10-Cent Beer Night: A look back

[@pandaeyes42]

"Here's ten dollars. I'll have a hundred beers, thanks"

[@tamathawalden2037]

🥴

[@colleenross8752]

That is so something Homer Simpson would say

[@JohnnyRebel-l9z]

In Racine Wisconsin at the pirates den it was 5.00 all you drink.....in the mid 80s......as you probably guess it was fuckin wild

[@papashort13]

I need 100 beers. Exactly 100

[@theholymackerel072]

It was the seventies. Ten dollars then was at least three million dollars these days after adjusted inflation.

[@joshlampman8717]

This should be a movie

[@coordinator3039]

Rated R

[@kyleshiflet9952]

Funniest movie ever made

[@ryanbarker5217]

i literally just said the same thing on a different video.

[@lShishkaBerryl]

Ikr, it could follow a group of friends trying to survive the insanity lol

[@kyleshiflet9952]

@@lShishkaBerryl hell yeah

[@Tyrunner0097]

It should be noted that NBC broadcaster Tim Russert said he was at this game. When asked how much beer he drank that night, he simply answered, "I walked in with $2. You do the math."

[@geo_ashburn]

Must have been when he went to John Carroll University and Cleveland State's law school

[@krisscanlon4051]

Hahaha

[@ltjjenkins]

God bless russert

[@YAOK117]

Back when ESPN actually did fun, interesting pieces on sports

[@StukInBuf]

According to the latest Inflation Calculator, that same ten-cent beer would be 50 cents today.

[@jebronekitty]

Compared to a beer at the bar now. 50 cents is a steal

[@educatainment1799]

For the cost of one decent beer and some tip at a regular bar I could get close to blackout on 50 cent beers.

[@adamtparker6515]

Based on fans pouring themselves ones it amounted to 6.85262625 Cent Beer Night (USD)

[@robertmasina7388]

Even so with the inflation calendar, one can imagine today if it was $1.00 a beer night.

[@PMurray2694]

$5 beer night would be insane in 2024

[@GOFLuvr]

What have we learned about this? Sports were a lot more exciting back in the 1970's!

[@NunYa953]

GOFLuvr You're an idiot. This isn't sports.

[@GOFLuvr]

@Matthew Fudacz Too bad. It would have been fun to go to sporting events back in the days when beer and soda was sold in glass bottles.

[@guillermogutierrez-santana4446]

Now there's a riot in the comments section.

[@andygilmore8511]

@pado joe biden Look up Disco Demolition Night, that was like two years later and even crazier; they blew a big hole in the outfield with explosives, and then, again, they rioted.

[@barktwid7057]

As was life.

[@zeroinifnite5730]

Billy Martin grabbing a bat and saying "Boys, let's go get 'em!" sounds like something they'd do on the Simpsons

[@johnselwitz5362]

Correct me if I’m wrong because I haven’t watched the show in years, but hasn’t The Simpsons spoofed this catastrophe before?

[@jbwarner8626]

"Hey, they're tryin' to learn for free!" "Get 'em!" "Use your phony guns as clubs!"

[@wehaveasituation]

Billy was smart and knew a forfeit goes to the visiting team. The Plain Dealer headline the next day was Beer 13, Indians 0.....

[@douglasdixon524]

Billy Martin was a wild and drunken manager who enjoyed altercationns. However, this was just absurd.

[@LarryJones-c4m]

Billy Martin was a lot like Homer Simpson in more ways than one.

[@MKIVWWI]

"An organist playing 'Take Me Out to the Ballgame' will not tame an angry mob." Too funny. And a few years later at Chicago's old Comisky Park we found that disco music can CREATE an angry mob! (lol)

[@GOFLuvr]

Interestingly enough, Harry Carey also tried to calm the rioting fans at Disco Demolition Night by singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame.

[@gsjkruger]

@@GOFLuvr ...which also didn't soothe the savage beasts. >.

[@GOFLuvr]

@@gsjkruger Nothing could have soothed the crowd at Disco Demolition Night, and especially if many in attendance were smoking weed before the riot.

[@philipleanza3]

I was at this game in Cleveland Municipal Stadium. I was only 19 at the time but I remember it like yesterday. I was sitting about 10 rows up behind the Indians dugout and Bob Golic's description in this video doesn't really come close to the level of mayhem in the Stadium. It was thousands of young male drunks who lost all their inhibitions and had no problem running on the field to attack the Texas Rangers. Fortunately, I didn't drink any beer and stayed in my seat but everything around me was complete chaos. I vividly remember that guy who ran on the field and took Jeff Burroughs hat off his head. That basically started the riot. I'm shocked the guy had the balls 40 years later to appear in this video. I also vividly remember Texas manager Billy Martin running out of the Rangers dugout with a bat in his hand and had several of his players running out right behind him with bats in their hands. It was a miracle that nobody was seriously injured. I also remember seeing the umpire with blood running down his head. It seemed like the riot lasted a couple hours but I believe it was only about 30 minutes. Everybody knew the game was over and I believe they announced over the public address system that the Indians had forfeited the game and all the fans had to leave the stadium immediately. I believe there were only a handful of police on duty that night in the stadium when the riot broke out but I remember eventually the Cleveland Police Riot Squad showed up and that really ended everything and all the fans left the stadium.....Just another unforgettable part of growing up in Cleveland during the 70's!

[@dzanier]

I've read several articles on this game and it really does sound as though it was utter pandemonium. This is a very disturbing, disquieting clip.

[@marckorman8643]

philipleanza3 p

[@gloooopgloop]

I suggest you listen to the podcast by the dollop on the subject

[@randyhutchinson9910]

philipleanza3 HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@michaelmedina8304]

Wish i would of been there drinking me some good cheap beer and watching the boxing matches

[@johncarter3728]

I have had a "nickel beer night" experience to rival this (actually two). I was stationed on Oahu in 1981. I went to visit a high school chum who was stationed at Pearl Harbor. He was Navy, I was Army. Anyway, we chose to go to the Enlisted Men's Club at Pearl. It happened to be Nickel Beer Night (case of beer for $1.20), at the club, and there were strippers. There was an Australian aircraft carrier (HMAS Melbourne) in port, and there was about 30-50 Aussies in the EM Club. They had with them a kid who may have been about 12-13 years old from the ship. They got him drunk, as were most of the other Aussies. They were all seated around the runway for the strippers. After about four strippers had performed their "act", one dropped her panties in front of this young kid. He picked them up, and popped them into his mouth. She looked down, shrieked, and immediately kicked the kid right in the jaw, turning out his lights. The Aussies went crazy. They tore that club up. We headed for the exits before the Shore Patrol started breaking heads. Three weeks later, My buddy came to visit me, at Barbers Point Naval Station (I was Army on that base; they didn't have room for our Chinooks up at the Schofield/Wheeler complex, so we were based on a Naval Air Station). Same deal, Nickel Beer Night, and the very same group of strippers. Once again, the beer was Coors, and the only difference was Barbers Point only had minimal Shore Patrol, instead they contracted their security out. Anyway, after the party got started, a stripper was doing her act, and some squid (pejorative term for a sailor) jumped on stage, and started his own strip-tease. Some big spender (the only beer being sold for a nickel was Coors in the can) with a bottle, threw it at the stripping sailor, and hit him right between the eyes. It was glorious; a free-for-all that was almost as good as the Pearl Harbor melee. There were about 12 Army guys in the crowd, many with tools in our pockets from pulling services on our aircraft that were parked on the flight-line across the street, and as the civilian rent-a-cops attempted to break up the brawl inside, we took all the light-bars off their rent-a-cop vehicles and set them gently in front of each of their cars. A good time was had by all.

[@L1011Widebody]

That is an awesome story, thank you so much for sharing it with us!

[@jagpriddle]

John Carter Never fuck with the boys from down under. We mess shit up.

[@michaelmedina8304]

Damit boy you got some good war stories wish you could tell more i love those old timer stories

[@johncholmes643]

Good story, but that's a lot of words for 20 likes

[@Havencheese]

Getting drunk is pretty universal but as an Australian, I can testify to the above. Generally we love absolutely any excuse to get absolutely munted, it's a part of the culture I guess.

[@rafael-4607]

They tried it again a month later? Hahaha they shouldve had it for the browns in their winless 2017 season

[@sarahbuck4099]

Look at us now

[@KimChilds75]

"Now there is another group of morons running around in the outfield." Imagine being the sport announcer at this game.

[@CinoG2G]

"15-20 pounds of hot dogs thrown at me....."😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@JamesBond-uz2dm]

Through out the mayhem on the field, the stadium organist kept playing " Take Me Out To The Ball Game ". He savagely played it over and over as the scene devolved into an all out riot.

[@ronniebishop2496]

I went to the ballpark all the time in Kansas City and they never cared how old i was, I always got Hamms beer no questions asked. It was an old mob town and wide open. Municipal stadium. Municipal stadiums were always crazy like Cleveland.

[@ronniebishop2496]

@@scrimbim6056 It was sold in Kansas City at the As games. But Hamms is good beer. Yes I’ll be 74 years old the 4 of July. Stag is good too

[@KimChilds75]

It is an absolute miracle nobody was killed.

[@stevendebraccio4657]

One thing I appreciate was when the Indians players went to help out the Rangers players when the fans came on the field. Very family like. Hey, we have our competition, but it’s a brotherhood of players who shouldn’t have had to deal with those drunken fans.

[@douglasdixon524]

True, however I blame Major League Baseball itself for allowing the "game" to continue as everyone could see things deteriorate before all the violence.

[@hipoint40cal39]

They should find and interview the two girls mentioned.

[@raygordonteacheschess5501]

What could go wrong? Just combine it with Disco Demolition Night.

[@luisreyes1963]

WW3, sans nuclear weapons. ☢️

[@miguelsandoval1985]

happy anniversary 10 cent beer night. why? because it was 45 years ago. june 4 1974 will forever be known as well... 10 CENT BEER NIGHT!!!!!!

[@-C.S.R]

Why didn’t he become a star broadcaster? He’s GOOD! Good radio voice!

[@brucecooke5194]

Can you imagine if they had $1 beer night at a damn baseball or basketball game today? Oooohhhhh boy there will be a damn swat team in the game.

[@DASCO2136]

With inflation, 10 cents in 1974 would be 50 cents today. If the Indians/Guardians were to do that for 10 years, they’d reclaim their sell out streak

[@AndrewManko-vt4qi]

😂

[@spencerj4677]

Sportscenter was so damn good back in the day. Watched it every morning growing up.

[@johnperrigo6474]

The Brewers had this in the early 70's too. Don't remember anything happening except for a lot of drunk Brewer fans.

[@LesAtlas]

John Terrino I was one of those fans. This dime beer night tradition likely started at Milwaukee’s County Stadium. Must’ve been 1971 since I just turned 18 which was the new legal drinking age. Everyone there was insanely drunk. I quit drinking decades ago. Yet I somehow still taste beer whenever I watch pro baseball.

[@robertmasina4610]

Beer and Milwaukee go hand in hand.

[@albundy6008]

You would have had to be drunk to be a Brewers fan then.

[@johnperrigo6474]

@@albundy6008 That's very true! I do remember there was a picture the next day in the paper. In the bleachers people had put all the empty plastic cups together into one very, very long snake. From what I remember it was quite impressive!

[@cajunboi4888]

This would make an insane movie.

[@kevinbriner3811]

Im still laughing at the thought of someone still having one of those bases in their possession.

[@hazelwood55]

"Hey dad, whats this base ? Well son, let me tell you...."

[@Headwaters99]

Probly worth a lotttt of money nowadays

[@TheDFM007]

@3:57 you can tell the announcer had already seen enough when he made this gem of a statement "This has been a night of blatant stupidity"

[@mattiemathis9549]

“The bleachers were loaded” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@wyattdarst8924]

“he hit like a girl”🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@botdavid323]

hes been waiting years to say that publicly 😂

[@calvinbealer7264]

Nearly 50 Years Later.. Like it was Yesterday. DAMN STRAIGHT

[@IronMaidenDoD]

We need more 10 cent beer nights

[@cityhawk]

Too pricey. 😝

[@JBM425]

They are doing it in Portlandia. An independent team, the Portland Pickles, is hosting a 10¢ Beer Night… except, instead of getting a 16-ounce or 12-ounce cup, you’ll get just 10 or 20 cc (imagine a NyQuil or Pepto Bismol cup).

[@Michael_Beanflip]

I bet you’re a tRump supporter

[@jironthunder7519]

Phillies tried something like that with dollar dog night and that eventually got outta control with food fights drunk college kids and throwing dogs at the players on the field. Can't have nice things

[@Michael_Beanflip]

@@jironthunder7519 Trump supporters

[@cdpyro8021]

We need more $0.10 beer night. LMAO

[@conniebauer4128]

Good stuff like this doesn't happen in sports anymore, unfortunately.

[@-_-Code-_-]

sure it does... 17 dollar beer night !

[@GOFLuvr]

"Good stuff..." As in, heavily discounted beer? Fans rioting?

[@chadwilliams9141]

Yeah this doesent sound fun it sounds like teenagers getting drunk

[@luisreyes1963]

Too many litigious assholes, I fear. ⚖️

[@markprange2430]

That can be fixed.

[@agony664]

When America was Great!

[@scarpfish]

Yeah, great if you liked waiting in line two hours for gas, 11% inflation and news about a crumbling presidential administration.

[@HailAnts]

Being that it was 1974 the game had to have been videotaped, but the tape was probably quickly erased and reused (they did that all the time back then)...

[@mrradioguy1977]

The Indians' schedule indicates that this game wasn't televised, so that explains the lack of footage. In those days, most weekday games weren't on local tv.

[@stephaniegormley9982]

You'll notice at 3:45 It says "Cleveland" at the bottom. Strongly implying the Cleveland stations didn't save any video of this game and it had to have come from another town's station. I'm guessing Dallas/Fort Worth (Texas Rangers town)

[@johnadams2063]

The definition of things going side ways. Love it

[@TypeOneg]

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.

[@luisreyes1963]

Just ask The Proud Boys. 🤣

[@badgerproductions24]

I want a time machine

[@ericgarringer6911]

I could totally see Billy Martin doing that he was probably half lit too lol

[@cityhawk]

Probably? If it’s Billy Martin…he was lit.

[@PaulFormentos]

@@cityhawk he and his drunken buddy killed in DUI truck crash....that ole rascal Billy

[@juniordeguate7240]

Vine aca después de ver el Dollop de leyendas legendarias 😁

[@Julia-wz6ki]

x2

[@JorgeMartinez-mx6zu]

X3

[@taylorchandler7058]

June 4, 2023. 49th Anniversary of this historical/hilarious event. Next year is the big 50!

[@edwardpacheco207]

Take me back to the old days,

[@randyhutchinson9910]

Cleveland Ohio, gotta love em!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@ck-1649]

We're not Detroit

[@dniceo7]

Now just imagine if the Phillies had done this.

[@dylan-yz5zu]

Dennis I live in philly...I JUST IMAGINED THIS OH HELLL NAW IT WOULD BE 10000X WORSE ;-;

[@n40tom]

flash floods. Yeah it would be a thousand times worse even if it wasn't.

[@karenpato1]

Bowa would have started cracking skulls with bats. Then it would have stopped.

[@andremaines]

Philly has a rep for being a mean ass city but honestly they've been slacking when's the last time philly did some crazy shit? I live in Seattle which is a pussy town full of liberals but at least they rioted when trump supporters held a rally downtown. Philly hasn't done shit you guys are losing your edge just like New York

[@chriscampbell3817]

they don't drink

[@jessieismyfriend]

No actual news clips ? This sucked

[@orbyfan]

Cleveland manager Ken Aspromonte said, "When Chylak got hit, I knew we'd lost the game."

[@tedperry6466]

didn't something like this happen at a White Sox game during a Disco Sucks night???

[@luisreyes1963]

More or less, but at least to my knowledge no alcohol was involved. 🍺

[@cominghometorome811]

And thus the Jerry Springer Show started

[@coachspangs4687]

Cleveland being Cleveland

[@stevedee8158]

So nice to see entertainment without a political agenda. Back when life was fun. My bar when I was 18 had nickel for an 8 ounce beer on thursday nights.

[@ferociousgustafson4040]

Kids today are running wild. Not like back in my day when we had manners, respected our elders, and every ball game ended in a drunken riot.

[@thomaspatton3401]

What I would give to see Billy going nuts....I would have been inconsolable, fetal, in tears of laughter. Good times, good times

[@PaulFormentos]

At least they have him and reggie goin at it on video

[@JosephJohnson-kg5yr]

With Billy Martin involved, this was right up his alley 😂

[@texsion]

Sports center was peak during this time. The graphic is so nostalgic

[@christopherwood2290]

Maybe if Mike Hargrove didn't waste so much time in the batters box........

[@MortimerZabi]

I am amazed that no one foresaw the consequences of cheap booze and bitter rivalries coming together.

[@MrBargill]

Right !!!!

[@ev-yt2064]

I was there that night. This video is pretty much the way I remember it. After 40 years, I still have the image of the guy in front of our row calling to a cop and then throwing a full beer in his face. We left once the field was full of people. We told the mounted police officer as we left the stadium to get ready for a mess. He just shook his head.

[@PaulFormentos]

lots of weird shit happens in OHIO

[@calvinbealer7264]

I Remember Listening to This Game as a 10 year old. Couldn't believe that it really happened as Joe Tait and Herb Score doing the Play by Play. CRAZY 😜😜😜😜😧😧

[@jjc1188]

You're listening to Indians Baseball on 3WE

[@mikeareal]

Now it’s 50 years ago….

[@jstewlly4747]

Rememeber when they had 1 hot dog night in 2020s lol think about having 1 dollar beer night in today lol they would tear the stadium down!!!!!! Lol hahaha

[@justcallmeBIG_L]

Would have been more fitting if it was at Miller Park, aka aMfAm

[@jeffkaufman9875]

If you’re listening, you’ll notice the late-great Joe Tait commentating the mayhem that was!..

[@MickeyTavella]

Back in the '80's there was a club in my town that would have " nickel nite" .5 cent beers and you'd go there with 3 dollars and get hammered and leave a tip lol

[@BigDaddyTony24]

Multiple counts of people running around naked “Sp by the third inning….”

[@SW.Productions]

I think I speak for everyone when I say they need to bring 10 cent beer night back

[@CurtisLoew63]

They tried it again a month later😂😂😂 Cleveland does rock😂

[@bretyoung3033]

I find it amazing that they always focus on this event when they have nothing better to do over at ES'hasbeen. Do you guys remember the Disco blowup in Chicago. Let's talk about that.

[@mattsullivan7363]

Balloonfest in 86 and 10cent Beer night, Lebrons Reading School and the Mistake on the Lake is solidified.

[@TheoneGodfather]

The title reminds me of a fun night from years ago. Me and six friends went to a bar where a local radio station was hosting a bikini contest and it was ten cent beer until eight. We got there at like seven thirty and immediately ordered five beers each. When the first round was brought we ordered another five each and the same when that round came. At one point we had close to one hundred beers sitting before us and just grabbing and downing them. In the end we came very close to going to jail. What a great night it was😅.

[@Stonecrow25]

Had .25 cent night ever year at the minor league stadium id frequent nothing like this though

[@unrefined5156]

Believe it or not, Cleveland actually used to be a fun and interesting place at one point in the 70s and 80s.

[@scottl.1568]

Fuckin' good old days

[@samuelmunoz1464]

They thought 10 beers for a dollar was a good idea, SMH.

[@Shinobi33]

A bleechers ticket and 5 🍺 s for a $1. What could go wrong?

[@paysonfox88]

Tom Grieve, a member of the Rangers broadcast and analyst on TV for the team now, was playing in that game and hit 2 HR in the first game of the double header. He's in the Rnagers HOF now for his 11 yrs as a player, 10 yrs as a GM, and 22+ yrs as TV analyst.

[@kevaninthe4135]

46th Anniversary today.

[@nmr0762]

My grandpa was at this game with his friends, and one of his friends got arrested

[@ganglabesh]

will ferrell needs to produce a film based on this!

[@DarkDragonPath]

I went to a fight and a baseball game broke out! 🤣

[@tstone1874]

This is the most American thing I've seen...

[@looloo6322]

We need 25 cent beer night and bat day on the same day.

[@onehandclapping3094]

This is what baseball is missing today. 😊

[@ellisboucher8033]

10 cent beer night wouldn’t have been a bad idea if it had took place in 1885.

[@JustMeELC]

Roflmao they continued with the promotion 😂 Well obviously nobody could have seen 10 cent beer night at the park going bad lol 🤣

[@MegaSteven011]

Legendary night in human history

[@punkinhaidmartin]

What would 10 cent joint night have been like?

[@randyhutchinson9910]

mark warlick really quiet

[@res3382]

A whole lot of food purchased.

[@joeg5414]

Everyone would have had a good time and enjoyed the game.

[@luisreyes1963]

Nobody would recall the game. 🥴

[@robertmasina4610]

Or for that matter, if today was $1.00 a beer night.

[@MrFuggleGuggle]

There's a reason why alcohol is priced and taxed a certain way...

[@bobbygray3430]

Yes, it’s not about getting you in a closed market and inflating the price to nickel and dime you. Part of the reason it’s so expensive at entertainment venues is because of incidents like this. The price is somewhat of a deterrent. They’re ok if you have 2 or 3 beers. But they want to make you go broke if you want anymore than that 🤣

[@TheBatugan77]

Brring us a pitcher every seven minutes until someone passes out. Then every ten minutes.

[@peterquill7049]

My grandpa was there

[@buckfuhtt2083]

No kidding? Tell us more man.

[@peterquill7049]

@Buck Fuhtt I don't remember his story too great but I believe he said he and a few buddies had seats like a couple rows up down the 3rd base line and saw a shit ton of fights for obvious reasons. He remembered the whole thing pretty well but I don't remember his story. I'll call him up sometime and report back when I do

[@scottl.1568]

50th anniversary 🎉

[@furiouspower8806]

From 10 cents to 8 dollar cans

[@Cooldude-tm5rs]

God I wish I was there

[@michaelchandler3295]

Ohio, enough said

[@rikky383]

Today is the 50th anniversary! Keep it classy Cleveland and GO TRIBE!!!

[@PaulFormentos]

Not the tribe anymore....miss that cap

[@pierredavila7377]

3:04 what a hairy tiny winy. .😂

[@PatrickHogan-dj2iu]

Oh now I see why people like baseball, they should have kept it rolling like they do in hockey. Now baseball is so boring.

[@mkaykaykayy]

chaos. Reminds me of the 1980 Scottish Cup Final Riot - Rangers Vs Celtic (the day alcohol was banned from football in Scotland, til this day)

[@castlebravocrypto1615]

My grandfather told me about this when I was a young boy. He said I would understand how funny it was when I grew up more. He was right 😂

[@RaceBannon-x1u]

The horror

[@prestonlindbeck1197]

Back in 1998, on Thursdays the Lizards Lounge in Bloomington, IL, used to have pitchers for twenty five cents. Certainly had my share.