Where to watch UM in Cleveland on 9/11? (OSU v. Miami also at 3:30)
I will be attending a Bachelor partyin Cleveland the weekend of Michigan v. Notre Dame (9/11) and the Ohio St. - Miami game is on at the same time (3:30).
Where can I watch the game (other than my hotel room with NBC) with a group of UM fans where we can be guaranteed a few tvs will be on UM --- and we won't have to fight a bunch of fat mustached scarlet and grey nut-wearing meat-heads to change the TV to NBC?
I live in Cleveland and have not found a UM friendly bar at all. Your best bet would be to go to a BW's where they have so many tv's, you would be able to get one turned to the Michigan/ND game.
Cleveland fans are die hard. After many futile years form the Indians, Browns, and Cavs they cling to OSU success with a lot of fervor.
Of course, I have a wedding that day. A vegan wedding no less.
First: If you're not IN the wedding, a radio is perfectly acceptable in the pews. If you are in the wedding, get someone in the pews to listen to the game and give you hand signals for down, distance, scores and so on.
Secondly, at least beer is Vegan!
Vegan wedding in the fall? Weddings in the fall get summarily dismissed, a fall vegan wedding would get dismissed with prejudice!
I'm considering bringing my grill and making steaks in the parking lot. I figure I could sell em' for $10 apiece.
... and a cooler or three of beer (if it's in ohio, bring an extra cooler for the buckeye fans as they prefer them over the commode).
The UM Alumni club meets at Fox & Hound in Mayfield Heights (east side, 20-25 minutes from downtown). They have a standing reservation for a separate room.
Bomb shelter.
Can non-UM alum show up? Because I live in that area and had no idea.
No ID at the door or anything like that. Events are posted on facebook.
The answer would be nowhere in Cleveland. With the current state of Cleveland sports, Ohio State fans are in full force, they all act like they attended the university, and you'll probably get some shit. If you go to Paninis I'm sure you could get them to put one of the TV's on the Mich game. If you want to get a little outside of the city, The Harp is a great place to go, it would be a real cheap cab ride. The Cleveland area tries to imagine they're Columbus on saturdays now.
Check with the Cleveland-area UM Alumni association. They'll usually have a game day party at a watering hole of some sort.
You'll have a much better time watching it in your hotel room.
You are not going to get a bar to change a TV from showing the Ohio State game and you won't have to deal with a bar full of Ohio State fans.
...for your dilemma.
On the other hand, depending on how you work this, the results could end up in a fine screenplay about Wolverines fans in Buckeye territory trying to watch Michigan - Notre Dame during a bachelor party. Someone needs to get on the horn with the writers of The Hangover or Superbad. There's some serious comedic gold that could be mined in the Mistake by the Lake that weekend.
I once watched a 2005 UM-Iowa game (OT win) at the Winking Lizard in downtown (Gateway District) at the same time that OSU was playing IU. It was no problem to plop down at the bar and get one game on the UM game.
Of course IU is not Miami (YTM)...so things may be different this time.
Decent beer selection.
And I've worn my 'Worst State Ever' shirt to this place and didn't get bothered.
Co-sign on the Fox & Hound. Been there a couple times to watch some games. It's no Brown Jug, but it serves its purpose.
Surprisingly, Cleveland has a pretty good Michigan presence.
Our Space Emperor went to school just outside Cleveland as did one of the best Michigan players of all time, Desmond Howard.
Hopefully we'll be able to get the Glenville pipeline going again..
Was our main rival at my high school. You're leaving out Elvis Grbac, Andy Cannavino and Al Sincich who also attended VASJ (as well as Mike and Bob Golic, London Fletcher, Melvin Levitt, and Clark Kellogg but we don't have to count him). The school has a great sports history as much as it pains me to admit it. Sincich is great friends with my Dad, and Uncle, he was about 5"11" 225lbs and he started at nose tackle for 3 years for the Big Blue, that should tell you what a mean S.O.B. he was.
probably shouldn't watch it, it will just put a damper on the day for you =)
I agree. I mean, it can be pretty sad to know that your day is all downhill after an epic beat down of ND.
If the hotel has a bar maybe you could sit down there and watch it. But I have to agree with others, I would watch it in the room instead of try to find a bar.
Looks like it's going to be me, a bunch of UM fans, and a bathtub full of beers and ice in the hotel room on 9/11. Fox & Hound sounds like the only other option... depends on where we end up staying and if the crew wants to cab to the 'burbs.
Thanks for all the responses. And my heart goes out to the Cleveland-area UM fans.... painful existence behind enemy lines
I hope it is a bunch of your friends. That would be at least an $80-$100 cab ride to get to Mayfield from downtown c-town.
Does anyone else's heart still skip a beat when you see 9/11?
Everyone on this thread is pretty accurate. Fox and Hound is really nice I think, there is one on the other side of town as well I believe (Parma)
I was watchin a game at a small sports bar in Parma Heights probably 7 years ago or so and someone was clapping and said go blue and everyone started booing him. He turned around and what do you know....it was Aaron Shea when he was playing in Cleveland.
resident, I will confirm what has already been said above about there being no UM bars. If you go out to a bar you will be surrounded by Bucknuts. That is just the way it is.
However, if you go to a sports bar like a BDubs, they always do have the Michigan game on as well as the OSU game. I'm sure the OSU game would be the game with the sound, but UM would at least be on the a bigscreen.