SUPERBOWL XLVI

Let's Go Giants!!!

Having watched the last few Super Bowls with team I could care less about and with Portuguese commentators and commercials, I was thrilled to not only have the NY Giants play but also have real American commercials!

Having the same two teams that played four years ago, which I watched with my good friends at school in Binghamton of course brought back good memories, but this time I was surrounded by Patriots fans! Patriots fans are a notoriously tough crowd, but something I have become used to since many Cape Verdeans have families living in the New England area and inevitably their poor choice in sports teams (and their awful accents) makes it across to this side of the Atlantic.

Streaming the game over the internet saved us from watching it at a local bar and also allowed us to watch the commercials which I normally miss. I must say, I was quite disappointed in the commercials but I was thankful to not have to watch commercials for Super Bock the Portuguese beer whose commercials are as painful to watch as the beer is to drink. We were thoroughly entertained when the Little Rock Arkansas commercials for “fine jewelry” came on (apparently that is where we were streaming the game from!)

We had a potluck appetizer dinner which included a little bit of everything, from wings to mac and cheese, pizza, Indian food, oreo cream cheese truffles and rice crispie treats. To wash it all down a caparinha did the trick and gave us enough sugar to keep us up for the late night festivities.

Of course the nail biting last 2 minutes kept us all on our seats and with the Giants' victory proved to us that it was worth staying up until 2am to watch the game.

Here are some pictures of the evening. The D-fence and Let's Go Giants sign are courtesy of an afternoon without electricity, forcing us to be creative!

(if you look close the "Eli Song" is on top which goes "I believe in Eli...")