Superbowl?

Night 7

Before yesterday, I had never had to explain to anyone what the Superbowl is. Usually I'm the one to whom people have to explain sports games. But when someone asks you if the Superbowl is a bowling tournament, it's hard not to realize you're in an entirely different country. Still, I was surprised by how many people came out to watch the game (though the fact that it was the last stop of a pub crawl probably contributed enormously, but there were a fair number of non-students there, as well). I made friends with some old British guys, one of them wearing a Packers tee-shirt, the other a Wisconsin Badgers sweatshirt. It was close enough, I guess. They seemed to think it was pretty neat that I was actually from Wisconsin.

The Superbowl, contrary to popular belief, is not the same everywhere. Watching the game from a Scottish golf pub where people are downing pint after pint of real, dark beer is a bit different from the typical American scene - Miller Lite and a whole lot of potato chips. And though the announcers during the game were the regular American Fox 6 football announcers, it was certainly a strange experience to have guys with British accents analyze the game between quarters, and to have British commercials between snippets of American football. The Brits seemed to enjoy the game just as well as the Americans, so it was all good fun.