How to host a successful Super Bowl party your friends will actually enjoy

You and your buddies have been planning a Super Bowl party for months. Deep down inside, you know the party with its canned beer, half-eaten bag of stale chips and couch that seats three will suck, but at least you’ll be with your boys for the most hallowed of all sports days.

Then your girlfriend gets a call from the doctor’s office where she works part-time and guess what…. her boss is throwing a Super Bowl party. You’ve met him before, know he makes a mint and should throw one heckuva bash. He’ll probably even have a plasma TV and those crescent roll-wrapped mini-hot dogs you love so much, but you can’t dis your boys.

So you’re in a bind. The doctor’s party will have its merit, but having to explain the principles of illegal man downfield to those who don’t understand football isn’t always worth the free liquor. Your friend’s couch may have fleas but at least he has a keen knowledge of the sport.

Decisions, decisions.

No worries, we’ve made it easy for you. Here is sportschump’s end-all, be-all guide on How to Properly Host a Super Bowl Party. Assuming you can’t get to Las Vegas to bet your Super Bowl odds the old school way, follow these simple instructions to host your own Bowl extravaganza.

This article appears in Jan 27 – Feb 2, 2010.