Blue Sports Grille

What happened after

Multi-name history: opened 2014 as Blue32 Sports Grille, Bar Rescue renamed it, then it permanently closed.

Closure date on record: 2026-02

What happened on the show

A Loveland bar owner was on the verge of losing both his business and his marriage. At Blue Sports Grille, a Denver Broncos-themed sports bar, Taffer brought in a star-studded football crew, evaluating the room with Broncos receiver Courtland Sutton and running a recon with three Broncos players whom the owner and staff failed to recognize despite running a Broncos-home-team bar, a telling sign of how far the operation had drifted. As a surprise, Taffer brought former Broncos running back Terrell Davis to the relaunch. The rescue worked to save both the business and the marriage. Taffer reopened the venue as Colorado Champions Sports Cafe, betting that a sharper concept and a re-engaged owner could steady a room whose staff did not even know its own team's players.

After the cameras left

Blue Sports Grille, rebranded Colorado Champions Sports Cafe, closed permanently in February 2026. The room had opened in 2014 as Blue32 Sports Grille before the rescue renamed it, and it ultimately shut its doors under owner Duane Farnum, who had held it since 2018, as reported by an independent local radio news source. That puts the closure at high confidence. The Loveland sports bar did not survive long-term: whatever the star-powered rescue changed, the room the staff barely knew their own team's players in eventually closed for good.