Super Sunday

February 5, 2007 - 9:21 AM by

There’s a surprising large number of bleary-eyed Israelis this morning stumbling around the country. It’s got nothing to do with insomnia over worrying about the state of the government, the sex lives of our political leaders, or the Iranian threat.

It’s because of the Super Bowl, stupid.

Peyton Manning celebrating

Football fanatics here don’t have it cushy like Americans do – with a civilized 6:30 pm starting time. If you wanted to see the genius of Peyton Manning, you had to get ready to party at 1:30 am and plan on staying up til dawn. Which is what an increasingly growing number of native Israelis are doing along with the expat Americans who have always done it.

Two channels broadcast the game live – Fox Sports and Middle East TV, the latter also showing the much hyped advertisements featuring Kevin Fed-ex and others.

I was invited to two Super Bowl parties – one an all-men’s whiskey, cigars and drugs marathon in a suburb of Tel Aviv, and another in Jerusalem populated with the local touch football league establishment associated with New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft who evidently paid for the wide screen TV and the munchies. There you had players (both male and female) in the touch football league mingling with staffers from The Jerusalem Post and the IBA TV news in English, and other south Jerusalem personalities.

I opted for a good night’s sleep instead – a more mature decision perhaps, but one which I immediately regretted making. Now, if the NY Giants had been one of the teams… maybe next year!

Tags: • Category: General, Immigrant Moments, Israeliness, Life, Pop Culture, Sports 

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  1. Benji on Mon, Feb 5th 2007 10:06 AM

    2. I hoped to see some of the much hyped advertisements but was subjected to METV’s commercials for “Lassie”. I kept waiting for the punchline, like for Diddy to run out with a bottle of Pepsi. If the Bears scored a point for every time METV showed Bill Cosby getting punched in the chest, they would have won.

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