A college football fan at Bristol Motor Speedway found a sympathetic audience in ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday morning while asking his mother for beer money.
The man held up a sign that read, “Hi Mom! Send Beer Money”, which included his Venmo account name. For the uninitiated, Venmo is an app that allows people to send and receive money from friends — or in this case, complete strangers.
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His Venmo account was flooded with donations — in fact, more than 400 of them in one hour, by Darren Rovell’s count.
Guy who asked for beer money with GameDay sign has been paid more than 400 times in last hour on Venmo pic.twitter.com/IoAnyE5URi
— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 10, 2016
Here’s a sampling of comments to Sam Crowder from the generous donors.
This is absurd. Genius. pic.twitter.com/GpShMSqIFa
— Sam Reilly (@Samuel_Reilly) September 10, 2016
All you gotta do is ask...
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) September 10, 2016
Fan receives beer money after putting Venmo account name on sign https://t.co/SsILLWN317 pic.twitter.com/zF2YO1Q7ZR
Nice effort, Sam. Have one for us.