How Hot Sauce Shots Will Be Sending Kids To UConn Games
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The unique, and somewhat ill-advised, act of drinking a shot of hot sauce will help kids in Connecticut receive free tickets to UConn athletic events – welcome to social media in 2021.
“The Hot Sauce Challenge” has taken UConn Nation by storm since a January 5 men’s basketball victory over Marquette. UConn was trailing the Golden Eagles by 15 points at halftime in the Huskies’ third game back as a member of the Big East Conference.
Bryan Jackson ’06 (CLAS), or @BpenfieldJ, as he is known on Twitter, proclaimed at the half that he would do a shot of hot sauce if the Huskies came back and won the game.
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STORRS, Conn. â UConn fan Bryan Jackson said he thought his taste buds were safe when he joked recently on Twitter that he would drink a spoonful of hot sauce if his Huskies came from behind to beat Marquette.
After all, it was already the second half, UConn was down by 18 points and its best player, James Bouknight, had gone down with an injury.
âI saw that people were very down on Twitter and I just wanted to add some levity to the situation,â he said. âI thought people might get a chuckle out of it. And the other aspect of it, it was kind of an offering to the basketball gods.â
STORRS, Conn. UConn fan Bryan Jackson says he thought his taste buds were safe when he joked last week on Twitter that he’d drink a spoonful of hot sauce if his Huskies came from behind to beat Marquette.After all, it was already the second half,.