Most ESPN Zone Sports Bars to Close

You are. The one on Disney's Boardwalk is the ESPN Club. There's only one of those, and it does very well. The NYC one will be closed.

 

I thought their menu items did them in.

Baby Back Back Back Ribs with a side of Tampa Bay Bucs camp circa 1983 were just too esoteric and wonkish. So were some of the mixed drinks, like Gary Miller Puts Out Cleveland's Fire.

The Dickie V Special ... alfredo sauce on Special K cereal was just flat out weird.

I also think customers were put off by the Red Sox-Yankees Kickers, a seven-day-a-week all you could eat item where the patrons had no say as to how much food they were given or when ESPN Zone would stop giving it to them.

I didn't care for the Sexual Harrassburgers. Ha, ha, ESPN. A slab of meat inside two buns. That women customers got a free sausage didn't help.

And I REFUSED to order the Sean Salisbury cocktail wieners, though I understand they're very popular in the lingerie football league.

 

Nothing beats going to a generic sports bar/overpriced restaurant.

 

I've been to the one in Orlando and D.C. and I think I stopped by the one in Vegas.
I don't have a strong feeling one way or another. I liked them well enough, I guess, but don't have any great sense of loss that they're closing.
I do remember the one in Orlando had small TVs mounted at stall in the toilet, which I thought was pretty cool.

Where will they film PTI and Sports Reporters?????

 

Nice...you had me going on the first one.

 

They should hurry up and throw the Strasburger on the menu before they all close down.

Actually, I saw an ad for the ESPNZone in DC last night at Nats Park. I turned to my buddy and told him I loved going to ESPNZone -- when I was 20.

The food actually was never bad, though.

 

Are you serious? Wow! I stopped in one of these . . . can't remember which airport . . . and everything was atrocious; staff wouldn't change a TV to a college football game between two undefeated teams (in late October), food tasted as though it was prepared the week before.

But to get back to the original post, losing ESPN Sports Zones is nothing to shed a tear over.

 

One of the few growth industries in America is the sign makers for OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE and RETAIL SPACE AVAILABLE.

 

But, but ... where will the HS football players go on National Signing Day? Think of the children!

 

Went to the NY restaurant. Wasn't great, wasn't horrible. Just mediocre.

But don't get me started on the NY Planet Hollywood.

 

Ate there a couple times. Overpriced and mediocre. Not a bad place to watch a game on a college football Saturday or a NFL Sunday, but not worth it.

 

Never ate there, but the Times Square locale was always good when you had to hit the necessary. I loved the TVs over the urinals.