Kristi Yamaguchi, totally overshadowed by the Kerrigan/Harding fiasco.

We can call it the Quadruple Bridesmaid

I get that sometimes, but it doesn’t mean you can’t go do those things (unless they literally take up the whole bar) and in my experience a lot of people watching sports in a bar are just sitting there. Also people socializing in a bar can be loud and obnoxious and make it a miserable experience to hang out there, too.

The fancy cocktail bars (also, microbreweries can pull this off) are the only places that can stay in business without relying on regulars, and TVs are a big part of the regular experience at a bar. There are a few bars near me without TVs, and there would be more except they’ve gone out of business.

That’s fine, you don’t have to, but I do it all the time. No roommates,and there’s something comfortable about the din of people and casual, meaningless conversation (facilitated by sports/TV). You/the author may find TVs inconvenient, but hanging out on your own at a bar without a TV is basically impossible. Saying…

Too solitary. From a social context no different than looking at your phone. At least with a TV, everyone there is looking at the same thing.

My friend and I spent over an hour hanging out with some women making fun of “My Side of the Mountain” at Green Lady last week, it was great.

Or that play sports all the time because it’s the only thing appropriate to have on a TV when you play music all the time and never have the sound on.

This is the type of customer that keeps your standard local bar afloat. If you aren’t a nice restaurant, or have expensive enough cocktails to cover your expenses, then you need to bring people in Sunday through Thursday, and this is going to be more than half of your clientele.

Or you sortof want to talk to people, but only in a completely banal way, such as how one talks to a stranger about sports.

Count me in for the Chicago Coalition for Letting Me Drink and Watch TV.

There’s at least one bar that plays old porn after midnight.

Counterpoint: Sports bars are actually awful places to watch sports, and I routinely go to non-sports bars to watch sports in peace and quiet whilst eating food and drinking beer.

Man I ten bucks on “nothing”

Aaron Hernandez was the unfortunate side effect of a particular stage of Belichick’s arcane experiments into using cursed raven’s blood as a performance enhancer.

In honor of the shared heritage of ocean storms and aquatic hunters, the franchise will drop a dead whale onto the ice during the second intermission.

The Belichick thing is standard coach jargon. They’ve been saying that about coaches forever, so it’s whoever was calling the Cleveland Browns back in like ‘94.

Scrub it with soap and a washcloth whenever I shower (starting to do this did wonders for clearing up my skin) and moisturize with spf Aveeno immediately afterwards.

• Refs shoot flare guns instead of throwing flags