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1. 

   Mike

   January 19, 2009 at 7:32 am · Reply

   I love hanging out with kids. I love having them over to my house to play video games or basketball. I love going to the movies with ‘em and visiting them at school.

   But, seriously, I do not want to ever watch a football game with them. Especially the Super Bowl. I will be home, in my basement, quietly analyzing and savoring my last football game for almost 6 months.
2. 

   ryan guard

   January 19, 2009 at 8:26 am · Reply

   Can we borrow the Refinery? If so then YES.

   I watched the game yesterday with six or seven teenagers who were sometimes interested and sometimes not… so I sometimes wanted to stab them for talking during the sometimes not times. Any by “stab” I don’t mean… well, stab. More like bludgeon.

   Because I’m a Cardinals fan, and this is more important than COD5 and your iPhone apps.
3. 

   eddie

   January 19, 2009 at 9:52 am · Reply

   I’m an Eagles fan in a church full of Giants fans. Last week was like the Super Bowl for me. I’m with Ryan…playing games, eating lunch, all cool things to do with teens. Watching football not one of those things.
4. 

   Ray

   January 19, 2009 at 10:18 am · Reply

   Sunday afternoon football at someone’s home is a regular thing for our crew. The Big Game party will just be a slightly larger version of our normal activities.
5. 

   Brad Daniel

   January 19, 2009 at 1:01 pm · Reply

   We are having a huge food drive with all of our students that is a contest between grades. Basically we each have a subdivision and go door to door collecting canned food for a local food pantry and go back to church and load a huge truck with food. The winning team gets the best seats and pizza to their next class gathering paid for-plus bragging rights. This year we actually will have other church youth groups helping out so we will have over 300 students doing something before the game and we have a large group of adults who will feed us “tailgate-style” for the game in our youth area… (HD on 3 big screens makes many people salivate:)).
6. 

   thespiderman

   January 19, 2009 at 6:53 pm · Reply

   I’ve avoided it in the past mainly due to the commercials. They are an “unknown quantity” and I don’t want to get caught unprepared as Josh Griffin did with the Tommy Boy clip during worship.
7. 

   Andy Lawrenson

   January 20, 2009 at 5:41 am · Reply

   We used to have the partay but it wasn’t worth the investment of having cable tv at the church year round for one event. (although I would sneak in the news every now and then) I’m hoping that once we get our youth room finished we will have cable again and will probably host the partay again.
   Interesting though is about 95% of the students could care less about the game, they are there to hang out with each other which is great for relationship building. But that also drives me nuts because I’m purpose driven and the purpose of the super bowl game is to watch it.
8. 

   Ryan

   January 20, 2009 at 7:47 am · Reply

   i would, but it is now illegal to have a super bowl party in a church. Thanks NFL. Gotta follow the law of the land.
9. 

   Tony

   January 20, 2009 at 8:16 am · Reply

   I heard that it’s not illegal anymore. They may have changed it for churches and nonprofits or something? Anyone else know about this?
10. 

    Ryan

    January 20, 2009 at 11:09 am · Reply

    Last time i looked the NFL policy stated that churches could not host super bowl parties. It has to do with number of people watching and size of screen it is shown on.
11. 

    Brian

    January 20, 2009 at 11:28 am · Reply

    I just found an article that said that it isn’t illegal as long as you don’t charge people. Here is the article

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/20/AR2008022002772.html
12. 

    Josh

    January 20, 2009 at 11:52 am · Reply

    Yeah, it’s legal.

    JG
13. 

    JD

    January 20, 2009 at 7:36 pm · Reply

    This is a great way to get students! We’ve got the game going on some 10 foot projection screens, plenty of free food, an indoor cheesy mini golf course, smash brothers tournament…throw in some giveaways and a good halftime gospel presentation with a live band and you’re set. You are right that most students won’t watch much of the game, but with students it’s not that they’ll watch it, it’s that it’s there if they wanted to(most of the time they’ll be connecting with each other and our adult volunteers, which is what we want anyway right?). Great thing about this is that it’s an event that you promote in house, send out flyers, texts, facebook etc. and then they’re reminded about it in commercials that you don’t have to pay for, always a great added bonus.