By Robert Darnell
Last night December 31, 1979, New Years Eve, Jerre and Bob went to the Bluebonnet Bowl Football game. A contest between the Purdue Boiler-Makers and the Tennessee Volunteers.
When they go to the game they were hungry because it started so early they were not ready to eat before leaving home. So they stopped at a snack stand and got a hamburger, a hot dog, some potato chips and two beers. A funny thing happened on the way to their seats.
They were carrying their chow in a paper tray and just as Bob was about to sit down a guy following him jostled the tray and he poured beer over the head and down the back of a Boiler-Maker in the row in front of him.
There were eight of the Boiler-Makers sitting in a row. The dad and mom, grandmother, and five children and in-laws. You could tell they were Boiler-Makers because they wore jackets and waved black and gold pom-poms.
The Boiler-Maker who got the beer poured on him was the Father. He turned and gave Bob a dirty look and mumbled something. Bob very bravely said, "It wasn't my fault, it was this guy over here who jostled my arm. He is also a Boiler-Maker." The old guy wiped the beer off with a Kleenex as best he could.
When the game was over the old guy turned to Bob and said, "Maybe next time you will keep the beer for drinking rather than spilling."
Bob said, "Just remember the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, on New Years Eve 1979, my cup runneth over and your head was anointed with beer.
And the Boiler-Makers won in a real good game, 27 -- 22.
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