With packed bars, noon beers and grownups playing hooky, March Madness is really, truly back
. In much of the country, gathering in bars hovered somewhere between unsafe and untenable.
“Do you know how good it feels to be in a loud place?” said a woman sitting with a colleague at a corner high-top, declining to give her name so as not to alert her employer — the uniform of which she was wearing — about her extended lunch break. “At this point, this gives us hope we’re going back to normal. I knowAdvertisementOne table over, as tip-off between No. 11 seed Michigan and No.
“Nothing better than painting your face and looking ridiculous walking through the street,” she said.At Moda Center in Portland, Ore., hundreds of blue-clad Memphis fans arrived early; posed for photos with Pouncer, the school mascot; and danced along to the school’s traveling student band. During a victory over Boise State, they drowned out attempted “BOI-SE!” chants. Afterward, Coach Penny Hardaway and star freshman Jalen Duren saluted the crowd.
The day ramped up. Cheesesteaks, tater tots, chicken Caesar wraps and bacon cheeseburgers emerged from the kitchen. A bar manager lugged bottles of Jameson and Jack Daniel’s upstairs. “Wide open in the corner!” a man in a St. Patrick’s Day-green tie yelled after a Michigan player took a contested shot, a bucket of Bud Lights in front of him. “Wide open!” There is a way sports bars are supposed to look and sound. To General Manager Kareem Stewart, this was it.
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