The Super Bowl Party

“What are you doing for the Super Bowl?”

If you haven’t been asked this question at least once in the past week or so you either live under or a rock or need to make some friends. The Super Bowl is obviously a huge deal, whether you are sports fan or not. The commercials alone are worth setting aside a few hours to watch the game and get together with your friends and throw a party.

This leads to the question, is Super Bowl Sunday about watching the game or about partying?

I noticed an article on Yahoo’s home page the other day about great super bowl party games and I thought to myself, this is the last thing I would want to be doing during the game. I don’t want to be distracted at all. I’m not debating the idea of getting together with friends, but I want to WATCH the game. I want to pay attention to every single moment of the game, I don’t want to be distracted by anything.

Maybe I’m biased because my team is in the game this year. Last year, while caring about the game, I probably was more concerned with what level hotness of wings we were getting rather than the actual game itself. This year, I just want to make sure I have a good television with a crisp picture to watch the Giants beat the crap out of the Patriots.

Granted, games are more fun to watch with friends, but I don’t want a party going on in the background while I watch the game. The point of Super Bowl Sunday is the game, and nothing is going to distract me from that.