MINNEAPOLIS — It’s the first sports bar of its kind in the Twin Cities. Like other bars, there will be plenty of seating facing a TV from every angle, but what makes this bar unique: Each TV will be dedicated to showing women's sports.
Owner Jillian Hiscock calls it “A Bar of Their Own,” a reference to the 1992 hit film “A League of Their Own.”
It's a film about the first all-women's baseball league in America with themes that fit the mission of this new sports bar.
“I think it's this idea that people constantly leave women out, and we're used to being an afterthought in so many different things, and this is our chance to say, 'We're tired of this. We want to be a priority,'” Hiscock said.
Hiscock recently shored up the building for “A Bar Of Their Own.” It is the former Tracy's Saloon and Eatery in the Seward neighborhood of South Minneapolis, on Franklin Avenue.
“I knew it was the right place. It just felt right. It has the right cozy feeling that we want,” said Hiscock.
Hiscock's goal in creating this bar is to provide female sports fans with free and easy access to the games and the ability to watch the games alongside their community. Many local professional sports teams are very excited about this and hope it will strengthen their fan base.
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“What an honor to have a place like this where we can direct our fans to watch our games,” said Jessica Poole, president and chief operating officer of the Minnesota Aurora USL W Soccer League. “It will be really great to have this conversation in five years and take a look at the demographics of women's sport because I think there has been a change, we are in the midst of a change, and that's really what it's going to be.” Cool.”
Hiscock says their bar is for everyone and fans of all women's sports, as they will also show sports that don't get as much attention as the WNBA.
“We're going to have roller derby, we're going to have ultimate frisby, we're going to have all kinds of things to get people to know the sports out there,” Hiscock said.
A Bar of Their Own is scheduled to open in early March, ideally when the Women's Big 10 Basketball Tournament begins here in Minneapolis
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