Playoff Hockey Beverages

Title: Playoff Hockey beverages

General Information about Item:

Informant Data:

This informant is from Massachusetts and is a lifelong Boston sports fan. He is particularly fond of the Boston Bruins and watches most regular season games, and every playoff game with either friends or family.

Contextual Data:

Cultural Context: The Boston Bruins are an NHL team and have made the playoffs in many of the recent seasons. Drinking beers is often associated with playing sports, so this is part of the reason he decided to buy it the first time around. Informant T also enjoys drinking Coronas casually.
Social Context: This folklore was collected over the phone while both quarantining. This tradition came about randomly when informant T and his friends decided to drink Coronas while watching the Bruins in the playoffs, and the Bruins won that game. They decided to buy Coronas before watching the next game and the Bruins also won that game. They kept doing this until the term was over, but hockey was still being played. They could no longer watch hockey and drink Coronas together, and the Bruins lost. Informant T and his friends associated the Bruins success in the playoffs with drinking Coronas and continues to do it to this day for playoff hockey.

Item:

Informant T and his friends/family always buy a 6-pack of Corona Beer before a Playoff Boston Bruins Hockey game and drink the beers during the game.

Transcript:

““During every Bruins playoff game, we get a 6 pack of Corona’s for good luck. Last year it worked very well, but we had to leave school before the Stanley Cup Finals so we couldn’t do it [drink Coronas together], and the Bruins lost, so that was very sad. But when we do our little ritual it usually works [the Bruins win]. ”

Collector’s Name: Matthew Kaufman

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Dartmouth Folklore Archive