Well no, not really. But drinking mulled wine and jumping all over the place like the village idiot helps. So does siphoning body heat from the most adorable sweater-clad Italian greyhound stuffed inside your jacket.
(What started out as way more but ended up as) six brave friends and I bore the random blizzard in Seattle last night to tailgate the impending Snow Bowl 2006. Green Bay was here for Monday Night Football; in a rare twist, it was actually colder here! During the first half of the game, it seemed that Green Bay was right at home with our unusual conditions, but luckily we turned it around for the V.
A couple of us left work and planned to hop on a bus, but once we saw the parking lot that was First Avenue, we decided to hoof it the entire way instead. In the middle of our journey, we started to get pelted with little tiny balls of ice smashing sideways into our faces. But the traveling circus that is Monday Night Football was here, we could feel the electricity in the air, and weren’t going to let a little precipitation deter us. After all, it was still kind of like rain. Just a little … pointier.
Of course, the best option would have been to be at the actual game, but everyone knows how hard it is to get tickets when your team is doing well. Naturally, there were scalpers too, but I wasn’t quite willing to part with my first born. So, a desirable alternative might have also been to go somewhere cozy and watch the game! We opted out the cozy in favor of grasping at a piece of the action, had at least intended to watch, but as it turned out, didn’t have an adapter for the TV we brought along. So, we ended up all crowded around the cracked driver’s side window of my friend’s Explorer trying to follow the play calls. It might have also helped if the commentators didn’t suck.
In the end, team spirit only kept us warm enough to make it to half time, which conveniently for us was around the time the Seahawks started to kick some ass. A couple went to a bar near the stadium. A couple went home to their HD, and I too was able to watch the more enjoyable half in the comforts of home.
So, the next time you find yourself rooting for the home team during a snowstorm, you may want to consider this recipe for mulled wine:
1 bottle Gallo Hearty Burgundy Wine (the big size, aka: magnum. Ask for it by name!)
1/2 cup Christian Brothers brandy
1/4 cup sugar, or to taste
2 tbsp Market Spice mulling spices
Simmer, don't boil, for about 15 minutes. Can be made in a blizzard on the side burner of a propane grill in the alley behind a Starbucks if necessary.
(What started out as way more but ended up as) six brave friends and I bore the random blizzard in Seattle last night to tailgate the impending Snow Bowl 2006. Green Bay was here for Monday Night Football; in a rare twist, it was actually colder here! During the first half of the game, it seemed that Green Bay was right at home with our unusual conditions, but luckily we turned it around for the V.
A couple of us left work and planned to hop on a bus, but once we saw the parking lot that was First Avenue, we decided to hoof it the entire way instead. In the middle of our journey, we started to get pelted with little tiny balls of ice smashing sideways into our faces. But the traveling circus that is Monday Night Football was here, we could feel the electricity in the air, and weren’t going to let a little precipitation deter us. After all, it was still kind of like rain. Just a little … pointier.
Of course, the best option would have been to be at the actual game, but everyone knows how hard it is to get tickets when your team is doing well. Naturally, there were scalpers too, but I wasn’t quite willing to part with my first born. So, a desirable alternative might have also been to go somewhere cozy and watch the game! We opted out the cozy in favor of grasping at a piece of the action, had at least intended to watch, but as it turned out, didn’t have an adapter for the TV we brought along. So, we ended up all crowded around the cracked driver’s side window of my friend’s Explorer trying to follow the play calls. It might have also helped if the commentators didn’t suck.
In the end, team spirit only kept us warm enough to make it to half time, which conveniently for us was around the time the Seahawks started to kick some ass. A couple went to a bar near the stadium. A couple went home to their HD, and I too was able to watch the more enjoyable half in the comforts of home.
So, the next time you find yourself rooting for the home team during a snowstorm, you may want to consider this recipe for mulled wine:
1 bottle Gallo Hearty Burgundy Wine (the big size, aka: magnum. Ask for it by name!)
1/2 cup Christian Brothers brandy
1/4 cup sugar, or to taste
2 tbsp Market Spice mulling spices
Simmer, don't boil, for about 15 minutes. Can be made in a blizzard on the side burner of a propane grill in the alley behind a Starbucks if necessary.
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