Where to drink on Friday

[GGGG]

My wife is a big Marquette fan.  My wife is also a big Wisconsin fan.  She went to neither school.  She will wear Marquette gear when they play one another, although I'm not sure exactly who she is cheering for.

I have stopped trying to figure this out long ago and it's just one of those things I don't ask questions about.

[MU82]

Just marry a Marquette girl and this stuff works itself out. I have to work Friday so my wife will be holding a table for me at the schoolyard, arriving at about noon. She'll be 4 or 5 beers ahead of me by my arrival. She's a catch.

My wife, also an alum, is a huge Warriors fan. I'm going to Friday's game, but she has to take her dad (who has been staying with us) back to Chicago. I'm dropping her at the Charlotte airport and then heading down to Greenville. Once she has dropped off my father-in-law, she is going to get together with my son and they will go somewhere to watch the game. Maybe they'll be right there at Schoolyard with you!

[Loose Cannon]

For the record, I met Mrs. Headband 10 years ago during the tournament weekend.  Marquette lost Thursday in the debacle vs Michigan State.  That freed me and my buddies (even the Badger fans) to go out on Saturday night, which was St. Patrick's Day.

Friday we went to a fish fry.  One of my friends invited out a girl he knew from religious retreats in high school and he kept in touch with her off and on throughout the years.  She had just moved to Madison 2 months prior.  He was interested in her but she didn't feel the same.  She wasn't going to come out but he persisted until she said ok.  He also invited her to hang out after dinner but she declined.

We needed to take two cars to dinner since not everyone could fit in one car.  Someone needed to ride with my friend, who was going to pick up this girl.  I volunteered.  She came out in jeans and a sweatshirt, no make up.

Fast forward to dinner, I see this girl making flirty glances in my direction.  She tells my friend she had changed her mind and she would join us afterward but she wanted to go home first.  When she came over later, she had changed her clothes and done her makeup.  She was really interested in what our plans were for St. Patrick's Day.  Told her we were bar hopping, she said great; she and her friends were going out too and maybe they could meet up with us.

Saturday was when Mrs. Headband and I really started to hit it off.  Had Marquette been playing, the guys and I would either stayed in to watch the game vs UNC or found a bar to watch the game.  I would have been 100% focused on the game.  I wouldn't have said 2 words to my future wife.  That is why my advice is to skip the game if there is a girl involved.  There will always be more tournament games.  Don't let the girl be the one who got away.

Luckily, Mrs. Headband really likes watching basketball.  She even suggested watching tourney games on our first date, which was the following Saturday.  So if URowsey really wants to go for it and watch the Marquette game with this girl, then good luck.  In that case, might as well watch at the Annex and hit up Real Chili afterward.  If she goes for that, then you need to PROPOSE!

You Sir, are a very Wise man.

[BobWildLoyalist]

We are getting a crowd of MU alums together on Friday in Chicago at Wills Northwoods Inn. Good combo of bad language, St. Paddys Day, and MU Basketball. Come up and celebrate!

[4everwarriors]

I don't have bad ideas.

Butt, ya do skip games for family weddin's, ai na?

[BubbaWilliams]

We are getting a crowd of MU alums together on Friday in Chicago at Wills Northwoods Inn. Good combo of bad language, St. Paddys Day, and MU Basketball. Come up and celebrate!

I'll see you there for some $3 Tall Blondes (High Lifes) and some Curds.

[Herman Cain]

I made the outrageous mistake of telling a girl I'd go out with her on St Patrick's day two weeks ago. Something about our anniversary from the first time we went out..... Anyways I refuse to party during St Patrick's day/watch mu at a God dammed Fridays like I did the first time we went out for St Patrick's day.

So best place to drink and watch marquette go for it all?

Edit forgot to mention. Milwaukee area

This would be my plan. Find the most expensive place you can afford to go to that has a Big Screen TV, then scout out the location and make sure you reserve in advance a very good  table within in visual range to the Big Screen TV. Then find out who the waiter/waitress is etc and give them some money in advance and tell them to make your date feel very special and play up the whole notion that is is your anniversary of sorts. Also tell them to hold the amount of alcohol in your drinks but put a little more in hers.  Make sure you get there first and are seated facing the TV with her back to it. i Have them bring out some champagne to start and make a big hoo ha about things  and have it be all about the girl.

In the meantime you can keep your eye directly on the game and on her at the same time. Hopefully things go well on both friends. Just make sure you tape the game at home so you have a good record of it in case we do something very good.

I have used this strategy before and it works.

[BrewCity83]

I, too, have a St. Paddy's Day date for Friday night in Milwaukee, but it's a girlfriend of a couple years.  I already told her that we can go out right after work (5-ish) and by 8:30 we need to be at a bar that will have the game on.  We'll watch the game with a bunch of drunks and (hopefully) celebrate all night.  On Saturday I'll watch the DVR of the victory (or erase it if it was bad news).

[warriorchick]

This would be my plan. Find the most expensive place you can afford to go to that has a Big Screen TV, then scout out the location and make sure you reserve in advance a very good  table within in visual range to the Big Screen TV. Then find out who the waiter/waitress is etc and give them some money in advance and tell them to make your date feel very special and play up the whole notion that is is your anniversary of sorts. Also tell them to hold the amount of alcohol in your drinks but put a little more in hers.  Make sure you get there first and are seated facing the TV with her back to it. i Have them bring out some champagne to start and make a big hoo ha about things  and have it be all about the girl.

In the meantime you can keep your eye directly on the game and on her at the same time. Hopefully things go well on both friends. Just make sure you tape the game at home so you have a good record of it in case we do something very good.

I have used this strategy before and it works.

You are setting yourself up for a date rape charge right there. And there would be witnesses who can testify that you asked them to help you.

[Herman Cain]

You are setting yourself up for a date rape charge right there. And there would be witnesses who can testify that you asked them to help you.

Helen Gurley Brown is turning over in her grave.

[warriorchick]

Helen Gurley Brown is turning over in her grave.

You are pathetic. I can see why you have to get girls drunk to get them to sleep with you.

[JamilJaeJamailJrJuan]

You are setting yourself up for a date rape charge right there. And there would be witnesses who can testify that you asked them to help you.

Not to mention you'll probably have to leave at half time because your date will be hammered!

[Herman Cain]

You are pathetic. I can see why you have to get girls drunk to get them to sleep with you.

My whole strategy is about getting the girlfriend l to be distracted enough so the poor guy can enjoy his MU game. My baseline assumption is that he doesn't have to worry about the other part since they have been going to together for a while.

[tower912]

My first date with my wife was on a lunch date on April 1, 1991.     She lived across the street and was in her senior year of college.    Her roommates had all left town for spring break, we had chatted a few times, so she said 'yes' when I invited her to lunch.   We clicked.   That night, she called me and said she had received a phone call threatening one of her roommates (she still maintains that it happened, though I tease her that she just wanted to see me) and asked if I minded coming over.    I went over and we watched the NCAA Championship between Duke and Kansas.     She talked intelligently about basketball.   She had grown up in Indiana and like all other Hoosier girls her age, had a huge crush on Steve Alford.   But it also meant that she had watched a lot of basketball.      I was completely smitten.     I still am.   25 years next month.     And I am still insanely jealous of Steve Alford's perfect hair.   

A game is a game.     The right girl is far more rare.   

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Steve Alford may have great hair, but he's a massive prick.

[4everwarriors]

Steve Alford may have great hair, but F*ckin' says he has a massive prick.
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Oy hey?

[Herman Cain]

Steve Alford may have great hair, but he's a massive prick.

Set forth below is a research report that shares your point of view:

http://www.bruinsnation.com/ucla_basketball/2017/3/11/14893340/report-ucla-coach-steve-alford-has-significant-interest-in-indiana-job

[ZiggysFryBoy]

Steve Alford may have great hair, but he's a massive prick.

Musta be why Mrs Tower had a crush on him, a'ina?

[drewm88]

Just marry a Marquette girl and this stuff works itself out. I have to work Friday so my wife will be holding a table for me at the schoolyard, arriving at about noon. She'll be 4 or 5 beers ahead of me by my arrival. She's a catch.

I was debating Schoolyard as well. You really think noon's gonna be necessary to get a table? The St. Patrick's Day element throws a big wrench into things. As does me wanting to be sober enough to appreciate the game.

[drewm88]

We are getting a crowd of MU alums together on Friday in Chicago at Wills Northwoods Inn. Good combo of bad language, St. Paddys Day, and MU Basketball. Come up and celebrate!

At a Badger bar?

[real chili 83]

My first date with my wife was on a lunch date on April 1, 1991.     She lived across the street and was in her senior year of college.    Her roommates had all left town for spring break, we had chatted a few times, so she said 'yes' when I invited her to lunch.   We clicked.   That night, she called me and said she had received a phone call threatening one of her roommates (she still maintains that it happened, though I tease her that she just wanted to see me) and asked if I minded coming over.    I went over and we watched the NCAA Championship between Duke and Kansas.     She talked intelligently about basketball.   She had grown up in Indiana and like all other Hoosier girls her age, had a huge crush on Steve Alford.   But it also meant that she had watched a lot of basketball.      I was completely smitten.     I still am.   25 years next month.     And I am still insanely jealous of Steve Alford's perfect hair.   

A game is a game.     The right girl is far more rare.

Hope she's not from Elkhart.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

You are setting yourself up for a date rape charge right there. And there would be witnesses who can testify that you asked them to help you.

That was my first thought as well

[real chili 83]

Im down for it all, except...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPE

You should post pics of her on Scoop and we can start a poll to see if you should marry her.  Chick can vote twice.

[jsglow]

My first date with my wife was on a lunch date on April 1, 1991.     She lived across the street and was in her senior year of college.    Her roommates had all left town for spring break, we had chatted a few times, so she said 'yes' when I invited her to lunch.   We clicked.   That night, she called me and said she had received a phone call threatening one of her roommates (she still maintains that it happened, though I tease her that she just wanted to see me) and asked if I minded coming over.    I went over and we watched the NCAA Championship between Duke and Kansas.     She talked intelligently about basketball.   She had grown up in Indiana and like all other Hoosier girls her age, had a huge crush on Steve Alford.   But it also meant that she had watched a lot of basketball.      I was completely smitten.     I still am.   25 years next month.     And I am still insanely jealous of Steve Alford's perfect hair.   

A game is a game.     The right girl is far more rare.

Congratulations.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

My whole strategy is about getting the girlfriend l to be distracted enough so the poor guy can enjoy his MU game. My baseline assumption is that he doesn't have to worry about the other part since they have been going to together for a while.

I know what you are trying to say, so I am assuming best intent. But just because you are dating doesn't mean you can get a girl hammered and then sleep with her. I know that's not what you meant, but felt the need to put the disclaimer in there.