ALTERNATIVE IDEAS FOR GAME DAY

Super Bowl Blues: Alternative Ideas for Game Day

For some, it’s the greatest day of the year. For others, it’s a sad ending. No matter how you slice it, Super Bowl Sunday is drawing near. It’s a day for parties, spirits, and gathering around the TV to mark the end of the football season.

For all those football "widows" out there, keep this in mind: it’s almost over! “Black Sunday” is approaching, and if you all out refuse to take part in the football festivities, there are other things you can do-- then frantically screaming “GO, GO, GO!”

Game on!

If a day of being glued to the television watching football makes you cry foul, time to plan ahead. Sure there are tons of Super Bowl parties going on, but why subject you to time-outs and tantrums? Gather up all the non-fans you know, and have a get-together all your own. Here are some ideas to enjoy the big game day:

• Have a “pedicure party”. Invite all the “others” you know who would rather watch paint peel off the wall, then a game of football. Buy some supplies, like crazy colored nail polish, and foot scrubs.

• Do brunch. What better way to spend a Sunday than sipping a mimosa and feasting on food. Splurge, and go somewhere fancy.

• Blockbuster night! You know all those “chick-flicks” your man promised to watch with you but never did? Well, tell him it’s too late. Go out and rent some movies, get into your pajamas, and enjoy!

• Book it. Literally. Ask the kids to gather up all their favorite books, and read to them. Grab some snacks and fluffy pillows. Then let them read to you. Call it: Super Book Sunday.

• Shop till you drop. When all else fails—just go shopping. During game time, many of the stores are hauntingly quiet. Get thee to the mall.

FOOTball blues?

Here’s something else you might want to consider: Love My Shoes (www.lovemyshoes.com) in Carle Place, (near the Roosevelt Field Mall) is really putting a new spin on the term FOOTball. For all the Super Bowl “widows”, they’re offering a great alternative: The Shoe-Per-Bowl!

On Sunday, February 5th, from 6:30-11:00 pm, Love My Shoes will open their doors, and offer shoes (of course), food, wine, champagne, even foot masseuses. There will be a $10 entry fee that will go towards the One in Nine Breast Cancer Organization in Hewlett (www.hewletthouse.org/mission_statement.htm) Also, between 6:30-11:00 pm. 15% of each purchase at lovemyshoes.com will also be donated to the breast cancer foundation.

If all else fails and you’re stuck with a house full of rowdy game watchers, just be sure to sit yourself right in front of the nachos. Then sit back and at least enjoy the commercials. Look on the bright side—it’s over! That special someone you sadly lost to the TV all season, will (about 11:00 or so) soon turn to you and say: “Honey, is that you?” And when he promises to take you out to that fancy restaurant you’ve been dying to go, you can respond: “Great. I’ve got the perfect shoes!”

Janene Mascarella
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January 26, 2006 12:51 AM Eastern

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