Philly Fans Are Going To Be The Most Greased Up Fans In Baseball With The Phillies Offering This 9-9-9 Challenge Box
It's become an annual tradition in the city of Philadelphia that the entire month of October turns into a giant bender. Every day it feels like there's another big game to get loaded up for. This coming week you've got the Phillies on Saturday, the Eagles on Sunday, the Phillies again on Monday, Phillies on Wednesday, Eagles on Thursday, and Phillies on Thursday if necessary. That's 6 big games in 6 days, with your only chance to take a breather on Tuesday. And that's just the start of Red October.
The point I'm getting at here is that Philly fans have built up a tolerance over the last few years to handle the month of October. Our bodies have biologically evolved and mutated to handle a full month of hammering your body with nothing but booze, excessive eating, stress from watching playoff baseball, and a lack of sleep.
So if there's any fanbase that was built for the 9-9-9 challenge, it's the heathens who will be filling up Citizens Bank Park this weekend. But while I love and appreciate the Phillies for putting this box together, I feel a slight sense of disrespect from the portions we're looking at here. "Fun size" hot dogs and "petite" beers? What the actual frick is this?
I get it. I'm sure there's some sort of insurance nightmare that comes along with offering 30+ thousand fans 9 full sized hot dogs, and 9 tall boys to be consumed over the course of just a few hours. But what is this--a 9-9-9 challenge for ants? We can handle the full meat rockets. We can handle the full sized beers. If you don't think Philly fans are already going to be as liquored and greased up as possible this weekend, then you just haven't been paying attention. It's a great idea, but I'm just disappointed in the execution. With that said, this seems like a great box to at least get you through the first few innings of the game on Saturday.
Go Phils.