Wanted: Info on NFL bars in Las Vegas Valley
Hooray, the NFL lockout is over!
That means the Review-Journal's annual directory of NFL bars will be here for you.
This year's compendium of Las Vegas Valley bars that cater to fans of specific NFL teams will run in the Sept. 4 Living section, four days before the regular season kicks off with a Thursday night game between the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers and the New Orleans Saints.
As always, our mission is to direct fans of specific NFL teams to places where they can watch their team's games while surrounded only by fellow fans of their team, thus re-creating the feel of watching a game in your hometown stadium but without having to sell a kidney to pay for parking.
So, here are the rules:
■ Each bar on our list must cater to an individual NFL team and show only that team's game while the team is playing. Thus, we don't include sports bars, sports books, casinos, bars or rooms inside casinos or anyplace else where other games are being shown while the home team's games are being broadcast.
■ Each bar must show every game its team plays, which means that the bar must subscribe to the NFL Sunday Ticket satellite package.
■ Each bar must offer some sort of food and/or drink specials during its team's games (it doesn't have to be fancy or much, but we fans do love a deal).
■ We'll be happy to list giveaways -- for footballs, caps and such -- that bars will have during their teams' games, but we don't list gaming-related promotions.
■ Bar owners or managers must call to give us all of the relevant details, including prices for food and drink specials. We'll accept information only from a bar's owner or manager and only via a one-on-one telephone conversation with reporter John Przybys at 383-0280. We don't accept press releases, emails, faxes, letters, voice-mail messages or secondhand messages.
■ Finally, we'll take calls between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, starting Monday. The deadline is 4 p.m. Aug. 12. No calls will be accepted after that.
So let the most wonderful time of the year commence.
