If you don’t have tickets to see your favorite team on the field, the next best thing is to grab a bar stool and hunker down in front of a big screen with your fellow fans for an afternoon of beer-drinking, wing-eating football gluttony. We tracked down deals and specials at tons of Des Moines' best spots to watch a game ... or 10.
Cyclone football specials
Get $5.25 domestic pitchers until 8 p.m., plus $2.50 domestic mugs, margaritas and bloody Marys, and $2.75 daiquiris.
Hawkeye football specials
Stop in early on Saturdays for their bloody Mary breakfast (10 a.m.-noon), where you buy a bloody Mary for $5 and get a free breakfast of French toast, build-your-own omeletes, and biscuits and gravy. Also get $3 tall boys of Bud, Bud Light and Bud Select, plus free food at halftime and giveaways after the game during Hawk games.
$5 pitchers, wings and pizzas, and $6 domestic buckets during Monday Night Football games.
Free food for Monday Night Football and free WiFi for Fantasy Football, plus two for one happy hour from 4 p.m.-close.
$1.50 draws, $2 bottles and wing specials.
Buy a pitcher and get any appetizer for half off. $9.99 domestic buckets. $6.25 domestic pitchers. $2.50 Captain and Cokes, screwdrivers and bloody marys. $.45 wings during Monday night football.
$10 domestic buckets, $20 import buckets, $5 domestic pitchers, $10 import pitchers, $2 20-ounce domestic pints, $4 20-ounce import pints, $10 UV pitchers, $3 Limey's Lemonades and $3.50 Captain and cokes, 50 cent wings and $8 all-you-can-eat chilli during all televised Iowa and NFL games.
Monday Night Football specials
$2.50 bottles and pints of Bud products, plus first bottle of a Bud product is free.
During Iowa, Iowa State and Sunday NFL games, get $3 20-ounce domestic draws. During Monday Night Football, 25-ounce domestic draws are $4, and 25-ounce premium draws are $5.
Football specials
Get $5 domestic pitchers and $5 14-inch pizzas ($1 per additional topping) during Monday Night Football games.
During Monday Night Football, enjoy $2.50 Big Daddy's (25-ounce mugs) of Bud products.
During all Iowa, Iowa State, Northern Iowa, Drake, and NFL games, get $10 domestic buckets and $1 hot dogs and brats. And during Sunday NFL games, chow down on free chili. Win prizes during Football Bingo and get a steak dinner for $7 during Monday Night Football.
During Saturday Hawkeye games, plus Sunday NFL and Monday Night Football, drink $2 pints and $2.25 bottles. Also during Monday Night Football: Get a beer and a Jager bomb for $4.
On Mondays, get $1 tacos and buckets (six tall boys) for $17. Thursdays, eat all the wings you can for just $4. Saturdays, enjoy bucket specials and free food during select big college football games. On Sundays, get $2.50 tall boys and $4 bombs, plus 2-for-1 pizza and buckets specials during the NFL games.
On Saturdays, get buckets of beer for $10, 20 wings for $10, and 30 wings for $15 until 7 p.m. $2 quarter-pound hot dogs, domestic draws and wells during Monday Night Football. Tailgate Tuesday: $3 brats, burgers and domestic tall boys.
During Monday Night Football, play bingo for fun beer shwag, plus pick your favorite team of the night and get a shot whenever they score. Also, drink $5 pitchers during the game.
$2 domestic draws during Iowa and Iowa State games. There's a $6 bloody Mary bar on Sundays, with $2 domestic draws. On Mondays, enjoy two burgers for $2 with $2 domestic draws.
$4 pitchers and $10 buckets during Iowa games, plus free brats and chili dogs, and raffles during Iowa day games. Also get $.50 off domestic bottles and draws and wells during ISU games.
$11 domestic buckets, $1.50 draws and $5.50 pitchers during all Iowa, Iowa State and NFL games.
During Sunday NFL games and from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. during college games, get $6.50 domestic pitchers, $2.50 wells, bottles and tall boys and $2.25 draft pints. During Monday Night Football get $6.50 pitchers of Coors Light.
Free lunch on Saturdays during the early game (everything from burgers to taco bars) and happy hour prices, like $5.50 pitchers and $2.50 bottles and wells. Same happy hour specials (but no lunch) apply on Sundays for NFL games.
Drink $6 domestic pitchers and $3 20-ounce Coors Light drafts during all games. Get $3 Bloody Marys during Saturday and Sunday morning and early afternoon games.
NFL Sunday Ticket. Get $4.50 pitchers and 50 cents off all drinks, plus $1 chili dogs and $1.50 bowls of chili during all games.
On Saturdays, enjoy $6 Mason jar drinks, while on Sundays get 24-ounce domestic tallboys for $3.50.
During Iowa, Iowa State, and all college and NFL games, get $2.75 16-ounce and $3.75 24-ounce domestic draws, 50 cent naked wings, $12 buckets of beer (five domestic or four imports) and $15 Towers of Beer.
