Did I forget to mention that I watched the Superbowl last weekend?
I think I did. That might sound fairly mundane to those of you stateside, but here in Ireland the Superbowl usually happens between 11pm and 4am. The first year we caught it was a fabulous occurance. I ran all around town in desparate hopes of finding a forgiving pub where we might catch at least the beginning of the game to no avail.
Then, one of our local publicans rang me.
He explained that he had 8 friends from Chicago over and would we be interested in watching the game that night. Allllllriiight! We had our own private big screen superbowl experience that year. I rang my friend Matt back home at one point to let him know I had managed to catch the Superbowl, in fact I was just about to tuck into a fresh pint and a slice of pizza in an Irish pub where the game was being projected onto an entire wall of the pub, despite it being around 3am in the morning.
That was a year to remember, all right.
The major downside to watching the Superbowl from here is threefold:
1. British superbowl announcers just don’t hold a candle to John Madden.
2. No Superbowl commercials. Instead, you get late night ads for “fine light beer - Coors” and lonely sexy british girls who want to talk to you! (call now - only £3.95/minute).
3. It goes on til feckin 4am!
The last two years have been a decidedly satisfactory experience at a close friend’s house. This superbowl just past, however, the crowd meant to show up for the experience amounted to two of us desparately trying to keep our eyes open among the hors d’vours as the last minutes ticked by.
Sad, I know.
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Tom,
YOu’ll be able to watch the superbowl live on terrestrial TV (TV3, ITV, Sky). You will in fact have a choice of at least 2 channels to watch it on. Believe it or not there is a reasonable following for American football in Ireland. I’m Irish myself and have been looking to see if there are any superbowl parties anywhere in Dublin that night but there doesn’t appear to be. the problem is the time it is on at here 11-3am and Sunday night is usually a pretty quite night in Dublin.
enjoy!
My wife and I are visiting your country for our honeymoon this year and we’ll be there for the superbowl. I grew up in Green Bay Wisconsin USA and I am a big Packer fan. They still have a few more games to win to make it to the big game this year, but I’m trying to get ahead of the game so to speak in order to make sure I’ll have a chance to watch it, especially if the pack is playing. I think we’ll be in the Galway region around superbowl sunday. Can you give us any advice as to where we might be able to watch the game? I suspect that our best chance is to make friends with someone who subscribes to satellite tv. Where are you watching it this year? I’d love to buy you a few pints if we could join you:)