From the Columbus Crew Media Relations Department

I don't always think highly of MLS' stat keeping, but this is possibly the coolest thing they've ever done: 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 Awesome. This is the kind of cool and obscure thing I really enjoy seeing. But I can't help but notice on the sentence before this table, it says "A total of 331,493 brats have been consumed in the seven-plus year Buck-A-Brat Night history." They must be including the two USA Wednesday games, 2000 vs Costa Rica (24,430) and 2004 vs Jamaica (9,088). Together that's 33,518 people, mutiple that by .942 and add it, and you're pretty close to that total.