So! Anyone with a suggestion for someplace low-key in the East Village to watch the game? (Please no blatant shilling or answers like "football sucks. Read a book.") As for us, we'll be watching it at the International!
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ReplyDeleteExcellent suggestion, NYG. See you there! BYOB, obviously.
ReplyDeleteFuck football...I play ice hockey.
ReplyDeleteThat said, there IS no low-key place to watch this shit. Maybe the loud crowd will be bearable at Mona's. There's usually a lower ratio of fratbros there. Last time I had to accompany someone watching this, we opted for somewhere we could get a table, so we ended up at Hop Devil Grill.
Head over to standings bar on 7th st it will probably be busy but only because its so small. Usually a very friendly neighborhood crowd. No liquor just beer so it keeps the woooo! to a minimum. And free pizza
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ReplyDelete11th Street Bar
Lucy's
Sophie's
Mona's
Josie's Bar
The Library
Tile Bar
Grassroots Tavern
Big Bar
The Thirsty Scholar (and also maybe it's sister bar Ryan's Irish Pub)
Nearby EV —
Old Town Bar & Restaurant
Shades of Green
Pete's Tavern
Milano's Bar
What is a Super Bowl?
I'm watching it at Swift and then Scratcher after intermission, nonetheless...
No TV @bigbar... That's what makes it cool and low key!
DeleteLucky's on Houston Street. No beer but free soda pop refills... just sneak a flask in and voila you got a whole variety of sickly sweet alcoholic beverages.
ReplyDeleteAgreed on 11th Street Bar. Have watched it there for the past four years and it's busy but not sports bar crazy.
ReplyDeleteI am well-pleased that the excellent, low-key spot I discovered for watching has not yet been mentioned. I discovered it the year the giants played the patriots in AZ (so, certainly as big or bigger than this year for local watching) and had a friend in town who wanted to watch on a screen bigger than my tiny not-flat screen. Crossley Ale house, near where i live, was SELLING seats at the bar. I found a place almost as near by, a neighborhood classic, that was far from crowded, had two big screens, and the bartender had ordered a couple of pizzas for the "group". That's all I'm sayin'
ReplyDeleteI would say a place that does not sell alcohol, and where sports fans don't go.
ReplyDeleteIs there a bar around that bans the fans of the teams that are playing but still shows the game? If so, that would cut down on the noise...
ReplyDeleteRight. I meant Cherry Tavern not Big Bar. Stupid alcohol...
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'd rather have a place that'll put on the Montreal-Winnepeg game. Fuck football.
ReplyDeleteBarring that, I'll take a book and go to Big Bar. There. It needed to be said.
Why, EV? The Stupor Bowl is more like it. I heard a report about relatively healthy Super Bowl viewers having 'complications' during the Halftime Show and ending up in comas. The comatose viewers are then shipped off to an "institute" that "looks after them." I suspects there is more to this than meets the eye!
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ReplyDeleteThis is why I only watch the Lingerie Football League!
I’ll be watching the game at my mother in law’s house in Jersey, encapsulated in the man cave I have created in her furnished attic. Meanwhile, she and my wife will be watching Downton Abbey downstairs...... which I will then watch with my wife during the numerous repeats at the various PBS stations the following week. Edith is a slut!
ReplyDeleteO'Hanlon's?
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