With no hometown team and transplants from across the country rooting for their favorites, Las Vegas is one of the most diverse and exciting places to watch football in public.
Sports books are the obvious place to spend your weekends over the next five months, but there are plenty of bars around town that can be as much fun as the football itself.
Here are the top 10 places to watch football this season.
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Born and Raised
7260 S. Cimarron Road, Las Vegas
702-685-0258
Born and Raised is most famous for being the home of the Runnin’ Rebels on the road, showing all of UNLV basketball’s away games, but it’s also a great spot to watch the Rebels on Saturdays, as well as the NFL on Sundays. With 32 flat-screen TVs, 20 beers on tap and 15 types of sliders, Born and Raised takes football to another level.
The bar feature $3 shot specials, $3 Coors Lights and $18 100-ounce Coors Light towers during live NFL games. There also are specials for each primetime game: $5 shots of Fireball on Thursday nights, $6 Tito’s bloody mary’s on Sundays and $6 shots of Jameson during Monday Night Football.
Born and Raised also features game-day specials available only during UNLV games, including a Coors Light and a shot of Rebel Yell Kentucky straight bourbon for $5.
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Moon Doggies & Naked City Pizza
3240 Arville St., Las Vegas
702-243-6277
If you’re looking for a relaxed spot with a Northeast feel and don’t mind drinking out of a red Solo cup, Moon Doggies is the place for you.
The Buffalo Bills bar gets so packed on Sundays, the biggest challenge is preventing your beer cup from getting knocked over. With a large “You’re in Bills Country” flag draped from the wall and $2.75 Labatt Blue on draft, it’s easy to forget you aren’t in upstate New York.
Other drink specials include $17 buckets of Coors Light and a 22-ounce Labatt Blue for $4. For the bold, there are towers of Coors Light for $22, and Labatt Blue or Blue Moon for $33. Staffers give away beer company merchandise during games and conduct Moon Doggies “Buffalo” T-shirt raffles.
As for grub, it doesn’t get much better than Naked City Pizza, located inside the bar. The shop offers $2 slices, $8 beef on weck sub sandwiches and a half sheet of pizza and 20 Buffalo wings for $25.
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A Slice of Chicago
2990 St. Rose Parkway, Henderson
702-567-0663
Mike Wilhelm’s A Slice of Chicago pizza shop features an almost exclusively homemade menu with every Midwest favorite imaginable.
Breakfast specials such as the Soldier Field Super Bowl and Monster of the Midway Breakfast already are reasonably priced but go on special during football season. Then there are the Skyscraper Fries, covered in Italian beef, hot sweet peppers, garlic and mozzarella. And of course, Chicago-style pizza, which in 1998 won best pizza in Chicago when Wilhelm worked for Carmen’s Inn in Illinois.
The bar offers $2 draft specials during football games and a $4 combo of Pacifico beer and a shot of Sauza tequila. Pizza specials include a one-topping pizza and a two-liter bottle of soda for $14.95 or two one-topping pizzas and soda for $24.99.
There is a dining area where children are welcome, with six TVs. The bar area has four more televisions.
A Slice officially is a Chicago Bears bar, but all fans of football and Midwestern food are welcome.
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Crab Corner
4161 S. Eastern Ave., Las Vegas
702-489-4646
Maryland loves crabs, and Maryland loves football. At Crab Corner, you get both.
Crab Corner serves every type of crab imaginable, such as Baltimore’s famous hard-shell blue crabs, Alaskan King crab legs, crab cakes and crab soup. It also is the official home of the Baltimore Ravens in Las Vegas. Ravens fans from across the valley flock to the seafood joint, which shows all NFL games.
Still, by the time you leave, you may find yourself rooting for the purple and black. The owner often passes out free crabs when the Ravens score a touchdown. The restaurant also serves $1 oyster specials every Sunday.
* The valley also is home to a large contingency of Maryland Terrapins fans, but managers say they tend to gravitate toward Crab Corner’s other location on South Rainbow Boulevard.
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Lagasse's Stadium
3325 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas
702-607-2665
Located inside the Palazzo, Lagasse’s Stadium is a football fan’s paradise.
With 109 flat-screen TVs and a 9-by-16-foot projection screen, you won’t miss a second on the gridiron. Patrons can kick back on six rows of stadium seating and enjoy chef Emeril Lagasse’s tailgating-inspired menu, including grilled New Zealand lamb lolli-chops, stadium cheese nachos and Emeril’s steak bam’wich.
Happy hour is from 4 to 7 p.m. daily and features oysters on the half shell for $1.50 each, fried shrimp with blue cheese coleslaw and sliders.
Drink specials — $25 buckets of domestic beers and $30 buckets of premium beers — are more expensive than other bars on this list but aren’t bad by Las Vegas Strip standards.
The bar also includes luxury boxes and private party rooms for rent and has its own sports book with personal betting tablets so you can wager on teams without leaving your table.
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Twin Peaks
3717 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas | 702-795-8946
9510 S. Eastern Ave., Henderson | 702-564-1280
With its famous 29-degree draft beer, classic lodge look and scantily clad waitresses, Twin Peaks has mastered the art of the man cave. The staff, fitted with flannel, lumberjack-inspired cutoff shirts, serves the teeth-chattering beer so cold, the mugs often come topped with ice crystals.
The food is as manly as the atmosphere, with house favorites including pulled pork nachos and savory venison chili.
One wall of the bar is wrapped in high-definition TVs that show all the football you can handle, while the other is fitted with a full-size rock-climbing wall.
There always are draft specials during games and $3 “girl-sized” beers in 10-ounce cups. The bar also has half-off selected appetizers Monday through Thursday, perfect for Monday and Thursday night football.
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Crown and Anchor
1350 E. Tropicana Ave., Las Vegas | 702-739-8676
4755 Spring Mountain Road, Las Vegas | 702-876-4733
While these British pubs are best known for viewing English football — or as we Yanks call it, soccer — they have quite the taste for American football as well.
Down the street from UNLV, the Tropicana location is a Washington Redskins bar, while the Spring Mountain Road location is dedicated to the Seattle Seahawks.
How did that happen? The American bartenders at each were fans of the teams and ran with it.
Now the bars fill with football fans every Sunday, drinking $2 Pabst Blue Ribbons. The pub also has a drink special with $1 off all domestic and import beers from 3 to 6 p.m., plus giveaways of team memorabilia and $25 gift cards.
And the bars aren’t only a professional football hangout. The Tropicana location gets good-sized crowds to root on the Rebels every Saturday. With 30 draft beers and classic British pub food, Crown and Anchor is a good spot to watch any kind of football.
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Jackson's Bar and Grill
6020 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas
702-362-2116
The official Las Vegas home of the Green Bay Packers, Jackson’s Bar and Grill transports you straight to the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field every Sunday. Sit down and enjoy an order of cheese curds, poutine, beer or cheese bratwurst, then wash it down with an ice-cold glass of Lombardi Punch.
Or sit with former all-American linebacker Dan Currie and have him tell you stories of his Packer days playing alongside Ray Nitschke. Currie has made the bar his favorite hangout and is there every week signing autographs and taking pictures with fans.
Jackson’s also has merchandise giveaways during games, with free NFL gear and beer company key chains.
And the beer is cheap. Pabst Blue Ribbon costs $2.50 for a pint, $8 for a pitcher and $11 for two pitchers.
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Blue Ox Tavern
5825 W. Sahara Ave., Las Vegas
702-871-2536
The Blue Ox Tavern touts itself as a “home away from home” for displaced Minnesotans. The bar is the Las Vegas home of the Minnesota Vikings and has one of the most expansive menus of Midwestern food in the valley.
Favorites including the Minnesota Viking roast beef sandwich, reasonably priced at $8.49, and the 10,000 Lakes fish and chips keep fans coming back for more.
Drink specials include $12 buckets of Miller High Life and Pabst Blue Ribbon, and $5 Purple People Eater shooters made from Chambord, vodka and sweet and sour mix.
There also are $5.99 quarter-pound hotdogs in three varieties: chili cheese, peppers and onions, and bacon-wrapped.
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PT's Pub
Locations around the valley
At the 46 Las Vegas-area PT’s Pub locations, the food specials start before kickoff on NFL Sundays. It’s 50 percent off for breakfast from 6 to 10 a.m. everyday, meaning patrons can arrive early to get a good seat to watch their favorite NFL team. All of the PT’s Pub locations will have the Sunday NFL Ticket.
Food and drink specials are from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays during football season, and 5 to 10 p.m. for NFL games on Mondays and Thursdays. The usual happy hour deals of half-off pizza and drinks from 5 to 7 p.m on weekdays are in effect during football too. Drink specials during football include $3 bloody mary’s, $3 Coors Light pints and $5 Coors Light 25-ounce mugs. Food specials include cheeseburger and fries for $4.99, hangover fries for $6.99 and footlong chili-cheese dogs for $8.99. They also have five $5 appetizers: two beef sliders with fries or 10-piece nugget basket, for instance.
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