Picture Memories - Edward 7 Cans

April 25th 2009 was a Saturday. It was 1084 days ago. And it was 8 days before I graduated college.

The only log of my existence that day is this picture:

The picture shows Mark, Myself, and Craig standing on the front porch of my college house preparing to play a game of Edward 7 Cans. Which is much like Edward 40 Hands for those who are too lazy to go to Campus Corner and buy actual 40's. It's genesis can be traced here.

The best I can tell from this picture, we were probably sitting around the house watching day 1 of the 2009 NFL draft. Thus I am wearing my Lions jersey. The Lions picked a southerner named Matthew Stafford with the first overall pick.

There are really only two known strategies to Edward 7 Cans. Both are on display in this picture. Craig has chosen the "line" strategy whereby he aligns all 7 cans in a row along both forearms. This strategy is nice because you can drink down the line, and avoid spilling beer all over your face, which is a problem with Mark and My strategy which is known as the "cluster". The nice thing about the cluster is that your arms don't get as cold, but you have a tendancy to spill beer from previously drunk cans all over your face.

I have no clue whose idea is was to play E7C or what happened after that game but I definitely think I enjoyed myself. The previous post showed Mark and I drinking at the beginning of our college careers, this one shows us still drinking at the end of our college careers. We clearly matured in 4 years and evolved to physically attaching booze to ourselves for optimal drinking results.

Sometimes we do cool things

Yesterday we were sitting on the porch talking about drinking and someone mentioned playing Edward 40 Hands, a classic college drinking game. But we decided that you could make it much more coleslawesome if instead of Edward 40 Hands you played Edward 7 Cans. The premise is basically the same but instead of taping 2 40's to your hands you tape 7 cans of beer to your hands.

Of course while playing Edward 7 Cans we watched the back half of Gettysburg. In the past 4 days I have not come home and Gettysburg wasn't on. Sometimes we watch it multiple times in one day. It's 4 1/2 hours.

Gettysburg + Edward 7 Cans = Bliss