Sunday in the Super Bowl Is the Best Day to Do the Rest
This Sunday is the biggest of the big games, and people are shackled with their plans of eating wings and shouting out TV shows. Everywhere, huge groups gather in private homes and public bars to celebrate the ball game they call the foot. This means the rest of the world is free for us!
I don’t care about sports, but no judgments – I have many interests that tire others. However, the Super Bowl has always made me especially frustrated because it seems like everyone I know disappears into a cloud of celebration that I can’t follow. Even the atmosphere of a Super Bowl party is enjoyable; I don’t like queso dip and occasional flashes when everyone is screaming on my nerves. Every weirdo who thinks this way about Game Day has a positive point: no one is around.
New Yorker culinary reporter Helen Rosner similarly talks about reservations at famous crowded restaurants on Sunday’s Super Bowl:
But a spot check of New York City restaurants shows that since Thursday morning, Sunday night tables have been available at commonly sardine-choked locations such as Gramercy Tavern, King, Atoboy, Chez Ma Tante, Estela, Legacy Records, and Fedora – and in good times, too. ! No bullshit at five or nine thirty; these are real dinners starting at seven thirty-eight. Hotspot tables are wide open in Chicago, including Next, Kitsune, and Spiaggia; Los Angeles has locations at Kismet, Winsome, and Here’s Looking at You. The odds are equally good in places that don’t require reservations but are usually overcrowded, no matter what country you live in.
Do you know what’s still empty this Sunday? Grocery stores (after notification), museums, cinemas, shopping malls, and any other places you usually avoid or are afraid to go to on weekends due to crowds. Instead of treating these places as desolate landscapes abandoned by football fans, treat them as your personal playground. Everyone will be back on Monday and you will have a great time alone.