On a typical Thursday night, the Pub and Depot in the student center at SF State is bustling with students fresh out of class. There they have a beer to unwind from a long academic day. On one table Adam Smith’s "Wealth of Nations" lays open as a guy points with one hand at a section of text while gesturing and speaking enthusiastically at a girl across from him. The buzz of conversation is deafening. But it is nothing compared to Monday night.

Monday night is reserved for Monday night football. The two-dozen people at the pub Thursday night explode to nearly sixty when the game is about to begin. All eyes are focused on the game and every leg is poised to either jump up and shout at a great play or tense with frustration at a bad one. At the same time a waitress does laps from the Pub to the screen, bringing pitchers of beer and returning with armfuls of empty ones.

"There's a big screen, you got cheap beer and a good amount of people. It's great," said SF State senior Tennyson Wilson. Wilson lives in Daly City but comes back to campus to watch football at the Pub and Depot every Monday night.

According to Alison Victor, Depot entertainment manager, Monday night football has been going strong for a couple of years.

“We hook the TV to the projection screen, plug in our mondo loud bass speakers and go,” Victor said. “People enjoy it as they can eat and drink beer and watch outside of the Pub. It’s very popular, between 40 and 60 or more people, depending on the game.”

While the Pub does offer a television screen, and a drink special on Monday nights, the majority of the mostly male crowd sits just outside and watches the large projection screen T.V.

Senior fine arts major Adam Martin has worked for the Pub and Depot for four years. He sets up the projector, screen and speakers in preparation for Monday night football. Martin said that in the four years he has worked there, there have been three bar managers. He added that Monday night football has only been shown at the bar for two of the last four years.

“It depends on the Depot manager,” Martin said. “They determine what people want to do and what will draw the biggest crowd, and that’s what they do.”

“There’s not much going on a Monday,” said SF State junior Brendan Norton, responding to why he comes to the Pub to watch football on Monday nights. “That’s why they play football on that day.”

Norton, who is a recreation and leisure major who also works regularly at the Pub and Depot, has come to a few Monday night games since the season began about six weeks ago.

“I usually stay after class with some friends and have some beers and watch the game,” Norton said.

Norton has about a 30-minute commute to campus and said he probably would not come to the bar for Monday night football unless he and some friends have a class that ended shortly before the game began.

The games begin each Monday evening at 6 p.m. in the Depot, located on the lower conference level of the Student Center right next to the Pub. Next Monday, Oct. 25, the Denver Broncos will play the Cincinnati Bengals.