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J.J. Watt tried to buy every Wisconsin grad a beer at graduation
June 28, 2023 11:20 am CT
J.J. Watt has had some legendary moments at Camp Randall, but he tried to top them all as the commencement speaker in 2019.
As if having Watt as your commencement speaker wasn’t great enough, the Wisconsin Hall of Famer tried to buy every single graduate a beer that he wanted to hide under their chairs during graduation.
He recently told the full story on the podcast “Green Light with Chris Long.”
Not only was he trying to buy students a beer, but he was trying to buy them Wisconsin’s very own Spotted Cow.
“I was talking to the university and I was like, ‘This is what I want to do,'” said Watt on Green Light with Chris Long. “Spotted Cow is the best beer in Wisconsin. It’s incredible. I wanted to put a Spotted Cow under every single seat in the stadium.
I’ll pay for it all. I’ll pay for the labor to put it under the seats, but at the end of my commencement speech, I’m gonna say, ‘Now, to congratulate you, reach under your seat and have a cold one on me.’”
It could have been the greatest Wisconsin commencement moment of all time, but unfortunately, and perhaps fairly, the university had other plans.
Rapper Yung Gravy Loves SJL Client New Glarus Brewing Company
Before Young Gravy took the stage to perform at Summerfest Friday night, the rapper chatted with Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Hannah Kirby. The Minnesota native, who graduated from UW-Madison, offered his three favorite things about Wisconsin.
In this bit he said, number one was his stint at UW-Madison, number two was Milwaukee’s Bradford Beach, and the best for last New Glarus Brewing.
To see the video click below.
