Just because some of the biggest schools in college football are hundreds of miles from New York City doesn't mean the Big Apple doesn't have a vibrant community of fans, who gather on Saturdays in the fall to cheer on their teams.
The spirit of college football is alive and well in New York City. Although it does not have as much fan frenzy as in the south or the mid-west, all the big football schools have a bar, or two, that they are affiliated with in the city. And for the playoff games on New Year’s Eve, these venues were full of excitement.
"It’s because of the world blue. Michigan fans basically just started claiming this as their bar," said Blue Haven owner Scott Cohen. Courtney Greifenberger says, "When you’re at Blue Haven, you feel like you’re at a bar in Ann Arbor. It feels pretty much the same." Even though TCU does not have as many alumni in New York City as schools like Michigan, Sweet Annie’s says it can get as many as 100 people coming in for football games, and these fans love to see their school community coming together.
One other school was just as happy with the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl outcome as TCU. Ohio State fans celebrated Michigan’s loss before the Buckeyes took the field in the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, the second New Year’s Eve playoff game. Ohio State and Michigan have one of the biggest rivalries in college football, dating back more than 100 years.
"It’s really interesting for a bar in New York City to have a relationship with a football program in Athens, Georgia. It’s oil and water in a lot of senses, but we’ve been able to make it work," American Whiskey Partner Kevin Hooshangi says.
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