Your updated guide to watching the NFL at sports bars in Wichita (+map)

Professional football has been the most popular sport in the U.S. for more than 30 years, according to the Harris Poll.

The NFL is more than twice as popular as any other sport, with about one in three adults claiming it as their favorite.

That means lots of football on TV. And in Wichita that means a lot of bars and restaurants will show every game, whether it’s the Kansas City Chiefs or the Jacksonville Jaguars.

But how do you decide where to go? The Eagle has compiled a guide to watching the Eagles – or any other team – in Wichita.

If you are a Bengals or Raiders fan, go to Hooters, where there is a separate room for your type (apparently Raiders fans are particularly rowdy).

If you are a Seahawks fan, there is a small contingent that shows up every week at Twin Peaks West.

If you want bottomless wings, Hooters will serve you on Mondays for $14.49 ($11.99 for boneless). Or for something more homestyle, Magoos does chicken fried steak on Mondays and pork chops on Thursdays for $7.99.

If you are the type who needs to knock back touchdown shots, Dudley’s Bar and Grill offers $3.25 Fireball shots and $5 Yeager Bombs. River City Brewing Co. has $3 beers from 1 to 4 p.m.

If your significant others aren’t so into the game, perhaps you can lure them on Thursdays into coming along to A.J’s Sports Grill, which has general trivia before the game, or to Bourbon Street Sports Bar and Grill, where karaoke kicks off at 9:30 p.m.

If you just need lots of TVs, Heroes Sports Bar and Grill’s 33 screens is tops. But if you want large screens as well, Emerson Biggins West has 31 TVs and four projectors to boot.

Heroes also wins the award for the most creative event for Monday Night Football bingo, with T-shirts and koozies for prizes. If you get a full blackout of all the squares, you earn bigger prizes like coolers and dartboards.

If you tend to get crazy or anti-social during games, consider renting out a private room for yourself and your anti-social friends at Joe’s Bar and Grill.

Bricktown Brewery

Address: 2142 N Tyler Rd and 2035 N Rock Rd

All games? Yes.

Food and Drink Specials: All Bricktown beers are $3. No food specials.

Team: Chiefs, one month old

Mondays/Thursdays: Specials coming soon. Houre are 11 a.m. to Midnight.

Hours: 11 a.m. to close after Sunday night football. 10 p.m. otherwise.

The Hill

Address: 4800 E Douglas Ave

All games? Yes.

Food and Drink Specials: $2 off appetizers. $2.50 Bud-light, Coors-light pints; $3.50 22 ounce draft; $9.50 pitchers of Bud-light and Coors-light.

Team: Chiefs and everybody.

Mondays/Thursdays: Normal specials. Mondays: $2 off burgers, $1 off Free State and Tallgrass drafts, open 11 a.m. to midnight. Thursdays $10 chicken fried chicken and $1 off rotating tap beers and open 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Hours: 11 a.m. to midnight.

Champs Bar & Grill

Address: 1106 S. Seneca

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: $4.50 Absolut bloody Mary, $4 32-ounce draft, $6 wings. Other rotating specials.

Team: Chiefs

Mondays/Thursdays: Monday $3.50 hamburger basket, $5.50 pitchers and $2.50 wells. Thursday $5.25 chicken-strip basket, $2.25 domestic drafts, $2.50 wells, Jagermeister and Tuaca bomb $4.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Emerson Biggins Sports Bar (west)

Address: 2330 N. Maize Road, No. 100

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: Half-price appetizers such as wings, fried mushrooms, mozzarella sticks, chips and queso. $2.50 domestic bottles, $3.50 Bloody Marys and $8 domestic pitchers.

Teams: Chiefs, Cowboys, Steelers, Packers

Mondays/Thursdays: Sound on and games on. Drink/food specials same as on Sunday. Monday, $5.99 taco baskets; Thursday, $8 large pizzas.

Hours: 10 a.m. to midnight or later if busy. Never shuts down if there is a game still on.

Emerson Biggins (downtown)

Address: 808 E. Douglas

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: Not decided for food. $3 U-Call-It; $9 Bud/Bud Light pitchers.

Teams: Chiefs, Cowboys

Mondays/Thursdays: Monday, taco baskets $5.99; $2.50 domestic pints; $3.50 craft pints. Thursday, $8 large one-topping pizza; $3 wells; $4.50 Crown Royal; $5/$6 32-ounce beers.

Hours: 11 a.m. to midnight. Doors open earlier for earlier games.

Buffalo Wind Wings

Address: 3236 N. Rock Road, No. 19; 2413 N. Maize Road, Suite 105; 1918 N. Rock Road, Suite 100, Derby

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: None

Team: Chiefs

Mondays/Thursdays: Happy hour from 2 to 7 p.m. and again from 10 p.m. to midnight. Thursday boneless wings 65 cents each. Hours 11 a.m. to midnight.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Heroes Sports Bar and Grill

Address: 117 N. Mosley

All games? Yes

Drink/food: $2 Bud Light and Budweiser draft; $3 Dale’s Pale Ale and 90 Shilling; $3 Sam Adams drafts; $3.50 Captain Morgan drinks; $4 Tito’s Bloody Marys.

Teams: Chiefs, Broncos, Raiders

Mondays/Thursdays: Thursday $6 domestic pitchers; $5 burgers and fries after 5 p.m.; Monday Night Football bingo with prizes; $2 Miller and Coors draft on Mondays.

Hours: 11 a.m. to midnight

Magoos Bar and Grill

Address: 2304 S. Oliver

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: Brunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Bloody Marys $4, Bud/Miller draft for $2, $7.25 pitchers; tacos for $2.50, smothered for $4.

Teams: Chiefs, Packers, Cowboys

Mondays/Thursdays: Monday $1.50 Miller High Life bottles; pork chops $7.99; $2.75 Bud bottles for all Chiefs games. Thursdays, $2 bottles; chicken fried steak, $7.99.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. (kitchen closes at 9 p.m.)

Dudley’s Sports Bar & Grill

Address: 8550 W. 21st St.

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: $7.25 burger and fries; Corona, Miller Lite, Coors Lite and Corona Lite $2.50; Fireball shots, Dragonberry Kamikaze, Southern Comfort and Lime, $3.25, and Yeager Bombs $5.

Teams: Mostly Chiefs, but also Steelers, Cowboys, Packers

Mondays/Thursdays: Monday night half-price pizza; $2.50 well drinks; $2.50 Bud-family bottles. Thursday, $3 16-ounce aluminum Bud, Miller and Coors.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Old Chicago

Addresses: 300 N. Mead, No. 100; 7700 E. Kellogg Drive; 2240 N. Tyler Road

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: Coors Lite and Miller Lite $3.25; Blue Moon $3.75 for pints. Two food items for $8 and three for $11 whenever there is a football game.

Teams: Broncos, Steelers, Chiefs

Mondays/Thursdays: Same as Sunday

Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day

A.J’s Sports Grill

Address: 3232 N. Rock Road

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: $8 Bud Light pitchers, $9 domestics, $15 buckets of beer. Rotating food specials.

Teams: Chiefs, Broncos, Patriots

Mondays/Thursdays: Trivia (not football related) on Thursday before the game. College games on Thursday as well. Drink specials vary.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Hooters

Address: 3151 N. Rock Road

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: None

Teams: Chiefs, Broncos, Cowboys, Bengals (toward the back) and Raiders (separate room)

Mondays/Thursdays: Monday, all-you-can-eat wings, $11.99 boneless, $14.49 traditional, starting at 6 p.m.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. If game is still on, people can stay until it’s over.

Bourbon Street Sports Bar and Grill

Address: 3863 S. Seneca

Food and drink specials: 50-cent fresh boneless wings; $5 domestic pitchers

Teams: Cowboys, Packers, Chiefs

Mondays/Thursdays: Thursday, $2 wells and karaoke at 9:30 p.m.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Joe’s Bar and Grill

Address: 222 N. Washington

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: $2 Bud Light aluminum cans, $2.50 Corona/Corona Lights; three-topping large pizza $11.50.

Teams: Everybody. Private room to rent for big groups.

Mondays/Thursdays: Thursdays half-price drinks. Mondays $2.50 domestic bottles, $2.50 wells; food specials that rotate.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Fox & Hound Pub and Grille

Address: 1421 Waterfront Parkway

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: $3.50 Bud Light drafts

Mondays/Thursdays: Same on Monday. Thursday, $4.50 Dos Equis.

Team: Chiefs

Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m.

Twin Peaks West

Address: 7325 W. Taft

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: None

Teams: Chiefs, Seahawks

Hours: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Wichita Brewing Co. and Pizzeria

Address: 8815 W. 13th St.

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: $3 pints

Teams: Chiefs, Broncos

Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

River City Brewing Co.

Address: 150 N. Mosley

All games? Yes

Food and drink specials: Normal happy hour from 1 to 4 p.m.; flagship beers for $3; appetizers for $1.

Teams: Chiefs, Broncos

Hours: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

This story was originally published September 11, 2015 at 7:03 PM with the headline "Your updated guide to watching the NFL at sports bars in Wichita (+map)."