Buffalo Breweries Need To Do It With The Buffalo Bandits

The Buffalo Bandits just won another national championship. How come no Buffalo brewery has done this with them yet?

It never fails. Every time you say something about how Buffalo just can’t win a championship, a Bandits fan will remind you that the Buffalo Bandits have won multiple championships.

They are back-to-back NLL (National Lacrosse League) champions again after beating Albany in just two games last Saturday night. They’re one of the only teams in Buffalo to do this (I know, the Buffalo Beauts won when they were here and the Bills won a championship before they entered the NFL).

It’s an honest question. Why don’t the Bandits have their own beer yet?

It’s quite common to go to a Western New York grocery store and find a beer from a local brewery with some variation of a Buffalo Bills or Sabers expression for a name (Let’s Go Pills, Pills Mafia , etc.). There are several beers for current and former Bills players (and former Sabres).

Yet no one made beer for the Bandits or their fans. How is it possible? Is this a licensing issue or something else?

If you’ve ever met any Bandits fans, you know they’re a rowdy bunch. They introduce themselves to their team just like Bills Mafia introduces themselves to theirs. I’m not sure what type of market research should be done or if market research has ever been done, but from the outside it seems like a no-brainer.

The question is, which Buffalo brewery will be the first to jump in and do it?