Are You Ready for some Football?

His Super Bowl parties provide the homeless with good food, good entertainment and a chance to belong

- By Andy Simmons

If Christmas, Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July are our nation's biggest official holidays, certainly Super Bowl Sunday is our biggest unofficial holiday. Like those other days, it's a time for friends and family to gather for food, chatter and arguments. But mostly camaraderie. Some people living on the margins of society miss that special connection.

Meir Kalmanson thought they, too, should get to celebrate the big day. So, on a cold February Sunday in 2017, as he headed to a Super Bowl party being held at a New York City club a friend owned, he invited six homeless men he met on the streets to climb into an Uber and join him.