During the course of the NFL season, DSB will walk you through the best and worst places in Central PA to catch all of the games on a Sunday afternoon. Every week we will be reviewing where the DSB editors (and various guest stars) spent the better part of our day. We will be judging the locations on four criteria with a 1 (bad) to 10 (great) scale for each. Hopefully, this will help our loyal local readers find the best places to spend your Sunday afternoons.

If there are any restaurateurs or bar managers out there interested in their establishment appearing here, please contact us at EditorsDSB@gmail.com.

This week's cast of characters: ZJ, Spintrick, Max Power, PJH, TS (who is quickly becoming a welcome regular), and newbie Kupe.

This week we ventured out in downtown Harrisburg to Sam Bucca's. In the location that was once the upscale Italian restaurant Carmella's Trattoria, Sam Bucca's has been transformed into a sports bar replete with bocce court, pool tables, and table-top shuffleboard.

Sam Bucca's has two distinct seating areas:

• Bar Area - Numerous large screen televisions are flanked behind the large, wraparound bar for viewing by those in the booths and at the actual bar
• Dining Room/Game Area - The side wall offers smaller, older TVs and 4 large, screen flat screens for optimal viewing

Whether through ignorance by the bartender selecting the channels or cheapness in paying DirecTV, none of the games were being shown in high definition. The games were changed on the big 4 in constant rotation...and that includes away from the tight New England - Baltimore game with about five minutes left in the contest. The last straw was when a game of pool broke out right in front of us partially blocking our view of the televisions.

Beer: 4

They have a very small selection of draft beer but a more encompassing variety of bottles. $5 pitchers of Coors Light are the special on Sundays and they did have Max Power's house beer, Miller High Life, available for $1.50 a bottle.

Food: 2

Sam Bucca's menu should itself be deep-fried since that's the majority of what's on it. Our waitress suggested the wings and pizza and that there is a Sunday special of their 16-inch pizza for five dollars. Looking around at the other customers, this seemed to be a popular choice. We ordered a chicken quesadilla (spicy and stuffed), bruschetta pizza (merely a regular pie with chopped tomatoes sprinkled on top), and wings which were described alternatively as "ok" to "some of the worst ever". The wing sauce was watery and the hot sauce should be renamed tepid.

Other/Miscellaneous: 2

How does Sam Bucca's still allow smoking?!?! I understand the 20% rule but there is NO WAY that any place that has an actual menu (as opposed to serving Slim Jims and pickled eggs) can get by the smoking ban in restaurants. I'm sorry to all you smokers out there but I shouldn't have my clothes and hair reek of smoke after a couple of hours out watching football.

They treat the place just like a bar or club even though it's Sunday noon. We were carded on entry, effectively limiting underage people from coming in for lunch and to watch the game. I'm not sure that's a sound business plan for the usually barren Sunday traffic in downtown Harrisburg.

By the 4 o'clock games, the place became very busy with quite the collection of douchebags and posers...and I'm happy to report that it's taken us three weeks, but we finally found a bar that has WiFi. It's the one saving grace Sam Bucca's has to offer.

Overall: 11 out of 40

What started out as promising quickly became a disaster...this will be the first and last time I'll be there.