Drunk Dad

Drunk Dad Shows Up To Every Game... Perfect Attendance, Imperfect Execution

At every game, Dad is there with a beer. He's yelling at the kids. He's spreading his cheer in the particular way that only a man three beers into a Saturday morning soccer game can spread cheer, which is to say enthusiastically and without an accurate read on the room. Dad has never missed a single game. This commitment is real and should be acknowledged. The form it takes when it arrives is what the book documents, with illustrated cartoon art and the specific resignation of a child who has learned to locate their parents in the stands by sound before sight.

This adult parody book is for everyone who grew up with a dad like this, loves a dad like this, is related to a dad like this, or has encountered a dad like this at a youth sporting event and spent the following forty-five minutes pretending not to know which sideline contained their own family. The Dad in this book means well. The data supports this. The execution of meaning-well is the full subject matter, documented across illustrated pages with the accuracy of a sports film that cannot afford to pull its punches.

This Book IS For:

• Adults who grew up with a dad who showed up to everything and made "showing up" a complicated concept
• Parents who have witnessed the sideline behavior of other parents and recognized something uncomfortably familiar
• Fans of comedy that finds the love inside the dysfunction without pretending the dysfunction isn't there
• Gift-givers attending a Father's Day event where at least one person in the room will recognize their own father

This Book Is NOT For:

• Youth sports coaches who are currently managing an active sideline situation involving a parent with a cooler
• Dads who do not drink and believe this stereotype is unfair to dads everywhere and would like to discuss it
• Anyone who needs their sports-dad content to end with a warm conversation and a moment of growth
• People whose experience with this archetype is too recent and too specific to be at the comedy stage yet

Appropriate For:

• Father's Day... the most accurate Father's Day gift for a specific type of father who exists widely
• White elephant exchanges at any event where a majority of attendees played youth sports
• End-of-season sports team parties where the parents have spent enough time on sidelines to appreciate this
• Gag gifts for the dad himself, if the relationship is close enough to absorb the recognition

Why Buy This

Father's Day is an industry built on the premise that dads need gifts that acknowledge their role. This book acknowledges the role with specificity that most Father's Day content is not prepared to provide. A "World's Best Dad" mug is aspirational. This book is documentary. One of those two things is more useful for processing the actual experience of having a dad who shows up.

For roughly the cost of a cooler of the beverages that appear throughout this book, you get a gift that will either make a father laugh or make a child of such a father laugh, and both of those outcomes are worth pursuing. Dad showed up. He always showed up. The book doesn't take that away from him. It just tells the full story while it's doing it.