Suiting Up for the Super Bowl

The Food Network has come up with a Super Bowl snack for those who find the six-foot sub insufficient. TFN's idea: the six-foot nacho.

This is only one of the surprises awaiting football fans on Sunday. Another is the appearance of the regal Helen Mirren doing a commercial for Budweiser. There Dame Helen sits, elegant in pearls, a bottle of Bud in front of her, lecturing viewers who might be tempted to drive drunk.

Truly.

Commercials produced for the Super Bowl, usually as long in preparation as a five-act opera, famously cost zillions of dollars. It has not been revealed what the Oscar-winning star of "The Queen" received for her performance. We're guessing two cases of Budweiser.

Meanwhile, all over North America, bettors will be trying to guess the point spread when the Carolina Panthers' young hero, Cam Newton, faces the Denver Broncos' aging gunslinger, Peyton Manning. In the end, will it be Camelot or Peyton Place?

Now we have to start constructing our six-foot nacho. Pass me a Bud, bud.