1) Announcers have no idea what they are talking about. One of the announcers was a rugby player that looked particularly confused.
2) No US "Super Bowl" commercials, so instead of spending time in the office on Monday talking about favorite ads, you'll spend Monday watching the ads on the internet.
3) A UK Super Bowl party culminates with everyone whipped into a frenzy of sleep.
Book your travel now for next year's Super Bowl...or skip it and watch a favorite Super Bowl ad from a few years back:
2 comments:
Dan,
First of all, many thanks for visiting my humble blog and leaving a comment there. I've visited here before but not left a comment.
As to the sense of cultural displacement you felt upon watching the Super Bowl in a distant land, the closest equivalent experience I've had was watching Purple Rain in a theatre in Durango, Mexico, where I was living and working at the time. I do not exaggerate when I say that every available bit of floor space in the room was occupied (I know this because I myself had to stand in the back entrance to the theatre to see the film, there being no room at all closer to the screen); but, apart from Prince's massive popularity in Mexico at the time, it still puzzles me just what Mexicans would have responded to in that film that would have caused them to fill the auditorium as they did that day.
Because I felt very comfortable in Mexico, I often sort of forgot I was from the States. Watching Purple Rain that day, though, I remember being very aware of my American-ness.
At least you got to see the SuperBowl. I couldn't find any means of watching it back when I lived in the UK myself and MY favourite team was winning it for the first time in recent history (though not for the last).
Of course, I didn't watch it this year either, and here I am in good ol' USA. But then, said team was also not playing . . .
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