Singapore Superbowl

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Monday, February 2^nd

Superbowl XLIII was broadcast live here in Singapore at 7:30am.  We heard through the American Grapevine that there was a bar called Bojangles (“Where everyone here is the same color”) that was showing the game on their big screen, and was hosting a Western-style breakfast to boot.  [Read:  sausage and eggs, instead of the traditional noodles.]

We jumped at the chance at the normalcy of watching a big game in a bar, and headed out in the early AM.  It turned out to be a pretty good time, and we even won $100 just before halftime playing Squares!  But… there were no commercials broadcast.  Not a single one.  Seriously, we all know that’s the best part.  After getting over the disappointment of this, we settled in to our pancakes and starting watching the crowd.  There was a family of Steelers fans there, but they were vastly outnumbered by the people who wanted to see Arizona finally win something.  

We were rooting for Arizona, and I had prepared a response in case anybody asked me why:

 “I’m a Denny Green fan.” 

I even practiced the dead-pan face.  No one asked, though, darn it, so I never found out if anyone thought it was funny.  Being it was during the day, the bar staff kept having to tape more and more plastic garbage bags to the windows to cut the daytime glare from the screen.

The most entertaining part for me was meeting some of the kids from the nearby American School.  It was a Monday, so they did have school that day, but since the American School follows US holidays, this counted as a valid excuse to skip classes in the morning.  The group dynamic for them was the same as everywhere else – the boys completely engrossed in the game, and all the girls texting the boys the entire time trying to get their attention.  The guys completely Did Not Care.  It was the Superbowl.  Please.