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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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 Posted - 19/10/2009 : 06:15:32
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80,000 tickets sold in 6 minutes for the game. Do the Brits like American football or what?!
SO Brady throws 5 touchdown passes in one quarter today in a
snowstorm, a record...& win 59-0....he's baaack....you are in for
a show next Sunday.
You know the Patriots are my team!!
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell,
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
--william saroyan
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
1520 Posts |
Posted - 19/10/2009 : 11:04:48
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
80,000 tickets sold in 6 minutes for the game. Do the Brits like American football or what?!
SO Brady throws 5 touchdown passes in one quarter today in a
snowstorm, a record...& win 59-0....he's baaack....you are in for
a show next Sunday.
You know the Patriots are my team!!
____________________________________________________________
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell,
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
--william saroyan
Can't say I've ever met anyone in the UK who likes American Football but I think when those games are played it does get very hyped and a lot of people go for the curiousity value. Of course, there are fans (the tickets wouldn't sell if there weren't) just saying, in general, no I don't think the 'Brits' do like American football. |
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Old_Man
Old Love
United Kingdom
668 Posts |
Posted - 19/10/2009 : 14:25:01
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| I'm one "Brit" you've met Caryne, who likes american football. Actually I prefer baseball these days though. |
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Tina
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 19/10/2009 : 14:37:35
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| I've come across plenty of people in the UK who like American Football,and the son of some friends of ours is a player. However, in my view its vastly inferior to Rugby! |
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
1520 Posts |
Posted - 19/10/2009 : 14:52:29
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Originally posted by Old_Man
I'm one "Brit" you've met Caryne, who likes american football. Actually I prefer baseball these days though.
I stand corrected, Old Man
However, I still can't say I've ever had any conversations with anyone I know who likes the sport, most people echo Tina's comments that's it's just a vastly interior version of Rugby |
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 19/10/2009 : 15:23:46
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| The United States are curiously enough, the reigning Olympic Rugby Union champions......having won the title in 1920 and 1924...it's a great pub quiz question! For some reason, the sport has never been played since. I've never quite understood why as for most of the twentieth century, its amateur status suited the Olympic movement very well. As some of the soccer pundits were pointing out over the weekend, it is probably only a matter of time before the Premier League emulates the NFL and goes for the notorious 39th game. That would be ten games each season to be played in....well take your pick....Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Los Angeles....there'll be no shortage of venues! |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 19/10/2009 : 17:43:32
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Rugby is a tough sport. I had some college chums that were in a rugby league. They always came home bloodied and muddied!
Soccer can be a yawn for me....oh wow---a 0-0 tie...how exciting. Sorry, I have seen some good matches. 
American football is more of a chess match, though it seems like just bunch of smashing at the line. Each team on offense and defense have hundreds of plays that each team uses to outwit the other team. The offense sets, the defense switches coverage, then offense switches around and the defense switches again & tries to match the offense.....in that way it is a battle of wits with each player trying to match their assignment, covering their guy or eluding their guy.
Managing the clock to each team advantage.
Baseball is a much more mental game between pitcher and batter. A fine ol' sport, J9! The pitcher and catcher will need to know every batter they face (hundreds of them)...what they will swing at, how to get them to swing a bad pitch, and each outfielder knowing where the batter may pull the ball. The batters need to know the pitcher, too.
Unfortunately my Red Sox are out and our annual nemesis, the Yankees, playing for the championship.
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell,
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
--william saroyan
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
1520 Posts |
Posted - 19/10/2009 : 18:05:44
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
Rugby is a tough sport. I had some college chums that were in a rugby league. They always came home bloodied and muddied!
Soccer can be a yawn for me....oh wow---a 0-0 tie...how exciting. Sorry, I have seen some good matches.
American football is more of a chess match, though it seems like just bunch of smashing at the line. Each team on offense and defense have hundreds of plays that each team uses to outwit the other team. The offense sets, the defense switches coverage, then offense switches around and the defense switches again & tries to match the offense.....in that way it is a battle of wits with each player trying to match their assignment, covering their guy or eluding their guy.
Managing the clock to each team advantage.
Baseball is a much more mental game between pitcher and batter. A fine ol' sport, J9! The pitcher and catcher will need to know every batter they face (hundreds of them)...what they will swing at, how to get them to swing a bad pitch, and each outfielder knowing where the batter may pull the ball. The batters need to know the pitcher, too.
Unfortunately my Red Sox are out and our annual nemesis, the Yankees, playing for the championship.
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell,
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
--william saroyan
LK... football (or 'soccer' as you call it) is a game of skill and a 0-0 draw can still quite easily be a wonderfully played game that is a joy to watch likewise a game with many goals may still not be that interesting. The difference between Americans and the British with sport seems to be that many Americans seem to think it's all about scoring and winning rather than how the game is played. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 19/10/2009 : 18:29:21
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I think every one likes their team to win....you must also... Americans can appreciate a well fought loss as much as any and admire an opponents win. Winning isn't everything.....it will take a while for the World to get over the Bush era American stereo-type of a block headed fool that is proud of not reading books, relying on his gut to govern (whoa, now that's scary), and never admitting defeat.....
..... so you may be lumping all Americans in to one type & even if you know quite a few Americans, you don't know all of them, just as I don't know all of you fine Brits.....
Just as I don't believe all Brits have a droll sense of humor, all Americans aren't obsessed with winning. Thankfully we are all are own persons and I was being droll about soccer to make a point.
I think Americans proved we are not all block-headed ulta-conservatives when we put Obama in office. There is hope for us all......
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell,
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
--william saroyan
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
1520 Posts |
Posted - 19/10/2009 : 19:58:32
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Originally posted by lemonade kid
I think every one likes their team to win....you must also... Americans can appreciate a well fought loss as much as any and admire an opponents win. Winning isn't everything.....it will take a while for the World to get over the Bush era American stereo-type of a block headed fool that is proud of not reading books, relying on his gut to govern (whoa, now that's scary), and never admitting defeat.....
..... so you may be lumping all Americans in to one type & even if you know quite a few Americans, you don't know all of them, just as I don't know all of you fine Brits.....
Just as I don't believe all Brits have a droll sense of humor, all Americans aren't obsessed with winning. Thankfully we are all are own persons and I was being droll about soccer to make a point.
I think Americans proved we are not all block-headed ulta-conservatives when we put Obama in office. There is hope for us all......
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell,
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
--william saroyan
I don't have a 'team' which is why, I guess, I don't care who wins and just prefer a good game.. of whatever it is.
My previous post did refer to 'many Americans' not all, sorry if you felt offended by it as I know you and many other wonderful Americans who do not fit that stereotype you refer to. I guess I was also thinking of the fact that cricket has never really taken off in the US either and, from many comments I have heard/read from many places it is usually said it is because it is too slow. And, after all LK, it was you, not me, who implied our football was dull because you often get 0-0 draws!!! |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 26/10/2009 : 13:33:29
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You know if you think about it old cricket and baseball are anacronisms for our mdoern age. They're "agricultural" games with lawns and green and sand mounds man! And relatively speaking to those "other" sports like football and "soccer" they are S.....l....o....w......
and lk I see your nemesis is in the World Series now!.... you know for some around here they're just like those "hated" mancs (manchester united)!! |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2009 : 16:57:58
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Originally posted by rocker
You know if you think about it old cricket and baseball are anacronisms for our mdoern age. They're "agricultural" games with lawns and green and sand mounds man! And relatively speaking to those "other" sports like football and "soccer" they are S.....l....o....w......
and lk I see your nemesis is in the World Series now!.... you know for some around here they're just like those "hated" mancs (manchester united)!!
Red Sox-Yankees is the best rivalry in baseball and every Yank/Sox fan will tell you so.
It just isn't the same if they aren't in it for the pennant race every year. My friend is a Yankee fan, but we are not crazy like some fans...if the Yanks are in the World Series, I pull for them, and the other way around. American League all the way!
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell,
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
--william saroyan
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2009 : 21:29:05
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| Here's hoping we have a great World Series to watch...I know I'm dating myself but I remember hearing those WS games only on radio but then they brought a tv in for us to watch it..... during the school day no less. oh Baseball Bliss!!! |
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Old_Man
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 26/10/2009 : 21:34:07
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| While I was in NYC in August the Red Sox were playing at Yankee Stadium 4 of the 7 days that I was there (I think the Yankees won it 4-0). The other 3 days it was the Blue Jays. I tried but couldn't get tickets for a sox game, as rare as hens teeth someone said! So it was a Blue Jays game for me, and the Yankees lost! Nevertheless is was a fantastic experience being there. |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 26/10/2009 : 21:56:29
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>>Rocker...I remember friends with their transistors in the school hallways between classes....catching what scores and game we could. It wasn't about ratings and prime time $$$...it was about baseball.
>>Hey 'ol man..a piece of history, the Yankees and Red Sox...too bad in a way, though they did a great job with the new ballpark, that you missed being at the old Yankee Stadium. I don't think Bostonians will ever let them knock down Fenway Park! It will have to fall down on its own!
Yankees are the team to beat this year...we'll see.
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell,
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
--william saroyan
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2009 : 13:25:38
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You know on my bulletin board here at work I have the lineups of that famous game in '60 between the Pirates and the Yanks..that's when Mazeroski hit his famous homer! We all died a 1000 deaths in the classroom!!! It's interesting that I remember that game as well as when Kennedy was killed in Dallas. Both are in my memory as if they happeend yesterday. I'm sure many here have the same kind of memories when it comes to the Series.
lk..right...just "baseball"..no ratings etc etc etc just the game and the great drama. Maybe maybe the Yanks and Phils will keep it up...should be a good one they say! |
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Pats vs Bucks in UK next weekend....
