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Looking for suggestions where to watch Superbowl next weekend when my wife and I will be in New Orleans. Anyone have a thought on that? More interested now that the American game is looking more like the Canadian game  
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Lucy's Retired Surfer Bar on Tchoupitoulas street, in the warehouse district. If you're staying in the quarter you can easily walk there. There's another great Aussie bar across the street and vintage guitar store on the corner if that's your thing.
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Looking for suggestions where to watch Superbowl next weekend when my wife and I will be in New Orleans. Anyone have a thought on that? More interested now that the American game is looking more like the Canadian game
That's been our goal all along.
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Lucy's Retired Surfer Bar on Tchoupitoulas street, in the warehouse district. If you're staying in the quarter you can easily walk there. There's another great Aussie bar across the street and vintage guitar store on the corner if that's your thing.
Staying on St. Charles I think Garden District. Is that far walking is not a problem for us. Does body surfing count  No, haven't retired from that either.
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Looking for suggestions where to watch Superbowl next weekend when my wife and I will be in New Orleans. Anyone have a thought on that? More interested now that the American game is looking more like the Canadian game
That's been our goal all along.
Well, maybe.
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Lucy's Retired Surfer Bar on Tchoupitoulas street, in the warehouse district. If you're staying in the quarter you can easily walk there. There's another great Aussie bar across the street and vintage guitar store on the corner if that's your thing.
+1, this is a small place but a hot spot. There are condos just next door that some of the NO Saints own and live there during the regular season. Marriott just across the street as well.
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two votes is good enough for me and not far from where we are staying, packing my Hawaiian shirt and sandles. Boning up on my Great Labowski speak. "Boning" better drop that Eh?
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Boning up on my Great Labowski speak.
Dude, is he related to The Big Lebowski?
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It's not a typical sports bar but TV's and good food. I watched Liverpool dismantle United there and it was a good atmosphere. It's good without sports as well and as Mike mentioned it's not a huge place. I figured you could easily find the sports book at Harrah's or any number of bars in the quarter.
If you're on St. Charles you should be able to take the streetcar (if you're far down on St. Charles).
Make sure you eat at Mother's.
Try Deanie's (the cafeteria location by the convention center) if you have time also.
And be careful about those sandals...never know what you're about to step in.
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Boning up on my Great Labowski speak.
Dude, is he related to The Big Lebowski?
I stand corrected as while there I would hate to "have a failure to communicate"
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[And be careful about those sandals...never know what you're about to step in.]
What is the French Quartre like France of old where navigation in the street was dictated by the pouch poop?
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It's more about the amateur powerdrinkers.
Whichever shoes you wear, there will be several guys along the street that will try to bet you and tell you they "know where you got yo' shoes". Just keep walkin'...
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Looking for suggestions where to watch Superbowl next weekend when my wife and I will be in New Orleans. Anyone have a thought on that? More interested now that the American game is looking more like the Canadian game
What is the Superbowl? Is it that show that every goes gaga over because of the adverts in the middle? 
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That's the one Mark. Imagine if a proper football match took 5 hours to play with six different teams from each team taking part because one bloke can't be a brick wall as well as run fast! I'd still watch the Superbowl though if it was on at a decent time over here 
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Yep fellas, you've got it alright! it's that game that doesn't involve the endless kicking around a round little ball from one end of a playing field to another with a few "set plays" occasionally thrown into the whole kabob, but alas which said little ball is constantly intercepted by the opponent, and thus usually results in a "thrilling" final score of somethin' like one-to-nothin'. (...uh huh, the Super Bowl is NOTHIN' like THAT "exciting" game)  
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Yep fellas, you've got it alright! it's that game that doesn't involve the endless kicking around a round little ball from one end of a playing field to another with a few "set plays" occasionally thrown into the whole kabob, but alas which said little ball is constantly intercepted by the opponent, and thus usually results in a "thrilling" final score of somethin' like one-to-nothin'.
(...uh huh, the Super Bowl is NOTHIN' like THAT "exciting" game)
Dwight, you left out the most important part of that game.
The announcers call. Scooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore
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Oh, and I forgot to add, the Super Bowl usually doesn't involve any antics where if one player accidentally or intentionally hits an opponent in the shins or some other body part and the recipient of said hit will often perform his very best Laurence Olivier impression by acting as if he's been mortally wounded in order to draw some official to pull a little colo(u)red card out of his pocket and penalize the so-called "offending" player. (...nope, however in the Super Bowl you might see a few yellow flags pulled out of an officials pocket occasionally and thrown on the field of play, but the players who get hurt seldom if EVER "play act" as if they've about to die after ALL the collisions they're involved in)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Well Mike, I'm gonna guess that that might be because it's SUCH a rare occurrence when that sorta thing happens, the announcers have to "jazz it up" and make a big deal out of it SOMEHOW, right?! 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Here's just one more little "lesson" for you blokes out there about the sport of American Football vs that little kickball game o' yours, and of which I'm going to borrow a segment from one of the late great George Carlin's classic comedy routines and add an "epilogue" of my own here.... "In (American)football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line." (...and in Soccer..err, excuse me, "real" Football, the objective is that HOPEFULLY within a 90 minute time-span there will be at least ONE TIME when an offensive player will find a defensive player out of position enough so that the offensive player can kick a little round ball into a net...yep, at least ONCE in NINETY friggin' MINUTES...hopefully!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Dwight, I won't bother trying to educate you or anyone else as to why the bulk of the world loves (the appropriately named) football. I'm only posting because I finally figured out why throwball fans are always posting about a game they don't like - it's the commercials! You have so much time on your hands waiting for anything to happen, and then again in 3 seconds, then after an hour or two of that you've had too much time on your hands and you're bashing footy.
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Well EADGBE, if you recall here, I wasn't who started this whole "inter-sport" bashing thing here, and so in defense I decided to hit Mark and Ade with "The Blitz" here!!! Secondly, yeah sure there's constant "action" goin' on in the sport of soccer as compared to American football, BUT my point was more the idea that while there may be constant action goin' on in soccer, that action is pretty much a constant of intercepted passes which results in little scoring or even shots on goal during the proceedings. And, also because of all this intercepted passing of the ball going on, while there MAY BE be some "planned plays" being done by teammates during all this "action", this is NOTHING like ALL the called plays and selected coordinated movements which must be performed to perfection in order for the offensive team in American football to be effective in their pursuit of moving the ball and possibly scoring a goal. But alas, maybe because I'm not a big fan of soccer and basically only watch it during the Olympics and the World Cup, well, maybe I'm just not "hip" to the total strategy of "The World's Favorite Sport" and all the "set plays" which might be going on during a game, BUT which once again seem to fail in their execution FAR more than they ever succeed. (...yep, maybe I'm just not "gettin' it")
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Oh I get it Dwight, it's like rugby but with with wussy padding in case the hurt their widdy biddy selves and instead of playing 40 minutes straight, they have a coffee break every couple of seconds. Gotta say though, you get value for money ... the last 3 minutes takes 20 to play  
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3p10DiII4k
Wow, fires being lit in the stands, gunshots, assaults with deadly weapons, screw the Super Bowl, now this is entertainment.
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