We regularly follow three of the four sides that qualified for this year’s Supercopa so it was especially frustrating that our ESPN package didn’t allow us to stream the three matches. So we decided to watch today’s final in a bar. We called Shamrock Jack’s last night and Mike, the bartender there, said he’d reserve a table in the dining room where the match would be on one of the tvs. “No sound of course,” as the Bills playoff game would be on the sound system.
So we walked through the park this afternoon and down Culver, checking the score of the Bills game a few times as that game had started at one. The Bills were up when got to the bar and the place was packed. We had a table alright but it turned out they didn’t have access to ESPN Select either. We walked back home and decided to try a bar downtown, a new place that our soccer buddy, Scott recommended, Parlays on Monroe Ave.
I checked the score of both games as we drove there. The Bills were down now and Barcelona and Real Madrid were tied 2-2 at the half. Three of those four goals happened in stoppage time while we were driving! This bar had even more TVs, all tuned to the Bills except one with women’s college basketball. We ordered two beers and a bartender took us over to one the TVs in the corner. Young kids were throwing darts between us and the tv as he tried to sign in to ESPN Select. No go.
The Bills scored and the place went bananas. The “Shout” theme song was cued and a train of revelers danced around the bar following a guy a Bills flag. The “dangerous sound levels” warning went off on my watch. The other team scored and the mood dampened. The Bills scored next and the place exploded as they ran out the clock.
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