Are you participating in Super Bowl festivities this evening?

[TripletDaddy]

As a member of Raider Nation, my interest in the Superbowl has waned recently (with the exception of the SD superbowl, of course). I just don't care at all about the Super Bowl like I do other sports.

However, I love Super Bowl get togethers. Pretty much every year we get together with friends. Everyone meets at someones house, kids running around having fun, and adults hanging out chatting each other up. And of course, lots of food. Tonight we are headed up to our friends house for a Super Bowl fiesta. I'm excited.

My wife is making some dip and I bought a bunch of odd branded sodas with non traditional flavors....granny apple, black cherry cream, sarsaparilla or however you spell it, etc. We will probably head up at 3 and stay for several hours.

What are you doing for the Super Bowl? Do some of you decline to participate for Sabbath reasons. No need to apologize if you do, of course. I'm just curious what our cross section looks like today.

[Moliere]

When I got married two different worlds collided. Growing up I watched a lot of football on Sunday while my wife had never seen the TV illuminated on the Sabbath except for GC. We struck a truce that we wouldn't watch TV on Sunday except for Super Bowl Sunday....and of course GC.

We've done everything from hosting SB parties to attending SB parties to just watching it as a family at home. Today we'll be home as a family watching the game. We've been so busy the past two weeks that we haven't even really thought about it so we don't have special food or anything. In fact, we've been so busy I haven't even watched the Steelers AFC championship victory, which I DVR'd.

However, this year I would prefer to watch the game as a family. I'm a Steelers fan and have been so since I owned a Louis Lipps jersey as a 8-year old. I am wearing a yellow shirt and black tie to church today in support of the Steelers chance at a 7th championship.

[il Padrino Ute]

I'll do what I've done the last 20+ years on Super Bowl Sunday - sit in my La-Z boy and maybe watch the game here and there. The game no longer has the appeal it did when I was younger.

Hope you have a good time, DDD.

[smokymountainrain]

As a member of Raider Nation, my interest in the Superbowl has waned recently (with the exception of the SD superbowl, of course). I just don't care at all about the Super Bowl like I do other sports.

However, I love Super Bowl get togethers. Pretty much every year we get together with friends. Everyone meets at someones house, kids running around having fun, and adults hanging out chatting each other up. And of course, lots of food. Tonight we are headed up to our friends house for a Super Bowl fiesta. I'm excited.

My wife is making some dip and I bought a bunch of odd branded sodas with non traditional flavors....granny apple, black cherry cream, sarsaparilla or however you spell it, etc. We will probably head up at 3 and stay for several hours.

What are you doing for the Super Bowl? Do some of you decline to participate for Sabbath reasons. No need to apologize if you do, of course. I'm just curious what our cross section looks like today.

Similar to you, I don't care much about the Super Bowl game itself - most of the time it pits two teams I don't care about and this year is no different. I will watch because it's a football game and I like football, but outside of that it isn't anything special.

That said, Mrs SMR, who won't watch a second of the game, will always use the event as an opportunity to have people over to socialize, play games, etc. So we have invited a few neighbors (about 15 people) to the house after church (4pm) and they will probably stay until about an hour after the game ends.

(edit) I should mention that similar to Eddie Jones - and for the same reasons - the Super Bowl is really the only time sports get watched for an extended period of time at my house on Sundays.

[TripletDaddy]

Similar to you, I don't care much about the Super Bowl game itself - most of the time it pits two teams I don't care about and this year is no different. I will watch because it's a football game and I like football, but outside of that it isn't anything special.

That said, Mrs SMR, who won't watch a second of the game, will always use the event as an opportunity to have people over to socialize, play games, etc. So we have invited a few neighbors (about 15 people) to the house after church (4pm) and they will probably stay until about an hour after the game ends.

Isn't this the strangest phenomenon? Without exception, most of the people that i have encountered at these things could not care less about the game. It would be interesting if there were a way to adjust Superbowl ratings to account for those that are actually watching the game because they care, as opposed to those that have it on in the background at the party.

If I had to offer my own guess at Superbowl Sunday party rankings, I would say that it often breaks out like this:

1. Sociality
2. Food
3. Commercials
4. Game

[Coach McGuirk]

I have decided to not do my trad sandwich spread, and going with taco bar. Salmon, steak, ground beef. homemade guac and salsa. All the fixings.

Brothers family and my mom and dad.

[smokymountainrain]

Isn't this the strangest phenomenon? Without exception, most of the people that i have encountered at these things could not care less about the game. It would be interesting if there were a way to adjust Superbowl ratings to account for those that are actually watching the game because they care, as opposed to those that have it on in the background at the party.

If I had to offer my own guess at Superbowl Sunday party rankings, I would say that it often breaks out like this:

1. Sociality
2. Food
3. Commercials
4. Game

I'd say that of the 20 or so people that will be at my house today - including my family - there will be about 3 of us who will actually be watching the game. Me, my son and the guy from next door.

[cougjunkie]

I usually have a large get together on Super Bowl Sunday. But we had a large get together last night for UFC 126. I had about 20 people over to play cards and watch the fights.

Good times.

[Uncle Ted]

I am doing my home teaching... by going over to my inactive home teachee's house to watch the Superbowl. Of course, being a good home teacher, I will bring some food.

[Sizzle]

What is wrong with you people?!?!?!? I am outraged! While I get that the Super Bowl doesn't always have the teams that interest people, the Super Bowl should be celebrated and revered as a time in which we close yet another season of the greatest sport known to mankind, reflect on the year that was and watch the only of the major sports where it is all determined by A game, one, as in singular game. Winner takes all. It is the ultimate equalizer. No other sport has that finality to it, where this is it. You have one shot, one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted. Who will take advantage, and who will vomit their mom's spaghetti on their sweater and let the moment slip. Moments like Tyree's catch, the Saints Onside Kick to start the 2nd half, Santonio Holmes TD catch after the Cards make a huge comeback, these moments are compounded by the fact that it all rides on the game.

On top of that, it's the last real football until fall. The next real taste we'll get is BYU and Ole Miss. That just seems too far away. Celebrate the Super Bowl as a game, and cherish the last bone-crushing hits, long bombs and intensity that will be void in all of your lives until fall. Let the food, commercials and socializing enhance the atmosphere of celebrating the culmination of another year of the Greatest Sport on Earth.

[wuapinmon]

In New Orleans, the whole church (those with transportation) would go to someone's house, usually a different one each year. We had a great time watching the game, chatting, playing Apples to Apples.

Here, all of our friends are either from church or my work. My work friends are almost exclusively single, and they either don't watch football, or they go out to bars to eat wings, drink beer, and watch the game. One of the comms professors does an activity with students where they analyze the marketing strategies of the commercials.

Our ward members are almost entirely old. Most of them consider changing your bed sheets to be breaking the sabbath, even when their Depends fail, so no parties.

I making hot wings at home (with Surfah's corn starch goodness), and I've got some celery and carrots to chop up.

My kids could not care less. My wife watches it because she loves me.

[BlueHair]

We usually have a party, but since the Steelers are in the game, I'm staying home and haven't invited anyone over. I like to jump around and yell and scream when I watch my teams. Swear words have been known to escape my lips. Having a room full of people that are there just to socialize detracts from the experience and I don't want to risk offending them. People that don't watch football could never understand my rowdy behavior. I suspect I will have to apologize to my wife later in the evening.

Food wise, we are doing some sandwiches, wings, dips, and smokies. I might break out a bottle of 1800 to kick things off.

[old_gregg]

I might break out a bottle of 1800 to kick things off.

high roller! there's this great new micro brew everyone's talking about, i think it's called pabst or something.

[scottie]

high roller! there's this great new micro brew everyone's talking about, i think it's called pabst or something.

Funny. Why is PBR so often the butt of drinking-related jokes? (I know the general "why", but somehow that one is so much more picked on than others at the PBR level).

[BlueHair]

high roller! there's this great new micro brew everyone's talking about, i think it's called pabst or something.

I never claimed to be classy. 1800 is the best tequila a guy like me can afford!