Game Day Roundup for your Studio and Kitchen

Soon, many Americans will be gathering for one of the biggest annual sporting events – Super Bowl Sunday.

In honor of the upcoming festivities, in this post, I’ll share some:

(1) Favorite football-themed lessons, worksheets, games, and music

(2) Favorite game-day recipes

(3) A couple of personal memories of years past

First, the memories.

Football, “Footy,” and I

As a non-sports fan, Super Bowl Sunday is a day where I have fun making fun food and spending time with people I love. I’m that person: the commercial-watching, appetizer-eating, half-time show critic. The only time I’m ever interested in the game is when the Indianapolis Colts are playing.

If you’re like me when it comes to the Super Bowl, you may check out the podcast An Egghead’s Guide to the Super Bowl by Freakonomics.

My biggest Super Bowl memory was Super Bowl XLI (2007) between the Colts and the Chicago Bears. At the time, we were living in Melbourne, Australia. We kept a blog of our adventures back then called Aussie Chaps. Here’s what I said at the time:

Did you think we’d actually miss seeing the Colts play in the Super Bowl just because we live 12,000 miles away? Of course not! We ordered the sports channel for a month just so we could catch the game!

Another somewhat related memory I have from that time (just because it involved sports) happened a few months after that Super Bowl.

I worked as an office temp with a non-profit organization called the Asset Management Council (while teaching piano part-time). I did marketing for them and helped manage and prepare their annual conference.

The theme was sports-focused since it was held at the MCG (Melbourne Cricket Ground). The speaker was Tim Watson, who apparently is/was a revered AFL (Australia Rules Football League) hero. (P.S. Did you know that Australian Rules Football, a.k.a. “Footy,” isn’t like American football at all?)

If you want to learn more about Footy, you may check out the podcast Footy for Two.