Do you like getting drunk? How about, "super-duper drunk"? It's okay, I'm not a cop, and this isn't an intervention. You do? Well, consider that an open invitation from linebacker Chad Greenway to come cheer on the Minnesota Vikings against the Chicago Bears Sunday night at the Metrodome.
The Minnesota Vikings' season is on the line this Sunday as the team faces up against the Chicago Bears, but Greenway has a secret weapon. He's got a game plan he knows will ensure home field advantage, that will eviscerate any lingering hope of victory inside the Bears the moment they hit the field. He's requesting football fans do the unthinkable: get "super-duper drunk" for the game.
"We have to play accordingly and our fans have to show up accordingly, which we know they will. Hopefully, they're super-duper drunk. ... So drink liquor, not beer," he said after Minnesota's loss to Green Bay last Sunday, according to the Star Tribune.
The Vikings (6-6) trail the first-place ranked Bears (8-4) by two games in the NFC North standings. The Bears, tied with Green Bay atop the standings, beat the Vikings in Chicago two weeks ago.
The game is scheduled to start at noon local time. With that in mind, Greenway advocated that fans start their drinking as early as possible.
"Yeah, I would say morning drinking," Greenway said, according to the newspaper. "Why not? You could pull an all-nighter. Then you'd have the drunk, tired guys who will really be obnoxious."
Linebacker? With that kind of strategizing, how about coach? Well, drunk coach.
After disseminating his foolproof plan, on Dec. 6, Greenway tried to clarify his comments, saying in an interview with "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000 in Chicago that maybe he "went a little far."
"Obviously, I could have used some more responsible words," Greenway said. "I think the people that know me, the beat writers included, know that I said that sort of tongue-in-cheek.
"I just wanted the fans at home to be loud like they always are. I think just trying to drive that point home I probably got a little loose with my words. Obviously, I should have been a little more responsible with it. It was said, so what do you do?"
Greenway, who leads the NFL with 123 tackles, offered another surprising revelation in the radio interview. His tactics were inspired by his own college experience.
"I played football at the University of Iowa and all I knew was that they started drinking at about 5 o'clock at those games for tailgating so I thought it would be OK to say it," Greenway said Thursday. "Obviously I just went a little far."
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