Beer and football go together just like beer and everything else in my life. This season’s been extra special for me because my Beloved New York Jets are headed to the AFC Championship game for the first time since the 1998 season where they subsequently committed 6 turnovers and lost the Broncos, but we won’t talk about that. Anyway, I will certainly be watching on Sunday. Watching and drinking beer. To assist you in joining me, I’ve listed a few recommendations on what you should be drinking this Sunday.

Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA

I love this beer. I find it thoroughly satisfying and way easier to drink than a lot of IPAs out there. I also like that it’s pretty easy to find, something you’ll appreciate when you’re darting out to the nearest bodega during halftime because you didn’t plan the crucial beer:people:time ratio correctly. 60 Minute has the added bonus of having a healthy 6% ABV – inspiring alternating states of lofty euphoria and soul-sucking misery, something that long-time Jets fans will find entirely appropriate.

Miller Lite

I know, I know, this site’s supposed to be about good beer, but the bar I went to watch Jets games had Miller on $1 special during gametime and I am only human. And very, very cheap. This beer is light (lite?), so you can drink, like, beerzillion of them and still be coherent enough to tell where the TV is. Over the course of several years, I began to associate Miller Lite with football, and life was peachy. Then one day the bar replaced the Miller special with a Bud Light and it was just wrong. It was like waking up and finding your car exactly where you parked it, only upside down, or that weird feeling you got as a kid when you saw your teacher somewhere outside of school. Fuck you, Bud Light for ruining my football zen.

Arrogant Bastard Ale

I love you, Rex Ryan, you magnificent arrogant bastard. This one’s for you.

Heineken

My dad loves the Jets. My dad loves Heineken. So that explains that. And the beer is green, like the Jets. I don’t much care for the new mini-kegs though – it always makes things too foamy you have to assemble it like some night table from IKEA. I don’t assemble beer, I drink it. Also, the creepy robot ads for those things were just too much. That doesn’t make me want to drink beer as much as it makes me fear some bleak Orwellian future. They redeemed themselves with one of my all-time favorite ads, though.

Colt 45

The Jets are going to knock back some Colts on Sunday. Why shouldn’t you? Plus all the chicks at your football party will think you are hot shit. I’m just kidding, you and I both know there will be no chicks at your football party. Not after the way you behaved last year.

Brooklyn Lager

I needed to have at least one New York beer on this list, and the reliable Lager from Brooklyn Brewery is a fine choice. Plus, it’s only 5.2% ABV, which is pretty damn sessionable. You might have heard that the Jets actually play in New Jersey. I don’t care, their helmets say “NY” on them and I love taking things at face value. I was originally going to have Sixpoint’s Sweet Action here, and it’s a really good beer, but you try explaining why you’re drinking something called an “American Blonde Ale” at a football game.

There you go, six awesome options for this Sunday’s game. Girlfriends, I am not responsible for the behavior of your respective boyfriends’ behavior this weekend.

Let’s go JETS.