Don´t want to make to same mistake I made last year. Was watching the Super Bowl and half way through the Patriots and Bears disappeared and I was watching some soccer game. Our group complained, and we were in the majority, but the owner wanted to see the soccer game.

Where can I be absolutely sure, other than watching the game at home, that they will stay with the Super Bowl and not switch it some soccer game?.

Having sought out the Super Bowl in Latin America in the past, I think the only guaranteed place to find it is at home on cable or satellite. If there's a soccer game on at the same time, as there usually is any Sunday in Latin America, that will always take priority with local people in a public place. They're interested in futbol, not football.

We had good luck watching it two different years in Antigua and Panajachel Guatemala. The one time we tried to watch it in CR, it was changed to a soccer game during the second half. We were in a little tico bar in the Sarapiqui area so we were outnumbered. When in Panajachel we were the only Norte Americanos in the bar we were in but they kept the game on for us.

What country/city will you be in?

Puerto Vallarta Mexico?

I think it needs to be a place that has a large expat U.S. clientele year-round and probably one that specifically advertises that it will be showing the Super Bowl. That would be your best bet.

When they cite figures saying that the Super Bowl is seen in 175 countries (or something like that), that may be true, but in nearly all those countries, they mean that it's just available on a channel on the local cable or satellite system. The U.S. expat population is the only group watching it. It's not like Jose and Maria Rodriguez are interested, and in places where Jose and Maria go, a soccer game or a telenovela will probably be on. Personally, I don't think we as Americans should expect a local place to bend to our wishes.

you haven't said where you'll be...but if the "ba" in livinginba means buenos aires, i've got the answer. there's a bar call The Alamo that's owned by an expat named dave. we watched the rose bowl there this new years. ate wings and nachos, it was very surreal...

Exactly, if in BA, that should be the place.

It's called Alamo or barefoot whatever.

See here drdawggy's comments about that place: http://tinyurl.com/3akshl

i'm glad i didn't read drdawggy's post before we went to the alamo. i would've skipped it. as it was, it was not a place i'd head for unless you have a specific sporting event like this to watch, but fun with good flat screen tv's if you've gotta catch the game. perhaps it's a novelty for portenos most of the time, but the night of the rose bowl, i only heard english spoken.

Amazingly enough, we watched the 2003 Super Bowl (Tampa Buccaneers) in a little Tico bar in Cahuita! Who would've thought it. The only other American was also the only other guest at the hotel where we were staying--and he was from Tampa!

cheryl, I would go to el Alamo to watch a U.S. sporting event such as the Super Bowl. I think it would be fun.

I did not like the food or the service in the restaurant downstairs. But some wings or nachos and cold drinks while watching the Super Bowl on a flat screen with other screaming fans....I would do it in a heartbeat.....

If you are in Costa Rica you can watch it at Rock & Roll Pollo or at the Sportsmens Lodge.