Back in my pre-fatherhood days, I/we would regularly host or attend Super Bowl parties. For the last 5 years (since we had kids), a party that would run from roughly 5p-10p made no sense.
But times have changed: the kids are older, with friends whose parents are Patriot fans; we have a house (as opposed to a 1BR apartment) with enough room to have a multi-room party (one room for pure football watching, one for kids playing or watching kid shows, and one for pure gluttony/chatting). We even could manage to put the kids to bed at halftime which would likely be around their normal bedtime.
So good idea? Bad idea?
For me, the key is having the pure football watching room, the room where you go to watch the game. I know that there are quite a few fellow Dads who are hard-core Pats fans like me. And I like having friends there to celebrate and/or agonize with, not to mention just to talk about the nuances of the game.
Thoughts, suggestions?
But times have changed: the kids are older, with friends whose parents are Patriot fans; we have a house (as opposed to a 1BR apartment) with enough room to have a multi-room party (one room for pure football watching, one for kids playing or watching kid shows, and one for pure gluttony/chatting). We even could manage to put the kids to bed at halftime which would likely be around their normal bedtime.
So good idea? Bad idea?
For me, the key is having the pure football watching room, the room where you go to watch the game. I know that there are quite a few fellow Dads who are hard-core Pats fans like me. And I like having friends there to celebrate and/or agonize with, not to mention just to talk about the nuances of the game.
Thoughts, suggestions?