Last-Minute Super Bowl Food
Posted by: footballisforgirls on: February 7, 2010
Need to make something really, really fast for a Super Bowl party?
I gotcha covered.
All you need:
-bread
-peanut butter
-jelly
-Christmas cookie cutters
How to:
1. Make a few PBJs.
2. Use cookie cutters to cut the sandwiches into shapes. Angel cookie cutters are good for Saints fans, and stocking cookie cutters look sort of like cowboy boots for the Colts. Also, I used two candy canes end-to-end to make a horseshoe of sorts.
Because my cookie cutters are really small, I had to make shapes out of bread and stick them to the top of the sandwiches. But still cute, and vaguely team-themed.
How Dat?
Posted by: footballisforgirls on: February 7, 2010
Anyone else watching the Super Bowl pre-show? I have to say that I’m completely flabbergasted at how many experts are saying the Colts will win.
Like, everyone!
Granted, after the Saints played the Vikings sort of flat a couple of weeks ago, I thought the game was the Colts’ for the taking. But this underdog thing is getting completely out of hand. I mean, did anyone watch the Saints play the Patriots this year?
Just saying.
Happy Super Bowl Day!
Posted by: footballisforgirls on: February 7, 2010
Is everyone ready to watch? Any exciting Super Bowl day plans?
I think I’m going to watch the Bucs win Super Bowl XXXVII on DVD while I clean my apartment for tonight’s big game. Oh, and I’m going to print out the Super Bowl Bingo cards, of course.
What I won’t be doing at any point today, though, is screaming at the TV. Because I have laryngitis. Perhaps the football gods have heard enough of me this year. Their loss.
Have a great day everyone, and enjoy the game tonight!
Anyone else hoping for some good animal commercials? Those are my favorite.
Enjoy the Big Game: Super Bowl Bingo!
Posted by: footballisforgirls on: February 6, 2010
- In: Super Bowl
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When I was in high school (and still didn’t like football), my English teacher Mr. Fenlon told us that if we guessed the combined Super Bowl score for that weekend’s game we would receive a 100% on our weekly vocab quiz. Which, in hindsight, was not a very big deal. But I thought it was so completely awesome.
Sadly, I had no clue what a reasonable football score might be, so I just guessed at random. That Sunday, I paid more attention to the Super Bowl than I ever had before. I’d chosen a pretty high number–something in the 70s I think–so every time the score went up I was genuinely excited.
In the end, I didn’t get that 100%. But the point is that because I had a reason to be interested in the goings on of the game, I was interested.
And that, dear FifGers, is why I have created an exciting game that YOU can play at home this Sunday! Ta da!!
Super Bowl Bingo
2-4 Players
Materials: Game Cards (1 per player); M&Ms, pennies, or just a pen/highlighter
Directions:
1. Download the Super Bowl Bingo pdf. (Created by me.) (Seems to work better on Explorer than Mozilla.)
2. Print and cut out a game card for each player.
3. Fill in the Bonus square with something you think you will see during the game.
4. Watch the Super Bowl. Each time an item on your card appears on the screen, cover the square with an M&M, a penny, or just draw an X on the square.
5. The first player who marks 5 squares in a row wins! Or, if you want to go all out, the first player who marks the entire board wins.
Game Card Key:
white squares = things you see
dark gray squares = things announcers/reporters say
(doesn’t have to be word-for-word)
light gray squares = things that happen in the game
Need more coaching for the Super Bowl?
Make these cupcakes, or these.
Root for your favorite Gossip Girl.
Or just take this quiz to pick your team.
Who Should I Root For: The Quiz
Posted by: footballisforgirls on: February 3, 2010
- In: Super Bowl
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I think this was really helpful for FifG’ers last year, so I thought we’d try it again.
Directions: Choose A or B
1. In competitive situations, who do you root for?
A. the underdog
B. the superstar
2. What color(s) do you bleed?
A. black and/or gold
B. blue and/or white
3. What does your Patronus look like?
A. I don’t believe in those, silly. I have religion on my side.
B. a horse
4. Which celebrity girlfriend/wife do you find more likable/less annoying?
A. Kim Kardashian
B. Kendra Wilkinson
5. American Express commercial is on the air for the zillionth time today…
A. … Ugh.
B. … Priceless.
6. Fill in the blank: When I hear the name Thomas Moorstead, I think ______________
A. Who DAT!
B. Who dat?
7. You’re choosing a book at the library. Which kind of story would you prefer to read?
A. a tale of rebuilding and overcoming the odds
B. a tale of an epic hero
8. My favorite things include…
A. … good food and jazz music.
B. … basketball and cornfields.
Results:
Count the number of times you chose A and B.
If you chose more As: Geaux Saints!
If you chose more Bs: Indyay Colts! (Yeah, so the Colts don’t have any slogans.)
Super Bowl Cupcakes: Saints
Posted by: footballisforgirls on: February 2, 2010
Yesterday I showed you some Colts cupcake ideas.
Today it’s the Saints turn, and I’ve got to make like Paula Adul and tell you Straight Up that Saints cupcakes were way harder to make than Colts cupcakes. Mostly because the Saints’ logo is a fleur-de-lis. Which is for realz harder to make than even a cardinal.
Darn you, fleur-de-lis!
Anyway, here’s what I came up with to make life a little easier:
This was the best compromise I could think of. It’s just a white cupcake with dark fudge frosting, topped with a Werther’s Original candy. Because it meets the black and gold color scheme in a simple, easy-to-make way. You will notice that I tried to draw fleur-de-lis-es on top of the candy wrappers, but they look more like (from left to right) a blotchy disease and a bird. (Note to self: Next time you need to draw a bird, aim for fleur-de-lis.)
So next I tried to actually incorporate Saints things.
The “Who Dat” is a pretty easy way to manage a Saints cupcake. You’ll see that I attempted to fancy up the one on the right. Yes, it’s supposed to be a fleur-de-lis. Close, right? (Also, use an exclamation point, not a question mark. My bad.)
And finally, a little more easy lettering, and one more shot at being artistic.
Super Bowl Cupcakes: Colts
Posted by: footballisforgirls on: February 1, 2010
It’s that time of year again. Super Bowl Sunday is a week away, so now’s the time to shore up game plans and figure out the menu for the big day.
As a cupcake lover, I’d argue that there is no better dessert to serve your fellow SB-watchers. And you will be even more popular with the gang if you bring festively-decorated cupcakes. Which is why I do some prep work each year to help you come up with some easy decorating ideas for your own Super Bowl parties.
Without further ado, here are some Colts cupcakes (with Saints cupcakes coming tomorrow):
And there you go. The official most-successful Colts cupcakes. Very easy to make, too. I used a box mix of white cake, and store-bought vanilla icing. Just bake the cupcakes, and cool until non-mushy. Then put a gob of white icing in a bowl and add a bunch of blue food coloring (the neon blue kind works best for Colt blue). Ice half with white, half with blue, and then pipe the opposite color in a horseshoe shape on top of each. (I use a Ziploc bag with one corner cut off for piping–fancy, I know.)
Then just put these fancy new-fangled York Peppermint Pieces around the outside of each cupcake. Et voila!
For another, simpler idea, you can just frost the cupcakes with white frosting, and use a little tube of blue icing to make the horseshoe. (Note: I didn’t look at a picture of the Colts logo until after making these, which is why they look kind of off. Trying to do it from memory…)
I actually dyed some of the cupcakes themselves blue. It was only sort of cute. But it makes your mouth much less blue that dyed-blue icing–which will make your mouth blue for many moons. Just as a warning.
And I added candy hearts for people who love the Colts. Or who just want to take advantage of all the Valentine’s candy.
Who Should I Root For? Gossip Girl Edition
Posted by: footballisforgirls on: January 30, 2010
- In: Super Bowl
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I love chatting with other girls who love football, but I also understand that some folks who are not into football are forced to watch the Super Bowl. (For instance, when I was a kid, the halftime show was the only thing I enjoyed. Dancing children in multicultural costumes! Random singing people! Audience members with color-coded cards that form stadium-size pictures!)
So for those of you who are going to watch whether you want to or not, please trust me when I say that you will have much more fun watching if you pick a side to support. And I am here to help.
First of all, the two teams playing are the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints.
Now, let’s put these teams into perspective, Gossip Girl Style.
In the world of Serena vs. Blair, the Colts are Serena and the Saints are Blair.
Let me ’splain:
The hair! So pretty!
Indianapolis Colts, aka Serena: The Colts are good. They have been good for years. They will be good for years to come. That’s because they have an amazing QB in Peyton Manning. Manning is, in fact, one of the best QBs of all time. Like, top 5 easily. The rest of the team has had its ups and downs, but as long as Peyton is around, they have always been able to pull it together. Never the underdog, always lauded by the media, they lead sort of a charmed existence, but somehow still manage to be likable.
Just like Serena, who gets whatever she wants, whom every boy loves, no matter how weird or stupid her actions are. And yet, you can’t really hate Serena. Mostly, I think, because she has awesome hair. Which doesn’t really apply, but it’s just the truth.
Chuck + Blair = Awesome
New Orleans Saints, aka Blair: The Saints, on the other hand, have been perpetual losers in their NFL life. This will be the team’s first ever trip to the Super Bowl. And though their QB, Drew Brees, is also amazing at what he does, he flies way under the radar compared to Manning and his 20 bazillion commercials (he’s the one on those American Express ads). The Saints are having a charmed run this NFL season, but they’ve been through a lot–not just the fact that they are city representatives for post-Katrina New Orleans, but even in football terms, the team has been championship caliber for years, but always fell apart due to injuries, poor coaching, etc. This is their time to shine, and suddenly they are becoming the most likable team around.
Just like Blair was the underdog all along–sure she had all the advantages, but no matter what she did she always fell short in the eyes of boys (Nate loved Serena more), her mom (who loved Serena more), and everyone else (her school, the media, etc.). But then she started dating Chuck, and the show became hers. No arguing it, right? She has the TV season in the palm of her hands with awesomeness. Granted, she is also way privileged and super-bitchy, which isn’t Saints-like at all, but it’s all about context.
So who would you rather support: Serena’s Colts or Blair’s Saints?
My Awesome New Hat
Posted by: footballisforgirls on: January 28, 2010
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How cool is my new hat?
(Answer: So cool.)
And only $2. Can you believe it?
For some reason they had tons of Bucs and Seahawks hats and nothing else. Weird.
Who Would You Rather:Super Bowl Version
Posted by: footballisforgirls on: January 26, 2010
We can’t do Monday (or, you know, Tuesday) MELF this week, because there are only two teams still playing. So instead of giving up entirely on the weekly post that I just decided to resume, let’s cut it down to two in a Who Would You Rather?
Today’s players are two FifG favorites who’ve landed on the big stage. (Though clearly one will get more playing time than the other.)
Reggie Bush (RB, Saints) vs. Hank Baskett (WR, Colts)
Reggie. (Strange picture, but cute!)
Hank
Both men are in relationships with famous ladies (Reggie is dating Kim Kardashian and Hank is married to Kendra from E!).
Though Hank seems like a pretty cool guy and though I’m not a big fan of Kim K, I’m still going with Reggie on this one.
Anyone else care to weigh in?
