PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Center City sports bars — especially the ones closest to Broad Street — are expected to be packed on Super Bowl Sunday when the Philadelphia Eagles take on the Kansas City Chiefs. Bar and restaurant managers are doing a lot of planning for the big game.
Katie Kaag, events, sales and marketing manager at Wicked Wolf said she’s seeing incredible demand from people looking for a place to watch the game on Feb. 12.
“The phone is — I'm here during the days so the phone has been ringing off the hook,” Kaag said. “You should see my email inbox right now.”
Requests have been flooding in for reservations.
Wicked Wolf customers will pay a $50 game day cover charge, she said, until 5 p.m. “Anybody with a ticket will get access.”
In fact, many restaurants are almost sold out of table space already.
Chris Mullins Jr. of McGillin's Olde Ale House says sports fans crashed their system to pay $150 per ticket for an all-inclusive Super Bowl Sunday food and bar package.
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“We certainly could never have predicted that it would crash the site,” Mullins said.
He says they sold all 250 tickets in 30 minutes — and they would have gone even faster if not for the technical problems.
“There's something thrilling about racing to Broad Street and celebrating with 10,000 of your closest Eagles fans. That excitement of togetherness, I guess, here in the city,” he said.
Mike Strauss of Mike’s BBQ in South Philadelphia expects a sell-out crowd, too. “There will be no busier day for us,” he said.
He said he didn’t even have to advertise his Super Bowl packages. “As soon as the Eagles won on Sunday, people started emailing us.”
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Meanwhile, bar owner Fergus Carey says people have been calling to ask about Super Bowl party deals at his many establishments — Fergie's Pub, Monks, Grace Tavern and Belgian Cafe — but he isn’t planning anything special for game day.
For one thing, Fergie’s Pub doesn’t have TVs.
“But not everybody knows that,” Carey said. “So we're getting a lot of inquiries. People are looking at a map and saying, ‘Here's one a block from Broad Street.’”
He says it might just be crazy.
“Yeah, we'll see. … You know, on Sunday [for the NFC Championship Game], we did have lines out the door and stuff like that. But we didn't have a cover, you know. We're just rolling with it.”
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