Football & Beer

What seems to pass as the traditional way to spend a Sunday afternoon in the US is a little more challenging here on the other side of the world. For starters, Sunday is actually (early) Monday morning here, and we usually go to work on Mondays. I was asked a few questions regarding this activity, specifically:

"What brands of beer do they have out here, and can I watch NFL Sunday ticket?"

As for the beer part, the answer is fairly simple, the bars have 4 varieties of beer:

• Cantebury Draft *(CD) [$2] - NZ's Miller Lite, but better
• Speights [$2] - The pride of the South (NZ that is) thats better than High Life
  
• Coronoa [$3] - Somehow the sunny beaches line of advertising works here too
• Sierra Nevada [$4] - Still classy at the bottom of the world

The store has a fairly good selection of beer, I have seen Guinness and other brews, along with bottles of wine shared at dinner in the cafeteria (seems to be the thing to do on Fridays, its not like there are any restaurants to go to for group dinners or dates).

As f0r football, much of the group that shares the bay with us, ANITA (seraching for Neutrinos, good luck guys!), are from Ohio State and thus were engaged by the Michigan-Ohio game on Monday. Monday you say, yes Monday, remember the above statement that we are 16 hours early here. We only get military TV here, which includes a lot of sport channels I hear. Personally, I have not watched any TV since arriving here. So, thats a long winded "no" to the Sunday NFL ticket. Particularly as it would not even be on Sunday : )

*I could not find a website for CD. The 1st site that pops up on Google is actualy this, another McMurdo beer report. Someone needs to let the Kiwi's know about the interwebs.