Jared Allen’s = Chucky T’s

By NADIA PFLAUM

Intrepid reporters that we are, a crew of my coworkers and I checked out the atmosphere at Jared Allen’s Sports Arena bar on Southwest Boulevard. Since the news just broke that Allen’s destined to be a Minnesota Viking, I expected to see the waitstaff to be draping the flat-screens in black. Instead, there was a decent lunch crowd and everything appeared to be normal.

Chucky T, Q104 Country radio personality and owner of the sports bar, took our drink orders. When I asked him what he thought of the trade, he admitted that he was “pissed,” and blamed the entire ordeal on Chief’s president Carl Peterson. Chucky T, ignoring media reports that say the trade was Allen’s idea, says that Peterson promised Allen that he could stay in KC, then reneged.

So will the bar be renamed? “Wine ‘em, dine ‘em, and 88 ‘em,” just doesn’t have the same ring. Chucky T told us that he’d keep the bar named for Allen for now, as a tribute, but that someday he might name it after himself.

As a tribute to Chucky T, I borrowed this photo from the photo wall in the lobby of the restaurant: