Buffalo Wild Wings to Open Early, Serve Breakfast for Evan Jager Watch Party

The Buffalo Wild Wings in Algonquin will open early for the second time this week to host a special watch party for Evan Jager.

Jager, a 2007 graduate of Jacobs High School, will be competing in the final of the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase at the summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Wednesday morning.

The Buffalo Wild Wings, 461 S. Randall Road, will open at 9 a.m. and will be serving breakfast, said Vicki Frantz, marketing director for Buffalo Wild Wings. The menu will include scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, potato wedges and toast for $8. Coffee and juice will also be available as will mimosas and bloody mary’s.

The final of the men’s steeplechase is slated to start at 9:55 a.m.
The Buffalo Wild Wings also opened early on Monday so fans of Jager could watch him run in the prelims at the Olympics.

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This is Jager’s second trip to the Olympics after finishing in sixth place in the summer Olympics in London in 2012. Buffalo Wild Wings also hosted a watch party during that race.

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Jager is hoping to make it to the medal stand in Rio. If he does, it will be the first time since 1984 the U.S. has won a steeplechase medal for the men’s steeplechase, according to the Aurora Beacon-News.

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