven shots of 80proof Rum in a row, before drinking two more beers (and then sleeping on my floor next to a bag of popcorn), all within 5-6 hours? I'm 6' and 190lbs and lived with just a bit of a hangover the next day...
So essentially, I'm saying Wade Boggs deserves more credit than you're giving him 😂😂
Yeah the metrics are skewed. I'm 140 and have/can crush a 24 pack of banquet in 2-3hours
Also something I want to point out that I think is wrong is that people process alcohol differently from their stomachs into their blood, some people have enzymes that break down alcohol faster, and some people lack those enzymes (I knew a dude who had to chug a handle of liquor to get tipsy)
I used to drink a 30 pack of bud light every night then go to work the day and do manual labor. I'm about 5'5 and 130lbs. I quite drinking about 15 years ago. But, if I kept up with that at that rate I might have made it to 70 beers. I think if is very possible.
How tf did you dummy a 30 rack and stay at 130 bro
@@bigsauce6645 its light beer
@@adawg1125 still
@@bigsauce6645 probably the manual labor.
Very high metabolism
“These are mine.” That shit’ll always be in my head, lol
This is a great video
Rest easy, Wade
You’re questioning that mustache?
If it actual was true then he probably had a rare genetic mutation that limits how much the body metabolizes the alcohol along with a built up resistance
He would have to be so mutated that it was impossible for him to get drunk and would have never even developed a love of beer
dude I've seen people pulled over for DUI, and they blew .237. They were walking, talking, hardly even slurring their words. you're underestimating the power of alcoholism lol
It's kinda crazy how much peoples tolerances are.
Your numbers are WAY off. Beer is mostly water and a LOT of people don't need 60 HOURS to drink 100 beers. I think your math might be correct, but I don't think your science and the way our body processes beer is accurate. You'd have to talk to doctor, but there is no way you would DIE after 20 beers in 6 hours. I'd be happy to take that challenge and put 10K on it.
As a younger guy, I knocked off 30 beers in about 8 hours. Definitely felt a bit shitty the next day, but didn't require medical intervention. Didn't even black out.
He drank at least a minimum of 107 beers daily. The massive mustache just soaks in all up
The flavor saver
@@dspsblyuth that’s what my wife calls my mustache
@@ryanmcwilliams8784 do you give mustache rides?
@@dspsblyuth of course it’s the best part of having a mustache
Would a plane even have 70+ beers on board?
Because of wade I'd bet
5'9" 215lbs and a thirty pack of light beer over the course of a day is a walk in the park. I've never pushed it but I think 45-50 is within range for me. If Joey Chestnut can eat 70+ hot dogs in 10 minutes, Boggs could easily drink 70+ beers in 6 hours.
My aunt used to throw back a 24 daily when she was a raging alcoholic. Mind you she's a 120 pound woman. I think your body gets used to higher BAC.
This is horribly researched, How has no one pointed out that the plane was delayed, and that they sat on the runway for hours drinking on both takeoff, and waiting for a gate upon landing. It was closer to a 14 hr journey, and Boggs probably had at least 10 beers before even getting to the airport, maybe a couple at the gate... He was probably sitting at 20-ish by the time he got to his seat.
Not sure if Boggs actually drank that much but there was someone who absolutely did, Andre the Giant. His drinking stories are beyond legendary. If you ever listen to wrestling podcasts or shoot interviews, there’s eye witnesses to the incredible feats he achieved with alcohol.
The Andre stories could all be embellished.
Damn rest in peace Boss Hogg
Only a man named Wade Boggs could ever drink 107 beers in a day…and i do love when asked this question there was zero hesitation when the answer of “over 100 was given” 💀
I used to drink 30 beers in about 4 hours every day... when I was drinking vodka, I could chug 6oz every 1-2 hours and be going through withdrawals by the time I finished the bottle.
Do I believe 107 beers in 24 hours? Probably not. I could definitely see a 107 beer bender on the weekend with little to no sleep...
Here in New Zealand we have crate day on the first Saturday of summer, People drink a crate off beer, starting at midday, which equals just over 300 oz, or 25 12oz cans of beer.
Wade Boggs is from Florida. So he is a legendary '" Florida Man ". And, as we all know, a " Florida Man " can accomplish amazing feats. " Florida Man " should be a Netflix series.
Sometimes fantasy is better then Reality
Boggs is full of it. Andre the Giant took 6 hours to drink 119 beers.
What's easy to believe: that Wade Boggs once drank a comical and absurd amount of 4 percent ABV Millers served in 8 oz cups that aren't even all the way filled on a long cross-country flight
What's impossible to believe: that anybody maintained a complete and accurate count, much less the guy drinking them.
Once you come to terms with the fact that all the numbers previously iterated have been rectally sourced it just doesn't feel worth it to further interrogate whether the real number was more than what would be expected to kill any human being who has every lived .
They charge for each drink, so the exact number he drank would have been on the tab. Not unreasonable to think either he or his manager saw the quantity on the tab.
I used to be an extreme alcoholic. Having a BAC of 0.4 or higher was not uncommon for me. I remember going to a clinic after a night of drinking and my BAC was around 0.24 still. I absolutely believe that Wade could've potentially had around 50 beers and been chillin the next day, especially considering that heavy alcoholics don't get hangovers, cuz they wake up still drunk and just keep it going.
it's kind of crazy eh?
I dont think the math is right here bc you can most def drink 10-30 beers in several hours (college). 70 still seems "fake" but also the plane altitude needs to be accounted for as 2 drinks on a plane is stronger than 2 on the ground.
This video just made me reassess my drinking.
Wade Boggs riding a horse chit-chatting with a cop is a great vibe
Deemo in New Zealand can do 29 beers in under an Hour. He had his name up in the fitz pub in Palmerston North. He could do 70+beer day easy. True gentleman of the pint
Just a quick question. When you did the flight time between cities did you do the flight time from back then or did you use modern flights because I'm sure there's probably an extra hour in there at least.
its not that hard to drink 30 beers in an afternoon, you just do it. Com'on man