A Trip to DeKalb for NIU Basketball-- Part 13: About Lord Stanley's and Da Footstompers

Lord Stanley's is what you'd call a classic dive bar.  Definitely nothing too fancy.  A shot and beer kind of a place, although I notice college students tend to drink more of the premium shots and drinks (but they all have charge cards and we were lucky enough to scrape enough coin together for cheap beer).  Our pint drafts of domestic cost $2, something I can live with.  A pint of beer at Pizza Pro's, further west on Lincoln Highway is $3.25.

Lord Stanley's gets its name for the Stanley Cup and uses that as well as a caricature of Stanley Laurel.  And, of course, it is a rabid hockey bar and an Official Blackhawk Bar.  Unfortunately, no Blackhawk game today.

We inquired as to their well known, long-running special of a two-topping pizza and two pitchers of beer special, which is now at $21, but had started at $15.  They still have it.  For many years we left the NIU Homecoming game early so we could get seats at the bar for the DeKalb Footstompers, a real fun band.

The Footstompers started playing together back in 1973 and three of the four members were still with them when they "retired" a couple years ago."  They played at Andy's for many years before moving over to Lord Stanley's

--RoadStomper