"Hero" is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days, but a group of Idaho hockey fans is taking a brave stand for sports fans — and beer drinkers — everywhere.
Supporters of the Idaho Steelheads minor league hockey team are suing Boise's CenturyLink Arena, where the team plays its home games. Their cause is a just one: The arena allegedly charges — or at least used to charge — $7 for a "large" beer and $4 for a "small," despite the fact that the two sizes actually hold the exact same amount of beer.
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Plaintiffs Brady Peck, Michele Bonds and William and Brittany Graham are seeking $10,000 (yes, that may be a rather big number) in damages in their suit filed this Tuesday in Boise's 4th District Court, according to the Associated Press.
"While different shapes, both cup sizes hold substantially the same amount of liquid and are not large versus small in actual capacity," attorney Wyatt Johnson wrote in the lawsuit. "Defendants knowingly sold each of their beers in a similar manner at each event held at the arena where beer was sold for at least the last five years."
The lawsuit follows a YouTube video (embedded atop this article) that was posted on Sunday by two fans not involved in the suit. In the video, which has since picked up more than 850,000 views — a fan pours the contents of a small beer into a large beer cup to prove that they contain the exact amount of booze. "Seven dollars — you just get a taller cup," the narrator intones.
In response to the video, CenturyLink Arena president Eric Trapp issued the following statement on Monday:
It was recently brought to our attention that the amount of beer that fits in our large (20-oz) cups also fits in our regular (16-oz) cups. The differentiation in the size of the two cups is too small. To correct that problem, we’re purchasing new cups for the large beers that will hold 24 ounces, instead of 20, for the remainder of this season to provide better value to our fans. As we do every offseason, we’ll evaluate our entire concessions menu for next season over the summer.
Talk about sticking it to the man. To analyze the longer term repercussions of this populist movement, Mashable actually traveled into the future to obtain this transcript from a little boy's first Steelheads game at CenturyLink Arena:
A father and his young son sit down to watch some hockey at CenturyLink. The boy, wide-eyed, wears a brand-new Steeheads hoodie. The father, heavyset and goateed, tenderly cradles a brimming, 24-ounce beer. He takes a long sip and smacks his lips in satisfaction.
Son: Daddy, why is your beer so big?
Father: It wasn't always this way, son. There was a time, a dark time, when a so-called large beer was nothing but a dirty trick meant to take advantage of honest fans like me. Then two fans made a viral YouTube video. And four more fans filed a lawsuit.
Son: But Daddy, who were those fans?
Father: Those fans were heroes, son. Those fans were heroes.
The son looks at the beer, then looks at his father, then back out at the ice. He sees hockey players warming up. But he also sees a whole new world. He sees a world of possibility. He sees a world where a man or woman can take a stand for what's right and catalyze real change.

He sees a world where heroes still exist.