Professor Thom's
Written by Steve Mendelsohn Sunday, 17 January 2010 00:00
Name: Professor Thom’s
Location: 2nd and 13th
Date visited: January 16th, 2010
Bar number: 12
Price of Guinness: $7
Rating: 3/5
The last time I was at Professor Thom’s was Game 1 of the World Series to get my “Book of Basketball” signed by my one-time hero, Bill Simmons. I'm pretty much over Simmons now and to steal his own phrase, he has “jumped the shark”. I'm sick of his NBA talk, doubting the Patriots, crappy podcasts and everything else. He should stick to running diaries, football columns (increasingly wrong about the NFL I should add) and mailbags. I like the mailbags.
Anyways, the last time I was at Thom’s was to see Simmons. I had heard that it was a Boston bar, but part of me thinks that it is really not a true Boston bar, its a “we’ll host whatever teams can make us the most money” bar. Its a Boston/Michigan/Syracuse (what? yea i know right) bar, with a crazy concoction of weird sports paraphenilia on the walls, and a Tiger woods version of golden tee (insert sex joke here).
I don't mind Profe
ssor Thom's but it just seems to try a little too hard. Pump the breaks a little bit.
Two quick highlights from my trip there:
1) Seeing a freshman at Maritime in full uniform and having him mistake me and Matt for seniors who were gonna force him to buy us drinks (as is the maritime tradition) and...
2) Their plate of silver plattered nachos. Every time I go in there it seems someone is chowing down on a silver platter of these glorious nachos the size of a manhole cover. I'm a big bar food guy, so if I ever get dragged back there for a Sox game (I prefer to be at the Monk) I'm gonna nom on some nachos.
Bars left to visit: 188
