DETROIT (FOX 2) - "Everyone watches women's sports."

Walk into a Bar IX event in Detroit , and that's the message you'll find emblazoned on a flag decorating the packed space.

Bar IX is hosting pop-up women's sports watch parties around Detroit, with plans to eventually move into a permanent home – a sports bar where women athletes fill the TVs.

"It's super exciting right now to be a women's sports fan, and it seems like, between the rise in women's sports nationally, and I think the need and desire for community and building community spaces. I feel strongly about community, and having these third spaces to gather, celebrate, bring joy is really important," Alissa Graff said. "Bar IX is hoping to be that for Detroit."

Graff, part of Bar IX's leadership team, said she's been a fan

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