#sports bars

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Longhorn Icehouse 1901 W Northwest Hwy Dallas, TX 75220 (972) 707-0884

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Join us at 1 Republik for a fiesta of flavors every Tuesday. Which taco are you trying first?

Taco Tuesday just got a whole lot tastier at 1 Republik! Join us for a fiesta of flavors with our mouthwatering tacos, fresh ingredients, and a vibe that’s unmatched. Grab your crew and spice up your Tuesday with us!

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[nickgerlich]

Raising The Bar

I am a Midwest guy. I grew up in Chicagoland, spent all of my university years in Indiana, and took the majority of my vacations in the Midwest. I came to know the culture well, which was heavily influenced by the many northern Europeans who had immigrated there more than a century ago.

If you know the Midwest, you know that there are taverns everywhere, from the inner city of Chicago to the smallest farming community in Wisconsin. In fact, in those small towns, you will find a tavern before you find anything else, including C-stores. They are the hub of small-town commerce, gossip, and all-around community.

In Chicago, neighborhood taverns were on practically every street corner, and you were as likely to see the parish priest sitting on a stool as you would the local drunk. Actually, maybe the former was doing his job by ministering to the latter, albeit out-of-office. But I digress.

A sad thing is happening to those old taverns, though, particularly in the city. They are closing.

Now, to understand the Midwest tavern is to know they are typically dark, have a heavy emphasis on wood fixtures and paneling, and are usually not the place you would go to find an exotic craft beer. They are decidedly more pedestrian, blue collar. And, taverns often open as early as 7am or 8am, not so much to attend to the needs of problem drinkers, but to service shift workers getting off the graveyard.

Decorations typically fall into the category of “privilege signs,” meaning promotional signage (metal, cardboard, even neon) provided by breweries and distributors. In Chicago, there was (and still is) likely an Old Style Beer sign hanging over the front door. A lone television was usually on, but it was not the centerpiece, and often muted. The Cubs game might be on, or the news. Rare was the day when you saw a woman occupying one of those bar stools, because the tavern has always been a Man Cave of sorts, a refuge from all the stresses of life.

And the bartender was someone whom you would swear lived there. In fact, he may very well have occupied an upstairs apartment with his family. He was a fixture, and knew your name, would listen to your problems, and engage in whatever the political rant of the day was. Whenever he wasn’t pouring beer, he was washing and drying glasses.

So what happened? Why are there reportedly only one-third as many taverns in Chicago alone as there once were?

Simple. There has been a huge paradigm shift over the last half-century, with the arrival of restaurants positioning themselves as sports bars. While some of the taverns of old did serve food, it was limited, and sometimes only a Friday fish fry to serve the predominantly Catholic population. Today’s suburban oasis offers a full menu, a full bar, and dozens of big screen TVs so you can watch everything from baseball to corn hole, bowling, and poker.

Oh, and today’s modern tavern typically—at least in Texas—has a white paper sign visible near the door with a large “51%” on it. What’s that about? It means the establishment derives more than 51% of its revenues from food, which allows it to be classified as a restaurant instead of a tavern. During COVID that point of distinction was critical, because taverns were not deemed essential.

That distinction still has meaning today, and varies by state. In Texas, whether you are a bar or restaurant has implications on whether you can carry a firearm, but if you are trying to be a “restaurant,” there are rules governing how many menu items you must have at minimum. It’s messy.

Essentially, the tavern of old has been replaced by family-friendly establishments where women will feel more welcome, as well as the kiddos. And, the emphasis is also on watching sports. I see this as oddly contradictory endeavors. While it’s great that the whole family can go there (or groups of men and/or women), the fact that eyes are focused more on a big screen than on the F2F is telling of our time. At this point you have traded the small screen of your phone for a much larger one on the wall. Either way, you are more focused on that than human interactions.

You can almost be alone together, while at the tavern you could just be alone alone.I get it, though. Maybe we want to consume media while we dine and drink, and the more people the merrier. But the big screen is still the main attraction. Or 40 screens. Conversation, if there is any, tends to focus on the game and what just happened.

Spectator sports are not my thing, and I would much rather toss around lofty ideas than watch someone else tossing around a ball. Better yet, I crave a nice old-school tavern where I could go to gather my thoughts, do some writing, and escape the din of everyday life.

Alas, I must be as much a dying breed as is the tavern, the kind I grew up around in the Midwest. Maybe we can be buried together.

Dr “Call Me An Outlier” Gerlich

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P.J. Whelihan’s Offers Exclusive Sports Content Through Peacock Sports Pass

P.J. Whelihan’s Pub + Restaurant, part of the PJW Restaurant Group, has recently announced that it signed up for Peacock Sports Pass across the majority* of its restaurants via EverPass Media, a media platform distributing premium live sports and entertainment content to commercial businesses backed by the NFL and RedBird Capital. Catch exclusive sports content at participating P.J. Whelihan’s���

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This video is from Longhorn Icehouse in Dallas. It is a Texas-themed sports bar founded by Nick and his son Max. Some of their story and Dallas-area restaurant history can be found here: https://dallas.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/10-09-19-longhorn-icehouse-northwest-hwy-mercado-juarez/

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5 Best Sports Bars In Mumbai | Men Must Haves | HT Lifestyle

Guys, imagine watching a good game of cricket or football, with a few close friends, and a great ambiance without burning a hole in your pocket. Sounds great, right? You know, I am a huge cricket fan, and whenever there is an IPL or World Cup, or any big match, I always head to my favorite sports bar because the vibe and feel you get there is unbeatable. Watching the match with a crazy audience, while binging on some lip-smacking food, followed by some chilled beers. Wow, now that’s something I really enjoy, and if you too are someone like me, then, today, in Men Must Haves, I will be sharing with you some of my favorite sports bars in Mumbai.

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Top 5 Sports Bars in Manhattan, New York

In search of a fresh location to catch the big game? On our list of the best sports bars in Manhattan, you’ll find boisterous beer halls, low-key hangouts with craft brews, some of the city’s best dive pubs, and even a pub with a focus on all things Canadian.

[sportsbarsdallas]

1901 W Northwest Hwy Dallas, TX 75220 (972) 707-0884

If you would like to visit Longhorn Icehouse sports bar in Dallas then you are welcome to learn more through these web properties:

Website:

Google Maps & Reviews:

Menu, Reviews, And Recent Photos:

Facebook:

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https://www.instagram.com/longhornicehouse/

YouTube:

TripAdvisor.com Reviews:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g55711-d19077705-Reviews-Longhorn_Icehouse-Dallas_Texas.html

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An update to an older story that’s goods news!

When Jenny Nguyen signed the lease to create her dream bar, she wasn’t sure it would stay open for more than a few months.

But earlier this month, 43-year-old Nguyen’s first-of-its-kind establishment in Portland, Oregon, celebrated its one-year anniversary. Aptly named The Sports Bra, it’s a sports bar where only women athletes appear on the TVs.

Business has been good, despite the niche business model and record inflation sending food and beverage prices soaring. The Sports Bra brought in $944,000 in revenue in the eight months it was open in 2022, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.

It was profitable in that first year of business, Nguyen adds.

“It turns out, it’s pretty universal — that feeling of being a women’s sports fan and going into a public place, like a sports bar, and having a difficult time finding a place to show a [women’s] game, especially when there are other men’s sports playing,” Nguyen says.

Initially, she wasn’t sure the idea would work at all. The vast majority of money and attention historically goes to men’s sports only — a big reason why The Sports Bra was reportedly the country’s first bar to only play women’s sports on TV.

It’s also not the kind of thing Nguyen would ordinarily do: She describes herself as “very cautious, risk averse.” But her obsession with women’s sports and frustration with its lack of representation on television screens drove her to empty her life savings — about $27,000 — and give it a try.

“Me, personally, I thought the idea was brilliant and that [it was] what the world needs,” Nguyen says. “But I had no idea that the world would want it. I just wanted to give it a shot.”

How The Sports Bra went from running joke to reality

Nguyen is a lifelong basketball fan who played the sport at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, before tearing her ACL. She’s also a longtime restaurant worker who spent three years as Reed College’s executive chef.

In 2018, Nguyen and a group of friends wanted to watch the NCAA women’s basketball championship game. They went to a mostly empty sports bar and still had to plead with a bartender to switch one of the smallest TVs — which played without sound — from a men’s sport to the women’s championship game, she recalls.

Together, they jumped up and down celebrating “one of the best games I’ve ever seen,” Nguyen says, as a buzzer-beating three-point shot sealed the championship title for Notre Dame. Afterward, she was struck by the normalcy of her situation.

″[We’d] gotten so used to watching a game like that in the way that we did,” she says, adding that they’d only find better viewing conditions “if we had our own place.”

Days later, she channeled her disappointment into a hypothetical: What would she name her bar? “The very first thing that came into my mind was The Sports Bra,” Nguyen says. “And once I thought it, I couldn’t un-think it, you know? It was catchy. I thought it was hilarious.”

For years, she joked about it. Then, the fallout from social justice movements like #MeToo and the country’s racial reckoning after George Floyd’s murder left her wanting to make a meaningful impact on the world and her community.

Nguyen, who came out as a lesbian at age 17, says she doesn’t always feel welcome at most traditional sports bars. The Sports Bra could help her, and anyone else who’d rarely felt accepted in other sports establishments, feel like she belonged.

“I thought about, if we can even get one kid in here and have them feel like they belong in sports, it’d be worth it,” she says.

Helping other women’s sports bars get started

At first, Nguyen had her savings, and $40,000 in loans cobbled together from friends and family. That would keep The Sports Bra afloat for three months, based on her cost estimates for labor, inventory and other overhead.

In February 2022, she launched a Kickstarter to raise $48,000 — enough money for an extra six-month financial cushion, to build up the sort of regular clientele any bar or restaurant needs to survive long-term.

To Nguyen’s surprise, the campaign raised more than $105,000 in just 30 days, thanks to a viral article in online food publication Eater. “At that moment, when I was looking at that Kickstarter graph, I thought to myself, ‘This might work,’” she says.

But the money, which came from around the country and world, was no guarantee of success. Actual people in Portland still needed to frequent the bar.

Today, there’s often a line out the door. Women’s basketball icons like Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi showed up, for an event sponsored by Buick, earlier this month. Ginny Gilder, co-owner of the WNBA’s Seattle Storm, has even waited in line to watch her team play on The Sports Bra’s TVs, Nguyen says.

That’s a far cry from the Kickstarter days, which Nguyen says only happened after she was denied business loans by multiple banks and small business associations. The denials commonly cited the high risk of a unique concept run by a first-time entrepreneur during a pandemic, she adds.

Even the bar’s core concept is a struggle: It’s hard to find enough women’s sporting events to fill up the televisions. Only about 5% of all TV sports coverage focuses on female athletes, according to a 2021 University of Southern California study.

Nguyen says she’s taken to reaching out directly to sports networks and streaming services, some of which have hooked her up with access to more women’s sports content. She also spends an inordinate amount of time “scouring” TV listings, a process she likens to “taking a machete and chopping through a jungle.”

But she’s no longer alone. Another bar specializing in women’s sports has opened in nearby Seattle, and Nguyen says she’s in touch with a handful of other prospective entrepreneurs asking her for advice on opening similar visions in other cities.

“I would love to have as many people experience the feeling people experience when they walk through these doors,” she says. “It feels very selfish to keep it to this one building that holds 40 people at a time.”

[rishabhinnovyt]

Have a fun evening at the best sports bars near Ontario

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real life shane stardew outfit. he really is just like a random sportsguy you could encounter in any bar

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thinking this labor day about all the athletes in women's sports who didn't have a stable league, who were only making decent money from a spot on their national team, who had to fight to get even a fraction of what they deserve. who spent their prime without a club league or the infrastructure to propel the sport. who came of age after title 9 in the usa [forcing schools to fund women/girls’ sports], the ones who fought for cbas and are only seeing big change at the end of their careers or after their careers concluded. who didn't have the media attention before, but are now showing just how much they can sell out stadiums and arenas. the players who played year round because overseas teams paid athletes what they were worth. athletes who endured and reported harassment but the league never took appropriate action. athletes who never had the media attention or ability to monetize their talent but who had careers that were just as impressive as the stars of today. who did it without the help of the science, technology, and medicine we have today. who set records with less support and fewer games in a season, which will be broken by kids who have had personal trainers since high school. athletes who played great games that are no long available to view, their talent no longer archived and accessible for young or new fans. athletes who still don't have a league or are just getting one in 2024. athletes who took it upon themselves to create change for which they will never reap the full rewards.

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Kaylia Nemour

15.70 🇩🇿 🥇

Kaylia made history by winning the first Olympic medal in women’s gymnastics for any African country

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15.50 🇨🇳🥈

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14.80 🇺🇸🥉

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a bunch of unmasked ghoul pictures from drag talk last night (I AM A CHANGED PERSON AND I DO IT AGAIN TONIGHT)

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