Tag: Speakeasy Stories

NFL Speakeasy Stories: Doer of Deeds

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It always rains. Call it a midlife crisis. Call it getting into drugs late in life. Hey maybe it was just time to admit that, as far he had come alone, there was something in life to be said for the love of a good woman, or lack thereof. Frankly, it

NFL Speakeasy Stories: Much Together

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Angel’s Share, East Village. 2:47 am, August 30th, 2021 The taxi pulling up exactly on time, a lone passenger tilts his head to see the upper floors of the surrounding high rises before daring to even reach for the door handle. Just another Sunday night, no different than those before where

NFL Speakeasy Stories: Operation Mockingbird

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Editor's Note: This post originally ran in April 2018. In light of recent events,  we thought it was appropriate to rerun it and remind everyone we knew him back then... The Violet Hour, Wicker Park. 2:47 am, April 18th, 2016 Seated about a corner table, two men in the house-featured oversized wingback chairs

NFL Speakeasy Stories: Relinquish

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Angel’s Share, East Village. 2:47 am, May 22nd, 2019 Door handles. Door handles jiggle when they are locked. Why do door handles jiggle when they are locked but turn smoothly otherwise? This thing isn't even supposed to be locked. These are the thoughts of a typically straight-laced professional on the tail end

NFL Speakeasy Stories: Sunsets

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Libertine, Downtown. 2:47 am, November 27th, 2018 Fortune Favors the Bold. Or so she had been told. But she had been told many things. She had been told that it was what was on the inside that counts. She had also been told that being an NFL wife would be a wonderful life

NFL Holiday Stories: A Christmas Carol

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Mother Lode, WeHo. 2:47 am, December 26th, 2017 A single patron enters the bar, immediately swiveling his head in all directions to ascertain the conditions of his surroundings, the young man immediately notices two things. First, the bar is decked out in festive -- though slightly different than his own tastes

NFL Speakeasy Stories: COINTELPRO

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PX, Old Town Alexandria. 2:47 am, September 7th, 2017 In the waning hours of another humid summer work night, the bartender turning down the business grimaced when the door opened and an older gentleman came shifting through the entrance. No doubt, this old timer couldn't sleep and thought to himself that

NFL Speakeasy Stories: No Mean City

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Libertine, Chatham Arch. 2:47 am, February 28th, 2017 Stepping in from the biting cold where his head was exposed to the incessant rain that surely planned to torment him through this week's work trip, James Cook could only imagine how much of a glowing red beacon his balding head would be at a place like

NFL Speakeasy Stories: Since Forever

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Libertine, Downtown. 2:47 am, September 18th, 2016 Since Forever. The words non-mockishly running below the bar name printed on the drink napkins in lieu of a conventional "Establish Year X", Charlie Whitehurst could only chuckle to himself. This place had not been around forever, and he should know. For a Sunday night, the crowd was dead.

NFL Speakeasy Stories: Amor Fati

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Honor Amongst Thieves, Uptown. 2:47 am, August 11th, 2016 "To Larry!" In unison, "TO LARRY!" With a sarcastic sense of modesty "Oh ok. To me." Larry Fitzgerald wasn't a comedian but he was a likable individual and one the NFL's truly good guys; and the roaring applause to his response was proof. Drafted by Arizona in 2004,

NFL Speakeasy Stories: Project Manhigh

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Green Russell, Larimer Square. 2:47 am, August 9th, 2016 Standing behind the back bar, two mixologists are silently bickering about the cell phone use of the patron seated in the corner booth. Though he has been a model customer, paying cash and tipping his waitress with every round -- each time promising that,