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Football is Back! And You Should Be at Mickey Burke’s

Where football and football collide!

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Matt Meltzer
Aug 28, 2026
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It is almost that time of year. When people gather en masse to engage in America’ s favorite pastime: Talking about their parlays. Yes, watching football doesn’t mean watching football anymore. It means sitting down at a bar, ordering a beer, and telling whoever sits next to you, “I just need this guy to get one more catch and I’ll hit a seven-way parlay!” Spoiler alert: It never hits.

If you find yourself in South Beach – as one or two people who come to Miami do – the best place to enthrall folks with your sports bets is Mickey Burke’s.

Yes, rather than sitting in your hotel room, watching football, and impressing your wife with your fantasy football points, head to hands-down the best sports bar in South Beach. A one-time Irish pub, Mickey Burke’s is now a palace of TV screens where you can see how your English Premier League bets pan out before spending an afternoon rooting for a random linebacker in Cleveland. If you want to do crazy things like ea…

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