Super Bowl: NYC bar bans Sam Adams for game

By: Alex Sundby
Topics: Football

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A New York sports bar across the street from the Empire State Building has declared prohibition against Boston's own Samuel Adams beer during the Super Bowl in another chapter of the infamous Boston-New York rivalry.

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"It did hit a nerve," Shaun Clancy, owner of Foley's Pub and Restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, told CBS Radio station WBZ-AM in Boston, "but, I mean, there was no malice intended."

Clancy told the Yankees' YES Network that he'll urge bar patrons to buy beers made at New York's Brooklyn Brewery as a substitute to the Beantown brew on the day the New York Giants square off against the New England Patriots in Indianapolis.

The ban comes amid a pair of friendly wagers between Clancy and Ken Casey, the owner of Boston bar McGreevy's. Proceeds from shepherd's pie sales at both bars on Super Bowl Sunday will go to the charity of the winning bar's choice. Also, the losing bar owner will work a shift at the winning bar while wearing the winning team's jersey.

"Clancy better add some red and white to all that blue he's wearing," Casey told YES, "because he's going to be making a 200-mile drive north, wearing a Tom Brady jersey and pouring us pints of Sam Adams."

Alex Sundby
Alex Sundby is an associate news editor for CBSNews.com

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by Mike_in_USA February 2, 2012 4:40 PM EST: ***?; Reply to this comment


by pwgrant February 2, 2012 12:36 AM EST: What a dumb issue. I HAD to read the article, but I was hoping is was not going to be as dumb as it is.; Reply to this comment


by irreverentasever February 1, 2012 11:31 PM EST: Sorry since the game is played in Indiana I won't be watching it.; Reply to this comment


by honest_pols February 1, 2012 11:07 PM EST: This beer mentality and sports-beer pride, can explain 'plenty' ...
... regarding our deprecation and decline.; Reply to this comment


by Filmguy870 February 1, 2012 5:38 PM EST: NY beers ban themselves...; Reply to this comment


by Lindag10 February 1, 2012 5:33 PM EST: Won't bother me, I think all those Sam Adams beers are totally nasty.; Reply to this comment


by DMD29 February 1, 2012 5:06 PM EST: Didn't New York spend most of the American Revolution hosting the British?; Reply to this comment


by credibility2 February 1, 2012 3:53 PM EST: ...silly...; Reply to this comment


by BenRodriguez72 February 1, 2012 3:21 PM EST: Cheesy move. New England should ban NY beers...oh wait, they don't carry NY beers, they're all second rate anyway.; Reply to this comment