Any sports fan will tell you that two championship-winning celebratory mainstays work in conjunction: Bottles are popped, corks fly, alcohol sprays—and goggles protect everyone’s eyes from all of it. We saw the New York Liberty wear them after their big win, and this week, one baseball team will win the World Series, a victory they’ll no doubt cap off with a shower of something crisp, dry, bubbly, and out of my price range. Which makes us wonder: Is Champagne—and its occasionally explosive opening process—so dangerous that athletes (or yourself) should don fundamentally bulletproof eye-ware when the party starts?
Well, in a word: Yes.
