COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Columbus Crew's famous Bob Evans Buck-A-Brat Nights will wrap up their eighth season at Crew Stadium on Wednesday, August 16, at 7:30 p.m. when Columbus takes on Real Salt Lake.
All game long, and throughout the stadium, juicy, full-size bratwurst will be sold for just $1, as they have been for all regular-season Wednesday home games since Crew Stadium opened in 1999. Thanks to The Crew's new multi-year partnership, Bob Evans will present each Buck-A-Brat Night and provide tasty bratwurst for all Crew home games.
Over the first 26 events, involving every regular-season Wednesday home game since 1999 (plus two international matches, two U.S. Open Cup matches and the 2002 U.S. Open Cup Final), an average of 12,749 juicy, full-size bratwursts have been sold for just $1 each.
Through 26 Buck-A-Brat nights, the all-time Brats-Per-Person (BPP) Ratio is a staggering .943 meaning that 943 brats are consumed for every 1,000 people in attendance - or nearly one per person!
A total of 331,493 brats have been consumed in the seven-plus year Buck-A-Brat Night history.
ALL-TIME BUCK-A-BRAT NIGHT STATISTICS
DATE ATTENDANCE BRATS CONSUMED BPP* RATIO
6-16-99 14,005 14,659 1.047
6-30-99 15,397 15,217 .988
7-7-99 18,101 17,812 .984
6-28-00 13,030 12,707 .975
7-12-00 12,998 11,781 .906
8-16-00 16,192 13,545 .837
8-30-00 15,941 15,007 .941
5-29-01 9,389 7,424 .791
7-18-01 15,855 14,433 .910
8-1-01 17,705 16,027 .905
8-15-01 19,008 17,847 .939
6-19-02 14,089 11,995 .851
7-24-02 17,368 17,150 .987
8-14-02 17,860 17,461 .978
10-24-02 6,054 5,493 .940
7-23-03 14,632 14,253 .974
8-13-03 17,193 16,969 .987
6-30-04 5,288 5,046 .954
7-28-04 13,069 12,110 .927
8-18-04 14,580 13,737 .942
6-22-05 10,799 10,233 .948
7-20-05 10,990 10,571 .962
9-21-05 11,769 11,203 .952
6-21-06 9,491 8,952 .943
7-19-06 10,537 10,005 .950
7-26-06 10,259 9,856 .961
TOTALS 321,312 302,680 .942
* Brats-Per-Person