The World View

Across Paris, a number of cafes and clubs that cater to U.S. residents and other foreigners were gearing up for late-night Super Bowl parties. At the Mustang Cafe in Montparnasse, the Left Bank neighborhood haunted by Ernest Hemingway and other Jazz Age expatriates, the 149-franc ($22.75) midnight menu includes buffalo wings, Caesar salad, cheeseburgers, ribs, brownies and half-pints of American beer (Budweiser).

As the clash in Atlanta approaches, the Agence France-Presse news agency has been distributing dispatches throughout the French-speaking world, informing readers from Tahiti to Timbuktu about the pending championship of a sport that the vast majority have never seen played and don’t understand. Canal Plus, the French cable TV company, will carry the game pitting les Beliers (Rams) against les Titans live starting at 11:15 p.m. Sunday French time.