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trip to corner sports bar: free hot dogs and nachos. Lotsa beer (every 4th one free) and they let us smoke.

GO STEELERS!

posted by jonmc 30 January | 14:18

Pretending it's not. (I like sports, but not football.)

posted by dame 30 January | 14:23

Football's about my 5th favorite sport, too, (behind baseball, basketball, hockey and boxing) but like many men I find my self inexorably drawn to the tube on Super Sunday.

There's just something fun about spemding the afternoon in a bar full of sweaty, shouting, cursing, drunken men in team jerseys...

I think I'm getting excited.

posted by jonmc 30 January | 14:26

I forgot to mention the pinball and my hawt girlfriends and the watching movies with my aunt. So seriously, this is the big annual party. No need to get into the game at my house.

posted by rainbaby 30 January | 14:30

We'll be at home, on the couch, beer in hand, chips at the ready. I don't go to bars for the Super Bowl anymore. Not since the one where the 49ers were playing the Dolphins and the bar I was at had $.49 drinks everytime the 49ers scored. I have very vague memories of the game itself, but a moment on Google tells me the final score was SF - 38, Miami - 16. I'm still not sure how I got home that day.

Need I add a "go Seahawks"? Very well. GO SEAHAWKS.

posted by bmarkey 30 January | 14:32

Where do you live, rainbaby? I totally love Super Bowl Sunday, and am looking for a Super Bowl party.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 January | 14:38

I don't really follow or watch football, but I have a soft spot for the Steelers since I had to spend three years in the Steel City. I have no idea what I'll be doing Superbowl Sunday, but I'll be rootin' for Mr. Bettis in his retirement game back in his own hometown. Go Stillers!

posted by ooga_booga 30 January | 14:39

I'm rooting for Satan.

posted by Hugh Janus 30 January | 14:40

The Cowboys aren't playing this year, Hugh.

posted by jonmc 30 January | 14:41

I live in the hinterlands, TPS. . .Richmond, VA.

posted by rainbaby 30 January | 14:45

It's all about me upstairs in the loft with soda, chips, beer and hopefully my roommate out the house so I can yell like a madman. GO HAWKS!

posted by Lipstick Thespian 30 January | 14:49

I'm rooting for Hugh's team.

posted by richat 30 January | 14:50

I always forget about it entirely. I go get groceries and walk wonderingly up and down the deserted aisles, speculating about why the place is empty and whether the world is ending. Then the cashier says something about the game, and I remember what's going on and feel great relief.

posted by tangerine 30 January | 14:51

I'm sorry rainbaby, but that's evil--to make the big party a situation where people are guaranteed to be fractured. But I hope it's nice.

posted by dame 30 January | 14:52

tangerine, you're one of those communists, aren't you?

(j/k, I had a similar experience when I was working as bookstore the night of the final Seinfeld. I coulda been standing behind the counter minus pants and gotten away with it that night)

posted by jonmc 30 January | 14:54

Whaaa? It's always nice. People always fracture at any party. Folks hanging out in the kitchen. . .smokers. . .live and let live.

posted by rainbaby 30 January | 14:56

I almost always manage to completely ignore football, but this whole area's in a tizzy because the of the Seahawks and whatnot. At least there's only one more week. And at least I work at home so I don't have to deal with office buffoonery.

posted by agropyron 30 January | 15:02

I dealt with SuperBowl Sunday badly. I scheduled a major company event that starts on Monday morning at the buttcrack of dawn and requires me to drive two plus hours on Sunday afternoon to get to the city.

But I will not be foiled. I will leave early, arrive early and get myself posted up comfortably in my hotel room where I will have beer, wings and crowd noise.

Steelers shall prevail 33-17.

Hooah! Go Bus!

posted by fenriq 30 January | 15:06

Rainbaby: that's the first description of a Superbowl party that's appealed to me!

posted by agropyron 30 January | 15:07

I ignore it completely. This year I will celebrate it by turning 40 and, hopefully, snogging.

posted by matildaben 30 January | 15:08

Is this an invite thread or not?

posted by danostuporstar 30 January | 15:08

Booo, rainbaby. I wish you were closer.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 January | 15:10

Any of the NYC contingent is welcome to come find me here.

posted by jonmc 30 January | 15:13

Sure it's an invite thread, though not a very practical one. Only stipulation is no kids, cause of the Chow dog. Not that she eats children, but I've seen them startle her. Cat in the house too, so allergy alert. Otherwise, bring it!

posted by rainbaby 30 January | 15:16

Go Seahawks!

As a Ravens fan, I am contractually obligated to root against the Steelers. Also: birds.

posted by gaspode 30 January | 15:19

I was just saying that I dislike it when people have a party for event X but then are like, no wait, you can do all this other stuff too. Because if I wanted to watch even X, I'd be annoyed at all the people wandering around, not paying attention, and interrupting at inopportune times. And if I weren't watching it, I'd be annoyed that I couldn't actually see other people because they were busy watching X.

But it was an ill-thought response to a response that tweaked me a bit and now I'm raining on your parade. Which I don't want to do because i *do* hope you have a good time. On the other hand, sometimes I feel like it's helpful to make the point because then maybe people will stop doing it. So. I probably should have just let it go. Because I'm an asshole & you should have fun.

posted by dame 30 January | 15:51

I stopped being a pro football fan that day that Tom Landry was fired.

posted by kmellis 30 January | 15:52

dame, I hear you, but the layout of my house totally works for this. We've been doing it for years and will have a good time. You can't legislate fun. ; )

posted by rainbaby 30 January | 15:55

I was just saying that I dislike it when people have a party for event X but then are like, no wait, you can do all this other stuff too.

We'll add that to the Big List Of Things Dame Doesn't Like, ok?

posted by agropyron 30 January | 16:06

I only said it because that was the repsonse rainbaby gave. And I already said i probably shouldn't have. So get off my fucking back, okay?

posted by dame 30 January | 16:10

Tempting. How lame does one have to be to drive 2.5 hours to party with strangers?

posted by danostuporstar 30 January | 16:14

It's not lame, it's the SUPERBOWL, man! We never know quite who will show up or what kind of crowd will happen, so feel free to come on down! Bring a spouse/friend, too, and you'd only feel half as lame, hu?

posted by rainbaby 30 January | 16:21

33-17? Yeah, maybe, but it's the Hawks that will pin that disaster on the Gold and Black next Sunday. Pittsburgh isn't even going to score 20 points in this one, kids.

I have spoken.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 30 January | 16:29

whookah at yahoo dot com, since our profiles are down at the moment, if anyone seriously wants to come, email me.

PS - I think I'm taking the Hawks.

posted by rainbaby 30 January | 16:31

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posted by Hugh Janus 30 January | 16:48

I usually spend that Sunday at the movies.

posted by BoringPostcards 30 January | 17:54

We'll be attending the party of the coworker with the best TV. In this case, it's a fellow who recently bought a 73" HDTV, and an HD-capable PVR.

I'll bring beer.

posted by mosch 30 January | 17:57

I plan on celebrating the fact that goddamn football season is over and my lead guitarist can focus on mixing 7 month old tracks down.

With vodka.

posted by krix 30 January | 18:06

mosch, bring meeeeeeeeeee I want to come too! hahhaha.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 30 January | 19:01

i think it's funnny that the people from seattle are all of a sudden pretending to care about football instead of looking for dove gray condominiums and finding a great pinot noir to go with their cheese course. do people even drink that with cheese? eff if i know.

I AM A REDNECK AND I DECLARE THE STEELERS TEH WINNERS. although i will be spending the game...... on an airplane.

i used to play for hugh's team, back in college.

posted by sam 30 January | 19:41

I've lived in Seattle for over 15 years and I still don't give a damn about football.

posted by matildaben 30 January | 19:48

Gee, sam, thanks for jumping to all sorts of half-assed assumptions. You know what's really funny? When people from elsewhere think they can make sweeping conclusions about a place FROM WATCHING A FUCKING FICTIONAL TV PROGRAM. FRASIER AND NILES DON'T LIVE HERE. THEY DON'T REALLY EXIST. THE LITTLE PEOPLE IN YOUR TV ARE NOT REAL.

posted by bmarkey 30 January | 20:03

I'm 100 miles from Seaddle and I still know when every game ends because all the college hooligans rush out into the street and yell and scream for at least an hour.

*Get off my lawn!*

*Damn kids!*

*fondles 12 gauge rock salt loads*

posted by warbaby 30 January | 20:38

Well, for many years, Superbowl Sunday usually involved lots of guacamole liberally seasoned with my own tears, as the Broncos chalked up one progressively worse defeat after another. (In fact, they lost so badly to the 49ers in 1990 that, had you added up all the points they had scored in all four Superbowl appearances to that point, they still would have lost.)

Then they won back-to-back Superbowls and the day was forever salvaged. Yay! So now, as usual, my Superbowl Sunday will consist of drinking lots of beer, cheerfully screaming for the head of the NFC quarterback on a pike, and muttering asides about how if Denver were in it this year, they'd totally be stopping the other team's pass rush, man.

Go Steelers!

posted by scody 30 January | 21:03

When people from elsewhere think they can make sweeping conclusions about a place FROM WATCHING A FUCKING FICTIONAL TV PROGRAM. FRASIER AND NILES DON'T LIVE HERE. THEY DON'T REALLY EXIST. THE LITTLE PEOPLE IN YOUR TV ARE NOT REAL.
posted by bmarkey 30 January | 20:03

Try being a southerner, buddy. You develop a tough skin about this kind of thing after the first 30 years or so.

posted by BoringPostcards 30 January | 21:08

sam, you're thinking of here in north Berkeley, CA. Some folks I know are in a commercial that's supposed to air during the Superbowl so I decided to watch it. Guess what? Not only are there no Superbowl parties going on around where I work, no one even seems to know when it is.

Of course, this is one of the reasons I live here.

Also the cheese.
And the pinot noir.

posted by small_ruminant 30 January | 21:11

So. Any Berkeley parties anyone knows about? I'm trying to avoid the campus region.

posted by small_ruminant 30 January | 21:12

Come on up to Seatown, small_ruminant. I've got some fabulous WiilaKenzie pinot and a big piece of Laura Chenel chevre that's simply to die for.

posted by bmarkey 30 January | 21:16

I'll be working at my seasonal second job.
You'd be amazed... tons of women like to come in and get the taxes done while their husbands watch the game.

posted by kellydamnit 30 January | 21:24

My Jaycee chapter is having a Super Bowl Party. I'm project chair. It is in the western suburbs of Chicago if anyone wants to come. : )

posted by sisterhavana 30 January | 22:50

Thanks, bmarkey! I wish I could. Keep an eye out for the Coke commercial.

posted by small_ruminant 31 January | 01:14

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