Super Bowl Monday in Italy

Monday, 4 February, 2019

After a really long Sunday on the road to Verona and back after our scrimmage with the Mastini, I only had about two hours at the Villa Skorpion II before needing to join Raffa Nardi for the drive into the heart of Varese's old town to watch . . .

Super Bowl LIII

New England Patriots

vs.

Los Angeles Rams

A HUGE grazie to Raffa's sister Federica for driving us into town as we needed to be there before the scheduled 12:30 a.m. kickoff.

The C line bus had long ago called it a weekend on this late, chilly night.

Our destination . . .

 The Bellavita Café

It is the Skorpions' team bar owned by starting Nose Guard Andrea Gorini.

We only had a small turnout for the game, I'm sure that the scrimmage in Verona took its toll on many of our players.  

Part of the group of ten or so

American football fanatics on hand

That's my main man Raffa standing at the far end of the bar.

As for the game itself, we enjoyed watching the defensive effort by both teams, didn't see much value in the way of this year's commercials and generally ignored the half time show.

Although the score was close until the very end, I just never felt that the Rams were in the game do to the suffocating New England defense.

The Patriots were the better team in Atlanta tonight by a final score of 13-3.

 To the Victors belong the Spoils

I returned home from the game at about 4:45 a.m. and promptly went to bed.

As you can imagine, the rest of Super Bowl Monday was quite unproductive.

I did enjoy a pizza and a glass

or two of Chianti for dinner

It's like having jet lag all over again.