Super Bowl

Hey, how many of you folks are gonna watch the Super Bowl on your boats?
I'm stuck in work, so I'd like to know how envious*I should be.

Guess I don't have to feel so bad after all.

You are the lucky one*I don't know how the Super Bowl is played
I don't know the rules
i can see a bunch of brave sole doing battle with one another
This has to be what makes America great you don't give up
Your game stirs the souls of millions.
Your Game builds character in your young people, it is all good.

*I think*I missed your point.***

-- Edited by KJ on Sunday 6th of February 2011 07:00:39 PM

I am. Go Green Bay! Oh, I need a cheese snack...

Come on Steelers.

Keith wrote:

I am. Go Green Bay! Oh, I need a cheese snack...

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A boating Cheesehead?

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I can't recall the last time.*

My son is 8 and a football maniac (actually a sports maniac in general). We definitely watched the super bowl. We had fun and he loves it. Great game!! *We didn't watch it on the boat though.

-- Edited by Woodsong on Sunday 6th of February 2011 11:09:08 PM

Tony,*** Sounds like you had a special day with your son.**

-- Edited by KJ on Sunday 6th of February 2011 11:37:43 PM

I tried to watch it. Yeah, we get it on Fox. Often do - sort of out of fascinated horror, wondering when the action will start, rather than stopping and talking about it all the time. I keep hoping I'll see what all those Americans like about it, but I still don't understand it. However, it's traditional the we over here understand Gridiron about as well as you guys understand cricket, so I guess that makes us even. For me, I'll stick to Soccer, Rugby, (both codes), and since I moved to Australia, I've even begun to understand the enthusiasm for what is called Aussie Rules Football. However, Gridiron - seems like football chess, really, still don't get it. All that delayed gratification seems so un-American, but the ads and the opening singer stuffing up her lines were fun.
I'd really love someone of you to explain that which I am clearly missing....?
Not all at once of course, and maybe it should go on the OTDE board?

charles wrote:

"SUPER BOWL"

Thats a large bowl of pasta, right?
CCC

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Gnocchi and Braciole?

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Hey!* I was too busy having fun on my boat this weekend to look at the Forum!*

We had eight boats cruise over from their slips in the marina to the guest dock in front of the yacht club.* We all sterned in and we had two TVs on the back of boats (ours and the guy next to us) and two sailboats had their TVs going below.* The way the sun was we were able to see the outside*screens pretty well during the day and great (of course) as the sun went down.* We had a keg of bud and so many snacks most of us did not have a "real" lunch or dinner.* Our friend Lisa made her famous seven layer dip, which is about a foot high!* She was rewarded with a win on the* squares for the half time score.* Nobody REALLY cared who won but we had a good time.* It was just a gorgeous day and we all felt incredibly lucky to be watching the super bowl outside and enjoying our boats!* Two folks brought their dinghys over and let ppl borrow them for trips around the marina and someone else brought their kayaks and those got a bit of use as well.*

*Gotta love this yachting stuff!

Not to mention it was quite a warm day for the middle of winter.* Was seventy-nine degrees Fahrenheit here in Martinez, just a few miles northeast of you, Jennifer.

OK, I think Pineapple Girl wins the award for best Super Bowl venue!! Sounds awesome to me!

Woodsong wrote:
OK, I think Pineapple Girl wins the award for best Super Bowl venue!! Sounds awesome to me!

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I second the motion......

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SeaHorse II wrote:

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Woodsong wrote:
OK, I think Pineapple Girl wins the award for best Super Bowl venue!! Sounds awesome to me!

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I second the motion......
X2, even though we tuned out after the first quarter.* No interest since we had no horse in the race and we go to bed early in these parts. However, if we had her venue, weather and* ambience we would have somehow been able to keep our eyelids open.

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Party of two in the dirt-house in front of the flatscreen and the fireplace!

Good game - good company.* Even agreed to watch Glee after- whatever it takes sometimes.

JohnP

Damn, PG, now that is how one rolls!!!!! I am impressed!!! We had a party....BIG party at our house and had a great time.....but I sure like the way y'all did it!!!!

Aha, y'all gave yourselves away there. It is as I suspected. The game is not what fires you up really, it is just too stop start, no-one can remember where it is up to, and the score only matters to the local supporters. Its the atmosphere and the venue that's the pull. The get-together using the game as the excuse. Hey, I can relate to that. The Melbourne Cup horse race over here in Melbourne is sort of like that. Most people that make a fuss over it no diddly-squat re horse racing, and never watch another race all year, but that one is special - the nation stops for it, everyone has parties for it. Super Bowl - Melbourne Cup....definitely a similarity there.

Yep, Peter and we have the Kentucky Derby in that regard. What gets me about those is that the race is.... 2 minutes long????...and they make a day of it. But you are mostly correct. SuperBowl is an excuse to party. But most of our population is very into football. Most of our population is probably similar to the Aussies ref horse racing....nobody really knows anything.

I would guess that after the 4th of July, the Super Bowl is the next national holiday here.