The decision by the Mountain West Conference to suspend the 2020 football season has local businesses “taking it one day at a time” according to Tonya Gay, the co-owner of The Library Sports Grille and Brewery.
“The day the decision was made, I told my contact at Learfield that this is going to have long term consequences,” said co-owner of Roxie’s Bill Hensley. “It may be more serious than we know. Laramie is so intertwined with the university. Football brings so many people to town, it probably accounts for a good 50% of our business for fall semester.