Not a beer, but a soft drink (https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/just-because-len-dawson-e...)

And that wasn’t exceptional. See for example https://smoking-room.net/johan-cruyff-smoking-and-football/

And that’s decades before the publication of “Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training” (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001541/) ;-)