Whether you’re looking forward to the highly anticipated ads, Rihanna’s half-time performance, or the game itself, the NFL’s Super Bowl is an event with a little something for everyone. However, for one young Brisbane professional, the highlight is something else entirely: a socially acceptable reason to crack open a beer at 9am on a Monday.

The primetime Sunday night slot in America means the big game kicks off early Monday morning in Australia, and that’s music to the ears of Drew Pearson (24). The young accountant has been hard at work reading ESPN.com and peppering the names of NFL players into conversations at work this week to pre-emptively justify the fact that he will arrive to Tuesday morning’s WIP meeting looking like he’s coming off a weekend in Bali with Michael Clarke.

Pearson, who has brought in a grand total of zero dollars of billable work in the two years he’s worked at Deloitte, even suggested that perhaps the firm should send him as a representative to a networking event (or, as he put it, “like, you know, a corporate thing or whatever”). The swiftness with which his boss rejected this blatant attempt to get drunk on the company card couldn’t deter Drew, who dutifully booked in his leave for Monday and put four Powerades and a Berocca in the work fridge for Tuesday.

Drew’s takes have so far included “yeah, Mahomes is pretty insane hey, and when he’s throwing to Tyreek Hill, look out,” and, “Eagles are good but, gonna be hard to stop Jaden Hurts.” His deep football knowledge will no doubt come in handy when he is absolutely legless at the Victory at 12:30pm.