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Super Bowl Sunday!!

I am NOT a big football fan.  I haven’t watched football (besides the super bowl(s) with my son) since I was a kid living in Bayonne.  Even back then it was sporadic.  I rather play sports than watch them on TV.  I was that one kid that would be bored and ask, “You guys want to actually play a game?”  They would always look at me in shock.

I am also not crazy about the Super Bowl, never have been really.  As I teen, I saw my share of underage drinking, fighting, and teenage heart-break (yes, an immature teenage boy will break up with his girlfriend to watch the Super Bowl…yes, an immature teenage girl will break up with her boyfriend if he chooses to watch the game instead of being with her.) 

As I grew older, my feelings about the Super Bowl did not improve.  I saw more drinking (or should I say drunkenness?) and my friends use to like to watch the game in sports bars.  I hate the smell of sports bars (sweat and and the smell of beer is NOT a good mix.)  There was always a fight (or two) a night and the disgusting bar food was always overpriced (although I must admit, that the Big Apple Sports Bar had a great bar pizza.)  I’m also not fond of beer (but I always felt that I had to drink at least one and pretend to like it to fit in with the fellas.)   I never understood why women came to Sports Bars during the Super Bowl anyway.  Nothing exists on Super Bowl Sunday except football, no matter how those girls will look.  (However, I use to be that guy that “hooked up” with some of the girls…I was the only one paying attention to them.)  When men brought their wives was also a strange thing for me to see at these Sports Bars on Super Bowl Sunday.  SHE could nag him and HE could ignore her at home for free (why did we all have to witness it??)  I remember this good friend of mine, who broke up with his girlfriend because she was actually into football (her dad played college ball back in his day and had no sons.)  I thought the fact that she knew all about football was “HOT” but he said, “Football’s MY thing, I can’t share that with her…she’s a girl!”  The male ego – so easily fractured.

These days, the Super Bowl’s not so bad,  it’s the “experience” that I like.  It’s not the actual game, but it’s my son, it’s the food, it’s the time “spent” together during the super bowl that I enjoy most.  We cover the furniture with large sheets (boys are rowdy and messy, especially during a good game) and we have all kinds of good eats.

Last time we had potato skins (topped with garlic,bacon, cheese, and chives), spicy wingettes (coated with my sweet & savory BBQ sauce), Guacamole salsa (served with home-made toasted corn-tortilla chips), fried ravioli stuffed w/ four cheeses and a spicy marinara dipping sauce, garlic infused hummus alongside fresh celery & carrot sticks, mini cheesburgers (my meatballs really) served w/ a tomato chutney on mini-biscuits, old-fashion beverages (Stewart’s) cream, root-beer, orange n’ cream (soda’s a treat on our home), and for dessert – orange pound cake topped with a marshmallow citrus glaze.

Now, you would think that we had a massive Super Bowl party with at least 20 people right? Wrong…it was just us 3.  My son wanted a Super Bowl party…and we had one.  We even took 2 super-bowl posters and made one 3-D poster that still hangs in his room.  Yes, we ate, we cheered, we ate, we drank, we ate, we celebrated, then we ate some more. Thank goodness I put sheets on the couches – they were filled with crumbs and sauces, smudges and spills.

This Sunday – February 7th, 2010 – is Super Bowl XLIV  (New Orleans Saints  vs. Indianapolis Colts.)  Am I excited? NO, but I’m excited about having a Super Bowl Party…with my son!

Tags: 2010, bar, football, parties, Super Bowl XLIV