Column: A Big Bowl of Super

This weekend it's Super Bowl Sunday, or as we Tennessee Titans fans call it...Sunday. It's a day that's about more than football, though. It, like those other “official” holidays, is about getting together with your friends and family and eating yourself sick while a group of millionaires and corporations get a little richer and somebody gets a shiny trophy at the end. What's more American than that?



Like most red-blooded American celebrations, the food is the most important thing. It has to be the RIGHT food, too. As turkey is to Thanksgiving and cookies are to Christmas, chicken wings are to the Super Bowl. I can't imagine watching the biggest football game of the year without chicken wings. By half-time, I guarantee you that my fingers will be so covered in Buffalo sauce that it'll look like I've been finger-painting with the color orange. Oh, and by the way, blue cheese is the correct dipping sauce for chicken wings. If you, like Mrs. Williams, prefer ranch, you are wrong. God made ranch for salads. And He made blue cheese for chicken wings.



Pizza is also an acceptable food for the big game, as long as it contains at least one meat, extra meat, or all the meat, along with real cheese. As a matter of fact, you can forego the crust and tomato sauce and just pile a bunch of meat and cheese on a circular tray and call it “caveman pizza.”



Chips are a must as long as any of the following words DO NOT appear anywhere on the packaging: baked, low-fat, low sodium, organic, healthy, nutritious, or spinach. Dips can range anywhere from the cheese variety to salsa to guacamole to, yes, even ranch. Just don't let me catch anyone dipping a chicken wing in there. (This means you, Mrs. Williams!)



I was about to say that anything you can pick up with your hands or fingers will work as a Super Bowl food, but then I remembered that you can eat apples and bananas and other assorted fruits and vegetables with your hands or fingers and then I remembered that I'm not a hippie. If you invite me to your party to watch football and there's nothing but a veggie tray and a fruit basket sitting next to a pitcher of water, I'm going to spend the whole game reading the Constitution of the United States to you, because you obviously have no idea what it means to be an American!



Apart from the food, I just hope the game is close, the commercials are funny, and that someday, they'll let Willie Nelson perform at halftime show. I hope you and friends have a great Sunday and if you think of it, call me at the start of the second half. I'll probably be asleep on the couch with a belly full of chicken wings.



Luke Williams was born and raised in western Kentucky. He decided to pursue a career in radio after his mamma told him that out of all her kids, he was the one that could "talk real good." In addition to radio, Luke has also worked in a boot store and a hardware store, so he can offer knowledgeable advice on insoles and hammers. You can hear Luke every afternoon on 93.3FM, WKYQ.