A bar in Portland, Ore., will only have women's sports on TV

NPR ^ | 3/10/2022 | Staff

[simpson96]

Jenny Nguyen was annoyed by her experience in sports bars. The games she cared about were on mute or not even on. Her bar is expected to open next month. It's called the Sports Bra.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. Jenny Nguyen was annoyed by her experience in sports bars. It wasn't just the sticky tables or drunk guys. The games that she cared about were on mute, ignored by others or not even on. That's how Nguyen came up with a bar that would only have women's sports on TV. She found a place in Portland and plans to open next month. When naming it, she decided to reverse two letters. The sports bar is called The Sports Bra. It's MORNING EDITION.

[Dr. Sivana]

Flash knows that those commercial skates will withstand his SUPER SPEED as he skates WIDDERSHINS about the track!

These are special alien-made skates. Also the twist in the story [SPOILER ALERT!] is that Kate Krasher was purposefully going the WRONG way to trick the Flash into speeding up the explosion when he tried to counteract the skating effect. He realized his error almost too late, and the Earth and Central City remain intact.

[GMLORGMD]

Pretty soon it will be “men who can’t compete in the big leagues sports bar” when they dress up as women and take over all professional women’s sports.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There used to be a bar in Mountain View, California on El Camino Real called “Daybreak.” One day long ago (like 1979), I was riding home from work on a hot summer day and decided to stop in for a beer. It didn’t take me long to notice that ALL the patrons were women. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.

Then I thought it peculiar that not one of them paid me any attention and my efforts to kindle conversation were rebuffed. It FINALLY dawned on me what was going down. That was my one and only experience with a dyke bar.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Portlandia!
Almost like the Dykes on Bikes group I heard about when I lived in San Francisco in the late 80’s.

[Mark]

Will any of them take a knee?

[DaxtonBrown]

Jenny Nguyen will soon be changing her name to something more American - Jenny Bankrupt.

[nascarnation]

This is a “truism” in the industry but pretty accurate:

Half of the independents fail in the first three years. And 90% don’t make it to their 10 year anniversary.

[BitWielder1]

Let them try. It's somewhat of a free country, at least for a little while more.

[Fester Chugabrew]

She’ll will a free Buick.

[Rembrandt]

What a great concept to build a start-up around. I give her 4 months max.

[moviefan8]

Cue Austin Powers.

[nickcarraway]

Hey, she has a vision for a business, and she can test it out in the market like anyone else. Has she done market research?

[nickcarraway]

Who is target customer?

[Lisbon1940]

I would go for the tennis, but I don’t live there.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Female athletes, probably a high percentage of lesbians. And it's in Portland.

[Organic Panic]

...and the bar will sell only the finest boxed wine.

[Retrofitted]

I think Dick Giordano was in his cups on that cover. In “Flashing Wheels”, Iris, the Flash’s hot wife, was skating against KK and that cover depicts a woman looking a lot closer to Iris than the alien! lol

[Dr. Sivana]

Talk about catering to a niche clientele.
But it is her money to throw away as she likes.

In the 1980s, someone tried to open up a diner in downtown Meriden, CT, the former silversmithing capital of the world fallen on post-industrial hard times. The restaurant had the standard burgers and lunch time grub, but the owner of "Fatboys" inexplicably made it a Washington Redskins-themed restaurant. You can get away with that here in Phoenix, a very large city with transplants from all over, but Meriden is the home of New York Football Giants, Red Sox, Yankees fans (Patriots had no following until much later).

The owner may have had the best lunch in the city, but no one would ever know it with such a self-limiting niche.

[Dr. Sivana]

that cover depicts a woman looking a lot closer to Iris than the alien! lol

What's worse, Iris had pulled a George Plimpton and joined the opposing team and Kate Krasher slugged Iris, revealing the aliens true form to her as she blacked out.

Hint to aliens: don't make your plans to annihilate the earth needlessly complicated. You don't have to use the Central City roller rink to make your device work, I'm sure. Use a centrifuge instead of local skaters.

Hint to Flash: you got lucky, because you were kind of in over your head. Next time, get help from Superman and Green Lantern so it is not a close call. Metropolis and Coast City would be destroyed, too.

[nickcarraway]

A lot of lesbians don’t like to watch sports that much. I don’t think they may want to spend time in a sports bar.