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I am a long time lurker. I am sc-sc-sc-scared to come out of lurkdom, but here goes. We will be on the island on Oct 5th, and we want to hear jazz at the beach bar, but also want to watch the Buffalo Bills. Does the Beach bar have football on TV on Sundays? Th-th-th-thanks!! Catmom

Hi Rochester, NY! I'm from Canandaigua and trust me everybody here is REAL nice and you will find it to be a supportive, informative board. I have frequented the Beach Bar many times and truthfully I cannot for the life of me even picture a TV there let alone a TV playing the football game. The Beach Bar is literally right on the beach (take eight steps and you are having your toes tickled with warm ocean water!). It is open air with a roof on top and a great great place to spend a long time sipping and eating and well...just relaxing and watching the comings and going of locals and visitors alike. You might have to miss the game but you will love the atmostphere!

How about those Bills, huh??? Looking pretty darn good!

Enjoy your trip and your visit to paradise!

Lol! I never knew the Beach Bar had a TV. Tuna Down Now: Yes. TV: Who knew?

As Pia said, the BB does have a TV and does play football games on Sunday. Woody's does as well.
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Who knew? I would have sworn up and down there was no tv there. I guess the drinks, food, view, and sometimes a barmate, are just THAT good, I never noticed.

Hey Jorge, I think you were too plowed to write TOO plowed. CM

One year we watched the Redskins play NE. I think the Patriots won 57-3. Now we don't watch TV at the BB.

Beach Bar has a little TV over the kitchen door. Unless you are on that corner of the bar its no too viewable and would really just be good to keep checking the score. I can't imagine trying to actually watch a game there during Jazz.

If some of your crew need to do Jazz they can go and you can be next door watching the game.

1) go up the steps to Banana Deck where you can usually also hear the music. Only one game on at a time though so yours might not get to be on.

2)go to the Fishtrap bar (a/c!!)

3) go up the steps to Captains Cabin where they can put one game on the big TV and another on a few little ones. This is closest and gives you a better chance of getting your game on. Its acceptable to bring food in from other places.

4) go to Larry's Landing

Good Luck!

There's usually a jazz jam late Sunday afternoon at the BB. Wouldn't be a good place to try to watch a football game on TV.

If it was me, since there are 15 other Sundays (more if your team does well) when you can watch football on TV, I'd pass on it that Sunday. It will be a lot more memorable experience to hang out at the BB listening to live jazz. Plus it's early in the season.

We're Pats fans (it's gonna be a long season) and were going to be on STJ on Sunday several years ago. We'd planned to watch the game at Skinny's and were looking forward to it. But after a few days on the island, we begin to change. When Sunday came, we asked ourselves if we wanted to go watch television in a bar, or go snorkel at a beach we'd never been to before. I have no idea who won the game that day, but I've got some wonderful pictures and memories of the day we finally went over to Drunk Bay.

Now it would be a whole different situation if it were the Super Bowl. But last year we were on VG last fall during the ALDS. We really wanted to see the Red Sox, but after a couple of innings it didn't hold our interest. It just seemed odd to watch television. We went to bed so we could get up early and be at the Baths before anyone else showed up.

When we're in the islands, we don't watch television or videos. We don't bring laptops or check emails. We put our cellphones and watches away. We do without all the stuff that seems so essential back home and we're so remarkably content.

There are places to watch games but there's a whole lot of other stuff to do that we can't do back home and that we'll remember for the rest of our lives.

catmom...just wanted to say Welcome out of lurk-dom. Alot of great people here with alot of knowledge about STJ that I've learned from. Jump in & soak up their wisdom!! Again...welcome!

Hey there! Welcome to the forum. It is great to have a Rochester neighbor and Bills fan join in. I second the vote for going upstairs from the Beach Bar to Captain's Cabin or across the street to Larry's Landing. Have a great trip! GO BILLS!

Welcome aboard, catmom.
I'm with Jorge on this one. I freakin' love rum...
I never looked up to notice.
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you guys sure are a wealth of information, thanks to all. catmom