All said and done George's turned out to be a decent place to watch the game. There were plenty of folks in Packers shirts, many of whom I suspect spend a lot of their time at old George's. The gentleman sitting to my left was cut off around 5:30pm after passing out on the bar. The (homeless?) fellow to my right bummed a quarter so he could step to a second $1.25 pint of PBR.
Here is a short photo tour:
The windows have a metal mesh cage over them, but just in case someone brings a Dremel tool to try and saw through the steel mesh there are also 3/4" bars reinforcing the mesh. But what, you may ask, if someone uses a hacksaw to get through the metal bars? Not to fear, there is a SECOND set of steel bars that sits a few inches out from the first set.
In the background you can see that PBR is normally $1.75 a pint and $6.50 a pitcher. On game days that drops to $1.25 and $5. Not too shabby.
This old timer was a real big Hamm's fan. No love for draft beer.
I wish the shot had turned out more clearly, but the sign says "During pregnancy refrain from alcohol including wine, coolers and beer." Seriously people, if you're pregnant you gotta lay off the coolers.The tv on the left isn't showing the game, it is a surveilance camera trained on the parking lot so you can keep an eye on your wheels.
The game was over by 7:30 as we're a little behind here on the west coast. That worked out pretty well because our old neighbors in Madison were in town resting after having hiked 75 miles of the Pacific Crest trail. We had some beers with them until they were even more bleary-eyed than the trail had made them over the last week. Kathryn and I are going to have to get out of town and take in some of that trail before the weather turns on us in a couple months.
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I was out on the Wolf Pack Islands, no radio or any means of football enjoyment. I figured with all the experts picking the Vikings plus their new sack machine DE, Mr Allen,the unstoppable Adrian Peterson, and the much improved Tornanus Jackson the Pack had no chance. Good thing they actually had to play the game, I guess. Looks like my kind of bar.
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