When Football Isn't Your Thing

Here is a basic rundown of Super Bowl 2011 if your boyfriend, husband, or sports fanatic friends smugly quiz you on your knowledge of the big event. The Pittsburgh Steelers play the Green Bay Packers.

Keith Urban and Maroon 5 are slated to headline the opening pre-show game, along with Blue Man Group. The Black Eyed Peas are scheduled for half-time entertainment and the whole shindig is taking place Sunday, February 6th. 

If nothing bores you more than football, your options are to skip town or find something else to do in a place where the Super Bowl hype is shut out entirely. 

Oh, believe me, such places exist. They're scarce. They're sacred. They may require advanced booking. But they exist. 

Worried about having to spend the night either in the irritating company of loud-mouthed, nacho crunching, beer chugging jocks, or alone in the next room listening to them? As a self-respecting woman of class, you shouldn't have to choose between those two options. You deserve better and WOMAN.CA acknowledges that . That's why we've come up with a list of Anti-Superbowl ideas:

Anti-Super Bowl Party - If your house is not the designated party pad for the big game, make it the location for your Super Bowl party. Your Super Bowl party in vehement protest against the Super Bowl, that is. Invite your fellow football loathing friends over to enjoy the furthest things from the sport. Chick flicks, for example. Watch some of the best cheesy romance comedies you can get your hands on, order some pizza, prepare all the same kind of snacks that Super Bowl loyalists will be chowing down on and have some delicious food of your own. Pigging out isn't reserved for pig skin lovers, you know.

Coffee Date - On a Sunday afternoon and early evening, coffee shops are likely to be bare, perhaps even more than usual on Super Bowl Sunday what with all the other suckers out there confined to their living rooms with hot wings, giant bowls of popcorn, and no care in the world for the action happening on their 50" LCD screen television. Arrange to catch up with a friend over coffee, one you haven't spent much time with recently. 

Phone Date - If a coffee date is out of the question with the pal you've been longing to reconnect with the most due to long distance, why not use your free time to have a little Skype session or phone date? 

Watch Glee -Dedicated fans of the show are in luck. Glee resumes its third season as the lead out show after the Super Bowl. By now you've probably forgotten the drama between Finn and Rachel and need a refresher on just how deadly Sue Sylvester's death glare is in every scene she's in, ever. So spend the day with a glorified Glee-a-thon! Watch all the episodes up to where it left off and you'll be all set once the last touchdown is scored and the bullhorns have stopped roaring.

Lazy Sunday - Who says you have to do anything at all!? Think about all the peace and quiet you can have to yourself once your boyfriend has ventured off in the direction of his best buds cheering for the best team. Take a long nap, stay in your pajamas, read some books. Go to your parents' house and let them spoil you for a day. Don't let this precious "you time" go to waste!

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Courtney Gilmour
		About the author:
		Courtney is a published writer, stand-up comic, and shameless Internet enthusiast. She holds a double bachelors degree in English Literature and Communication Media Studies, specializing in semiotic theory, however she doesn't get Shakespeare and has never won a game of Scrabble. Currently she lives in Toronto and works as a writer for WOMAN.CA.
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