To those bars who attempted to host Super bowl parties last week (you know who you are): that’s funny and cute.

Game Day is in fact this Sunday, February 7 and the Colts will play the Saints. These are good places to watch it.

ARTY
A football game at an art gallery bar—how often does this happen? Beginning at 2:30pm, Vermillion will offer free food with the purchase of a beverage. The menu includes “chicken wings, sloppy Joes, nachos, meatballs, and salads.” There is also a sweet tea drink special for $3.50.

DOWN AND DIRTY
If you want to go for the pure sports bar experience, you could go to Fuel. I wandered in there the other day with the misguided notion of lunch. (I had a hankering for some chicken fingers, what?) As soon as I walked in I received a menacing jeer from a grizzled old someone sunk over his Budweiser. Then I noticed I was the lone representative of my gender, not to mention generation, and no one was eating. So not for lunch. But for Superbowl: hell yeah. This is where the energy and the screaming and the deep-fried snacks will be in full effect. But I have to say that Sluggers (call first, they open only when the spirit moves them) is my favorite P-Square sports bars. It endears with its mezzanine level that offers a tantalizing vista of the beer-induced hysteria on the main floor.

FUN FOR NONFANS
Over in Bellevue, Lucky Strike Lanes has food and drink specials from 11am through 12am and will raffle off prizes like free bowling and opening day tickets to the Seahawks. There are twelve flat-screen TVs at the great Ballard Loft, and if the game bores you you can play pool or shuffleboard or order a delicious sausage sandwich. (That’s not a euphamism). Alternatively, take in the views and slurp up above-average pub grub at Six Seven Lounge in the Edgewater Hotel. The bar will air the game on its massive flat-screen and offer happy hour prices on food and drink from 3-6pm.

KID-FRIENDLY
The Magnolia Village Pub is a popular spot for watching the big game with the little ones as is the Madrona Eatery and Ale House (1138 34th Avenue, Madrona).

Wherever you go, have fun. And may the best team win. I think that team is the Saints, but only because I love New Orleans, birthplace of the world’s best cocktails.