Having just completed another weekend of watching wall-to-wall football (doesn't everybody?), it's an appropriate time to tell you, again, what they're doing with Super Bowl Sunday.
The game, if you haven't heard, will be in New York next month. Okay, in East Rutherford, N.J., a short ride from the Big Apple. Since it will be February, that 
means there's a reasonable chance it will be cold, snowy, icy, rainy or windy…or four of the five.
That's one thing "they" are doing to the Super Bowl, which normally is played in air-conditioned comfort.
They're also making it more of a cruise-ship party than ever. Any ship with sports fans and a big screen is going to throw a party on deck. Norwegian is taking it to a different level by parking a ship — its new Getaway — not far from the game and turning it into a floating hotel. Actually, it's a Bud Light promotion that will enable football fans to spend a night on the Getaway after the game and its inevitable day-long party.
They'll be as cold as the fans in New Jersey, of course, but they'll be able to duck into warmer areas of the ship for relief.
However, it's not quite what it originally seemed.
There is room for 4,000 people to bunk down on the Getaway. Most of them will be "corporate partners"…but corporate partners of whom? Budweiser, for sure, but also the NFL? Norwegian?
Reports are there will be room for Bud Light contest winners…up top 400 of them. That means 90 per cent of the ship will be for "VIPs" and — since there are no tickets for sale — this Super Bowl party will be more difficult to get into than the game itself.
xx-Norwegian Sky
4 nights
January 6, 2014
Miami (return): Grand Bahama, Nassau, Great Stirrup Cay
Inside: $149
Cost per day: $39
www.ncl.com