We see you working. Harder than usual, even. Because come Thursday, your productivity is going to, well, plummet. And because your office’s Q1 performance is really none of our concern, we thought we’d help you out with this hour-by-hour road map to enjoying a full day of hoops.
Just in case you can’t get down to New Orleans for the Final Four, Bayou is dishing out bowls of gumbo anytime you order up an Abita beer (which shouldn’t be a problem). Given the weather report, you’ll want to hang on the patio, where they’re setting up TVs. It’s like Mardi Gras and Madness in one.
So confident are you that you’ll hit your two-team parlay in the afternoon, we wouldn’t put it past you to light up your victory cigar during the games. Here to help: this downtown tobacco den, providing you with all the leather club chairs and rare Hondurans you need to go along with Jim Nantz.
This one’s a cerebral matchup, so time to feed your head with $10 pitchers of Shiner Bock and $12 one-topping pizzas at the Mushroom’s TV-laden upstairs bar. If you’re really feeling witty, they’re extending the normal happy hour specials on drinks, beer and cheese bread to seven hours.
By now, your competitive juices should be flowing. Enter Iron Horse, with its plethora of shufflepuck, skee-ball and arcade games. Oh, but let’s not forget the 20 draft lines with some limited-edition craft brews. Knock two bucks off until 8pm. Otherwise known as halftime.
Glover Park’s Southern-fried sports bar is opening early, with $9 pitchers and $5 car bombs all day while you catch the games on their projection TV and flat-screens. And if you’d rather hear less of Greg Gumbel, local Southern rockers the Morrison Brothers Band will be taking the stage after the final horn.
