Originally Posted by
anykey 
Lemme tell you how I feel about sports bars. They SUCK. I went for pizza- it was a last minute family reunion. It was supposed to be a family pizza place. beggars pizza in chicagoland. Every seat in the place was near an obnoxious tv set on. There was no big game on- but some game was on. We were the large party in the place- yet- when I asked if they could turn the volumn down they said they could not. This was no place to have a conversation. Needless to say- we did not go back the next time I was in town.
I second this!
I used to go to them all the time for the "environment." When I got sober, I quickly the environment I thought I liked was in reality just as AnyKey described above. You may think you are going there for a discussion type of "meeting" but in reality it will just be loud and hard to understand eachother and most who are there will probably be drinking and/or drunk - which makes voices even louder!