re: Have you dealt with a restaurant/bar that is awful at managing games on their TVs?

Bingo. We've got several breweries of that ilk in Lexjngton. I went into one maybe two years ago and they had some Portuguese language flamenco guitar player on the TV and sound system

It just so happens that I am a musician, so I do actually enjoy and appreciate that, but this was more about the guy behind the bar that night being a limpdick soyboy, and there was some good game on that evening. I don't remember what, not important.

Just not at all what I'm looking for when I go in and want to have a few beers with the boys.

And if you are local proprietor and that's how you want your business to operate, you are certainly entitled to do so.

IMO it's a foolish business decision, you lose an enormous amount of potential customers that way, but that's your prerogative.

Another point I would add, since IMO it applies more to local craft breweries who tend to attract those type of workers, is that in places like Lexington where we get visiting fan bases mid week when they come to play Kentucky in football or basketball, or hell even baseball now, a lot of those people seek out local restaurants and breweries for obvious reasons....they can't get that stuff at home. I can get Chili's and BDubs anywhere. So on a Thursday or Friday night when Jim Bob from Tuscaloosa or Tammy from Knoxville are tired of hanging out in the RV lot at Commonwealth and hit the town, guess what, they probably want to watch whatever regional FCS/low FBS game is on from their neck of the woods. If I'm a business owner, their money spends too.

It's all just ignorance, ambivalence and apathy.

I’m wondering if some of you just overdramatize shite.

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had an issue with a sports bar place putting a specific game on TV, and have fingers left over. Maybe the bartender/manager just doesn’t like some of you?

The two main places we go to around here are pretty good about just giving patrons the remote and letting them find the game they want to watch. Most of the time it’s college kids waiting the tables and I think the reason they’re so quick to let us do it is because they stream so much that they don’t know exactly which channel is what for live TV.

Now, the clusterfrick of them trying to find the correct remote is the rub

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Buddy of mine took the family to Hawaii a few years ago for Thanksgiving. He asked the guy at the front desk where he could go watch Alabama/Auburn and the man told him to go to a local dive bar that over looked the beach. He went there and the place was full of college fans. Every TV was on a different college game. There was some fat Hawaiian sitting at the bar with an iPad and was just slugging beers as he juggled the TV situation perfectly. Was even switching the audio around to compliment the games. That was his one job and he apparently was a Jedi master at it. Red Zone like precision.

My friend still talks about it to this day. It was like finding a city of Gold.

Bingo!

I don’t understand it either….

As you said, when you ask to change channels… it’s an act of God.

The only thing I can think of is most servers are women, and women absolutely are ignorant about how to work a TV.

Been married 20 years, and my wife still doesn’t know how to Get to YTTV. Or switch to an app, or how to DVR

Blows my mind

Yes. Tried to watch a game at the Rotolos on Burbank a month or so ago and they couldn’t figure out how to work the TV’s, so I had to watch Peppe Pig, no shite.

Went to Court to Table not along to watch football as well and they had 5 TV’s- one on football and the rest on NASCAR/NCAA volleyball.

Yes