It's rough living in a baseball city.

September 4, 2010 7:51 PM

The powers that be have scheduled several amazing college football games for next Saturday. Where can I find a sports bar in NYC that will show all of them simultaneously?

On Saturday afternoon, Oklahoma plays Florida State, Michigan plays Notre Dame, and Miami plays Ohio State. My googling turns up results for school-specific bars, but I'm looking for a place where I can watch all 3 at the same time. Now that the ESPN Zone has closed, I'm not sure where to go. Manhattan is preferred, please.

posted by soonertbone to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (3 answers total)

Barrow Street Ale House always shows a bunch of different games at different times. The food's pretty good too. Sometimes it can be kind of hard to position yourself if you only care about one specific game and want a table, but if you're looking to float it sounds perfect.

Insider's tip: the downstairs area is usually empty but has TVs too. If you ask one of the waitresses, they'll usually turn on whatever game you want and even give you bar/food service in the basement.
posted by j1950 at 8:25 PM on September 4, 2010

The bad news for you is that nearly every bar will play the ND-Mich and Miami-OSU games, while OU-FSU will be harder to find. Would be pretty confident though that Village Pourhouse will have all three. Blondies as well (assuming most of the Big 10 teams are at noon) Ship of Fools - not my favorite place, but they'll have all of the games. No matter what all of the big sports bars will have at least one alumni group, but they are usually prepared to make sure all the games are shown. One thing that is going to help you out is that the Yanks are a night game next week.

Barrow is decent as well (although I don't like their setup much) it is a less sports bar-y place then most.
posted by JPD at 8:47 PM on September 4, 2010

Best answer: Standings, at 43 E 7th St between Bowery and Second Ave (212-420-0671, standingsbar.com) might work. It's tiny, though, but every square inch is plastered with sports memorabilia and televisions.
posted by kathryn at 3:03 PM on September 5, 2010