Friday morning buffet

The season’s only a couple of weeks away.  You need to keep up your strength, so fill up.

• I’m not sure if this means there’s one less embarrassing question for Clay Travis to ask at a presser, or one more.
• Vegas Insider is bullish on Georgia.
• Bill Connelly is one dedicated college football blogger.  (Let’s see how that holds up after his first kid is born.)
• Playoff PAC to Bill Hancock:  it’s nothing personal, dude.
• Mike Leach asks Randy Edsall about unleashing Gary Crowton and how AARP cards can make your butt sore.
• Non-football, but interesting:  Beer and Democracy.  (And check this chart out!)
• The lawyers told Mark Emmert ixnay on the ealignmentray eetingmay.
• And you wonder why I push the Mumme Poll (h/t EDSBS).

We’ll behave. Promise.

You think there’s any way to sneak this by Michael Adams?  The Chick-fil-A College Kickoff contract contains this provision:

Pending agreement of both schools, beer will be available for sale, but sales will be cut off at the end of halftime.

Nah, I didn’t think so, either.

One man’s problem is another man’s tasty malt beverage.

From the folks at SweetWater Brewing:

Our sweet, innocent and moral El Dressel lost his way as Brutus led him down a dark alley to recruit tattoos and car loans for the Columbus hops in an effort to stack his on-field Double IPA recipe with the most aggressive hops O-round. Unfortunately El Dressel was discovered, humiliated and banished, leaving a permanent wrinkle in his sweater vest and instantly creating the Browneyed Buckeye!!!

Get it while you can, because just like last year’s Sugar Bowl win, this one will be gone before you know it!

Too bad it’s only available on draft.  This would make a great looking bottle:

Somebody should ship Gordon Gee a keg.

(h/t reader J. Scott Boss)

Tell me you don’t want to pop open a cold one of these right now.

This has to be one badass beverage, my friends.

(h/t Ezra Klein)

Adventures in marketing

A Bavarian brewer promotes its no-alcohol beer as a sport drink for athletes.

Today’s PSA – another edition of what makes America great

It’s two in the morning and you need some cheap beer?

Not to worry, Walgreens has you covered.

If anybody’s tried Big Flats 1901, please share the experience in the comments.

Old beer in new bottles

Image via Danwei

If you’re concerned about the inevitability of the People’s Republic of China becoming master of the planet, this exercise in American commercial ingenuity should give you some relief.

Wait ’til you see the marketing plans for Thunderbird wine.

(h/t Jonathan Chait)