August 20, 2008
From where we sit, Nascar seems like it’s all about drinking beer while screaming your head off, while agreeing during more somber moments that Dale Earnhardt was a saint who walked the earth and we’ll never see his likes again on this terrestrial sphere. It seems like good fun – apart from that last bit – and preferable to Indy Racing with its loud noise and endless confusing laps of cars whipping by while you struggle to steady your drink from the vibrations.
We’ve never attended a Nascar event, but we’re guessing that if you were to look for a beer at one, you wouldn’t have too much difficulty tracking one down. This is doubly true if you’re performing in front of a Nascar audience. Presumably you’d get a cooler full.
In a case of idiocy instantly corrected, singer Pat Green asked the crowd at a Michigan International Speedway Nascar event: “Anybody got a beer?”
Inviting projectiles from the audience at any concert ever could be suicidal – indeed, if he regularly dresses like he does in the attached photo, one can picture attending his concerts with a basket brimming with tomatoes at the ready – but to ask for beer from an audience chock full of people drinking so much that piles of tins collect at their feet, well that’s just a step beyond.
Green got his wish. One audience member tossed him a beer – the one he saw coming – and another was fired in immediately after, beaning the new country singer right between the eyes and knocking him out cold. The concert was concluded, the beer, presumably, unopened.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
I caught that shirt the last time I went fishing. Had to throw the bastard back.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:23 am
Any potential fan that has ever met Pat Green can tell you that he is kind of an asshole, so….this is awesome!
August 21st, 2008 at 7:15 am
Obviously you have never met Pat Green. He is one of the nicest, funniest and truly talented singer-songriters around. Asshole is a word that I would use to describe people who print stories that are untrue. Check your facts, assholes!!!!
August 21st, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Thanks for stopping by folks.
@Manny (same name as the film critic who just died?) — Indeed, that shirt could use a volume adjustment knob
And Anons — it would make this story a bit more poetic if Green were indeed an asshole, but since we hadn’t a clue about him before coming across this story, we can’t make the tie-breaking call on that one.
August 26th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
I’ll break the tie. Pat is the nicest, sweetest, most generous person I know. Your story is misleading at every word. I can cast a vote for the asshole here too, but I’ll refrain.