January 30, 2024

How to Host the Best Super Bowl Party

How to Host the Best Super Bowl Party – Ever!

Super Bowl Party – is it important? You betcha! Here in the good old U S of A, we love to throw elaborate watch parties for a game that most people at the party don’t care about. The food is SUPER fun though, and the company is always divine.

This menu can be easily adapted for any two teams playing on any Sunday of the year – it does not have to be Super Bowl Sunday. It doesn’t even have to be football. As always, here are the standard entertaining strategies:

Seating Alert for the big game:

One additional requirement for a Super Bowl Party is that you need to have enough chairs around the TV for all the guests to be able to sit down. You can do it with additional folding chairs, or big pillows on the ground or turning the TV on in two rooms. Everybody won’t want to be sitting down at the same time, but it’s a good idea to have seating like they will.

Tips and Tricks ~

If ever there was a better time for paper plates, napkins and plastic glasses, I don’t know when it could be. Buy some fun assorted paper goods in team colors to trick out your table. (Affiliate links follow – see Disclaimer Page for details.) Here’s a fun three pack of Football Tablecovers to make the place a bit more festive.

Grill the steak and or vegetables, and prep the sammies, dogs, chili, pork and/or chicken to be ready for everyone to put together on their own just before Half Time. No one wants to miss Half Time – it’s the best part. The dips, sides and desserts should be ready before the festivities begin, and keeping warm (for the dips) until you want to put them out. I like cute casserole dishes to cook and serve in.

Super Bowl Din Din Details~

The drink of the day on this year’s Super Bowl Menu for Philadelphia is not ubiquitous to the city, I am sure. It IS, however, the right color. As all Eagles fans know, “Midnight Green” is a beautiful color normally, although it can get a little hinky in a drink. It should TASTE good, though. The Kansas City Ice Water is not, in fact, a glass of the wholesome bevvie. It has gin, AND vodka, AND triple sec, plus a couple of uneventful mixers. Honestly? It looks like one should do you.

Neither of the teams in the Super Bowl this year are particular favorites of ours. We live in a little triangle between Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo, and we’re still smarting from the Bills loss. In homage, I’m including a classic, ridiculously easy Buffalo Chicken Wing Dip on the Super Bowl menu even though it doesn’t really fit in, team-wise.

Our mains DO tie in with the teams: Philly Cheese Steak Sliders and Kansas City BBQ Chicken Sliders. I’ll prep the beef mixture by sauteing the beef with some chopped onion, adding a little bit of worcestshire sauce at the end. We’ll put it into a crockpot to keep it warm. I’ll prep a whole boatload of Crispy Chicken and keep it in the oven on its sheet pan, on warm, until we’re ready. When it is time to eat, I’ll warm up the Cheez-Whiz, get the chicken out and put out the slider buns. Easy peasy.

Years and Years of menus…

I update this post every year, so the menus for prior years just get bumped down the list. If this year’s menu doesn’t hit the spot, keep scrolling!

Hot Dogs go with any menu we’ve got ~

We use our stove top grill/griddle pan to prep the HOT DOGS on the stove – and leave the hot dogs right on there to serve. Just leave the heat set to “warm” and turn the dogs occasionally. We’re channeling gas station dogs here.

I love leaving the drink of the day in a big plastic party pitcher or this fun Beverage Dispenser . That way everyone can take care of themselves.

Is it even a game without betting?

In order to keep everyone involved, we always set up a super simple “Pool” that everyone bets on. When the boys were little, and any money they had came from us, we used to bet a quarter for a chance. Last year it was up to $5 per slot, and everyone was really involved.

Take a sheet of paper and draw 4 even horizontal lines and one vertical line down the middle. Prep 8 chances – one for each team for each quarter, and fold them up so no one can see what’s on them. Put them together in a hat. Everyone gets to pick a chance when they pay the entry fee. Write down who has each team for each quarter on the sheet of paper and keep track of that while the game goes on. Whoever has the most points in a single quarter wins the pool. Easy Peasy.

If you have more than 8 people, double up on the chances.

If you have fewer than 8 people, let the heavy hitters buy another chance, or leave that quarter empty.