Posted on 06/26/2026 5:45:18 PM PDT by DoodleBob
The bar staff at the Sam Adams brewery in Boston have seen busy weekends. They had not seen anything like the Tartan Army. Over four days in June, kilted Scotland supporters drank the place through seventy kegs of America’s most patriotic lager, sang until their voices frayed, and turned a craft brewery taproom into a slice of Glasgow with better weather.
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The numbers from Boston read like a tall tale. Seventy kegs of Sam Adams emptied in four days at the brewery alone, never mind the bars across the city that filled with tartan from morning until well past closing. The Scots adopted the place. They learned the local lager, decided they approved, and drank it as though supplies might run out.
The best moment came at Fenway Park. Scotland supporters, with a day to fill and a baseball stadium on their doorstep, descended on a Red Sox game and rewrote their terrace songs on the spot, threading Red Sox references into chants built for Hampden Park. …
By the time Scotland reached Miami for their meeting with Brazil, the routine was set. The supporters gathered at Ball & Chain on Calle Ocho, the beating heart of Little Havana, and marched roughly a mile and a half to loanDepot park to watch the Marlins host Texas….Outside the ballpark they produced the image of the trip. Hundreds of fans singing and dancing to “Yes Sir, I Can Boogie”, the 1970s disco track by Baccara that the Tartan Army adopted as its anthem and has refused to put down since. The sight of a Scottish crowd belting out a campy European disco number in the Florida heat, kilts swirling, locals filming on their phones, captured everything the support has become. Joyful, slightly absurd, and impossible to ignore.
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In Boston they displayed class by cleaning up after themselves. Scottish manners of respect for their guest and themselves!
Just another reason to hold the Scots in high esteem.
Too bad the soccer team apparently indulged as well, as they are on the verge of elimination.
The author speaks of Edinburgh and Glasgow, which are both in the Scottish Lowlands. Both tartans and the Clan system originated in the Highlands. Neither existed in the south until the late 19th Century when Highland culture was made trendy under the reign of Old Queen Vic. Better he should have used Elgin and Glencoe.
It wasn’t just the Scots, it was also a lot of Americans of Scottish ancestry who joined in.
There may be more Americans of Scottish ancestry forthcoming…
Gordon Ramsay jokes Boston has run out of pregnancy tests after Scotland fans visited during World Cup
“I mean every girl has fallen in love with them in Boston. I think every CVS has run out of pregnancy tests over the last 24 hours as well. So it’s been a busy two weeks.
“I’m going to see that sea of ginger, come what may, in January, when it will be like ‘Make America ginger again’. MAGA, come on, it’s going to go ——- crazy in Boston.”
Don’t go home, nothing but a cesspool waiting when you get there.
So proud of the home of my ancestors!
It’ll be sad if they’re sent packing. They’re a fun lot.
But yes….One goal in three games…what will McKallaster say?
I got it…”Brazil and Morocco…the cheats that they are! Ordering a pint of lager.”
Cabo Verde made it!!!!!
That’s the good news. The bad news is have to play Argentina.
Uruguay losing at least now gives Scotland a bit of a lifeline, but they still need a lot of help.
Unlike the Irish, Scotch fans know how to party and get along.
We should try to get like 300,000 Scotts and move them to Minneapolis to kick the scuzzy Somalis out of there
The weather probably isn’t too far off from Scotland anyway
Not exactly. It was King George IV’s 1822 trip to Edinburgh. Which was basically a giant dress-up party, and everyone got tartans made by the finest London tailors.
The guy who organized one of the big parties was a “meal man” (grain merchant and caterer) from Edinburgh, a bon vivant, by the name of Ebenezer Scroggie. The story goes that Dickens walked through an Edinburgh graveyard, saw his tombstone which said “a meal man”, thought it said “a mean man”, and changed the last name to Scrooge.
I’ve seen that story before. Apparently there were more than a few snide comments about the sons and grandsons of the Lowland Scots who had ruthlessly enforced the prohibition against the Highlanders wearing their kilts, dressing up in kilts themselves.
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