This year the Super Bowl was between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers. During the Super Bowl I went to a Super Bowl party.
A Super Bowl party means eating and watching the game on TV, or at least the commercials which air in between the frequent time outs and other interruptions which so bemuse a British observer. The commercials are particularly expensive to air during this prime time viewing moment of the year and consequently vie for being the most memorable or funny.
More fascinating, though, even than the commercials, more intriguing than the game, more fun than the good-humoured rivalry between North and South evidenced at this Super Bowl between New England and Carolina, was the implicit comparison I couldn't help but make between American Football and Rugby.
