As you may or may not be aware, Super Bowl is being held at the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. And if you’re fixin’ ta have a Super Bowl party, a Texas theme back at the ranch would impress all of your friends and put you back in the saddle as the best party planner this side of the Rio Grande. I’ve got my Texan going on, so please bear with me.
Invitations
Have fun with it. It’s not often we can theme Super Bowl and get away with it this easily!
There’s a new sheriff in town when it comes to
SUPER BOWL!
Saddle up and come to
The Benson’s for
Super Bowl XLV
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Chuck wagon kicks off at 6 p.m.
1234 Main Street • Bedford
(Just a lot north of the Cowboys Stadium in Dallas)
We’ll be mad as a peeled rattler,
if you don’t RSVP by
Monday, February 1st.
[email protected]
Grub & Fixins!
First off, Super Bowl XLV grub should be all Texas style…Texas toast, Texas long horn beef ribs, Texas-style chili (the state dish), Tex-Mex dip, Texas chainsaw chicken fingers, rattlesnake bites (rounds of diced jalapenos and jack cheese, hand battered and lightly fried) and one bodacious Texas sheet cake for dessert (that’s one large sheet cake [obviously] that’s a cross between a brownie and a cake) with a slab of pecan pie—and make it BIG. Now that’s a menu that will make your guests happy as a gopher in soft dirt. Think you can decorate the Lone Star Buffet with a few yellow roses and be done? Dag nab it, no! You’ll need a few cowboy hats, at least one steer head (plastic, but still) and a spur or two to finish it off. Plus, use bandanas as napkins ‘cause that’s what they do down there in the lone star state.
You might want to put out some Texas T in a punch bowl—1/4 bottle of tequila and a ½ gallon of sweet tea—but do it after all bets are in for the sake of your friends.
Décor!
Now, y’all, Super Bowl XLV decorations, that’s a whole nuther thing. Everything’s got to be BIG. Texas big. Have you seen those 24” foam cowboy hats? Now, we’re talking. They make for great décor and great photo ops. And there are 41” cactus Mylar balloons you can put over yonder wherever that may be. Add a cowboy boot twinkle light set around the bar and on railings ‘cause them things are as handy as hip pockets on a hog when it comes to ambiance. An inflatable cactus on either side of the TV screams Texas, and if you’re feeling more creative than a gnat in a hail storm, you could make some of them WANTED (by the Texas Rangers) POSTERS using photos of your guests to use as decorations, too. Or if you’d rather use football players, that’s fine too.
Fun!
A Texas Hold’em Halftime would be too easy, but I’m all for it—open the saloon and let them in. Of course, a game of horseshoes may also be in order since trying to figure out who shot J.R. is old news. Or how about pin the tail on the coyote?
Finally!
In closing, this ol’ Texas proverb says it all, “If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now then to make sure it's still there with you” (in other words, make sure everyone is having a great time at your Super Bowl party before you bask in the sunset with a glass of tequila-laced Texas lemonade)!
I was born in Ft. Worth and live in Dallas now, and I am not insulted by this post in the least. It’s just a party theme, and they are generally meant to be over the top and tongue in cheek. This theme sounds like it could be a lot of fun if done well, and in reading the post I never once got the impression that the author believed Texans actually act like the theme described in an everyday manner…
Posted by: Joe | February 02, 2011 at 09:35 AM
I love this party theme... we are doing a TX Western theme for our Super Bowl party this year! Go Packers!
Lauren - I am originally from Corpus Christi, and I still have family there. It seems odd to me that you would call something that is obviously a campy theme party "hurtful". I don't think that they honestly think everyone walks around wearing foam cowboy hats. Except at the stadium of course when they root on the Dallas Cowboys :)
Posted by: Kat | February 02, 2011 at 07:56 AM
We certainly meant no disrespect with this blog post. We were simply giving our readers an idea for a Super Bowl Party, which happens to be taking place in Texas. We did get some of our ideas from George Bush's Black Tie and Boots Inauguration Party, where in the past they served 2500 pounds of beef, 20,000 enchiladas, 300 pounds of Velveeta and 48000 bottles of beer.
Posted by: Brian | February 02, 2011 at 07:34 AM
Wow. What an amazingly insulting post. So let me get this straight, you think that Texas is full of ranches, cacti and sheriffs with 24" foam cowboy hats? The DFW Metroplex leads the nation in corporate headquarters, has a population of over 6.8 million, is the largest metropolitan area in Texas, the largest in the South and the fourth-largest in the United States. The Super Bowl is not being held in Dallas, it's being held in Arlington. What exactly is Tex-Mex dip? Having been born in Dallas, I'm at a loss; I've never heard of such a thing. And I can honestly tell you that I have NEVER used a bandanna as a napkin, so, no that's NOT what we do. Such archaic stereotypical assumptions are ridiculous and just plain hurtful. You should be ashamed of yourself. And if you had any class, something we here in Texas really are BIG on, you'd delete this entire blog post immediately.
Posted by: lauren | February 01, 2011 at 12:16 PM