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Lou Holtz says Crown Royal bag at RNC wasn’t for booze

Sorry, everyone. It sounds like Uncle Lou Holtz isn’t the lovable drunk we all hoped he might be.

Holtz was spotted at the Republican National Convention last month with a purple Crown Royal bag everyone hoped was full of alcoholic, Canadian goodness. However, it turns out the bag had just about everything in it other than whiskey.

This has to be he strangest thing at the #RNCinCLE #Crown pic.twitter.com/ioImESa5UF

— Happy Hoyt (@brianhoyt24) July 19, 2016

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Holtz said he was on his way to an interview with CNN but couldn’t bring in his backpack, which he claimed to “carry everything in.