le jour de football

This year, my Superbowl sunday was spent watching two different types of football. I went with all the UVA students to see a Lyon vs. Bordeaux (a city in the West of France) football match! In france, colleges and universities do not have athletic teams, instead each of the bigger cities have their own team. Apparently, Lyon's football team has won the championship several times, but this game they were a little off. BUT the game was evenly matched and remained 0:0 the whole time. Apparently they only have overtime/tie breakers in tournament games. The stadium was huge, and really smokey, and we had fun trying to figure out what the crowd was chanting.

Then after the match, all twenty or so of us headed over to watch the Superbowl! Even though it started at 12:30 am our time, and most of us didn't really care about football (french majors...yea, a broad yet quite accurate generalization), we were really excited to watch it!

We were SOOOOO disappointed to find out that we were viewing a British broadcast of the game, and apparently the US companies didn't want to pay to show their awesome advertisements to europeans, so we didn't get to see any of the commercials!  :-(  That's like my favorite part! Haha, so feel free to tell me what your favorites were so i can go look them up on youtube.