If you’re the type who enjoys making a game out of drinking while watching the Super Bowl, you might consider trying our Super Bowl 47* Drinking Game (we would’ve used Roman Numerals, but we’re pre-gaming). Just a note before we get to the details: drink responsibly and don’t drink & drive. Getting seriously injured, having your license taken away or, worse yet, hurting others would put a huge damper on this and other Super Bowl Sundays for you and quite a few other people than you might think.

First and foremost, you have to pick one of the teams, even if that means flipping a coin. It’s vital to the drinking game, and to watching the Super Bowl in general. Even if you have no pre-determined rooting interest, it’s more fun to watch if you pick a team.

Here’s how the ruleset breaks down:

During The Game

Touchdowns

– if a touchdown is scored by the opposing team, take a drink from your beer for 6 seconds

Point After Touchdown

– if the opposing team scores, take a drink from your beer for 1 or 2 seconds, depending on the number of points scored

– if your team misses an extra point kick, take 2 sips from your beer (1 for the point they missed, doubled because extra points should be easy)

– if your team fails to score on a 2-point conversion, take 2 sips from your beer

Field Goals

– if your team is forced to kick a field goal from within the 20 yard line, take 4 sips of your beer, one for the each of the points they failed to get

– if the opposing team makes a field goal, take 3 sips of your beer; if it’s 50+ yards, take 2 more sips

Special Teams

– if the opposition kicks it through the uprights on the kick-off, take 3 sips

– if the kick-off goes out of bounds and a penalty is called, take 4 sips

– if a kick-off or punt is returned for a touchdown by the opposing team, take 4 extra sips (that’s 10 sips, with 6 from the touchdown)

– any time your team has to punt, take a sip

– any time your team has to call a fair catch, take a sip

– any time the opposition successfully converts a fake punt, take two sips

– if your team doesn’t return the punt, and it’s downed inside the 5 yard line, take 2 sips

– if your player fails to call for a fair catch and gets blasted, take 2 sips

Turnover-Related

– if your QB throws an interception, take 2 sips; if it’s returned for a touchdown, that’s 8 total

– if your team fumbles and the defense recovers, takes 2 sips; if it’s returned for a touchdown, that’s 8 total

Big Plays (not Special Teams)

– if your team’s defense allows a pass of more than 39 yards or a run of more than 19 yards, take a sip (add the 6 if it results in a touchdown)

– if your team’s defense allows a QB to run for 20+ yards on a play, add an additional sip

– if the receiver’s name isn’t Randy Moss or Torrey Smith, add an additional sip

– if the running back’s name isn’t Ray Rice or Frank Gore, add an additional sip

Penalties

– if your team gets called for Holding or False Start, take 1 sip

– if your team gets called for a Horse-Collar or Roughing The Passer, take 2 sips

– if your team BENEFITS from a Pass Interference call, take 1 sip

Challenge Flags

– when a challenge is called, pick whether you think it will be over-turned/reversed. If you’re wrong, take a sip

– if your team’s coach does not win the challenge, take 3 sips

Player and Coach Actions

– if Alex Smith is shown brooding on the sidelines, take a sip

– if Alex Smith goes into the game, take a sip

– if Randy Moss drops a pass and you want the 49ers to win, take a sip

– if Randy Moss catches a touchdown and you want the Ravens to win, take a sip

– when the parents of Coaches Harbaugh get shown, take a sip

– if Ed Reed gets an interception and you want the 49ers to win, take a sip

– if you want the Ravens to win, take a sip anytime antler spray is mentioned

– if Carlos Rogers gets an interception and you want the Ravens to win, take a sip. Take 2 sips if you’re also a Redskins fan

– if your coach gets Gatorade dumped on them, take a drink

Cheerleaders

– any time the cheerleaders are on the screen, take a sip

– if they show the cheerleaders for the opposing team, take two sips

– if you say that your significant other is hotter than the cheerleader, take a sip

During Commercial Breaks

– if there’s a commercial for a different brand of beer than what you’re drinking, take 2 sips

– if it’s a Doritos commercial, take a sip

– if it’s a commercial for the car you drive, take a sip

– if there’s a commercial that you laugh at, and no one else does, take a sip

– if you leave the room for a bathroom break, take 1 sip first

– if there’s a commercial for a CBS television show you don’t usually watch, take 1 sip

– if there’s an attractive woman in a commercial you’d like to “date” (during your single days, if you’re currently spoken for), take 2 sips

– – if you want DIBS on that woman amongst others in the room, raise your hand and, when your challenge is accepted by someone else who raises their hand, drink more sips than they do during that challenge period. If you finish your beer and they keep drinking, neither of you get dibs

– – – – if you have DIBS on the woman in the commercial, and she appears in another commercial, you must instigate DIBS again if you wish to maintain your dibs

During Half-Time

Note: if your team is losing at half-time, any numbered sips listed below are doubled (not the “finish your beer” options)

– any time the analysts say they’re “not surprised” by the events of the first half, take a sip

– if on-screen diagramming of plays occurs, take a sip for each play they break down

– if there is a Jay-Z appearance NOT on the stage (standing by, watching), take 2 sips

– if there is a Jay-Z appearance on the stage, take 4 sips

– if there is an appearance by Beyonce’s daughter on stage, finish your beer

– if there is an appearance by the rest of Destiny’s Child, finish your beer

– if there is an appearance by Kanye West, finish your beer

– if there is a wardrobe malfunction, hit pause as soon as possible, because, come on, it’s Beyonce. Drink as much as you’d like, but enjoy the show

– – if there is a wardrobe malfunction and you can’t hit pause because your significant other won’t let you, or because you don’t have DVR, or because you’re at someone else’s house, finish your beer