No More Bear Road trips for the Usual Suspects-- Part 2

Liz and I were in the usual situation of having our Entertainment Book coupons about to expire at the end of October and we went to this place in McHenry, Illinois, called Firewood on Il-120.

We used to go there back when it was Diversions, a 20-something night club, but which also had NTN, our trivia game. We had a pretty good team there until the place closed, then reopened as Lenny the Legends, but that too closed.

We hadn't been back since the new place opened. They had gutted the place and upscaled considerably, but we were especially impressed with the bar area which has 20 big screen TVs. Anywhere you sit is a good seat for a game.

We thought to ourselves, "Wow, this would be a great place for the Usual Suspects if they only had some drink deals." Then, we saw an advertisement saying they had buckets of five domestics for $10 and $5 pitchers on Sundays. Here we come. What cinched it was the free pizza at half time.

Now here's a place we can call home.

We set up a Bear football get-together with the Suspects and they agreed this was the place for us and we have been back every game except Week 17's Packer game when the place was already packed.

We now have them reserve seats at the bar.

So, here we were at the NFC championship game, drinking $5 pitchers and cheering Da Bears on to the Super Bowl.

Cheering for the Bears. --RoadDog