Super Bowl Party Ideas
Great Party Suggestions for Football Fans Gathering for the Big Game
The Super Bowl can be one of the biggest parties of the year. Here are some fresh ideas to make sure your party doesn’t turn into a super bore.
Invitations
A cool party invite is to make your invitation look like a ticket to the actual Super Bowl. You can see a sample of this year’s ticket at the Super Bowl's official website. If you want to keep it simple, American Greetings have free Super bowl party e-cards that you can email to your guests.
Food & Beverages
You could make the food suitable to the cities of various NFL teams or just the ones who made the playoffs – jambalaya for New Orleans, something cheesy for Green Bay, deep dish pizza for Chicago, cheese steak sandwiches for Philadelphia, clam chowder for New England, cheese cake for New York, and Tex-mex or BBQ for Dallas.
Beer is the typical Super Bowl drink, so if you are having a lot of people you may want to make your own for the occasion (do this in early January as the beer needs to sit for four weeks before you can drink it). You can even make up your own Super bowl party label for the bottles.
Keeping It Fun
The game typically begins at 6 p.m. EST, so start the festivities at 4 p.m. with a tailgate party in your driveway, even if it is cold. This is a great way to get your neighbors to join in. Have a laptop running showing the count down time until the game starts (also available at the Super Bowl’s website).
Make it a costume party where everyone has to dress in football attire, crazed fan getup or as their favorite NFL cheerleaders. You can also hand out washable tattoos of the opposing teams (available at Amazon), noisemakers like whistles, horns and cow bells to use whenever someone scores, and, if it is legal in your area, let off firecrackers outside for every touchdown.
Party Games
Unfortunately, sometimes the game can be a dud. So you have to find other ways to keep your guests engaged. One way is to do the popular Grid Pool where people buy a square on a 10" x 10" grid and the winner is whoever has the square at the intersection of the last digit of each team’s final score. You could also run side contests on quarterback stats - such as number of completions, number of attempts, and total yards, with a prize for whoever’s guess is the closest.
Another activity is to focus on the commercials. Spotbowl has the line up of advertisers for this year’s Super bowl. Print out several cards with each advertiser’s name on it (how many cards you print out depends on the number of people attending your party). Randomly give everyone five commercial cards. Once their commercial airs, they lose the card. The key is that they have to be there to see the commercial in order to discard (this keeps them watching the game). The first person out of cards wins a prize.
Hope your Super Bowl party scores a touchdown with your guests. Check out other articles that may help you with your party, including Making the Best Chili.
