“I had to put something together”

Events in Lund

An American exile longing for home and some good friends. What more could you ask of on Super Bowl Sunday? Lundagard hung out in the dead of night for this unusual Sunday.  

A couple of pubs in Lund were open late for Super Bowl XLVI. Everyone should technically be sleeping on a Sunday night at two in the morning. But this Sunday, Lunds highly international community was gathered. It was Super Bowl-night. The New England Patriots against the New York Giants. Lundagard got a chat with the visitors.

Mexican Laura Morales came to the Super Bowl at the initiative of friends but says she used to play catch with a football at home with friends.
“My neighbors were the ones who convinced me to come. I’m not into this game myself, but I used to play football with friends in Mexico.”

Australian Jenica Noble says she doesn’t know how the game is played.  But she is interested anyway.
“I don’t know the rules. I don’t know the teams. I’m just here to have some fun.”

 

 

Canadian Jordan McDonald stands by Croatian Tomislav Kevo explaining how the game works.
“Tonight is the Super Bowl,” says Kevo,
“It’s a big issue for Canadians and Americans and a cultural experience.”

So why go to the Super Bowl while in Sweden? Jordan McDonald explains that he thought “it would be a lot of fun to watch a North American game overseas.”

A group of young Swedish men were sitting off to one side of the pub, “observing” the other spectators of the game.

“Why not come to see the game?” says Peter Benson. “We’re also here to observe the American culture.”

As the American national anthem plays, and several Americans stand up in line with their tradition, the Swedes don’t really pay mind. “The playing seems like more of a political thing, really.”

Bernie White, currently majoring in Economics and Foreign Affairs and an avid football fan, organized the event to gather friends for the Super Bowl.

Several nights before the big game, White went to the pub to try and haggle the price of beer down, and to organize the event.
“Being away from home made me feel like I had to put something together for the Super Bowl. I eventually just took the initiative, and did it myself.”