So, you live in Abu Dhabi and want to see the Super Bowl?

Have to be prepared to go all night long.

With a couple of Americans new to town living just one floor away, at the new digs, we invited them over and watched the game (or I did, anyway) — which ran from 3.30 a.m. to about 7:30 a.m. here — on the other side of the planet.

Five observations after watching Baltimore defeat San Francisco 34-31.

1. For First World humans, probably the worst time not to be sleeping is 3:30 to 7:30 in the morning. And if you stretch that from 1 a.m. to 7:30 (because I woke from three hours of sleep to prepare for guests). You are going to be some level of zombie, if the next day is a work day. And it was.

2. A concoction called “buffalo chicken” makes for one fine appetizer. Even when it is the dead of night.

3. Anyone who picks a team to win a Super Bowl when it is led by a quarterback making his 10th career start … is an idiot.

4. The Superdome blackout was annoying on two levels: for those of us desperate to get an extra 34 minutes of sleep before reporting to work at 10:30 a.m. … well, that disappeared as we sat around and waited. And it was unconscionable of CBS to hold all (nearly all?) of its commercial breaks during the blackout and save them for when the game resumed. The final 25 minutes of game time could have been played in a hurry, without the normal eternal SB ad breaks, and that would have been great fun.

5.  Jim Harbaugh is scary. I’m not sure I had seen a whole game with him on the sidelines, and he seems to be some sort of proto-Belichick. Humorless, socially inept, perpetually raging at officials about something or the other. And unable to win the big game. I mean, “illegal formation” on the first play of the game?

Am I glad I did it? Well, yes. It was an interesting game, once Colin Kaepernick stopped making mistakes. I was happy to be able to share the TV with a young friend whose television isn’t yet hooked up. It perpetuated my streak of seeing at least part of every Super Bowl ever played.

But I will have to think hard, in the future, about working the day after a game that kicks off at 3:30 in the morning.