I may be naive, but a sports bar is not a complicated formula. A building (depending on the climate, at least something resembling a bar), beer, sports and occasionally food are needed. Boston's has a building and a generic list of beer (thankfully, Yuengling has made it to Erie), and that's about all the praise I can give it. The pizza, which Boston's claims is it's specialty, was cardboard. I do not know where they got the dough, it seemed to be rejected by all the frozen pizza makers. I partially expect carpese/margherita pizza to be sub-standard at chains, yet putting barbecue sauce on the pizza instead of balsamic earns a special place on my list of shameful shit.
Now to the sports. Even with basic cable, it is not impossible to keep several different sports on at any given time. With satellite, it is even easier as options like New Zealand Rugby, Zimbabwean Cricket and Alpine goat fucking all become available. At no point should crappy reality shows like Big Brother be on any screens. To further compound matters, the gold medal match of men's volleyball was on broadcast TV--it was an exciting match until I decided that a sports bar would surely be airing it. Sports broadcasts are crucial to a sports bar's ambiance; not exerting any effort to keep all televisions on whatever sports are currently on is a mark just as bad, if not worse, as putting the wrong dressing on a terrible pizza.
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