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• JamesPadraicR commented on Beer, Brooklyn NY, this Thursday
  My sympathies, enjoy the beer at least. Unfortunately, one of the teams is kind of local, so there's been plenty of talk about the game--more as it gets nearer. Most businesses here tend to close early on Sundays anyhow, and others are planning to this weekend....
• Charlie Stross commented on Beer, Brooklyn NY, this Thursday
  Tough. I'm in a hotel on Times Square: FOX Sport already have a broadcast unit with satellite uplink stationed there to interview random passers-by, and I think some of the biggest TV screens in the world will be showing it live right below my window. Luckily I'm on the 29th floor, with curtails and double-glazing....
• PrivateIron commented on Beer, Brooklyn NY, this Thursday
  I think that is a fine way to enjoy it: as spectacle. It is caring about a team and all the off the field process that can be dreary to a non sports fan. I remember how entertaining it was to turn on a tv during a spell of insomnia and randomly see Australian Rules football or Sumo wrestling. (Playing basketball with a rugby ball on grass and occasionally kicking it away at random or shoving each other--how awesomely mad! Better than watching an ant hill.) With the Superbowl, you even get Dinosaurs (of music) !!!!...
• PrivateIron commented on Beer, Brooklyn NY, this Thursday
  And what better way for the Australians to experiment on us: what if an Australian Rules football player runs to the wrong stadium or eats the wrong bit of vegamite or keels over unexpectedly from Myxomatosis....
• Randolph Carter commented on Beer, Brooklyn NY, this Thursday
  Yes, I remember late-nite bouts of viewing similar programming - My wife and I called it the "Incomprehensible Foreign Sports Channel", It wasn't that you couldn't (eventually) understand the activities, it was the various sports were never shown at consistent times, or they'd only show half of a rugby match, and interrupt it with "drifting" from Japan, with minimal English commentary. Many nights I'd toggle between $RANDOM_SPORT and Jack Van Impe minstries....