Super Bowl crash course?

[Anonymous]

OK, we just moved here one month ago, and barely know what American football is. And now the Super Bowl, which it sounds like it is a 'must see'. Hard to enjoy it if I hardly know what, who, rules, gossips etc.
Could anybody give me a crash course? Or could everybody chip in a little to educate me, please please please?
Kids are 3 and 5, so I don't think we'll go out to watch it anywhere. Just home.
Heard that people eat a lot during the Super Bowl? Why? What do they eat?

[Anonymous]

Food: chicken wings, pizza (just heard that pizza places sell the most pizzas on Superbowl Sunday-4 million last year!), chips and dips, beer.

Halftime show: Entertainment during the halftime period. Think Beyonce is scheduled to perform.

TV commercials: The most expensive tv airtime is during the Superbowl. You might like to watch the commercials, too.

[Anonymous]

Food: guacamole this year. (Mushed up avocados, garlic, onion, cumin, cilantro, spice, parmesan cheese on top to discourage browning) . Yum yum. Chips

Oh since you are new at this - go to the market tomorrow or early Sunday and watch the nuts buying tons of food, especially chili makings. The men raid the stores so they can go home and drink and make chili. I always seem to accidentally position myself in a supermarket on this particular day and say to myself, "why?" "why?". (I don't like football).

At party - men go wild and cheery wildly for their team. Women drift off into the kitchen and talk about Lady Sybil's death.

At halftime - a tribute to all that is overdone, extreme and vulgar about American culture. You will see fireworks, bands, stripped down ladies, AND, if you are lucky, an exposed breast later excused as a "costume malfunction". The half-time show, incidentally, has nothing to do with the actual Game.

But the commercials are fun. Some are very clever or very sweet (Budweiser commercial). Others will make you scratch you head and say "why did corporation X just spent $15 million dollars for THAT commercial; it wasn't funny; it wasn't clever; and it won't make me buy the product?".

Then the Game resumes. Men yell and drink more. Women return to kitchen to talk about school issues.

Game ends. Women drive drunk men home.

[Anonymous]

00:55, love your explanation. Funny but sadly, true to some extent.