Singapore has 8 sports channels! They even have a Football Channel. But of course it is not American Football. They have ESPN but you won’t see Kenny Mayne or Stuart Scott. They love their soccer (oops, football), golf, car racing, badminton, X-treme sports and table tennis, which is really quite interesting. Luckily not much Cricket but you can see Basketball, we watched the Sixers vs. Houston game the other day. They are advertising coverage of the Olympics and March Madness, but American Football, is really hard to find.
Three bars in Singapore advertised that they’d be showing the Super Bowl. The first one we called said they couldn’t get the channel after all. The other two opened their doors at 6am on a first come first serve basis for seats. We seriously considered it but decided that getting up at 5am to take a taxi to a bar to possibly watch a game at 7am was too much for these football fans.
So, we asked our friend, Kathy, to take her computer to the Super Bowl party in Doylestown and Skype us in! It was almost as good as being there. We had a front row seat for the game and every so often they’d turn us around so we could toast the group! For the second half we traveled to Hoboken, NJ and watched with Phil.
Technology is amazing; I just wish I understood it.
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Wow, I have so enjoyed reading everything that you guys have been doing and looking at your amazing pictures. I will just have to live vicariouly through you. As you probably know, we have had tons and tons of snow, so I am very jealous of the beach and margarita thing you had going on. The kids have now missed 5 days of school, but I have to come to work so it is very quiet and boring. We watched the SuperBowl at the Albrites. What a fun way for you to watch it. Your blog is wonderful - so glad you are doing it. More later Judy
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