The LSU Tigers baseball team has star pitcher Paul Skenes and… a bunch of alcoholic fans, apparently. They're in college — can you blame them?
The LSU Tigers are on track to make a finals appearance in the College World Series this year, and their fans couldn't be happier. They witnessed LSU's shut-out against Tennessee in an elimination game on Tuesday in which the Tigers leaned on their aces like Paul Skenes and a reliable hitting corps, and they whooped for joy, maybe even climbed on tables Coyote Ugly-style. And while the night was young, they celebrated as any sports fan would by taking a truckload of shots.
For outside of college baseball stadiums, another fiery contest has been going on: the infamous Jell-O Shot Challenge.
A proud staple of the NCAA men's baseball tournament, the Jell-O Shot Challenge is hosted by Rocco's Pizza and Cantina in Omaha, Nebraska. It's a pretty self-explanatory competition: the more Jell-O shots fans buy, the more points their team gets. Each shot (which costs $5) counts as a point, and the fanbase with the most points at the end of the tournament wins.
Ole Miss fans bought a record-setting 18,777 shots last year when their team won their first championship. This time, LSU fans are spanking it out of the park, setting a new record as of Tuesday afternoon: 22,462 shots.
LSU fans are raging alcoholics in this year's College World Series
Someone please check on LSU fans and make sure they're okay.
Wake Forest has the second-most shots with 6,582, but none of the seven other teams come close to LSU's stomach-curdling record. Anyone who's taken a Jell-O shot before know it's not as gag-inducing as a normal shot of liquor, but doctors everywhere cringe thinking about how much sugar is going into each fan's system.
The hangover hasn't started to hit the LSU Tigers, who will face their biggest challenge on Wednesday night against top-seeded Wake Forest University in the semifinal round of the College World Series.
LSU will have hordes of buzzed and plastered fans alike cheering them on from a little watering hole in Nebraska, albeit the inebriated, slurring shouts of "Go Tigers!" won't guarantee them the win. The Demon Deacons, who beat LSU 3-2 earlier in the tournament (it's a double elimination format) and boast a 9-1 record in the postseason, are clearly the favorites in this matchup.
Can the Tigers channel their inner gelatin globbiness and bounce back to snatch a win away from Wake Forest? May the drunken power of 22,000 Jell-O shots and counting send them stumbling into the College World Series finals.