South Carolina bar refusing to show NFL games until national
Northern Kentucky bar to hold NFL merchandise burning party
Leominster bar skips NFL, listens to patriotic piano music instead
Norwich bar quietly takes stance against NFL protests
Greenville bar won't show NFL games until all players stand for anthem
Regardless of politics, there are way too many sports bars. Even non sports bars have a tv every 5 feet of wall space.
> Is Game Night at the Sports Bar Becoming a Thing of the Past? <
I talked to a few younger football fans of my acquaintance (mostly white, early 20’s, no vets). Most of them don’t care about the anthem controversy. They just want to watch pro football. And they will continue doing so.
So it seems (from my limited data) that - given enough time - this thing will eventually blow over.
These bars will have to figure out some new way to get people in or go out of business. If I had one I’d turn it into a family friendly pool hall and maybe have a movie night.
Lets hope so, because that will mean there will a whole lot less drunks on the road after leaving the, “Sports bars” which are nothing but bars to begin with.
F the NFL
You go out to a sports bar to have some fun with your friends and get away from the daily grind, and you’ve got to watch more virtue signaling and political ideology embedded in the games.
If they could, the left would embed a chip in your head that tells you all day how much you suck and how much your neighbors hate you.
Which is pretty much what people who have full-blown schizophrenia experience. Might not be a coincidence.
Like anything else nowadays, you have your left leaning NFL fans and your right leaning NFL fans, and the two groups just don’t mix well anymore since the games have become overtly political.
My family are all musicians.
We are getting cancelled right and left because pubs and sports bars are not getting the traffic they used to get.
Maybe when the smoke clears on this NFL debacle, they will rip out the wide-screen plasma TVs, install a decent sized stage and a good PA system, and make “Pub Nite” a venue for LIVE MUSIC again.
(((I can dream, can’t I?)))
A local sports bar, Famous Sam’s, was always packed on the weekends. That ended after the city enacted a smoking ordinance. They hung on for a couple years but they eventually folded.
The reason the named all these bars, “Sports bars” is because it helps take the stigma out of going to the, “Bar”. See in Sports bars, you can take the girl friend, the wife, etc for even bigger profit$. And it sound so much more acceptable...”We’re going to the Sports bar”, as opposed to, I’m going to the bar. They slap up some TV’s on the wall, sports jerseys and posters and whammo, you’ve got a bar the whole family can go to!
[why are so many streaming the game at home instead]
SAVING $$$$$$$$$$
Look for more specials in regards to the Saturday college game which has gain some interest.
“Recent research from Foursquare found that in 2016, Sunday sports bar foot traffic dropped by 12 percent in cities with NFL teams; cities without their own teams saw a 13 percent drop.”
It’s an absolute mystery, just like we’ll never know the motives of Islamists butchering people.
I predict that baseball will regain its role once again as “America’s pastine” down the road.
NFL tickets - too expensive
DirecTV NFL - too expensive
DirecTV NFL - too many commercials
NFL players - too opinionated
NFL owners - too rich and too greedy
In 1948 when the Anerican Football League emerged, went to a bar/restaurant owned by a Yugoslav who gave us blocks of tickets so we could hand them out to friends to watch the 49’s play at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Think Brody was the first quarterback for the niners.
we will quietly walk out of any bar that is showing NFL on their boobtoob
Yep
We don’t go to sports bars. We don’t go to bars.
Sports bars have been dying for a while. The market continues to fracture, getting masses together to watch the same thing is fading. The sports bars that are succeeding now have a million TVs no 2 showing the same game, some even have TVs in the booths so you can pick your own.