Are You Ready For Some Pancakes Football?
Today is a day of almost Biblical auspiciousness in my annual Pittsburgh-sports-team-following cycle: The long slog through the desert of following the Pirates gives way to the promised but still frequently difficult land of following the Steelers.
They play the Houston Texans* starting at 1 PM Eastern time. However, in a change that I've been looking forward to, I'm in the Pacific time zone where the game starts at 10 AM local time. So: Football breakfast!
A downside is that I'm no longer within broadcasting range of an AFC North market like Baltimore, so fewer of the Steelers' non-primetime games will be viewable through my bare-bones cable package. (Today, for instance, the Regional Action being served up by the local CBS affiliate is Jets/Dolphins, whose play-by-play I suspect will just be a repeated "Brett Favre Brett Favre Brett Favre".) So, at least for today, football breakfast cannot take on its comfortable at-home form, which I assume would be eating leftover muhammara** from a potluck yesterday out of a Pyrex bowl while sitting on my couch in my pajamas. But Kyle and I will try out the sports bar closest to my couch, four or five blocks away; she plans to invite her sister so they can converse like humans while I, in all probability, will just be muttering to myself while watching the game on a soundless secondary screen. Good times, especially if they have mimosas.
* I kind of hope the NFL will relocate that franchise to L.A. someday, but make it keep the same name.
** The girlfriend and I like this recipe a lot; the pomegranate syrup is critical. Also we like to blender-ize ("blend"?) it to a slightly grainy puree.
They play the Houston Texans* starting at 1 PM Eastern time. However, in a change that I've been looking forward to, I'm in the Pacific time zone where the game starts at 10 AM local time. So: Football breakfast!
A downside is that I'm no longer within broadcasting range of an AFC North market like Baltimore, so fewer of the Steelers' non-primetime games will be viewable through my bare-bones cable package. (Today, for instance, the Regional Action being served up by the local CBS affiliate is Jets/Dolphins, whose play-by-play I suspect will just be a repeated "Brett Favre Brett Favre Brett Favre".) So, at least for today, football breakfast cannot take on its comfortable at-home form, which I assume would be eating leftover muhammara** from a potluck yesterday out of a Pyrex bowl while sitting on my couch in my pajamas. But Kyle and I will try out the sports bar closest to my couch, four or five blocks away; she plans to invite her sister so they can converse like humans while I, in all probability, will just be muttering to myself while watching the game on a soundless secondary screen. Good times, especially if they have mimosas.
* I kind of hope the NFL will relocate that franchise to L.A. someday, but make it keep the same name.
** The girlfriend and I like this recipe a lot; the pomegranate syrup is critical. Also we like to blender-ize ("blend"?) it to a slightly grainy puree.
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Week One Here we go JETS! I am so psyched for today! My boyfriend and I got a 12 pack of Bud Light Lime and have Pizza Hut coming in less than an hour!!!
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Unfortunately I couldn't watch the Steelers game because I was coming back from a New Hampshire camping trip. (The "unfortunately" only applies to the first half of that sentence.) I am envious of your football breakfast though.
Muhammara? What kinda Obama-votin' no-flag-pin-wearin' brunch item is that?
I had a weird, similar experience this morning. This is my first football season on the west coast too. It was somewhat unsettling to get up early on a Sunday morning and trek out to a bar, and then start drinking while watching football at 10am.
I think I might be able to get used to it though. :)
Yeah, looking around the bar there were enough people who obviously got used to the idea of drinking through the early game a while ago. I opted for a greyhound with my pancakes and sausage (it came out less like a breakfast-appropriate cocktail, though, and more like a splash of grapefruit juice on top of a tumbler of vodka) and the obligatory draft microbrew once it seemed close enough to noon; I don't think I could handle a round of Miller Lite at 9:30 AM like the next table over.
I, as well, missed the game, but unlike last year, went ahead and bothered to watch the Dolphins game (mostly because this is my first year with a TV-to-call-my-own (I think I've mentioned in the past that if you move to Miami, multiple people will offer to just give you a TV - I held out until the end of April) and when I stuck the cable from the wall into the back of the TV, the only channel I got is CBS (which is plenty, if you ask me))) since 2005), and it was terrible.
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