Let's talk about the Super Bowl.
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On Facebook, I hear clamoring for an open spot in the evening schedule to allow folks to watch football via satellite without missing a live cruise performance.
Timing being what it is, though, this would suggest the Home Office would need to leave the entire evening of Feb 1 unprogrammed, which I'd really hate to see. (Additionally, the game is likely to start during dinner; the last several Superb Owls have started at 6:30PM EST.)
I'd hate to see our nice longer cruise end up with one empty evening, thereby forcing us into super-late programming again, just for football.
Will the HO weigh in here?
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I say to let them watch their foosball. Schedule the best live program on the whole trip at the same time so that the crowd can be more intimate.
...and that the ship will be in the Bermuda Triangle that day?
How about a post-cruise sea monkey party in the JoCoTel where interested parties watch somebody's TiVoed copy of the Sportsbowl? (Or during the cruise, if the cruise line offers replays of it at a convenient time and the people interested don't mind missing even more sleep/shadow events.) I assume the reason people want to watch it as it happens is that they're afraid of spoilers (because apparently the game is more important than a live show but becomes completely meaningless once one bit of information is revealed), but if they're in the middle of the sea and then sequestered in a hotel shuttle, they can probably avoid finding out which ad/team/puppy won until they see it.
Edit: given that the Home Office tends to schedule whatever time they can in the big venues, if the evening were kept free, the people watching TV would still be missing a live cruise performance. It's just that everyone else would be missing it too.
- ESPN LA does not use the US commentators, either. It *is* in English (most of the ads will be in Spanish), but it's not the familiar voices US-based handegg watchers are used to. They also don't air the US pregame show or, IIRC, the halftime performer lip sync extravaganza.
I'd wager our group's demographic trends heavily toward "minimal-to-non-existent interest" in professional handegg, though of course there are individuals who are heavily into pro handegg (and does the onboard casino have a sports book?).
In the main theater, it might be logistically possible to show the game on the screens alongside the stage, but that would lead to a semi-distracted audience who could then get hit by pucks flying from the performers (oh wait, that would only be if we were in Studio B and the rink weren't covered).
The day on which the Super Bowl is played ... is called "Super Bowl Sunday". It is the second-largest day for U.S. food consumption, after Thanksgiving Day.
We'll be on a ship where most of the food is included, so this can be a day where we remind ourselves that you don't only have to choose one of the options for each course on the main dining room menu. Go nuts! Or if you're in one of the groups trying not to gain weight while on board, go salads! More than one salad. Because geez, you're on a luxury cruise ship; you can hardly pretend not to be overconsuming.
Commercials?!
Super fun!
I was just browsing YouTube and was reminded that this exists.