Our cruising season came to an end yesterday with a rather inept Bear offensive effort against the Packers in the NFC Championship game. Yes, Roadies, there will be no Super Bowl trip to Dallas for us Bears.
We have a group of twenty Usual Suspects who go to a bar to watch the game unless someone has a house party to see them.
This year started off with a problem as our usual place, Baja Benny's, on Fox Lake, closed. We have been going here for many years, even back to when it was Costello's. We enjoyed the view of the lake between plays and sitting out on the deck to see the game during the fall. Free hot dogs and $5 pitchers were also attractions.
However, before the season started, Baja Benny's closed, making us some Bear orphans in need of a place to drink and cheer on our boys.
We needed to find a place with enough room for our crowd, plenty of TVs, free food and cheap drinks.
We tried several places, including the Squaw Bar on Squaw Creek in Ingleside, Cross Inn on Il-59 in Ingleside, and Da Bears Den in Fox Lake (all of these are in Illinois). There was not enough seating in the Squaw Bar. We didn't like the bartender's attitude at Cross Inn and Da Bears Den would have been perfect (how could you miss with a name like that), but they closed as well.
We Finally Found a Bears Home. --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
The Shamrock Court Motel in Sullivan, Missouri. It can be yours for $125,000. Lots of possibilities. Actually, now you're too late. Missouri's Roamin' Rich bought it.
2 comments:
I don't think those bars really closed. With your "free food & cheap drinks" requirement, I think they just moved and won't tell you where:-)
Har-de-har-har.
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