On Sunday, sports fans and friends
of sports fans will unite to observe football’s
national holiday. There’s never a better excuse to get
together, yell at the T.V. and eat everything that isn’t
nailed down. At PlumParty, we think the only way to do a Super
Sunday bash is to project a casual, come-as-you-are vibe.
Think easy prep, easy clean up, and an atmosphere that makes
guests feel like they’re watching the game from their
own favorite chairs, only better!
The Game Plan
Choose invitations with as much selling power as a first
TV time-out commercial. We love our 3-D
Spitfire Girl football invitations, or cards that tempt
guests through their tummies—pizza
and BBQ-themed
invitations are good bets.
Kick off the festivities with a no-sports-knowledge-required
betting grid, so even the clueless can get involved. Anything’s
interesting when you’ve got money riding on it!
While we like to provide a little something for everyone,
the big game is the main event—make sure viewing conditions
are ideal. If your 27-incher just doesn’t cut it, splurge
and rent a big screen TV. If your couches don’t offer
ample seating, stack some comfy cushions on the floor or rent
folding chairs and set them up in movie theater-style rows.
If your crowd has more than a few members who don’t
know a touchdown from an interception, treat them to a Foot
Ball in an adjoining room. Hire spa technicians to give foot
massages and pedicures and screen football crowd-pleasers
like Rudy, Wildcats and Remember the Titans. Trust us: true
sports fans may appreciate keeping all of the unrelated gab
confined to the luxury box.
Looks Like Team Spirit
Deck your living room out to rival the stands in Jacksonville.
Bring in the team colors with banners,
Fun Fringe and Creative Crepe. If you’re crowd is
pretty neutral, can’t-miss colors include bold reds,
oranges and yellows (the international colors of food that
is bad for us—why else would all of those fast food
restaurants share the same color palette?). Line every surface
with an Astroturf
runner and scatter football
and beer
trivia coasters on top.
The Food Court
What is it about great, big guys and tiny, little hotdogs,
anyway? We know guys for whom it just isn’t a Super
Bowl without their precious pigs-in-a-blanket. Don’t
fight it. Sack the tofu-stuffed mushrooms and goat cheese
crostini. Game-day grub is tried-and-true faves and basic
guilty pleasures.
For a couch potato spread that would make Homer Simpson drool,
serve chips & dips, nachos & salsa, six-foot subs,
ribs and pizza cafeteria-style. We’ve got the trays,
sandwich
baskets and no-fuss
squeeze bottles to make it authentic. Use
football-shaped
cookie cutters to make mini PB&Js. The kicker? A hot
dog bar with homemade chili and all the fixin’s. Have
tons of plasticware
and napkins
(in our diner-style dispenser) on hand—the goal
is to get through the clean-up without having to do a single
dish. Keep football-shaped serving dishes filled with popcorn
and candy
dispensers with chocolate
footballs close to the couch for mindless mid-quarter
munching.
When guests ask, “What can I bring?,” tell them
to pick up a sixer of their favorite beer. Present it on ice
in colorful
metal basins with our handy ‘etch
it’ cups, so guests can keep tabs on their brewskis.
Are you ready for some football?
(We think so.) |
