How elaborate should Superbowl food be?

Your having friends over to watch the BIG GAME. You may, or may not, have any vested interest in either team playing… but it’s an event nevertheless. There’s the gazillion dollar advertisements… many of which are quite memorable and worthy of a celebration. Who doesn’t enjoy infants who can trade stock online… while chatting-up the neighbor babies on their cell phones or spitting-up? This is classic stuff.  So the question is…

Should the food you make for the Superbowl reflect a celebration of LIFE… where no food is off-limits…or be true to the game… and represent classic renditions of gridiron edibles? 

Superbowl FOOD possibilities looked at from both schools of thought:

Celebration of LIFE                             True to the GAME

Blue Corn Crusted Scrod                         Hot Wings w/ Blue Cheese & celery

Duck Confit w/ Avocado Foam                DeepDish Pizza w/ Pepperoni

Steak Tartare w/ Poached Egg                Bratwurst on a roll w/ Deli mustard

Blood Orange Mimosa Cocktails               something w/ Drinkability

         

For me it’s an easy call… TRUE to the GAME. That doesn’t mean you can’t work up a high-end Wing recipe… homemade blue cheese dressing… or fly in the nation’s best Brats from Wisconsin to treat your friends to.  Make your own deep dish pizza w/ imported pepperoni. That still honors tradition… it’s still football food . While there’s lots of fun in fancy food… your Superbowl party is not the right time. To which side of this debate do you lean? Just how elaborate is TOO elaborate? Please share your comments.