Sports are best viewed in the company of friends, eliminating the need to root against your recliner or explain proper baseball strategy to your thick-skulled sofa. Enjoy the benefits of human interaction with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of pub fare, sandwiches, and drinks at Philadium Tavern on Packer Avenue.

Philadium Tavern has been quelling ravenous appetites with home-style pub fare served in a low-key community-oriented atmosphere for 35 years. Gather a gaggle of compatriots for convivial conversation over a snack of shrimp poppers ($7.25) and a cold draft beer, or swing in for a post-work 8 oz. bacon cheeseburger ($8.25) while catching the hard-hitting highlights of the weekend's game. Patrons who spend the whole afternoon watching the big match can reward themselves with an order of savory lump crab cakes ($9.50) after challenging the televised referee to a duel

Minutes from the Sports Complex, Philadium Tavern provides superfans a place to fuel up and don face makeup before waving giant foam fingers in the faces of the opposition, rendering their portable dressing rooms unnecessary.

Reviews

Six Yelpers give Philadium Tavern an average of 4.5 stars:

• Friendly bar staff. They make an excellent hoagie and top notch meatball sandwich, I will definitely be back here to meet friends before my next phils, flyers or birds game. – Kristin C.