barBar Rescue · Season 2, Episode 8 · Aired September 16, 2012
Win, Place or Show
Fairfield, Ohio
Still going, now under a new name. It now goes by Trillions Sports Bar and Grill.
What happened after
Sports bar; renamed 'America Live' after its Sept 2012 Bar Rescue episode. The operating address (9933 Cincinnati Columbus Rd) is now confirmed occupied by Trillions Sports Bar and Grill, a currently-operating restaurant/bar (verified via official site, Facebook, and West Chester Chamber of Commerce listing). No surviving reference to the 'Win Place or Show' or 'America Live' names found on current materials.
What happened on the show
A former Navy man who could not run his own bar, and who let his musician partner run wild, pushed Taffer to a serious tactic to get through to him. Win, Place or Show was a sports bar drifting while its owner abdicated and his partner treated the room as a personal stage, and the rescue leaned on hard confrontation to force the owner to reclaim command. This was a leadership vacuum as much as an operational one, the business slipping because no one at the top was truly steering it. Taffer reopened the room as America Live Bar and BBQ, pairing a patriotic identity that nodded to the owner's service with a food-forward concept built to give the bar an actual reason to fill its tables. The bet was that a Navy veteran, once he stopped ceding the floor to his partner and started running his own house, could turn a directionless sports bar into a barbecue-and-drinks destination with a clear draw.
After the cameras left
The America Live name did not survive, and neither did any trace of the original. The operating address, 9933 Cincinnati Columbus Road, is now occupied by Trillions Sports Bar and Grill, a currently operating restaurant and bar confirmed through its official site, Facebook and a chamber-of-commerce listing, with no surviving reference to the old names. A research note also flags that the address actually sits in West Chester, Ohio, not Fairfield as the record states, a discrepancy worth reconciling. Confidence is medium, the successor clearly live.
Sources
Confidence: medium. Last checked 2026-07-19.
What is there now
Street imagery via Google Maps. Location approximate.