The Next Best Thing to Being There: Are Sports Bars Better Than Watching Live?
Granted, there’s nothing better than watching a great sports event live, at the stadium, ballpark, courtside, or ringside. But let’s be real, ticket costs to such events are prohibitive for most families and regular sports fans. The average NFL ticket is $120, average MLB ticket is a minimum of $42, the NBA is damn near $500 and even MLS is over $90! In most instances you are buying more than one ticket! God forbid you fall in love with a gal who loves going to professional sporting events! You’ll be broke before you get your first kiss! It’s come down to the reality that some ticket sources actually offer financing! It’s absolutely preposterous but sadly, it’s all due to bloated salaries paid to athletes who are compensated far beyond their worth to mankind (or so some say). Fortunately there are alternatives to showing up live.
Staying at Home?
You can just stay home and buy subscription sports packages, send in for a pizza, and have your buddies stop by, bring beer, chips, dogs, burgers or whatever the heck else. You don’t have to deal with parking fees, long walks, long lines for chow or admission, absurd food and bev prices, drunken fans of your team or those of your rival. The abusive language doesn’t come from a stranger right behind you, rather it emanates from your buddy who you can tell to F-off without retribution.
Then again, you can sit alone at home and fart on the couch in peace while your beloved team plays a kid’s game for millions each while you root yourself to the couch in front of your TV or computer. We all have that BFF who we text with while they play armchair QB just like yourself, virtually keeping you company all the while. But that ain’t real fun! There is a better alternative!
Hit a Sports Bar /Pub Like Maggie O'Brien's?
Sports Bars Are the Best of Both Live Events and Homesteading with Buds!
Take Maggie O’Brien’s in St. Louis for example. It’s a massive sports bar with dozens of big screens and monitors hoisted all over the interior of the building so fans can watch their favorite teams. Being a sports bar enthusiast as well as an accomplished armchair QB with a BFF to text to, I have to admit that things can get pretty darn exciting when you’re surrounded in a bar like Maggie’s with drunken, crazed fans of any one of a number of teams on the docket for that day.
First and foremost, there are usually rowdy babes in attendance which, granted, isn’t a substitute for a cheerleading squad of fit babes with painted on smiles and thighs that could crush a coconut, but depending how deep in the bag you are…can work even better for you if their standards are as relaxed as yours after a few drinks. But that’s just the start.
The food is much better and more affordable at a Sports Bar Like Maggie O’Briens, the drink varieties are endless, and the wing deals are usually better than anything you’ll get at a live venue. Gotta relieve yourself? it’s usually a short hop to the pisser where there may or may not be a wait or streaks of errant feces in the crapper, or nasal discharge in front of the urinal. Providing you’re not mid-meal, such decorations should go relatively unnoticed. The best part of Sports bars, pubs, or facilities like Maggie O’Briens is that the crowd is usually live, vibrant and every bit as engaged as at a live venue.
Maggie’s is a huge St. Louis Blues bar and now, since it sits across the street from the new soccer stadium, they are likely to become the default pre-game hang for the St. Louligans who are the crazies who root for the STLCity. SC…with substantial vehemence. If you’re fortunate enough to be a huge fan of any team, particularly one that has won a championship, you know how great it feels when that loyal collective of fans experience the victory with you. There’s nothing like it. AND, when it’s over, there’s no traffic to deal with in the parking lot on the way home!
Ironically, places like Maggie’s get packed for the real party when those that attended live decide to transport the celebration to the bar where you already have a great seat! So when all is said and one, ya, you can spend a fortune at a live event, ya, you can sit at home alone or with a gaggle of goof balls and have a good time. Spend less, risk less, and have less fun. But that’s for when you’re 60! If you haven’t already seen it all, or are just anti-social, I strongly suggest you go back to that Maggie O’Brien’s near you and live a little, drink a little, and eat a lot. Have fun, enjoy the crowd, and pull for your team…