Enhance your Super Bowl XLVIII experience with mobile apps and online ads

by Blaine Kyllo on January 30th, 2014 at 2:54 PM

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You may not be watching the Super Bowl game through your Xbox One on Sunday (if it’s even happening on Sunday), but you can use your personal mobile tech to enhance your viewing experience.

The NFL has an entire page of mobile apps all about American football, including one for tailgating. There’s even one for “homegating”, so you can duplicate the parking lot experience in the comfort of your living room or man cave, right down to arguing with other fans over which running back is going to pick up the most yardage (duh, it’ll be the Seahawks’ Marshawn Lynch, of course).

Food52 is a great source for game-day recipes so you can fill the coffee table with more than just chips and dip. (How about lamb sliders, sticky ribs, or chorizo puffs?)

You can also expand your beverage options beyond the basic beer with Mixology, “the ultimate drink and cocktail recipe app”.

And both teams have apps that will be feeding interviews with players, real-time stats, and videos, so you can keep the game on the big screen, and watch the highlights on the smaller one:

Sadly, most TV viewers in Canada won’t be able to watch the Super Bowl commercials, thanks to the Canadian networks subbing their own feeds over top of the signals from the U.S.

Those with good HD antennas can get an over-the-air signal from Q13 Fox in Seattle. For the rest, you can still partake in the big-budget frenzy thanks to online sites, many of which are already showing some of the ads that won’t be broadcast until Sunday: