Sep 22 2006
AFL Grand Final Party at my place!
[tag]AFL Grand Final[/tag][tag]Houston[/tag]I have had a few people contact me through my blog looking for somewhere to watch the AFL Grand Final here in Houston so I thought I would make a public announcement along with an open invitation for any interested parties to come along to my AFL Grand Final viewing party.
The background is that only one channel over here, Setanta Sports televises the AFL and Setanta Sports is only available on DirecTV, which most bars don’t get as they are all on cable plus any that do have DirecTV usually only have a special package for American Football and can’t add on additional channels. It is also likely the game will go beyond 2:00am and hence be a problem for most bars for us to stay beyond closing. Last year it was shown on Fox Sports so I had arranged for a bar (Little Woodrows Midtown) to stay open but stop serving drinks at 2:00am to allow us to stay until the end but am unable to get them to get Setanta Sports.
So I got one of those nifty ITVN internet TV boxes just to get Setanta Sports and have that hooked up to my moderate size 30incher so am hosting a bit of a viewing party for all interested Aussies and any one else that is curious about Australian Rules Football or people that just want to have fun with a bunch of drunken Aussies. I live in the Museum District so pretty much in central Houston so if you are interested in coming along then please drop me an email via the contact me link over on the right hand sidebar.