Why do men love football so much? Well, besides the fact that football is a great game, it is because it is a sport tailor-made for television. With its chalkboard analysis, instant replay, and beer commercials, watching football on television is almost as fun as being there, which cannot be said for any other sport. But football is best enjoyed with a group of your guy friends -- drinking beers, and talking football talk.

Football season is a great opportunity to have your friends over for a Sunday game-viewing "party." Each of your friends can host on different weeks and you can rotate. So, one week it will be your responsibility to host the men for football fun. Even if you are not rotating among yourselves, you should still offer to host one week, you'll enjoy the company and it should give your friends ideas. Here are some things you should do when you host your party:

First things first, clean up your place. Of course guys don't care if you're a mess, or not, but it will make cleaning up after the get-together that much easier if your place is clean to begin with -- or at least the area where you'll be watching the game. Also, make sure to create a good viewing area around the television. Pull couches together, bring in your extra chairs or bean bags if you need to. Have everything set to go well before the guys arrive.

This rule applies to all aspects of the party, including the food and drink. First thing on your shopping list: beer, and plenty of it. You do not want to drop more bucks than you need to for this thing, so don't waste your money on expensive imports or micro-brews. Budweiser, Red-Dog, or MGD should be sufficient. While you can definitely economize on the beer, avoid sinking too low and getting Natural Light or Schlitz Light. In reality, it isn't important what kind of beer you get, just make sure it's cold, very cold. It's probably best to buy the beer the night before and refrigerate during the night.

As for food, feel free to get some help from your friends. When you invite them, if they ask if they should bring something, tell them sure, they should bring some sort of food. Have them bring something like a pasta salad, dip, or anything along those lines. But, when all is said and done, you are the host, so you should make a bit more of an effort than your guests. In other words, chips and salsa is simply not enough to keep a group of hungry men satisfied.

Men watching football need nachos, and lots of them. For your basic nachos, you need to buy plenty of bags of nacho chips, shredded cheddar cheese, and some seeded and sliced jalepeno chilies. Sprinkle the chips with the chilies and the cheese and broil them in a toaster oven for three or four minutes, or until all the cheese is melted. Nice and easy. Of course, you can mix this recipe up and add more to it, including chicken or ground beef, olives, some salsa, avocado, or whatever. Heck, you can use those Campbell's Soup mixes if you want. The important thing is that it tastes good and that you have A LOT of them.

Another important element to your football party is the chicken wings. Here you are allowed to buy the wings elsewhere if you like, just make sure they are plentiful and hot. But wings are also extremely easy to make. All you do is get some of those Purdue wing packages from the supermarket, and bake them for 25 minutes in your oven at about 450. Then, melt about four tablespoons of butter or margarine in a saucepan and stir in some hot sauce, about six tablespoons worth. Put the cooked wings in your serving bowl and pour the sauce over them. That's it!

There is much more you can do for your party if you want. Chili is always a popular dish. If the guys are all still hungry, have some pizza delivery menus handy. Also, be sure to have a couple bowls of pretzels around to munch on.

This all may sound like a big deal, but it really is remarkably easy. Any effort you put into this is worth it to get the guys together to watch the game on Sunday. So, be generous, clean up, rearrange some furniture, spring for some beer, cook up some nachos and chicken wings, and revel in one of the greatest aspects of being a man.