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1962–PRESENT · BOUNDARY: SOUTH BEND'S STUDENT CORRIDOR, SEATS NAMED AS HERS
The landmark lounge exists — across from Notre Dame, in South Bend: the Linebacker Lounge at 1631 South Bend Avenue, founded in 1962 by Notre Dame linebacker Myron "Mo" Pottios, who borrowed 5,000 dollars against his future NFL salary from Art "The Chief" Rooney to take over the building that had been Eve's Drive-In; Elwanda Delinski assumed ownership in 1984 and passed the room in 2022 to two former Notre Dame football teammates; the house bills itself "The Backer: Across from Notre Dame." The licensing war the checklist asks for stands in the same corridor and is documented whole in the student paper: the Observer of 24 November 1980, under the headline "The Corby's Saga; a tradition of conflict," records the local board of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission recommending that the state commission deny renewal of Corby's Tavern's liquor licence — the legal ground a bartender's 1979 conviction for serving minors, after three underage Notre Dame students were arrested inside the room on 31 August 1979, with the City of South Bend and the Northeast Neighborhood Council remonstrating against the room. The war ended on 2 December 1980, when the state commission voted 2–1 to renew, ending a seven-month battle. That corridor — Corby's, The Commons, Nickie's, Bridget's and their neighbours at Five Points and along Eddy Street — is South Bend's whole, printed here at boundary size with its seats named as hers. On this ground the item's premise fails at its first term: there is no university or college on Osceola ground for a lounge to stand across from, no student corridor clusters on Lincolnway, and no licensing war attaches to any Osceola room in the record reached. The town's lounge, Mr G's, is told in Food & Drink as what it is — a restaurant and lounge on a highway that left — never against an institution or a cluster.
From the Linebacker Lounge's own published history (thelinebackerlounge.net: the 1962 founding, the Rooney loan, Eve's Drive-In, the 1984 and 2022 successions); the Notre Dame Observer, 24 November 1980 ("The Corby's Saga") and 3 December 1980 (the state commission's 2–1 renewal vote). The home-ground state: the Food & Drink and schools/college tests of this build (no institution seated on this ground), November 2026.