Posted on 06/12/2026 4:00:59 AM PDT by DFG
Slàinte!
The Scottish national team kicks off World Cup play in Boston Saturday, but their fans treated their transatlantic flights like a bottomless pub crawl — and drained every drop of booze before touching the tarmac.
The kilt-clad Scots entered Logan International Airport ready to rumble — “been drinking since one o’clock in the morning when I got up,” said David Wood as he arrived on US soil.
“We ran out of beer.”
A flight from the UK to the US usually lasts around seven hours, so when the beer ran dry, the Scots switched to wine, the pilot told WBZ-TV.
“We had a round of applause when we landed,” Wood added. “I don’t know if you do that here. That’s a very Scottish thing.”
“I’m going to find Cheers. That’s what I want do. I want to find Cheers, he told CBS, holding up a bottle of whiskey.
“I watched it when I was younger, and I want to find the bar.”
Ticket prices soared to around $1,200 when they first went on sale, according to Allan Begg, who plans to attend one of Scotland’s matches in the group stage.
“Now they aren’t selling and are down to $500,” he moaned.
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Reminds me of the joke about the waitress at a bar finding a three-penny tip after she served a table drinks for the entire night. “I guess there’s a Scotsman among ya” she scoffed as the patrons left. “No” one of the patrons said. “There’s three of us!”
“”so when the beer ran dry, the Scots switched to wine, the pilot told WBZ-TV.””
Were they served BY the airline or brought their own? Doesn’t seem like a smart thing to allow on a flight - perhaps it was a chartered plane?
I’m with you...doesn’t make sense unless it was a chartered flight..
“”so when the beer ran dry, the Scots switched to wine, the pilot told WBZ-TV.””
I was once at a resort in the Bahamas that had a large party of Scots. I think they were representing the “Edinburgh Skin Cancer Appreciation Society”. Not only were they drunk these fair skinned warriors of the north British Isles. They were sun burned to the point it was painful to look at them. Their treatment - More Booze! Drink until you can’t feel the pain, the sun burn pain. To this day I wonder how they tolerated the flight home - more booze obviously!
Really says something that you can have a plane full of drunk Scotsmen with no problems at all. Imagine a plane full of drunk Dindus. The plane would need a fighter jet escort.
“”so when the beer ran dry, the Scots switched to wine,
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
When they were out of regular beer, did they put up with Bud Light?
The Cheers bar does not look anything like the “set” on the TV show. It is a small bar in the basement. That is a total tourist trap. It does look the same from the outside.
I would suggest to anyone visiting Boston to go to the Warren Tavern in Charlestown. It has not changed much since the late 1700s. When Ben Franklin liked to hang out there when he came to town.
Another spot is the Union Oyster House. In the Fanial Hall area. It is very touristy, but has not changed all that much either in the last 200 years. You can sit at the raw bar on the same bar stool that Teddy used to like to get drunk at. Or you can go upstairs and sit in the booth that his older brother Jack used to like to eat.
There are also great Irish bars in the the Quincy Market area. Plus there are at least six bars outside of Fenway where beers are flowing: Game On, The House of Blues, Cask & Flagan, and the Bleacher Bar, etc.
Take in a game at Fenway. The team sucks but the park is still pretty cool to see. It is pretty similar to what it looked like when it opened in 1912. Thankfully, they added more bathrooms. But you will miss the “experience” of pissing into a Stainless Steel tough where the drunk guy from Southie next to you throws up and pisses on his/your shoes. People also no longer piss in the sinks. There are still posts with obscured view seats behind that 12” wide I beam. Also, out in the bleaches is the one RED seat where Ted hit his 510’ home run(and he wasn’t juicing).
I’m an Irishman, I am, I am
and I drink my Irish booze.
And if you don’t like my Irish song
I throw up on your shoes.
During the 88 Olympics the wife and I watched a group of Aussies trying to get a “package deal” with a Korean hooker. So much for the Ugly American.
As long as they’re not behind the wheel and/or drink and disorder with it, to each his own.
Maybe soccer is more enjoyable if you’re 3 sheets to the wind.
I have no intention of finding out.
When I was at the London train station in the 80s a dude was walking around naked celebrating some soccer match or other. Before he got arrested that is.
I want one of those T shirts.
Thanks to you, I am addicted to this channel now.
And I don’t like soccer.
Scotland is lucky to still have a lead, Haiti has dominated the second half but haven’t got the equalizer.
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