Barstool Sports founder and internet personality Dave Portnoy brought the holiday joy to a Baltimore pizzeria Monday when he showered the owner with desperately needed cash needed to keep the struggling outfit in business.
It all went down when the opinionated entrepreneur stopped to get a pie in Maryland, which many people don’t know (including myself until about two minutes ago) is named after Henrietta Maria, the queen consort of King Charles I of England. But back to pizza:
Portnoy was traveling to Maryland for the Army-Navy football in mid-December when he made a pit stop at TinyBrickOven in the Federal Hill neighborhood to wrap up a day of filming his viral pizza reviews, according to his producer Austin Jenkins.
Store owner Will Fagg, a Navy veteran, was working behind the counter when the pizza savant arrived and he shared that his beloved shop was…