The super bowl
By savypat
@savypat (20216)
United States
February 7, 2010 11:31am CST
Well here in the USA it's superbowl Sunday, the end of the football season. More pizza will be sold today than any other day of the year. People will forget their troubles for 3 plus hours. All over TV's will be tuined to this game. What will you do? I'm going shopping, no crowds. I may watch the last quarter but really I don't do football.
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@rocketj1 (6955)
• United States
7 Feb 10
We are going to our annual "superbowl party" at our friend's house (they have a big screen TV). I don't even know who is playing this year. Football is not my thing. But I go along because there is lots of great food and several other women who are there merely to socialize. We also love watching the great commercials!
My kids are going to our church's youth group superbowl party. They project the game onto the big screens in our gym and the kids have all sorts of fun activities lined up too.
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@GardenGerty (160883)
• United States
7 Feb 10
That is a great social event for the church youth. I hope you all have fun at both places.
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
7 Feb 10
Hi savypat! My b/f has made quite the spread for the game. He loves sports and I like to watch sometimes too. We will be eating like pigs and cheering on the Colts. I actually enjoy the commercials during the super bowl. Pizza is huge but we are having..lil smokies...spinach dip and sweet bread...Jalepeno poppers(not for me), chicken chunks and shrimp. I can't wait...mmm
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@GardenGerty (160883)
• United States
7 Feb 10
My son is in jail, I hope to visit him. He and his (estranged) wife have lost their house, it is supposed to be empty by tomorrow. She may or may not allow me to get some more of his stuff. Fun, right.
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@cobrateacher (8432)
• United States
7 Feb 10
Hi, Pat!
I only like sports when I'm in the stadium On TV, not so much. I'll be trying to catch up on e-mails on which I've gotten so very far behind.
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
7 Feb 10
I usually tape it so I can watch the commercials. It's one of the rare times all year that I don't TiVo past commercials. Then I usually watch the last few minutes so I can see some happy people doing funny things.
No shopping today, the streets are a mess and it started to snow again a couple hours ago--nothing heavy, but it'll accumulate. Have fun shopping!
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@jahernandezrivas (11288)
• United States
7 Feb 10
I just want to really see the commercials. L.O.L. I really don't care for either team this year and If I did I don't even know which one I would want to win. Good luck your shopping that sounds like a good idea and your right no crowds!!!
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
11 Feb 10
I've heard of this "Super Bowl" you have over there, but for me this sport doesn't exist... I haven't watched a single American football game (I will never call it football, that name belongs to another sport, the one Americans call soccer), and I don't think I ever will. I think it would be a downgrade to watch American football when a much better and noble sport, such as rugby, exists. But hey, everyone's free to enjoy whatever sport they choose.
To respond your question, I have no idea when this event happens, so I don't do anything special... And let me say I am totally into sports: my clock is set for watching the African Nations Cup final (a football - soccer, if you will - tournament), or the Figure Skating European Championship, and I totally enjoy sumo, but American football is only better in my top than very few other sports, like NasCar...
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
12 Feb 10
Well, since I'm living so far away from the US, American football was never so visible. Where there was little choice considering what sport to watch, American football pretty much didn't exist. All you could see about it was from the American movies. So it was never a problem for me to get away from American football - it's US citizens that hate it that must be glad they have much more choices today. But I don't think sport access was a problem for Americans. I mean, baseball, hockey or basketball seem equally well represented, and there are good chances of enjoying one of these other sports.
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
7 Feb 10
Hey pat! I'm "listening" to the game right now! Roomate has
it on in the livingroom! I will watch the second half! I am
a diehard football fan, but my team (Giants) aren't playing so
not as much fun! I am routing for the Colts since the Giant's
Quarterback's brother is the Quarterback for the Colts! So,
I guess that's as close as I can get to having a little tiny
piece of the Giants winning! I can see Eli Manning routing
for his big brother from the private box every now and then
just like Peyton Manning did when the Giants won the Superbowl!
I have been a Giants fan since I was a kid! I also love the
Yankees and the Knicks and Lakers! So football, baseball and
basketball are serious to me. I really understand the games
and the calls! When I was a kid my brother and father wouldn't
let me watch with them because I would always be screaming at
the referees!
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
8 Feb 10
I am with you pat. In Australia I guess the equivalent to the Super Bowl is the Australian Rules Football Grand Final when the nation literally stops for it. People have parties, the hotels put up giant screens and me, I do the same as you, I go shopping, because it is nice and quiet because of course everyone is watching the match. I don’t do football either.
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@xiaoxiao1230 (22)
• China
8 Feb 10
Hi,savypat.
I am more like you. I am not interested in football very much.I'll do my own things such as shopping,surfing the internet and playing with my friends.
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