Those heading to Saturday's University of Michigan game at Penn State may want to hang in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh instead.
Blue Sky Kitchen and Bar, the University of Michigan alumni football bar in Pittsburgh, will host a Nov. 11 watch party for the Penn State road game. Photo provided by Nathan Willi.The Pittsburgh man and 1976 University of Michigan grad lives close enough to take road trips to Penn State’s campus in State College. But that town is not necessarily welcoming to Michigan football fans, he said.
Spolar struck up a conversation with Blue Sky’s general manager Tyler Lewis one year while watching a Michigan basketball game and learned Lewis is from Monroe, Michigan. This connection led to the bar hosting the alumni watch parties, as well as Euchre tournaments, said club member Nathan Willi. A separate raffle for a Jim Harbaugh-autographed football will have proceeds go to the alumni club’s scholarship fund, Willi said.
Michigan fans are his most consistent customers on football Saturdays, always bringing dozens of fans even for smaller games, he said.Anderson estimates a minimum of 30 fans show up for every game, while alumni chapter president Ben Wanger said that number is close to 100 for big games like this weekend’s in State College.
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