Football Party
Tailgating Party
Super Bowl Party!
Plan a Super Bowl Party, Football Party or Tailgating Party
with these Football Party Supplies, Ideas, Invitations
and Party Favors!
Party Invitations
Decorations and Supplies Games and Activities
Party Favors Tailgating or Football Party Recipes
Super Bowl Party Tips
Tailgating Tips
Football Party Supplies
Create invitations that look like game tickets, include party kick off time, seat number, car
location, etc. You can create these yourself on your computer. Attach a real game ticket to
your printed card invitation.
Send an
inflatable football to your guests, with the details written with
marker. They inflate the football to get the details!
Cut a football shape out of construction
paper and use fancy markers and make laces with string or yarn.
Send them a
Football clacker or a
Football whistle with the party info attached with a piece of paper.
Use green tote bags filled
with white shred and glue football nametags on each bag and write the
guest's name.
Fill gift bag with:
Football Beads,
Football Pencils,
NFL tattoos,
Football Water Bottles,
Football Folding Fans, and
Football Horns.
Give guests tickets to a
football game,
football trading cards, a football Trivia book,
favorite
football team paraphernalia,
velour football hats with guest's name,
jerseys
with guest's name, rooter rattles,
pom poms, # 1 foam hands, seat cushions and sports towels.
Imprint custom car flags for everyone to attach to their car
Football Clackers, Football Bead Necklaces,
Pens and Pencils, Football Pillows, Football
Whistles, Football Mugs...
Use
tableware, skirts and table covers
designed for the Superbowl.
Use tableware and party goods in your favorite
team's colors!
Decorate your party room with your
favorite team's party kits!
Set up a goal post in your
parking lot (or backyard, frontyard, etc) to look like football field.
Create football goal posts for the party area. Hang on opposite walls.
Divide guests into teams with
different colors. Ask your guests to dress in team colors.
Use
Mini Football bowls and serve dry food in them.
Make centerpieces out of pipe cleaners, shape them into goal posts and
place them on fake grass
surrounded with mini footballs.
Assign each guest a player
number. These numbers can be used for games, raffles, door prizes.
Have
personalized banners made
for your party.
Have a
Luau theme tailgate party – or other
appropriate theme – change your theme with each tailgate. Don't be afraid
to choose a seasonal theme, e.g. a Thanksgiving theme tailgate.
Play touch football. Have a
tournament and play other sports games.
Football Trivia (see our Super
Bowl party tip for questions)
Have penny game pools – who
will get the first touch down, what lame song will the cheerleaders do a
dance to, etc.
Do the pick a square game/pool
(see our Super Bowl party tip for more information)
Use cheer phones to catch the
football in the cheer phone game, etc.
Have a tailgating king and
queen – sash, tiara, crown, etc. – make them wear it into the game.
Tongue fumble (see our Super
Bowl party tips for more information)
Get face paint –Team Spirit
Markers -to let guests imitate pro football players or just color faces in
team colors
Split the group into two teams
and see who can come up with the best cheer
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You can never have too much
food at a Super Bowl Party. A simple tip is to keep the menu simple
to keep you out of the kitchen. Try a "Pot Luck". Or,
create food that is based on the local cuisine of the two teams.
Have a second TV set up during the party.
Have Pom poms, cheerphones, mini footballs, glow in
the dark wearables, and noisemakers around or everyone. These also make
great party favors to send home.
Have face paint available for when your guests arrive: Encourage them to
show their loyalty to their favorite team.
Plan a few friendly game
wagers to make the party fun for everyone, fans and partiers. Select
wagers that require little or no football knowledge.
Host a football trivia game at half time.
Create your own football field
serving center right at the party using artificial grass turf and masking
tape. Setting up your own football fanatic mood isn't difficult or costly!
Add real life football props in your decorating to complete the look. An
upside down football helmet makes a terrific serving bowl for chips or
other dry snacks.
Balloons! Purchase a ton of balloons in the colors of the two competing
Super Bowl teams. Allow the fans of the winning team to "burst the
bubble" of the fans of the opposing (losing) team...let them pop the balloons in
the opponent's colors each time their team scores.
Wear your team colors and get there early!
Make a checklist of items to take with you, including a first aid kit, sun
block, plenty of ice, paper products (cups, plates, napkins, etc),
condiments, plastic utensils and damp towels (or wet wipes) in storage
bags for cleaning up and wiping off sauces. Don't forget garbage bags too!
May be a good idea to bring your own roll of toilet paper too, in case
they run out in the port-a-lets!
Freeze bottled water and use in cooler in place of loose ice. Prevents food from getting wet from
melting ice and provides you with
cold water for after the game!
If you're grilling, allow at least 30 minutes for the charcoal to get hot
and make sure your food is ready to eat 1 to 2 hours before the game.
This gives you plenty of time to eat, clean up and still get to the game
on time!
If you don't have enough time to grill at your tailgating party, then
bring fried chicken, wings, lunch meat and
cheeses, deli sandwiches, potato salads, cookies and brownies!
Always clean up before you leave.
Keep everyone at your Super Bowl bash
entertained with activities that aren't just for sports nuts! Even if you
don't know the difference between a quarterback and a cornerback, these
activities will keep everyone cheering. Plus, many don't even require you to
leave the recliner!
No Super Bowl party is complete without the
traditional scoring squares game! Draw a grid with 121 squares (or
create one in Microsoft Excel) on a piece of paper. At the top of the
paper, number the squares 0 to nine. Be sure to leave the square in the
upper left-hand corner blank. Label the numbers at the top "NFC Team
Score". Number the squares on the left 0 to nine, again leaving the
square in the upper left-hand corner of the page blank. Label this the
"AFC Team Score". Have each guest pay $5 (or whatever fee you choose;
the bigger the fee, the bigger the winner's pot!) and sign his or her
name in a square. The numbers at the top and bottom represent the last
digit (or only digit for scores under 10) of the NFC or AFC team's
score. At the end of the game, the person whose name lines up with the
numbers that match the score wins the pot! For example, if the final
score was Bengals (AFC team) 27, 49ers (NFC team) 10, the person who
bought the square that corresponds with the 0 at the top and 7 on the
left wins! Some party hosts may choose to award a pot at the end of each
quarter. This really keeps everyone watching the game!
Young guests at your party will love this
activity! Have several Design Your Own Football Craft Kits
on hand. The kits contain a real youth-sized football that can be
personalized and decorated with the included paints. Another option is
to have one football on which each child adds his or her own touch (like
a grafitti ball!). Have the kids write their names on a piece of paper
and raffle off the ball at the end of the party!
The Tabletop Football Set in the
Championship Football Bigger Favor Pack is a game kids of all
ages will enjoy! Flick the football through the uprights to score! Even
the big kids will love this game that's reminiscent of a recess activity
from years ago!
Play "Rate the Commercials". Give each guest a
sheet of paper numbered 1-5 when they arrive at the party. Have them
rank their favorite commercials and compare at the end of the game!
Better take those restroom breaks during a timeout!
PICK A SQUARE!
– To
play this fun "gambling" game, create a grid with one hundred small
squares on an 8½" by 11" piece of paper, with ten squares on each side of
the grid. Across the top of the grid, label each square (from left
to right) with the numbers 0-9. Down the left side of the grid,
label each square (from top to bottom) with the numbers 0-9. The left side
of the grid will represent one team playing in the Super Bowl, and the top
will represent the opposing team. Guests can purchase "squares" by signing
their name to any square they wish before the game starts, and can
purchase as many as they want (after the grid has made a pass amongst all
the guests!) Establish a cost per square before the game…any amount you
wish from a dime to $1.00! The pool of money is split four ways. Winners
are determined at the end of each quarter, by the last digit of
each team's score. For example, assume that Denver is on the left side of
the grid, and Dallas is at the top of the grid. If the score is 20 to 11
for Denver at the end of the first half, the person with his/her name in
the 0 (left) and 1 (top) square is the winner for the quarter. Even guests
with little interest in the game will be interested in the score!
TONGUE FUMBLE!
- Give
each player a bag, stadium cup (we can imprint them with a personalized
message), or a cheer phone with a cap. Fill the "bag" with 10 small
treasures (candy, chocolate, little favors). Have bags labeled with
guests' names, so they don't get mixed up. Let players know at the start
of the game exactly when the game will be ending—this game can be played
throughout an entire party or just at half time if you so choose. The
object of the game is to catch fellow players saying one of the following
words or phrases:
QUARTERBACK, BALL, TOUCHDOWN,
PASS, SUPERBOWL, TEAM
To help players, post the words
prominently on a board where they can be seen often. If someone is caught
saying one of the words on the list, that person has to give up a treasure
from their stash. The player with the biggest haul of goodies at the end of
the game is the winner! This game is always a big hit.
FOOTBALL TRIVIA QUIZ –
Create a trivia quiz related to football—Hall of Famers, Super Bowl's of
the past, today's hottest college and NFL teams, and even a few general
football questions!
Throwing a Super Bowl Party calls for some seriously hearty
comfort food! Fill a table with easy to eat goodies, or ask all your guests
to bring their own mid-winter favorite appetizer or dessert…a perfect party
for a potluck! Use disposable paper/plastic goods so that cleanup will be
extra easy.
TOUCHDOWN BUFFET:
Make the
food simple, but plentiful.
Great football food includes chicken wings, chicken strips (with dipping sauces), meatballs (Swedish or BBQ), mini
eggrolls,
whole water chestnuts wrapped in bacon, nachos, or an assortment of
sandwiches made on mini buns (about 3-4 bite size).
Make as much ahead of time as possible. Store hot items in a warming tray, or
in an oven set at 200 degrees until ready to eat.
Cut slices of pumpernickel
bread out in the shape of footballs using cookie cutters. Make mini Rueben
sandwiches by adding corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut and Thousand
Island dressing. Garnish the "footballs" with shredded mozzarella cheese
placed on the sandwiches to resemble laces.
Scatter several bowls of
munchies around the areas where your guests will be watching the
game…Chips, pretzels, nuts, M&Ms, popcorn, Chex Mix.
Serve brownies
and cookies, made into football shapes, or make a football cake using Wilton's™
"First and Ten" Football pan. It comes with easy to follow
directions.
Label foods with football
nametags.
BEVERAGES:
This party calls for beer, pop, mineral
water, punch, and coffee…nothing hi-brow! Make sure that you have plenty of
ice on hand - usually one pound or ice per adult guest.
Football Cake Recipes
Pillsbury Football Cake Recipe
Fabulous Foods Football Field Cake
Football Cake Decorations
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