When we lived in China, we went out of our way to find a bar that was showing the Super Bowl and even missed a half a day of work (on Monday) to partake in what we thought was our duty as Americans to watch the popular game. It has not taken much time back in the US for our excitement level for American football’s biggest day to plummet to the ranks of the noise. For this reason and also because we do not have a tolerance level built up to more than a dozen kids in a house at once, we decided to decline the Super Bowl party invite we received and have dinner with friends instead.