I used to manage the Maintenance Shop bar in the Iowa State University Student Union. It was a Friday night, and we were to play Oklahoma in basketball the next day. I think they were ranked #2 in the country at the time.
Several players from the Oklahoma team came into the bar, and I started giving them beer in the hope that they would over consume and be hung over for the game, and perhaps ISU would have a chance.
Wayman Tisdale came in and said, ?I see that you are giving my friends beer. If you give me some beer, I might score 40 points tomorrow!?. I gave him a six pack and asked him to please not do that. I think he scored 38.
After the team left the bar, one of my bartenders said, ?Call the police, and tell them that the Oklahoma team was here and stole a bunch of beer!?. I declined, knowing that the ISU coach (Johnny Orr) would kill me if I pulled anything like that.
By the way, all of the players were perfect gentlemen.
I wish I had known at the time that Tisdale was a bass player. I?ll bet he didn?t get the chance to talk about that much during basketball season.
