It’s the season of giving!

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy donated $60,000 to save a struggling, veteran-owned pizzeria in Baltimore from permanent closure as customers have since flooded the store with orders.

According to his producer Austin Jenkins, Portnoy was traveling to Maryland for the Army-Navy football game in mid-December when he made a pit stop at TinyBrickOven in the Federal Hill neighborhood to complete a day of filming his viral pizza reviews.

Store owner Will Fagg, a Navy veteran, was working behind the counter when the pizza expert arrived and informed him that his beloved store would be closing permanently on Christmas Day.

Fagg said the store’s inability to obtain a liquor license and cash flow issues forced it to close.

“We can’t get our liquor license here,” Fagg told Portnoy in a video uploaded Monday. “Our politicians gave this market down here their liquor license, but they won’t give us ours…that’s really disappointing.”

“We have to keep this store open,” the Barstool Sports founder said as Fagg packed up the pizza.

When Portnoy went outside to arrange the pizza, he took a bite, highly praised the pizza, and was even more amazed that they were preparing to close.

“It’s a thin New York style. I really like it,” Portnoy said in his review. “This place definitely shouldn’t go bankrupt. Nobody.”

He then read from a sticker on the box that said the store was closing and that “every purchase supports a veteran.”

Portnoy then met Fagg at the door and asked him “how much money” he needed to stay open another year.

Fagg was surprised by the question and didn’t know how to answer.

“Well, if there’s a super-rich guy right in front of you who’s in the pizza business who happens to ask, ‘What do you need to stay open for a year?’ go away,” Portnoy said.

“I know it. Listen, I think we could probably get our liquor license and stay open if we had $60,000,” Fagg said.

“Done,” Portnoy replied, immediately shaking his hand to confirm the deal.

Portnoy went in to chat with Fagg and told him he had rated the slice 7.9 out of 10 – a dead giveaway for the pizza grader.

The viral review has been viewed over 12 million times on Portnoy’s X page since it was posted, and Fagg told CBS News that business at TinyBrickOven has exploded.

“We’ve never had a crowd like this,” the veteran said, noting he had a line out the door and the store’s phone rang off the hook on Christmas Eve.

Fagg also shared that a fundraiser that was set up before the pizza review grew to over $50,000 within 24 hours of being posted online.

“People say it’s a Christmas miracle,” he said. “It kind of feels like a Christmas miracle!”

Fagg opened TinyBrickOven in Baltimore in 2019 and often used his business to help others.

Months after he opened, Fagg heard from a disabled Vietnam veteran who had lost his home in a house fire, and even though his business was picking up, he donated 20% of his store’s proceeds for a week to help with repairs.

“I am a Navy corpsman and Navy corpsman and Marines have a long history of helping each other. When I saw this story, it really broke my heart and I wanted to do something to help,” he told WMAR in 2019.

He has also used his business to feed the homeless and raise money for the Maryland Food Bank, according to the pizzeria’s website.