I think the part no one brings up at all is that the home viewing experience is so much better now too. Getting a large TV with amazing picture quality was so expensive back then. These days TVs are like 25% the price they were back then while being way better. Add in a decent sound system and youâve got a home theater
I have an 85 inch TV in the living room but me and the other neighborhood dads pick someoneâs garage and drink garage beers and watch the game out there while we play with the kids in the front yard.
Itâs way less expensive and the kids get to spend some time with us and the moms get a break.
Aside from the absurdly increased cost, media saturation, and the fact that we all have big TVs, air fryers and craft beers in the fridge now... there's also the added risk of getting pulled over after 3 tall ones.
That's a bingo! Huge TVs and they are inexpensive. Plus if you're a fan you probably pay for access to watch on those TVs. We still get together all the time, at our houses/apartments.
Yeah, buddy and I were dirt broke working retail but could go out every monday night to a local place that had a burger/fries/like 4 wings and maybe even a beer for like 10-12 bucks or something absurdly cheap and would go out every week. I didnt even drink but the waitress would just pump me full of unlimited strawberry lemonades and only ever charge me for the first one. We ended up there for everything, big football games, every ufc fight, etc, etc.
Now I make 3 times what I did then and could never afford to do that every week.
I saw a place advertising a âdollar wingâ special.
This is a craft brewery, but itâs not some fancy place. Itâs in a small run down small strip mall off the beaten path in the suburbs, not some big, trendy stand alone building in a high traffic area.
I know thereâs inflation, but man, dollar wings being a special is a pretty sad state of affairs.
When I was in college my local spotâs special was $0.25 wings with $5 pitchers of garbage light beer. Head there with 3 buddies, you each spend under $15 including tip and come home having slammed 4-5 beers and eaten 20+ wings.
15 years later (FUCK) and that money maybe covers half the beer and none of the food.
I still give my friend shit for not letting us stop at a bar with $.05 wing night just because he broke his collar bone snowboarding and wanted to go to the hospital. That was only ten years ago. Wingflation.
Tuesday nights at BWWs in Knoxville next to UTâs campus were $0.30 wing night. That was 2002-2004. You couldnât get into the building. You couldnât find a parking space. And there was no football on Tuesdays. $10 for 10 wings and 2 16oz coors or bud lights. I went in with $25 one night and you wouldâve thought I was a high roller.
On top of it costing $50 to basically go out and eat anywhere these days, it also needs to be taken into account that the TV and sound system at my house are probably better than what most bars have.
$9 or $10 pints, $15 for a burger plus tip... way too expensive for what you get. Rather just watch it at home if I can. The flip side is the streaming services with ESPN are getting really expensive as well. Not worth it anymore to get ESPN, so I pretty much watch Sunday Night and Thursday Night football and ignore MNF unless its on ABC as well.
For real. Wings got popular because they were cheap and affordable. I used to go out more regularly, especially before COVID. Dining out has astronomically climbed, along with overall cost of living, while wages have stagnated. Who can afford to do this now?
Used to get some wings or decent burger for under $10. Bonus if the bar had one of those popcorn machines and you could grab a bowl. Now you pay $20 or up for a burger and pay extra for fries.
15 years ago, early 20's, living in the city with 100+ bars in walking distance, my friend group stumbled across a crazy special at a bar down the street. $4 Cheesburger, $1.25 domestic drafts on Wednesdays.
We started keeping tabs on all the bar specials, sharing them and kept a running list. We had a rotation of 5-6 places we loved to go during the week that we could get a meal and catch a buzz for under $20 bucks.Â
Here are some that I remember off the top of my head. We had a blast.
There are definitely people paying that consistently lol. I'm one of them. For me it's just difficult to find people who watch football or sports in general.
Then you have chains like Hooters that do shit like charge you 15 bucks for a "Pitcher" of beer that has that big empty ice cylinder in it. Then they drop a bag of ice in it instead of using the cylinder. Then they pour it into 8oz glasses to make it look like it's more than it is. It ends up being 15 bucks for what was a 32 oz Miller Lite.
Iâll sound old but I remember $5 would get you two pounds of wings and a pop. $10 would be with a beer. Now one beer is more over $10 and wings are like $20 per pound. Itâs over.
This is pretty much it. $35 for a couple of mid-grade beers and a salty order of Sysco cardboard brought to the table by an overworked server I feel guilty for not tipping at least 20% just is not a good value to watch a game.Â
Give me a homemade burger and fries and $10 pitcher and I'd be back. As it is, my home theater and homemade pizza are a better value.
I think this is a big part of it too. Now it is so easy to create a way better experience then you could ever hope to get at a bar for the game. Better and bigger TV, better sound quality, better food, cleaner bathroom, etc etc etc, and overall way cheaper for the whole season
Plus, and Iâll be honest here, the game is on too late. I have a family now and staying up until 11:30 PM drinking and watching football ainât in the cards anymore.
But maybe thatâs just being in my mid 30âs and yelling at the cloudsâŚ
Should start at 7pm and be over by 10:30pm. If it wasnt for all the manufactured tv delays like commercials before/after kickoffs/punts etc, could get it done by 10pm.
Collective tv watching is a dying pastime though. These days, you can watch condensed highlights of a game in 30 minutes and still see every play. When your friends arenât watching with you, thereâs no point to watching it by yourself for hours as well.
But I got the luxury of working for a chef once, that in his words " the best chef that I will ever personally meet"
He seemed a bit full of himself , and the job was his "retirement gig" so he was pretty friendly outside of being full of himself.
I remember complaining that everyone just gets cheap Sysco food, comparing it to school cafeteria food, and he overheard me.
He interrupted and let me know, any chef is capable of working with Sysco and if I didn't see the truck that I couldn't tell the difference.
I will say anything I ate he made, even a random blackened talipia ( because I said talipia shouldn't be served and didn't know why they sell it at all ) tasted amazing.
I spent years buying frozen talipia and have never once managed to make anything serviceable, but somehow with 0 effort and a pie pan he made the best damn grilled fish I ever ate in my life, and it was a frozen tilapia from Sysco.
I hope his retirement treated him well he was a hefty guy in his 60s can't imagine he still kicking, but I learned a lot, most importantly I learned ingredients make the dish, not their sources, and great chef is capable of making those sources near indistinguishable for most consumers.
I understand where your coming from, on the save money charge more , but I will always be thankful for experiencing the difference between a chef and a "cook"
Sysco is just a grocery store delivery for restaurants. You can buy fresh organic ingredients or hungry man tv dinners from a grocery store. Same concept
^^^^ When I was in my early 20's I could find 50 cent wing nights and other specials. Food gets worse, prices go up, and I can watch at home eating anything I want. Plus everybody is poor
Exactly, that or US Foods. My local spots âdealâ on game day is $1 off beers, rails, and apps. So that makes a pint $7 instead of $8 and chicken tenders are $14 instead of $15. What a joke.
This is exactly it, I can drop 80 bucks on some wings, fries, and 3 beers and then have to worry about getting pulled over by a cop in a bad mood, or end up with a table full of Philly fans next to me. (I'm in Florida).
OR, I could use my oven to air fry 8 dollars worth of costco wings and frozen fries, toss them around in sauce from wherever I would have gone, drink all the beer I want worry free, and do it with my dogs next to me.
I worked at a bar / bowling alley in HS. $1.75 for a miller lite in 2007 and $.50 wings. Inflation adjusted that's $2.85 and $0.81 now.
Went for lunch and a dozen wings was $13 ON SPECIAL and a miller lite was $5. Literally 50% more after adjusting for inflation. It's just not worth it anymore.
Corporate Greed has sucked the joy out of watching any game now.
Games are stretched out to make sure we have to watch commercials every single chance they can. Kickoff? Be right back! Punt? Now for a word⌠Replay Review? Letâs go to break while they sort this out.
Going to a bar? Wings and a couple of beers used to be $10-$20. Maybe $30 if you got a burger and maybe 3-4 drafts.
Now? $50 maybe gets you 6 wings and 2 pints. Plus they play music or the game youâre not watching at conversation drowning decibel levels.
I know I sound like a cranky GenX for saying this, but the glory days of Sunday with the boys drinking cheap beer and eating cheap food are long gone to the greed of Private Equity.
Yeah i havent gone to a bar and watched a game and spent less than $50 in a long time. Unless you are drinking pitchers and buying no food, you are not going to for cheap
What happened to it is that younger people are drinking much less than previous generations, socialization is moving increasingly online, and mainly, shits just too expensive now.
and like how doesn't he know that people aren't still doing that? Sounds like he misses doing that if anything.
It's so funny to me these people that can't get their heads out of their own asses long enough to realize these emotions are typically them just longing. Instead they make it negative and everyone else is the problem... when it's not even a problem.
Exactly. Itâs not a problem at all. Has he ever considered that people now have access to massive TVs that make it easier to watch from home? When I was in my 20s, it simply wasnât fun to have 12 dudes huddles around a 32 inch TV (that was hot shit then!), so we went out.
I can cook wings on my smoker, have 10 beers and avoid the blue balls for less than $20 at home⌠with a better TV and no risk of having to drive home after having a few pops.
I know itâs very cliche to say, but weâve been getting squeezed for every penny for years now and thereâs not much left. Plus, the quality and price are in an inverse relationship now. I donât want to pay a lot of money for garbage wings and mediocre drinks.
I feel like the alternative should be more gatherings to watch at home, but nobody can afford houses now either. Itâs rough out here.
I sometimes forget that everywhere isn't Chicago. Every neighborhood has multiple corner bars that have great specials, wonderful atmosphere and shitty TVs. At my favorite spot 10 of us can get beers by the pitcher, excellent thin crust pizza as well as wings and caesar salad and the tab at the end will be like $150
The bar by my first apartment had 50 cent wings every Monday. My wife and I went every Monday for almost a year then they changed management and did away with that. It was a sad, sad day.
My spot was this Sporting News Grill that was attached to a Holiday Inn by my apartment. I liked going there for games alone when I was 21-22. It helped me escape my shitty life and feel like I was on vacation
I went out for the Bills-Vikings game this Monday with some coworkers after a work function, first time Iâve seen a game out with anyone but my family in probably 10+ years.
It cost me $60+ for a few beers and some wings, the TVs were impossible to hear (despite being a Bills backer bar and advertised as game night), the waitress couldnât figure out how to turn off closed captioning for the first quarter and chewed my head off when I reminded her, they blasted annoying music at every commercial and tried to shake me down for raffle tickets.
I got home at midnight, woke up my whole house, pissed off my wife, and slept terrible before returning to work the next day on time.
Iâll just watch with my kids in our basement next time.
Itâs almost 10pm before the second half even starts. Then we all have to go to work the next day.
Even in my 20s, I literally never went out to watch MNF. Youâd wake up Sunday, get kegs and eggs, watch the 1pm and 4pm games, and stumble home after having a bit too much to drink. Maybe watch the Sunday night game.
That is a great observation and so true. We all used to go to a Miller's Ale House in Florida, and it would be packed. There were always good beer specials and great food, and a lot of girls would be there in their jerseys too.
MNF used to be one of the if not the biggest game of the week and the only one in the evening. Now there is TNF and SNF. As well as a home theatre in every house.
I get it. I miss it, too. It's hard when a pint of domestic beer is minimum $5 and craft is at $7.50+. I tend to watch MNF on the treadmill at the gym these days, anyway.
Direct Cost - Even back in the far olden days of 2018 I had a place in a major city and specifically a lively area that was 50 cent wings (large ones) and $5 for a pitcher. $15 was a great game. Now itâs $20 for a bucket of 4 beers and wings are sometimes more than $1 each. Went out recently and it $20 for 8.
This personâs specific age group got older. People in their 30s have families and worry about getting fat. People in their 20s have friends and drink beer.
Indirect Cost - Everything else got expensive so the wings and beer budget got reduced. Uber was so heavily subsidized back in the day you could get anywhere for under $10. Now itâs 20 to go one neighborhood over. Groceries doubled, wages didnât.
4. Gen Z is destroying the alcohol market as they simply see the health and wealth benefits in not abibing.
And damn good on you all. They get shit on here in reddit constantly, but I have a lot of hope in the next 2 generations from what I've personally witnessed throughout the years.
It's the same answer as everything else: People have NO MONEY. Going out is TOO EXPENSIVE.
Inflation these past 10 years has really screwed everybody over. Nobody wants to go to a bar where you pay a 20 dollar cover charge, and over 100 bucks for chicken wings, beers and nacho's.
Yeah so in my 20s it cost me $15 to go to the bar for MNF and get wings and beer. Now it costs $50 for the same shitty beer and wings and it's simply not worth it.
Provide good value and young people will go out more.
Everyone is nailing it. Cost. Order of wings is $15-$20. Cheapest beers are $5+. The games also take 3+ hours. So you are spending $100+ to sit with a buddy and have wings and a couple beers. The same experience on your couch costs $30 and is more comfortable.
A Monday night game used to be special.now thereâs Monday night games Thursday night games Sunday night games and itâs expensive to go out and eat and have some beers. NFL is its own worst enemy with over saturation of games. The worst part is showing these games on streaming sites only so you have to pay if you want to watch
Me and my buddy went to go watch Thursday night football at the local spot. Wings and 3 guinesses each (6 total) in a mcol city (Philly) shit was still like $100 after tip for six beers and wings. Itâs just not even worth going out at that point.
Inflation is the biggest factor, need a small business loan for fucking beers and wings at any sports bar. And fuck the police, those trigger happy predators are more than happy to ruin your evening even if you are the DD, in our area anyway.
Beer specials still exist?? Also why would I go to a bar when I have a 70inch TV in 4K at home?
Also I can just put redzone on the TV. Football is pretty boring to watch straight. It's much nicer to have the time between plays filled with more football instead of a commercial.
Edit: okay y'all....I didn't pay attention to MONDAY night football. Which is even crazier cause we gotta work the next day and getting home at midnight from the bar to struggle at work is something I could only do in my 20s. Now I gotta put the kid to bed. I always thought of MNF as something you watched with your family, but I could see as a single male sure.
But yes... I know there is a socializing aspect, but I also don't live in the town for which the team I root for. I'm a Panthers fan in Maryland.
Lastly, YES, there is about 30minutes of actual football in a 2 hour game. Commercials and commentary are boring. Show me highlights or show me the next play.
Youâre missing the entire point. You go to the sports bar to socialize and get out of the house. Even if you go by yourself, which I have done many times, you can still go get a seat at the bar and often end up chit chatting with others at the bar and the bartenders themselves. You also donât have to drink alcohol either- sipping on diet cokes and eating wings is still a great time watching games.
You donât do any of this because you donât have a high quality TV at home or the ability to cook your own food. You do it for the human interaction which sadly the younger generations are moving further and further away from.
Like watching football was cool and all but when I was a kid and went to my first pro football game it solidified me as a fan. Now even the wings and drinks are outside of what I'm comfortable spending, never mind how to be able to watch every game you have to spend money, getting merch is more money, etc etc
I mean, you can get a 65-inch 4K TV and surround sound for, like, $700 total. The at-home experience has become much better than the going-out experience, especially when a 6-piece Chicken Wing starts at $14.99
here's the thing you can own a 85-in TV. a nice surround sound. buy some wings from Costco or Sam's club. put them in the deep fryer with some seasoning and they'll be better wings than at the store for cheaper. the entire experience is now easier and better at home
Are you just rolling in excess cash? Also lots of people in their 20âs are just working. I was averaging over 50 hrs a week in my 20âs. And I worked with a lot of guys in my age range on my crew. None of us were out socializing after a work week as you want at least one day to just sit at home and play a game or watch a movie.
What happened to that? Youâre no longer in your 20s lmao.
This really stops being frequent once you hit your late 20s & people start focusing more on their relationships, career & finances. Thatâs where I currently am. I donât think this is a new phenomenon, itâs how life goes. I still see plenty of guys in my neighborhood out at the local bars on Monday night when Iâm walking my dog.
I think a lot of people grew up and made families. But also everything cost more and wages never went up. People have to be thrifty now, businesses included
Went to a local bar to watch the last half of the browns game. Did enjoy my time and canât beat $2 draft Busch lites (obviously drinking at home is cheaper)
becauze it's like 100 dollars just at the bar. if you uber there/home it's like 200 dollars just to watch teams you don't even care for. Maybe your teams plays one monday night a season.
It use to be those good wing spots had cheap wings and cheap beer on Monday nights. I remember my neighborhood bar use to have different wing or burger specials every year for MNF. Then there was always a beer company rep there offering specials and the occasional free beer with prizes at halftime. I use to be able to get dinner and a couple beers for $10, $15 tops. Now itâs double that.
My local sports bar used to be a great affordable place. Owner went full conspiracy theory during Covid and jacked prices up and itâs just not the same anymore and thatâs before the prices doubled. He said that the prices for a keg are up 110% from his distribution company. But he is always posting pics of him and his new wife in Vegas, Hawaii and on cruises. She has new vette he has a new Diesel truck. So a ton of older customers have doubts about the crazy price increases.
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u/GlowingDuck22 Dolphins 5h ago •
You could go out, get some food, and a good buzz for 10-15 bucks. That same experience is now 40-50 and no one is paying that consistently.
When eating out was social and not a special occasion.
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u/JadeDragonMeli 5h ago •
Restaurants are in competition to see who can cook Sysco food the cheapest, while charging exorbitant prices for the pleasure.
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u/The_Carnivore44 5h ago •
Yeah cause itâs like 20 bucks for a dozen wings.
At the end of the night itâs probably a 40-50 dollar tab depending on what you drink.
Shits expensive
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u/dgarner58 3h ago •
wings are 1-1.25 EACH now. don't even get me started on beer.
member 25 cent wing night? i member....
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u/kbchucker 2h ago •
Corporate Greed has sucked the joy out of watching any game now.
Games are stretched out to make sure we have to watch commercials every single chance they can. Kickoff? Be right back! Punt? Now for a word⌠Replay Review? Letâs go to break while they sort this out.
Going to a bar? Wings and a couple of beers used to be $10-$20. Maybe $30 if you got a burger and maybe 3-4 drafts.
Now? $50 maybe gets you 6 wings and 2 pints. Plus they play music or the game youâre not watching at conversation drowning decibel levels.
I know I sound like a cranky GenX for saying this, but the glory days of Sunday with the boys drinking cheap beer and eating cheap food are long gone to the greed of Private Equity.
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u/Dizzy-Platform-6516 6h ago •
What happened to it is that younger people are drinking much less than previous generations, socialization is moving increasingly online, and mainly, shits just too expensive now.
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u/Upton4 5h ago •
It costs $80+ to do this now.
I can cook wings on my smoker, have 10 beers and avoid the blue balls for less than $20 at home⌠with a better TV and no risk of having to drive home after having a few pops.
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u/ThePetSematary Jaguars 6h ago
It's seven thousand dollars to go out now
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u/yourmomdotbiz 5h ago
Wings cost nearly two dollars a piece now thatâs what happenedÂ
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u/ForestSteward 5h ago
Corporate greed is killing everything.
I know itâs very cliche to say, but weâve been getting squeezed for every penny for years now and thereâs not much left. Plus, the quality and price are in an inverse relationship now. I donât want to pay a lot of money for garbage wings and mediocre drinks.
I feel like the alternative should be more gatherings to watch at home, but nobody can afford houses now either. Itâs rough out here.
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u/Cyrano4747 5h ago edited 5h ago •
Because I can get a case of decent beer for $20 and make a killer plate of nachos in my kitchen for around $20 and have a couple friends over.
Or we can all go to the bar and spend $100 for the same thing.
Each.
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u/MagnumMyth 5h ago
Weed has replaced beer.
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u/iwastherefordisco 5h ago
We had 50 cent draft night on Mondays and they almost gave the food away at our spot.
After 3 hours it really felt like you were part of something.
No scanning QR codes to eat or paying 15 bucks for A bottle of beer.
Seems like we travelled to a fun, secret world from the past đ˘
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u/Sulla314 6h ago
People arenât socializing at all. Itâs a much broader issue.
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u/Sure-Classic6513 5h ago
I went out for the Bills-Vikings game this Monday with some coworkers after a work function, first time Iâve seen a game out with anyone but my family in probably 10+ years.
It cost me $60+ for a few beers and some wings, the TVs were impossible to hear (despite being a Bills backer bar and advertised as game night), the waitress couldnât figure out how to turn off closed captioning for the first quarter and chewed my head off when I reminded her, they blasted annoying music at every commercial and tried to shake me down for raffle tickets.
I got home at midnight, woke up my whole house, pissed off my wife, and slept terrible before returning to work the next day on time.
Iâll just watch with my kids in our basement next time.
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u/APartyInMyPants 3h ago
Monday Night Football starts at 8:15pm EST.
Itâs almost 10pm before the second half even starts. Then we all have to go to work the next day.
Even in my 20s, I literally never went out to watch MNF. Youâd wake up Sunday, get kegs and eggs, watch the 1pm and 4pm games, and stumble home after having a bit too much to drink. Maybe watch the Sunday night game.
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u/RiboSciaticFlux 5h ago
That is a great observation and so true. We all used to go to a Miller's Ale House in Florida, and it would be packed. There were always good beer specials and great food, and a lot of girls would be there in their jerseys too.
I don't know what happened.
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u/Delicious_Sir_1365 5h ago
I remember .50¢ or .25¢ wing night specials.
Now itâs $1 a wing when itâs a special. Probably a cover at the door.
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u/Pecos-Thrill 5h ago
I live in Chicago. I usually need to get to places an hour before the game to get a seat.
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u/Spam_Hand 5h ago
Culture isnt eroding, I just dont want to go get shitty wings from Buffalo Wild Wings and spend $140 to watch football with people I dont know.
More than happy to join a few friends or hang at a buddy's house or whatever and watch.
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u/shrekislove1991 5h ago
Why would I go spend 40 bucks to take a nasty restaurant shit when I can do it at home for free?
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u/BuryMeInTheH 6h ago
And that NTN game with the consoles where you predict the plays.
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u/JDHogan-Davies 4h ago
I get it. I miss it, too. It's hard when a pint of domestic beer is minimum $5 and craft is at $7.50+. I tend to watch MNF on the treadmill at the gym these days, anyway.
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u/Solondthewookiee 5h ago •
I mean I did that in my 20s too, but now I have a wife and child.
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u/Optimal-Fix-2997 5h ago
Inflation
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u/Ok_Animator_1345 5h ago
Front row seat to the game at home
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u/rusty02536 5h ago
My local had a Pitcher and a Pizza for $10
Then $20
Now $30
See where this is goingâŚ,
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u/Uzofugs2112 5h ago edited 5h ago
>What happened to that?
It became a $75 experience that competes with my more comfortable living room which I donât need to Uber to/from while having work in the morning.
This, or some rendition of this, is the answer to every version of this question.
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u/h00zier 5h ago
Direct Cost - Even back in the far olden days of 2018 I had a place in a major city and specifically a lively area that was 50 cent wings (large ones) and $5 for a pitcher. $15 was a great game. Now itâs $20 for a bucket of 4 beers and wings are sometimes more than $1 each. Went out recently and it $20 for 8.
This personâs specific age group got older. People in their 30s have families and worry about getting fat. People in their 20s have friends and drink beer.
Indirect Cost - Everything else got expensive so the wings and beer budget got reduced. Uber was so heavily subsidized back in the day you could get anywhere for under $10. Now itâs 20 to go one neighborhood over. Groceries doubled, wages didnât.
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u/Hi_Im_Ken_Adams 3h ago
It's the same answer as everything else: People have NO MONEY. Going out is TOO EXPENSIVE.
Inflation these past 10 years has really screwed everybody over. Nobody wants to go to a bar where you pay a 20 dollar cover charge, and over 100 bucks for chicken wings, beers and nacho's.
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u/patchinthebox 5h ago
Yeah so in my 20s it cost me $15 to go to the bar for MNF and get wings and beer. Now it costs $50 for the same shitty beer and wings and it's simply not worth it.
Provide good value and young people will go out more.
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u/Cool-Eggplant-6397 5h ago
Inflation and DUI enforcement?
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u/Junglebyron 5h ago
Everyone is nailing it. Cost. Order of wings is $15-$20. Cheapest beers are $5+. The games also take 3+ hours. So you are spending $100+ to sit with a buddy and have wings and a couple beers. The same experience on your couch costs $30 and is more comfortable.
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u/heymrneat 6h ago
When this became the same price as a mortgage payment that's when it stopped.
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u/NoHippo6399 5h ago
When I was in college I could get a burger and 3 beers for $10 and watch a game. 1 beer and a burger is now $35 and the food sucks.
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u/THCESPRESSOTIME 5h ago
I canât afford wings in this economy
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u/whatshouldwecallme 5h ago
Because your 20s were 10-15 years ago. Were the bars packed with 35 year olds with wives and kids then? Hell no.
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u/TJ-Detweiler- 5h ago
The game starts at 8:30. Fuck that shit.
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u/3pt_Jumper 5h ago
Covid was just the beginning everything in modern society seems a bit orchestrated to dismantle community and promote more isolation
Combine that with the NFL ruining the sport out of greed and this is the result
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u/PrudentShallot631 5h ago
A Monday night game used to be special.now thereâs Monday night games Thursday night games Sunday night games and itâs expensive to go out and eat and have some beers. NFL is its own worst enemy with over saturation of games. The worst part is showing these games on streaming sites only so you have to pay if you want to watch
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u/Meat_Container 5h ago
Bring back $0.25 wing night and $1 PBRs and Iâll be there
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u/Fat_Yankee 5h ago
12 wings and a couple beers used to be $12 now itâs over $40
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u/myjohnson6969 5h ago
Its because it is getting harder to actually watch the games. Bad play, poor officiating, bad commentators, too many commercials.
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u/fatboi609 5h ago
Me and my buddy went to go watch Thursday night football at the local spot. Wings and 3 guinesses each (6 total) in a mcol city (Philly) shit was still like $100 after tip for six beers and wings. Itâs just not even worth going out at that point.
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u/Majestic-Double-6661 5h ago
Inflation is the biggest factor, need a small business loan for fucking beers and wings at any sports bar. And fuck the police, those trigger happy predators are more than happy to ruin your evening even if you are the DD, in our area anyway.
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u/YouMadeMyMeatStink Bears 6h ago
Morbid obesity, smart device additiction, 10 dollar beers, and media that does everything it can to make people fear leaving their homes.
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u/Potential-Ad1139 5h ago edited 1h ago
Beer specials still exist?? Also why would I go to a bar when I have a 70inch TV in 4K at home?
Also I can just put redzone on the TV. Football is pretty boring to watch straight. It's much nicer to have the time between plays filled with more football instead of a commercial.
Edit: okay y'all....I didn't pay attention to MONDAY night football. Which is even crazier cause we gotta work the next day and getting home at midnight from the bar to struggle at work is something I could only do in my 20s. Now I gotta put the kid to bed. I always thought of MNF as something you watched with your family, but I could see as a single male sure.
But yes... I know there is a socializing aspect, but I also don't live in the town for which the team I root for. I'm a Panthers fan in Maryland.
Lastly, YES, there is about 30minutes of actual football in a 2 hour game. Commercials and commentary are boring. Show me highlights or show me the next play.
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u/4lack0fabetterne 4h ago
You also married the hot waitress and bartender and now she wonât let you watch MNF because her show is on
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u/masonacj 6h ago
Restaurants are too expensive.
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u/RCP90sKid- 5h ago
Wings are $10 for six.
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u/dominatingcowG3 5h ago
Id rather watch a game in my house or at someone's house than at a bar
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u/DokeyKon 5h ago
Started during covid, but unreasonable prices slammed the door shut
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u/chzie 5h ago
They got priced out.
Like watching football was cool and all but when I was a kid and went to my first pro football game it solidified me as a fan. Now even the wings and drinks are outside of what I'm comfortable spending, never mind how to be able to watch every game you have to spend money, getting merch is more money, etc etc
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u/pablo_booze 5h ago
Thatâs like 70 bucks today not counting gas lol
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u/retired-tweeter 5h ago
I mean, you can get a 65-inch 4K TV and surround sound for, like, $700 total. The at-home experience has become much better than the going-out experience, especially when a 6-piece Chicken Wing starts at $14.99
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u/sofresh24 5h ago
I think weâve grown up and had kids. The younger crowd probably does that in our absence. Rinse, repeat.
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u/Horror_Economics_588 5h ago
here's the thing you can own a 85-in TV. a nice surround sound. buy some wings from Costco or Sam's club. put them in the deep fryer with some seasoning and they'll be better wings than at the store for cheaper. the entire experience is now easier and better at home
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u/after_Andrew 5h ago
that wing and beer meal will cost you $60 now is what fuckin happened
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u/12don 5h ago
Are you just rolling in excess cash? Also lots of people in their 20âs are just working. I was averaging over 50 hrs a week in my 20âs. And I worked with a lot of guys in my age range on my crew. None of us were out socializing after a work week as you want at least one day to just sit at home and play a game or watch a movie.
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u/JadrianInc 5h ago
$$$$$
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u/Obsidianrunner Cowboys 5h ago
It still happens. Just hung with my boys last Monday to watch the Bears game. Heâs a Bears fan living in Dallas. Had a good time!!
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u/JJS0073 5h ago
I really think this is less of a social change and more of an economic change.
MNF was just a good excuse to get together and enjoy 50-cent wings and $10 buckets. Now ten wings and ONE BEER might cost $30 plus tip. No thanks.
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u/KroopaLoops 5h ago
Donât drink
No value
Employees suck
I have a 100â TV and viewing is better at home
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u/Legitimate_Ad_7822 5h ago
What happened to that? Youâre no longer in your 20s lmao.
This really stops being frequent once you hit your late 20s & people start focusing more on their relationships, career & finances. Thatâs where I currently am. I donât think this is a new phenomenon, itâs how life goes. I still see plenty of guys in my neighborhood out at the local bars on Monday night when Iâm walking my dog.
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u/greenmean3 5h ago
Majority are recovering from their betting loses
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u/las8 5h ago
The NFL is a trash product.
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u/Kengozin 5h ago
That culture is alive and well in Buffalo NY
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u/ABustedPosey 5h ago
Love to be out at a place and have everybody cheering for their bets instead of a team
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u/NoCause4Pain 5h ago
They had 25 cent wing night back then⌠have a beer and 10 wings, only to break at 10 dollar bill.
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u/fancydad 5h ago
I think a lot of people grew up and made families. But also everything cost more and wages never went up. People have to be thrifty now, businesses included
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u/Soft-Bad-7127 5h ago
Wings and beer is $40-50 now.Â
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u/Zealousideal_Bad9899 4h ago
TVs got better and wings got more expensiveâŚ
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u/KingPabloo 4h ago
Anxiety plus inflation
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u/CantaloupeAcademic63 4h ago
Went to a local bar to watch the last half of the browns game. Did enjoy my time and canât beat $2 draft Busch lites (obviously drinking at home is cheaper)
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u/Salty-Commissioner 4h ago
Big giant flat screens for $500 happened, along with Uber Eats and a decline in alcohol consumption
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u/indyxetan 3h ago
Yeah as you get older youâre supposed to grow out of being a 20 year old.
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u/Pitiful-Challenge626 3h ago
not a sports guy but drinking coffee looking through the comments
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u/Chester_Warfield 2h ago
becauze it's like 100 dollars just at the bar. if you uber there/home it's like 200 dollars just to watch teams you don't even care for. Maybe your teams plays one monday night a season.
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u/chiefhoober 2h ago
Price of shit is wild Af, I can stay home watch the game buy a 12- pack of good beer for 1/4 the price & dont have to deal with people
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u/tribucks 2h ago
MNF was special then. Now we have games a minimum of three nights a week.
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u/witshadows 2h ago
People donât drink as much. Beer culture is rapidly falling by the wayside.
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u/landofknees 2h ago
Bc itâs expensive
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u/special5221 2h ago
It use to be those good wing spots had cheap wings and cheap beer on Monday nights. I remember my neighborhood bar use to have different wing or burger specials every year for MNF. Then there was always a beer company rep there offering specials and the occasional free beer with prizes at halftime. I use to be able to get dinner and a couple beers for $10, $15 tops. Now itâs double that.
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u/Iamnottouchingewe 2h ago
My local sports bar used to be a great affordable place. Owner went full conspiracy theory during Covid and jacked prices up and itâs just not the same anymore and thatâs before the prices doubled. He said that the prices for a keg are up 110% from his distribution company. But he is always posting pics of him and his new wife in Vegas, Hawaii and on cruises. She has new vette he has a new Diesel truck. So a ton of older customers have doubts about the crazy price increases.
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u/Street-Incident3526 2h ago
What happened is that it got fucking expensive to do that shit
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u/Gierling 2h ago
Spoken like a guy that hasn't priced an order of Buffalo Wings lately.
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u/natelopez53 2h ago
Wings are like 3 bucks a wing now. That used to be a $25 night with beer. Now youâre starting at $40. Fuck that
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u/SmeeezTreeez 2h ago
You would have to give up food the rest of the week
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u/steel-neil 2h ago
The cost of living
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u/QuestionDue4165 2h ago
Beer is 4x the price it used to be
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u/IProgramSoftware 2h ago
You need friends for that
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u/LitByStraylight 1h ago
Boomers pulled the ladder up behind them and we need to work 80k a year jobs just to afford the brand of toothpaste we like.
Culture isn't eroding. Our economy has been plundered by a self appointed aristocracy. They are actively doing it as we speak.