Superbowl XLV - What are your viewing plans?

I can't jinx anything. I will be watching the game at Casey Jones Bar and Restaurant at 28th St. and Bell Rd in Phoenix wearing my long sleeve Packer shirt. I have been doing this for the past 5 weeks.

GO PACK!!!!

I'm torn. Part of me wants to host a Super Bowl party, especially since the Packers are playing in it. But the other part of me doesn't want to bother with playing host and engaging in the social aspect of a Super Bowl party. I want to enjoy all of the pregame coverage, focus 100% on the game while it is being played, and take in the postgame coverage, as the Packers are receiving the Lombardi Trophy. If I have a number of friends over, there will be numerous distractions.

My buddy hosts a SB party for about 30 of us every year. Tons of good food, good beer and good friends....a lot of whom have already said they'll be cheering for the Pack. Funny thing is that a lot of Chiefs fans fav NFC team is the Packers.

My fantasy since the late 90's was NOT to go the Super Bowl -- it would be to go to Green Bay on Friday night, enjoy the excitement of the community on Saturday and part of Sunday, go to Fuzzy's and watch the game, and be there for the victory parade on Monday or Tuesday, then come home.

According to Travelocity, I could have airfare, a car, and Days Inn Lambeau for under $500. Naturally, I won't be able to make it this year, but I think this may be the first of several opportunities for this part of my bucket list...

I'm having the same dilemma Barrister.

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Originally posted by ShebPackFan:
.........wearing my long sleeve Packer shirt. I have been doing this for the past 5 weeks.

5 weeks? You bring new meaning to the term "game jersey".

Flying to M'waukee to take in the game with Old Man Kiel and my sibs. Hoping like Hell for a great shared memory....and not a long sad flight home Monday.

Trying to figure them out. Just cancelled my cable because they raised the prices too F-"N" high.

Might be at home with a new attenna on the roof.

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Originally posted by bdplant:
I'm having the same dilemma Barrister.

Same dilema here... I seemingly always have a super bowl party at my place... but really not sure I want the distractions of hosting... I was surprised at how anxious I felt those last 15 minutes before kickoff this last weekend...

A good friend of the family just gave me 2 tickets to the Super Bowl so I will be watching the game from Section 243! I am so excited to have this opportunity to cross this item off my bucket list!

Nice! Have a good time DD!

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Originally posted by Dyslexic Dog:
A good friend of the family just gave me 2 tickets to the Super Bowl so I will be watching the game from Section 243! I am so excited to have this opportunity to cross this item off my bucket list!

WOW. Very cool. Enjoy!

Heading to green bay for the weekend and hopefully Monday for the celebration! We were there for super bowl 31 and had a blast.

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Originally posted by StarrToDowler:
According to Travelocity, I could have airfare, a car, and Days Inn Lambeau for under $500. Naturally, I won't be able to make it this year, but I think this may be the first of several opportunities for this part of my bucket list...

I really hope you are right, but remember that we all thought that 96 was the start of a new dynasty in Green Bay, and for many different reasons, it just didn't happen. If I were you, I'd try my best and do that trip this year.

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Originally posted by Ed Vedder:

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Originally posted by StarrToDowler:
According to Travelocity, I could have airfare, a car, and Days Inn Lambeau for under $500. Naturally, I won't be able to make it this year, but I think this may be the first of several opportunities for this part of my bucket list...

I really hope you are right, but remember that we all thought that 96 was the start of a new dynasty in Green Bay, and for many different reasons, it just didn't happen. If I were you, I'd try my best and do that trip this year.

I really don't want to get ahead of myself, because I would rather just enjoy this current journey of the 2010 team. However, I was just having a similar discussion with a co-worker. I can't help but think that this core group of players - Rodgers, Matthews, Jennings, Williams, Raji, etc. - will be here again. Rodgers just has "it." I don't know how to define "it", but I suspect that "it" will result in Rodgers guiding the Packers to the Super Bowl again. TBD.

Back to the topic at hand, I'm leaning towards being anti-social and not hosting the party. I'm going to be too excited and focused on the game to play host.

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Originally posted by Dyslexic Dog:
A good friend of the family just gave me 2 tickets to the Super Bowl so I will be watching the game from Section 243! I am so excited to have this opportunity to cross this item off my bucket list!

Awesome, simply awesome!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by Dyslexic Dog:
A good friend of the family just gave me 2 tickets to the Super Bowl so I will be watching the game from Section 243! I am so excited to have this opportunity to cross this item off my bucket list!

Do you mean section 342???

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Originally posted by TimthePackerFan:

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Originally posted by Dyslexic Dog:
A good friend of the family just gave me 2 tickets to the Super Bowl so I will be watching the game from Section 243! I am so excited to have this opportunity to cross this item off my bucket list!

Do you mean section 342???

Nope 243... am I missing something?

Dyslexic - a learning disorder marked by a severe difficulty in recognizing and understanding written language, leading to spelling and writing problems.

Funny... I have used this online name for so long, I forget about it. I think it may be time for a new name one of these days.

I have to work that day, but should be home in front of my TV and PC in time for kickoff.

Are they going to show the game on the big screen at lambeau?...that would be a blast!

Sitting out in the cold? No thanks!

I'm trying to find tickets to the game. DD--I hate you, but I respect you . I go to Super Bowl parties every year, but not this year. If I can't find a ticket, I will be watching everything in front of my own TV, martinis in hand. Can't socialize when your team is in the Bowl.

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Originally posted by Pakrz:
Sitting out in the cold? No thanks!

OH come on!!!!!

well...without knowing we were gonna be in the Super Bowl...

Santa got me a 55 inch SONY HD TV for Christmas....my sister already had plans to come out from Florida for my son's 3rd Birthday that weekend....

so, I have a built-in baby-sitter while I get drunk watching the Super Bowl....

yes, it's going to be a wonderful weekend...

ha

Flying to GB to watch the game with my Dad and Brother. No way I can watch this one alone.

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Originally posted by Dyslexic Dog:
A good friend of the family just gave me 2 tickets to the Super Bowl so I will be watching the game from Section 243! I am so excited to have this opportunity to cross this item off my bucket list!

AWESOME!!!!!!!

I will be recovering from running the "Surf City Marathon" earlier that morning in Huntington Beach, CA. Hopefully the hotel has a poolside bar with a large flat screen!

for those of you, who will be in this area for SB week, be sure to tune in to ch.4 [the local fox station] they have the best local coverage of SB events.

they have been interviewing local packers and steelers fans on their 9 PM newscast.
Last night they had a man who took the news guy into his packers "man cave"
He had a plethora of packers memorabilia, most of it given to him by his Mother.

he said his Mother was a member of a packers drill team in the 1940's and showed a photo of her in her uniform.

Did the packers have a drill team back then or could she have been a member of a local highschool who got to perform at halftime?

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Heading to green bay for the weekend and hopefully Monday for the celebration!

GOOD POINT! Will have to schedule a tentative day off for Monday and/or Tuesday. Took in the return to Lambeau back in '96 and that was just a phenomal experience - even tho it took them forever to get to Lambeau. Might have to take the boy out of kindergarten for the day as well.

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Originally posted by Tdog:

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Heading to green bay for the weekend and hopefully Monday for the celebration!

GOOD POINT! Will have to schedule a tentative day off for Monday and/or Tuesday. Took in the return to Lambeau back in '96 and that was just a phenomal experience - even tho it took them forever to get to Lambeau. Might have to take the boy out of kindergarten for the day as well.

Exactly...we had tickets to that and had never really experienced all that before, I didn't get my season tix til the year after...but I think we sat in the stadium about 6-7 hours watching that arrival and parade on the big screens. But after the super bowl was a blast. We parked down near broadway and headed across the bridge, everybody was running around like maniacs and they had all those ice sculptures. Now my 2 boys will be able to experience it and remember it...and the boys are getting Monday off, of course, we live in IL...but they'll deserve it after all the crap they've gotten from bears fans in school.

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I will be recovering from running the "Surf City Marathon" earlier that morning in Huntington Beach, CA.

Is that the marathon that has two girls for every boy?

i'm still looking for standing room only tickets on one of the stripper platforms.

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Originally posted by catts:
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Last night they had a man who took the news guy into his packers "man cave"
He had a plethora of packers memorabilia, most of it given to him by his Mother.

he said his Mother was a member of a packers drill team in the 1940's and showed a photo of her in her uniform.

Did the packers have a drill team back then or could she have been a member of a local highschool who got to perform at halftime?

The Packerettes came first, followed by The Golden Girls.
All dancing to the sweet tones of Wilner Burke and The Packer Lumberjack Band. LOL
http://packerville.blogspot.co...-of-packer-band.html
ROLL OUT THE BARREL!

Curly Lambeau was dating head majorette Mary Jane Sorgel when he suffered his fatal heart attack while mowing her Strugeon Bay lawn in 1965.

thanks bvan,
i wish i would have caught the guys last name.

Crazy Horse III or The Rhino.

With my new girlfriend. We have only been together for a month and a half or so but she is my good luck charm and they haven't lost since she has watched the games with me.

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Originally posted by beef:
i'm still looking for standing room only tickets on one of the stripper platforms.

Not watching from a Hooters?

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Originally posted by Fedya:

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I will be recovering from running the "Surf City Marathon" earlier that morning in Huntington Beach, CA.

Is that the marathon that has two girls for every boy?

From what I've heard, it's the Half Marathon on the same day that has a 2:1 margin. I've never run out there as I'm from Chicago. But if the margin is like that, it should make running it a whole lot more fun!!