Avalanche Announcer Almost Pukes After Accidentally Drinking From Partner’s Dip Cup

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Most people associate chewing tobacco and similar products with baseball, but there are plenty of people in the world of hockey who are fans of packing a lip—including one broadcaster who put his partner in the booth in a very unenviable position courtesy of his dip cup.

There’s never really been a classy way to consume tobacco by plopping some in your mouth, and while there was once a time when it wasn’t too hard to find a spitoon to harness while catching a buzz, you’d be hard-pressed to find any of those in the wild in this day and age.

As a result, anyone who’s willing to give various forms of oral cancer a run for their money needs to have some sort of receptacle they can use to store their spit, which typically comes in the form of a cup or water bottle that can get thrown in the trash when you’re done.

There’s a reason that liquid gets ejected in the first place, and as someone who once unknowingly took a swig from the wrong Solo cup during a party in college, it’s hard to think of many things I’d list ahead of “dip spit” on the list of stuff I’d never want to put in my mouth again.

Unfortunately, Colorado Avalanche color commentator Mark Rycroft learned that lesson the hard way while broadcasting a game alongside longtime play-by-play guy Marc Moser.

Both men were harnessing identical coffee cups for very different reasons during the game, and at some point during the contest, Rycroft went to take a sip from the one he assumed he was his only to discover it was the one Moser had been using as a dip cup before scrambling for some actual coffee and water to attempt to undo the damage.

It’s safe to assume Rycroft is going to be a bit more careful about the cups he drinks from going forward.