Before I get into the list of venues doing something special for the Tigers-Kansas game tonight, let me first warn everyone to please be careful.\u00a0 Other cities have experienced rioting and unruly crowds in the streets following their sports team winning a national title.\u00a0 If – no,\u00a0WHEN the Tigers win tonight, we could see the same thing.\u00a0 Go out, party and celebrate, but be careful, and always be aware of your surroundings.\u00a0 If you drive\u00a0your car down here, I recommend you pay to park it in a garage tonight,\u00a0rather than at a metered space on a heavily-traveled steet like Second, Peabody Place, or Beale, just to keep it safe.<\/p>\n
The Red Rooster is opening its doors at 5:00 tonight for their game watch party.\u00a0 They’ll have $1.50 drafts and $10 Maxalicious pizzas until the end of the game.\u00a0 They have 500 square feet of TVs, and it’s hard to find a seat in the house that isn’t good for TV viewing.\u00a0 They even painted the giant rooster outside the front door blue.\u00a0 There’s no telling what else Robby Bobby will do to make the evening entertaining.\u00a0 You can never go wrong with the Rooster.<\/p>\n
Calhoun’s will be showing the game on their 5 TVs, of course.\u00a0 If you plan on watching it there, keep in mind that Calhoun’s is a tiny little bar with seating capacity of 75 (and that’s really standing-room-only capacity, not seating capacity).\u00a0 The tip-off is at 8:21 PM; my guess is, if you’re not there by 7, you’re probably not getting in and better have a Plan B.<\/p>\n
The Majestic Grille will show the championship game on their big screen.\u00a0 In the future, this screen will be used for movies rather than sports, but how could they not show the Tigers in the title game?\u00a0 Good place to go if you want to sit down and have a nice meal while watching the tournament final.<\/p>\n
The U of M is having a watch party of their own at the Elma Roane field house on campus.\u00a0 Doors open at 7:21 PM, exactly an hour before tip-off.\u00a0 The event is open to the general public; you don’t have to be a student to get in.<\/p>\n
And, of course, I’m sure you can figure out where I’ll be for the game… the Flying Saucer.\u00a0 2 projection screens, 3 LCD HDTVs and 2 CRT TVs.\u00a0 As far as I know they do not plan to cancel Pint Nite, so there will be $2.75 draft beer.\u00a0 And hot\u00a0waitresses in extremely short skirts.\u00a0 The gang will be split tonight as it looks like many people will be watching it at the Red Rooster; that’s fine, the Rooster is a great choice, but I can’t be anywhere but home for this one.\u00a0 I’ve asked people who are going to the Rooster to take pics, and I’m sure Mikey the Camera Nazi will grab my camera at the Saucer, so we may have a double photo album.\u00a0 Immediately after the game I’ll tab out and head to the Rooster.<\/p>\n
What a shame that we can’t all be at Sleep Out Louie’s to watch the Tigers win the national title.<\/p>\n
Just got back from lunch at the new place where my BFF bartends.\u00a0 Once again, she didn’t do anything that would be the final straw and allow me to kick her to the curb.\u00a0 I think she’s on her best behavior now.\u00a0 She changed beer kegs and beer spewed all over her.\u00a0 It was funny.\u00a0\u00a0I had nachos for lunch\u00a0and she started eating right off my plate, and\u00a0she had no problem claiming the best chips, with the most cheese and\u00a0meat on them, for herself.\u00a0 I ordered peach cobbler for dessert, and she just grabbed a second\u00a0spoon and dug right in.\u00a0 Then she realized how bad it looked to be eating the customers’ food, and scooped out about 60% of the cobbler into a bowl for herself.\u00a0 Did she discount\/comp anything after eating all my food?\u00a0 Of course not.<\/p>\n
Back to discussion of\u00a0the game…\u00a0 Oddsmakers have us beating Kansas by 2.\u00a0 They had us beating UCLA by 2 as well, and we won by 15.\u00a0 They had us over Texas by 2 and we won by 18.<\/p>\n
Know what sucks?\u00a0 I’m in second place in my office’s bracket pool out of 32 entries, but as far as I know only first place pays, and the guy who’s ahead of me also has Memphis to win it tonight, so I can’t possibly catch up.<\/p>\n
Time to get back to work.<\/p>\n
Before I get into the list of venues doing something special for the Tigers-Kansas game tonight, let me first warn everyone to please be careful.\u00a0 Other cities have experienced rioting and unruly crowds in the streets following their sports team winning a national title.\u00a0 If – no,\u00a0WHEN the Tigers win tonight, we could see the … Continue reading “Tiger watch parties. Also: Y’all be careful tonight”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}