August 5, 2008
What do the US, Oman, Indonesia, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates have in common?
Well, nothing, apart from a legal drinking age of 21, the highest in the world.
To put it another way, the US is the only non-Muslim country we’re aware of (though in some parts of the Ukraine, they enforce the age of 21 though by all accounts it’s roundly ignored) where to consume a beer, you must be old enough to earn a college degree.
Since many so-called ’student athletes’ don’t, we figure they just enjoy the college experience (the aspects unrelated to the taking of actual courses), in the limited time that they have.
Members of the Notre Dame football team (seen here) were cutting loose in a rousing game of Beer Pong, a time-honored college tradition, and for some reason, this non-event made its way into the pages of the Chicago Tribune, among others.
Now, to be fair, The Fighting Irish (a bizarre name for a team whose college name translates to ‘Our Lady’ in French, but to be more fair, being French is not typically associated with fighting anything successfully) have a graduation rate near 80%. This is substantially higher than the coin flip figures elsewhere in the country, some of which are as low as 30% and the team is known for hitting the books at least as hard as those across the line of scrimmage.
Of course, when the rest of us were busy say, studying, we weren’t cut admission breaks for being able to run a 40 in under 5 seconds, common practice so that, well, dumb kids can practice.
A Notre Dame football spokesman said Monday there was no comment from the team for the time being, apart from ‘Chug, chug, chug, chug!’
