Super Bowl Alternatives: 9 Things To Do Instead Of Watching The Super Bowl

There are actually other things you could do with those four hours Sunday besides watch the Patriots and Giants do battle: "Downton Abbey" is on, damnnit!
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"When did the Super Bowl Party turn into New Year's Eve? Was America's football holiday always such an obligation, fraught with social panic, the fear of no invitations, of sitting alone in the darkness with the remote, silently eating bacon ranch Pringles from a can?"

I need to say a special thank you to Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal for so eloquently voicing what I, and I'm sure others, have been asking themselves all week.

Really, when did this happen? Is there no longer any other respectable way to spend a certain Sunday in late January/early February? Fortunately, as the Daily News pointed out earlier this week, there are actually other things you could do with those four hours Sunday besides watch the Patriots and Giants do battle: Downton Abbey is on, dammit!

While many of us love football and will be tuning in to watch New England take on New York, the Super Bowl isn't for everyone. If you don't want to spend the evening alone but have no intention of devoting Sunday night to a "bombastic life-consuming gladiator saga," as Gay described the Super Bowl, here are nine other ways to spend a blissfully NFL-free evening:

SLIDESHOW: 9 Alternatives To Watching The Super Bowl On Sunday Night:

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