Great Place to Watch Monday Night Football

Football season is officially underway and tonight is the first Monday Night Football game of the 2010 NFL season. There will actually be two games tonight: Baltimore Ravens vs. New York Jets at 7 p.m. and San Diego Chargers vs. Kansas City Chiefs at 10:15 p.m. Both games will be televised on ESPN and if you're looking for a great place to watch them in Charlotte, I recommend you attend Mainstream Mondays at Buffalo Wild Wings at NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Mainstream Mondays is a weekly event put on by Eddietainment each Monday night during the NFL season. Last year, the event was held at Therapy Cafe and drew great crowds with its offerings of food and drink specials and music. Expect the same with this go-round of the series and it'll probably be your first time visiting Buffalo Wild Wings' Uptown location, which opened in April at the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Buffalo Wild Wings (400 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.) has plenty of TVs and a large outdoor patio, not to mention that wings is their specialty. There's no cover charge for this event.

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Mainstream Mondays is hosted by SG and her NFL "Inside Wire" crew and also features a great blend of hip-hop and R&B music by DJ Shogun. Fellas will be pleasantly surprised to see the number of women in attendance. And the crowd changes a little each week depending on which teams are playing. Fans of the Cowboys (week 7, October 25) and Steelers (week 9, November 8) definitely come out to represent, and you won't want to miss week 10's match-up of the Eagles versus the Redskins on November 15 (when Donovan McNabb plays his former team). The Carolina Panthers don't have a Monday Night game this year, which is probably a good thing--no need to shine that prime-time spotlight on a struggling offense.