Well it is that time of year again…another Super Bowl … I’ve just realised this is my 30th…good old channel 4 all those years ago. In the early days you had to wait, I think, until the following week before seeing the action. However today it is very different. Super Bowl parties are all over the place and so the question is…should I stay up and watch it live?

I’ve watched the game live in the States and I have to say it makes an awful lot more sense than over here where even on Sky most of the commercial breaks cut back to several past and present NFL people crammed into a small luxury box poised high above the game trying to fill the empty space. Also the America is great theme of the Super Bowl works when you are in the states – outside it just looks jingoistic and really quite patronising. From beyond the US of A many of the faults are far more apparent than to most people who live in the country and banging on about just how good America is doesn’t go down as well.

Do I stay or do I go? … well I might just catch the first quarter and then…

Go Seahawks.

Simon Marchini
http://www.simonmarchini.co.uk