Yes, it hasn't been the same for years but yet another Miami institution has died. My heart and my permanently damaged liver ache today, gentlemen. RIP.
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Heartbroken.
I saw the greatest bar fight at The Tavern. It was in October 1992, just after Wide Right II. I went to The Tavern with several classmates from the MBA program, and we were getting drinks right there in the narrowest part of the bar.
I have no idea exactly what happened (though there were a bunch of F$U fans who were yapping about how they shouldn't have lost the game), but the next thing I know, there are a couple of guys beating the crap out of each other just to the side of us (they were a bit closer to the front door). In that narrow part of the bar, there were some framed photos and posters (old Grove Arts festival posters, I think?), and these guys slammed into those framed posters and shattered the glass everywhere.
So then a couple of bartenders literally jumped over the bar to try to stop these guys from fighting. Because the place was packed, and because we were in that narrow part of the bar, the bartenders just pushed the guys out, and it pretty much emptied the place from that narrow part of the bar to the front door. A couple of dozen people essentially got pushed out of the front door, and then came back in later.
But that wasn't the end of it. The F$U fighter tried to get back into The Tavern. He tried three times, and each time the bouncer beat him back (one time the guy tried to get in with a "running start", it was like something out of a cartoon.
Once everything got back to "normal" I happened to look down at my jeans, and I had blood all over one leg of my jeans. Not my blood, though, it was from one of the guys in the fight. I just got back to drinking.
Good times.
