A Wonderful New Holiday Tradition: One-Handed Beer Football

Remember the Bud Bowl? The PBR Bowl is kind of like that, only less aimed at convincing underage kids to drink.

Every year for the past nine years, a growing gathering of hardy souls has been meeting at a park outside of tiny Emerson, Iowa, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Their goal: play some goddamn football. That goal quickly deteriorates into just drinking as many Pabst Blue Ribbons as humanly possible.

The rules are simple:

• 40 yard field, 20 yards for a first down • One-hand touch • All players must have a PBR in hand at all times • If you drop your beer, chug it and grab another • First to 70 points wins, unless the beer runs out or everyone gets too tired • Extra points for beards and mullets

PBR Bowl IX was held this past weekend, and as the above highlight video shows, it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect. A sloppy game that gradually gets slower and sloppier and requires time outs to go puke-and-rally in the bushes. It's the heart of America.