Shhhh.... don't tell the Americans
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But... I just had the misfortune of watching 40 minutes of the "Super" Bowl. Blimey. If this is a popular game out there, I'd hate to see an unpopular one. Some blokes face off. A ball gets passed. Some rule is transgressed. Play stops for ten minutes. Blokes in body armour stand around doing nothing. Commentators wax lyrical about how brilliant it is. Honestly. Just when you think something interesting is about to happen, it all stops and a couple of berks appear telling you it was great and/or some footage of how great previous "Super" bowls were. You'll excuse me while I return to jabbing myself with knitting needles. At least that's more fun than the "Super" bowl.
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All you extreme sports fans need to know is, watch a game of Hurling. Played in Ireland. Preferably involving Kilkenny. Best. Spectator sport. Ever.
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It's like any other game: when you don't know anything about it, it's not very interesting. Cheers, Drew.
While I agree with your point, having a game that lasts for 30 minutes or so take hours to finish there isn't much in the way of a game being played then. I'd be curious to see how fit the players actually are since they don't seem to do any lengthy exercise :rolleyes:
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But... I just had the misfortune of watching 40 minutes of the "Super" Bowl. Blimey. If this is a popular game out there, I'd hate to see an unpopular one. Some blokes face off. A ball gets passed. Some rule is transgressed. Play stops for ten minutes. Blokes in body armour stand around doing nothing. Commentators wax lyrical about how brilliant it is. Honestly. Just when you think something interesting is about to happen, it all stops and a couple of berks appear telling you it was great and/or some footage of how great previous "Super" bowls were. You'll excuse me while I return to jabbing myself with knitting needles. At least that's more fun than the "Super" bowl.
My Bookmarks I clicked the link. In an instant I was transported 15 years back in time.
martin_hughes wrote:
Blokes in body armour
I'd like to see them try Rugby Union against France or Oz.
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
We also spent considerable time watching the cheerleaders
The best part of any sporting match. :-D
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What about female tennis doubles?
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But... I just had the misfortune of watching 40 minutes of the "Super" Bowl. Blimey. If this is a popular game out there, I'd hate to see an unpopular one. Some blokes face off. A ball gets passed. Some rule is transgressed. Play stops for ten minutes. Blokes in body armour stand around doing nothing. Commentators wax lyrical about how brilliant it is. Honestly. Just when you think something interesting is about to happen, it all stops and a couple of berks appear telling you it was great and/or some footage of how great previous "Super" bowls were. You'll excuse me while I return to jabbing myself with knitting needles. At least that's more fun than the "Super" bowl.
My Bookmarks I clicked the link. In an instant I was transported 15 years back in time.
I once took part in the half time "entertainment"* for an American Football game at Spurs' ground in London and from where we were sitting it seemed interminable. I was so bored it was unreal..in fact I'd rather be forced to watch darts for a whole week without a break than site though that again (and that's saying something!). :doh: * For some reason they though having a bunch of medievalists with cannon, full plate armour and steel weapons beat each other up would fit the mood of the crowd. But that's another story... :rolleyes:
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But... I just had the misfortune of watching 40 minutes of the "Super" Bowl. Blimey. If this is a popular game out there, I'd hate to see an unpopular one. Some blokes face off. A ball gets passed. Some rule is transgressed. Play stops for ten minutes. Blokes in body armour stand around doing nothing. Commentators wax lyrical about how brilliant it is. Honestly. Just when you think something interesting is about to happen, it all stops and a couple of berks appear telling you it was great and/or some footage of how great previous "Super" bowls were. You'll excuse me while I return to jabbing myself with knitting needles. At least that's more fun than the "Super" bowl.
My Bookmarks I clicked the link. In an instant I was transported 15 years back in time.
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martin_hughes wrote:
You'll excuse me while I return to jabbing myself with knitting needles. At least that's more fun than the "Super" bowl.
I've spent the day baking... and eating... various pies, breads, and scones. IMHO, one of the best parts of working alone most of the time is no more need to feign interest in these professional "sports".
Shog9 wrote:
I've spent the day baking... and eating... various pies, breads, and scones
I thought that was the purpose of the Superbowl. I spent the day cooking things that are bad for me and serving them to people I love, but hope one day to inherit from. There was also much screaming and jumping up and down, free-flowing scotch, alternately rolling on the floor with, then beating the dogs. Oh, and watching material intended to induce me to buy things I don't want or need... The game was incidental.
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Mycroft Holmes wrote:
Personally I find baseball the most brain dead of the lot...
Baseball, like fishing, is a thin excuse to sit outside and drink on a nice day. As such excuses go, it isn't too bad.
And it's way more enjoyable when you're at the baseball park. I can't stand to watch baseball on TV, but at the park, it's a different story entirely.
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But... I just had the misfortune of watching 40 minutes of the "Super" Bowl. Blimey. If this is a popular game out there, I'd hate to see an unpopular one. Some blokes face off. A ball gets passed. Some rule is transgressed. Play stops for ten minutes. Blokes in body armour stand around doing nothing. Commentators wax lyrical about how brilliant it is. Honestly. Just when you think something interesting is about to happen, it all stops and a couple of berks appear telling you it was great and/or some footage of how great previous "Super" bowls were. You'll excuse me while I return to jabbing myself with knitting needles. At least that's more fun than the "Super" bowl.
My Bookmarks I clicked the link. In an instant I was transported 15 years back in time.
Too funny. That's an excellent post!!!! Your second paragraph is the best thing I've read about the "Super Bowl" today. Disclosure: I played it when I was in school. And I still occasionally watch it in person and on the TV. Just curious, what did you think of the half time show?
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Too funny. That's an excellent post!!!! Your second paragraph is the best thing I've read about the "Super Bowl" today. Disclosure: I played it when I was in school. And I still occasionally watch it in person and on the TV. Just curious, what did you think of the half time show?
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But... I just had the misfortune of watching 40 minutes of the "Super" Bowl. Blimey. If this is a popular game out there, I'd hate to see an unpopular one. Some blokes face off. A ball gets passed. Some rule is transgressed. Play stops for ten minutes. Blokes in body armour stand around doing nothing. Commentators wax lyrical about how brilliant it is. Honestly. Just when you think something interesting is about to happen, it all stops and a couple of berks appear telling you it was great and/or some footage of how great previous "Super" bowls were. You'll excuse me while I return to jabbing myself with knitting needles. At least that's more fun than the "Super" bowl.
My Bookmarks I clicked the link. In an instant I was transported 15 years back in time.
American football ("handegg" would make more sense) is about 90% marketing and 10% sport. It has very close parallels with the U.S. economy before it collapsed: not much actual product, just a lot of hype going round and round. As long as people don't take too hard a look at it, it will continue to have monetary success. To me the thing that illustrates all of this the best is that the winner is declared "world champion" in a single nation league. The Canadian football (handegg) Gray Cup is much more fun to watch, it's all about the sports and very little about the marketing, you can go to the host city and drink free beer in the morning and have a great time with little hyper or coporate presence. In the U.S. it seems the corporate presence *is* a sign of a good event, go figure. I think the ultimate object measure of how good a sport is, is how unpredictable the outcome is going to be. I personally think ice hockey is the best sport from a purely sporting and spectator point of view however I realize that unless you've played at least street hockey a few times most people would never *get* how skilled and gifted those guys are. I'd put them up against any other sport in the world in the toughness department. From a purely entertainment perspective there is non stop action that is so intense that players have to rotate on the fly in shifts that may be as little as 30 seconds, the outcome of the game is almost always in doubt and there is great parity in the league, our western division at the midpoint of the season has most teams separated by only 2 or 3 points. I can fully understand why most non Canadians or Americans in non traditional hockey markets won't get it and it's perfectly understandable, you like what you grew up with or have played personally, but to say it's all about the fighting and violence as some do is complete ignorance.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
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American football ("handegg" would make more sense) is about 90% marketing and 10% sport. It has very close parallels with the U.S. economy before it collapsed: not much actual product, just a lot of hype going round and round. As long as people don't take too hard a look at it, it will continue to have monetary success. To me the thing that illustrates all of this the best is that the winner is declared "world champion" in a single nation league. The Canadian football (handegg) Gray Cup is much more fun to watch, it's all about the sports and very little about the marketing, you can go to the host city and drink free beer in the morning and have a great time with little hyper or coporate presence. In the U.S. it seems the corporate presence *is* a sign of a good event, go figure. I think the ultimate object measure of how good a sport is, is how unpredictable the outcome is going to be. I personally think ice hockey is the best sport from a purely sporting and spectator point of view however I realize that unless you've played at least street hockey a few times most people would never *get* how skilled and gifted those guys are. I'd put them up against any other sport in the world in the toughness department. From a purely entertainment perspective there is non stop action that is so intense that players have to rotate on the fly in shifts that may be as little as 30 seconds, the outcome of the game is almost always in doubt and there is great parity in the league, our western division at the midpoint of the season has most teams separated by only 2 or 3 points. I can fully understand why most non Canadians or Americans in non traditional hockey markets won't get it and it's perfectly understandable, you like what you grew up with or have played personally, but to say it's all about the fighting and violence as some do is complete ignorance.
"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." -Sam Levenson
John C wrote:
but to say it's all about the fighting and violence as some do is complete ignorance.
yeah, they bench the worst of the thugs when the playoffs start and penalties actually start to matter. :rolleyes: My HS hockey team were thugs on ice and proud of it. They counted coup based on how many teams forfeited the game instead of risking injury.
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But... I just had the misfortune of watching 40 minutes of the "Super" Bowl. Blimey. If this is a popular game out there, I'd hate to see an unpopular one. Some blokes face off. A ball gets passed. Some rule is transgressed. Play stops for ten minutes. Blokes in body armour stand around doing nothing. Commentators wax lyrical about how brilliant it is. Honestly. Just when you think something interesting is about to happen, it all stops and a couple of berks appear telling you it was great and/or some footage of how great previous "Super" bowls were. You'll excuse me while I return to jabbing myself with knitting needles. At least that's more fun than the "Super" bowl.
My Bookmarks I clicked the link. In an instant I was transported 15 years back in time.
I'm an American...and I watched the 'House' marathon on USA channel :laugh:
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JimmyRopes wrote:
The best part of any sporting match
What about female tennis doubles?
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