Well, there may be a Super Bowl after all. For the moment, I'm stuck in Silistra. The roads are clear here, but there are hundreds of miles of 2-lane country road between Silistra and the Super Bowl parties sprinkled around Sofia and, apparently, some of those roads aren't getting cleared as well as they could be. I find this incredibly odd. The entire northeast end of Bulgaria has been shut out for over a week now, and there have only been two significant nights of snowstorm. Doesn't this, I don't know, affect the economy a little? I know for a fact that there are Silistrans waiting in Sofia for the first bus they can take home. Some take the train, but that's been packed to gills without buses (And is a schedule nightmare for me, keeping me from using it.) I would think that all those people would be missed at work.
Anyway, the good news is that SAT 1, a German channel, is supposed to be showing it and if you look hard enough, you can find SAT 1 here in Silistra. Strangely, SAT 1's webpage doesn't advertise the game (at least, that's what I understand using my non-existent German) and its program doesn't list it. But there's always hope.
I can't fathom why there are no bars around here with a satellite connection capable of picking up SkySports, but that's the way it looks. Most of the bars and cafes here seem to have a little dough, but the only things on TV are the Discovery Channel, Fashion TV, and the occasional Bulgarian soccer broadcast.
So now it's a waiting game for the 1:30 AM kickoff to see if it all comes together. There will be nachos, there may even be buffalo wings. And it will all go toward making Superbowl [Mon]day as American as possible here in Bulgaria. Reports on success to follow.
Posted by Rob at February 6, 2005 02:29 PM