Wisconsin is home to some of the best beer in the world. It’s also the starting point for some of the greatest football players in the NFL.
So when the University of Wisconsin asked former Badger All-American and future NFL Hall of Famer J.J. Watt to speak at the school’s graduation ceremony in 2019, he made the logical decision to combine the two. Watt’s big idea to make his commencement speech legendary was an extremely Wisconsin one. He was gonna buy a beer for every matriculating student at Camp Randall Stadium that afternoon.
