Football Match Viewing Experience: This Sunday

This Sunday evening, The Royale will join the 99% of bars, taverns, restaurants and assorted gin mills and flophouses in the Western Hemisphere, showing the Championship Football Match between top teams of the American Football Conference (the Steelers of Pittsburgh) and the National Football Conference (the Packers of Green Bay, WI). Throughout the match-up, The Royale's two color televisions will showcase the encounter, while the volume will be turned "on" for the duration of the game, including the extremely-popular interstitial programming (aka commercial announcements). We likely will even feature some of the day's nine-hours of lead-up information, featuring heart-rending stories about the players, coaches and fans of this year's contest, each of the feature stories mixing emotional visual and auditory content.Limited food and drink specials (nachos, anyone?) will be offered during the game, alongside our normal, high-quality pub fare. Also, The Royale's Sunday signature, The Cocktail Museum, will be presented. Due to last week's frigid temps, many were not able to sample from the menu: The List of Unfortunately-Named Drinks. That same group of selections will be offered this week, after 9 p.m. compliments of staff mixologist Robert Griffin.While The Royale is not a house of wagering action, per se, far be it from us to not offer a prediction on this popular sporting event. So: we envision the loss of all-world rookie center Maurkice Pouncey to essentially ensure a jailbreak-type scenario, with the Packers front-seven practically establishing a zip code in the Pittsburgh backfield. This destruction of the Steeler run game will force Pittsburgh's once-despised/now-lovable Ben Roethlisberger to strafe the Green Bay DBs with a blitz of vertical passing, with Hines Ward turning back to the clock on a pair of touchdown scores. On the other side of the ball, angry Pittsburgh defender/cheap-shot artist James Harrison will lead the parade of marauding Pennsylvanian defenders celebrating sacks behind the stout Green Bay line. While hamstrung offensively, Green Bay will use some unusual markers (a pick-six featuring a backward pitch, a kickoff return brought back to the house) to help eke out a 27-23 victory at the Palace in Dallas.But, really, as long as it's a good game, we'll be happy.Would you care to join us for all this fun on Sunday? And would you join us in telling uber-rich NFL commissar Roger Goodell that we're watching THE SUPER BOWL without paying for the use of the name? Ha-ha. Take that, The Man!