It's getting harder and harder to avoid fans anxiously waiting for Super Bowl Sunday, but the Super Bowl experience varies depending on who you ask.

"I'm more concerned with the outcome than what I do," Brandon Ritrovato (junior-electrical engineering) said. "I think that if your team is in it, it's good to have people that are going to be rooting along with you."

However, New England Patriots fans in State College may have a hard time finding such a gathering.

"I'm going to my friend's house who is a Pats fan, and she is only having Pats fans," Cory Hanson (sophomore-business) said. "[She] did it last year too, and there was, like, 12 of them."

Avid fans such as Philadelphia Eagles enthusiast Matt Conosciani (senior-civil engineering) will watch the game at home to avoid any possible conflicts.

"It wouldn't be very safe for myself or others," he said. "Win, lose, or draw, it's just safer at home base."

Conosciani said all he needs are a La-Z-Boy, his lucky football boxers and a severe disdain for the other team. "You got to hate on the other team," he said. "Hate. Hate. Hate."

Justin Fraser (junior-civil engineering) said all he needs to be prepared for the game are the basics. "I want a big TV, an array of food, and I want friends who I can talk to and joke with," Fraser said. "But I want to be able to watch the game and know what's going on."

Fraser said he would prefer a small gathering of friends instead of a large party or bar because he wants to know what's going on and be able to remember it the next day.

But students who prefer to go to bars for the game can look forward to big crowds and a spirited atmosphere.

"When Eagles are playing here, it's like pageantry," said Scott Lucchesi, manager of Champs Sports Bar & Grill, 1611 N. Atherton St. "It's as close to the stadium as you can get. People are going to be going crazy here."

But amidst the Eagles' chants and Patriots' cheers, several Penn State students will not be painting their faces, wearing football jerseys, or crowding around a TV on Sunday. "I don't really like football," Dave Fogarty (sophomore-political science) said. "I'm from Connecticut. Our own state doesn't have a team." Fogarty said he thinks Super Bowl Sunday will be a good opportunity to go out to places that will not attract large numbers of football fans.

"Penn State is a ghost town when the football games are on. I'm going to probably end up going to Starbucks or the [Tall Shiva] Hookah Lounge," he said.

Stacy Dowell (sophomore-English) is not even sure of when Super Bowl Sunday is. "It's one of those things where I'm like, 'Oh, it's Super Bowl Sunday,' " she said. "I know the Steelers are out and that the Eagles are in, but I'm from Nevada. Because we don't really have a team, we're mostly not football fanatics."

Dowell added that even when she is home with her family for the Super Bowl, she still does not have an opportunity to sit down and watch the game.

"I'm not planning on watching it just because, historically, I'm the one who makes the food for the game," she said.

Jesse Dominick (junior-secondary education) said if he decides to watch the Super Bowl, it will only be for the halftime show and the buffalo wings. "I'll definitely watch Paul McCartney," he said.