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Monday, March 16, 2020

A Trip to DeKalb for NIU Basketball-- Part 12: About That Northern Win and Our Lincoln Highway Bars


Saturday, February 22

Tied at 72 apiece going into first overtime, that five minutes went on forever.  The score went back and forth.  Poor Bill Baker essentially lost his voice.  The intensity was unbelievable.  We were right in the car in the parking lot behind Lord Stanley's.

And, NIU won by one point, 82-81.

Now,that was some game.

We went into Lord Stanley's, one of the old-time DeKalb bars and now one of our favorites.  When we were students it was called Daddy-O's Shamrock and, along with The Uprising, McCabe's and Andy's, all on the Lincoln Highway, student favorites back when we were in school and for then years after.

My fraternity, Delta Sigma Phi, however, was among the first student groups to start going to Andy's which was more of a townie bar and this was our main Lincoln Highway bar.  At the time, I didn't know the Lincoln Highway, including our section in DeKalb, was a transcontinental highway or that it was the country's first transcontinental paved road dating to 1913.

We would do what we called the Lincoln Crawl where we would "Crawl" our way from bar to bar.

Crawling for Beer.  --RoadDog

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