{"id":316888,"date":"2020-02-04T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=316888"},"modified":"2020-02-04T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T20:06:05","slug":"of-walk-of-shames-and-pitch-dark-venues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/of-walk-of-shames-and-pitch-dark-venues\/","title":{"rendered":"Of \u2018walk of shames\u2019 and pitch-dark venues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-316888 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/of-walk-of-shames-and-pitch-dark-venues\/super-pix-7\/'>Super-pix-7<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-316895'>\n\t\t\t\tPacific Islands Club Saipan attracted 115 Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers fans for its \u201cMonday Gridiron\u201d Super Bowl party yesterday at Charley\u2019s Cabaret. (Mark Rabago)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/of-walk-of-shames-and-pitch-dark-venues\/super-pix-6\/'>Super-pix-6<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-316894'>\n\t\t\t\tQuality over quantity was what Saipan World Resort was aiming for when it hosted its \u201cTouchdown\u201d Super Bowl party at Sunflower Hall. (Mark Rabago)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/of-walk-of-shames-and-pitch-dark-venues\/super-pix-5\/'>Super-pix-5<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-316893'>\n\t\t\t\tThe nice and cozy Super Bowl party venue at the Chambre Bar of the Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan. (Mark Rabago)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/of-walk-of-shames-and-pitch-dark-venues\/super-pix-4\/'>Super-pix-4<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-316892'>\n\t\t\t\tMARPAC Beverage &amp; Tobacco sales manager James Lee poses with the rest of his team at the Hyatt Regency Saipan ballroom. (Mark Rabago)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/of-walk-of-shames-and-pitch-dark-venues\/super-pix-3\/'>Super-pix-3<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-316891'>\n\t\t\t\tThe cavernous Hyatt Regency Saipan ballroom was the site of yesterday\u2019s MARPAC Super Bowl party. \t (Mark Rabago)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/of-walk-of-shames-and-pitch-dark-venues\/super-pix-2-2\/'>Super-pix-2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-316890'>\n\t\t\t\tSan Francisco 49ers top fan Joe Ocampo and family repped their team and even with the loss are looking forward for next year\u2019s NFL season. (Mark Rabago)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/of-walk-of-shames-and-pitch-dark-venues\/super-pix-1-2\/'>Super-pix-1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-316889'>\n\t\t\t\tKansas City Chiefs fans David M. Evangelista, Yvonne C. Pangelinan, Franklin Pangelinan Santos, and Nicole Pangelinan Reyes are all smiles after watching the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers, 31-20, in yesterday\u2019s Super Bowl party at the Hyatt Regency Saipan. (Mark Rabago)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Yesterday was an unofficial holiday for the island\u2019s rabid gridiron fans as some called in \u201csick\u201d for work. <\/p>\n<p>Bitten by the very virulent Super Bowl bug, hundreds headed to the preposterous number of establishments that hosted the Super Bowl LIV live between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n<p>You can say they really braved the current novel coronavirus scare gripping the world, as some ditched the now ubiquitous facemask and traded them for their favorite Chiefs and 49ers gear. One fan in particular brought a 49ers helmet and used it as a table centerpiece.<\/p>\n<p>But what really stood out during yesterday\u2019s Super Bowl parties were the venues\u2019 varying degree of darkness. It seems establishments, aware that some of the patrons called in sick for work, wanted to give them a solid by making it absolutely impossible for anyone to distinguish Tom, Dick, and Harry from the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>It was also not uncommon for patrons giving photographers the stink eye after noticing that you took photos of them, afraid that they might be unintentionally \u201couted\u201d to their supervisors and their sick day was actually Super Bowl day. One fan in particular went out of his way to tell a serial clicker that he \u201cabsolutely doesn\u2019t want to be a part of any photo.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>As always, the phenomenon of fans of losing teams exiting early even before the final buzzer sounded happened again yesterday, with walk of shames prevalent specially among 49ers fans who dressed to the nines in San Francisco gear.<\/p>\n<p>In all, Saipan Tribune was only able to visit four Super Bowl parties yesterday as it focused on the biggest venues on island.<\/p>\n<p>At Pacific Islands Club Saipan, F&amp;B director Steve Balakrishna said a total of 115 football fans graced their \u201cMonday Gridiron\u201d event sponsored by Pacific Trading Co. at Charley\u2019s Cabaret.<\/p>\n<p>For $25, patrons wearing a smattering of Chiefs and 49ers jerseys enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast buffet and later indulged on burgers, French fries, and free-flowing Miller Lite beer.<\/p>\n<p>Saipan World Resort\u2019s \u201cTouchdown\u201d at the Sunflower Hall was also sponsored by PTC with Heineken as the headlining beverage. F&amp;B director Mike Babauta said the just over 40 patrons were treated to morning refreshments and lunch buffet.<\/p>\n<p>Majority of the patrons at the Susupe landmark were 49ers fans and Babauta  said he\u2019s pretty satisfied with the turnout \u201cconsidering almost everybody is doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fiesta Resort &amp; Spa Saipan F&amp;B director Das Krishnan said the 60-odd football fans that graced their Super Bowl LIV party at the Chambre Bar was evenly split among Chiefs and 49ers supporters, give or take a few who really didn\u2019t care who won and just loved the game centered around the pigskin.<\/p>\n<p>For $25, their customers partook of breakfast, lunch of pasta and fried chicken, and free-flowing Heineken and Pepsi products, as like World Resort and PIC, the Fiesta Resort shindig was also brought to you by PIC. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery glad with the turnout. Everyone seemed to be happy because it\u2019s a family kind of thing\u2014cozy setting and smaller the better,\u201d said Krishnan.<\/p>\n<p>PTC general manager Charles Cepeda said his company always looks forward to sponsoring Super Bowl parties on island. \u201cIt was a food game for all the fans. I hope they all enjoyed the game this Monday morning,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Over at Hyatt Regency Saipan, more than 150 loud and proud Chiefs and 49ers  faithful filled up the hotel\u2019s cavernous  ballroom. <\/p>\n<p>MARPAC resident manager Guy Pudney was blown away by the enthusiasm of the crowd that descended the Garapan hotel yesterday for arguably the island\u2019s biggest Super Bowl party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a sold-out house here at Hyatt. I\u2019m estimating about 150 people. I\u2019m very surprised it was just about 50-50. I\u2019m very surprised because Saipan always favored West Coast teams. There are way more 49ers fans here [usually],\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Food at the Hyatt Super Bowl party consisted of a light breakfast of eggs, bacon, fried rice, ham, assorted bread, juices and lunch made up of finger food\u2014AKA football food\u2014like chili dogs, nachos, pizza, French fries, and chicken tenders.<\/p>\n<p>MARPAC also gave away a slew of prizes during the Super Bowl party, among them a Bud Light mini cooler, two Bud Light NFL coolers, a Budweiser refrigerator, cases of beer, chairs, and a 65-inch TV that was sponsored by Triple J SuperFresh &amp; Truckload Store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you everyone for coming out. Thank you to Hyatt for preparing our good menu,\u201d added Pudney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was an unofficial holiday for the island\u2019s rabid gridiron fans as some called in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":316896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}