| If you are throwing a football party for the Super Bowl, or maybe just a regular Sunday, you want to have all your supplies ready. From the cheese curds to the football centerpiece, your guests should enjoy a well-rounded viewing experience that doesn’t scrimp on the food and drink. You can pull all this off in a relatively short amount of time and without spending too much money doing it.
Think about what your friends enjoy when you all go out to a bar to catch a big sporting event. That’s really the only experience you need to replicate. There are plenty of TVs to watch the game, hometown colors abound, and a plethora of beer to drink and fingers foods to pick at during idle chatter. You can wrangle that experience into your den and around your house.
Buy some pretzels, chips, dips and other assorted bowl-ready foods from your local supermarket. Don’t wait until the day of the game to do this, however, since the prices will be jacked up and the place will be flooded with Johnny-Come-Latelys. Look online for coupons and anticipate how many guests you’ll need to be feeding. The same head count should help you determine how much beer to buy.
Once you have your supplies, don’t put everything in a kitchen or dining room where there is no television. Party-goers aren’t going want to have to stop watching the game to go dip a carrot in ranch sauce. Set up an eating station on the coffee table as well as somewhere else in case people want to take a break from the action.