Goodbye Joe, you will be missed...

Yesterday, Joe Sakic, my favorite hockey player, decided to call it a career after 20 years in the NHL. While he spent his time with two teams, the Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche, it was one franchise. So often do you miss this kind of loyalty to a franchise. He stayed, even after they moved. He was always the consumate professional. He has more records than I care to recount here. So thank you Joe, not just for the Stanley Cups, but for how you played the game...like a professional. And if you don't belive me. The Great One, Wayne Gretzky had this to say about him: "I think he's had an outstanding career, a brilliant career ... The thing about Joe is he did it with so much class and so much dignity. Very humble, almost shy, but when he got on the ice he was dynamic, very unselfish."

Holiday/Event Beer Sales

Gina told me something the other day and I just had to verify it. She told me that she'd heard on the radio that the 4th of July was the holiday with the largest beer sales. That just didn't sound right. I thought, and wrongly it turns out, that this was just because the Super Bowl wasn't considered a holiday. Surely the Super Bowl sells the most beer. However, as this chart below shows, the Super Bowl is number 8...behind Easter. Take a look, what do you think? This chart was posted on January of this year, so it is current, but that still doesn't mean I'm buying. So sound off, are you buying or selling the Super Bowl as the 8th largest beer sales holiday?