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Posted June 28, 2014
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Darvond: Call it hand egg, tax the NFL 60% and be done with the sport of uneducated barbarians.
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Sachys: call it wimp-rugby, take 60% of revenue for some kind of copyright infringement. immasculate all the fans and players! ;)
Wimp is too nice. :3C
Posted June 28, 2014
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Sachys: call it wimp-rugby, take 60% of revenue for some kind of copyright infringement. immasculate all the fans and players! ;)
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Darvond: Wimp is too nice. :3C
heheheh!
Posted June 28, 2014
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Darvond: Wimp is too nice. :3C
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Sachys: heheheh!
Man, you guys are just jealous of our awesome sport! In fact, we are sending more to London this year... Hell you guys can HAVE the Patriots for all we care, I hate them anyway, and WTF, since I'm feeling generous, take all of Boston while you're at it. The rest of us really hate those shitty accents.
Posted June 28, 2014
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Sachys: heheheh!
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Cyberevil: Man, you guys are just jealous of our awesome sport! In fact, we are sending more to London this year... Hell you guys can HAVE the Patriots for all we care, I hate them anyway, and WTF, since I'm feeling generous, take all of Boston while you're at it. The rest of us really hate those shitty accents.
hmmm... think we'll send them to the aussie rules football teams first to toughen them up some!
Posted June 28, 2014
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Sachys: heheheh!
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Cyberevil: Man, you guys are just jealous of our awesome sport! In fact, we are sending more to London this year... Hell you guys can HAVE the Patriots for all we care, I hate them anyway, and WTF, since I'm feeling generous, take all of Boston while you're at it. The rest of us really hate those shitty accents.
You want the La-Le-Lu-Le-Lo?
Posted June 28, 2014
I'm fine with you guys having that boring sport called soccer. I still can't understand how you can be excited about games that play to a 0 to 0 score throughout much of the game. I have attempted to watch the game on numerous occasions, but perhaps you need to be drunk to enjoy it. Shorten the field up to Ice hockey rink size, and you might have an interesting sport. Until that time I will stick with American Football, Baseball and an occasional Ice Hockey game.
Posted June 28, 2014
I wonder what Mia Hamm thinks about Ann Coulter.
Posted June 29, 2014
Please, she even messed up her opening sentence...

"I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade -- or about the length of the average American football game -- so as not to offend anyone"
There, fixed that one for her for free, though maybe "Baseball" would be a better choice. She'd need to send me a check to make the rest of it even partially readable.

My summary of American football as given after watching the Super bowl two years ago:
"Football: an hour long game that takes 3 1/2 hours to play in which a total of 2 minutes are exciting."
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Sachys: aussie rules football
I happened to catch a game of this on television once awhile back.... that is some crazy stuff.
I didn't know anything about it beforehand and still don't, but it was fun to watch.
Post edited June 29, 2014 by adambiser
Posted June 29, 2014
Ann Coulter is an idiot.
Posted June 29, 2014
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The real sign of moral decay in the US is that vicious jingoists, evangelicals, and white supremacists like Ann Coulter are considered credible speakers on any matter of public interest at all.

A truly moral society would reject her blather without honoring it even to refute it.

And American football is not even an athletic contest any more than "professional wrestling" is but a colossal bore that exists solely for the purpose of selling advertising. In fact, it is that purpose that makes it quintessentially American.
Post edited June 29, 2014 by cjrgreen
Posted June 29, 2014
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monkeydelarge: They should make Murica football players wear spiked armor and name Murica football Blood Bowl.
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JudasIscariot: You never know, that just might happen in the future as people become starved for new forms of entertainment :P
You never know if they figure out quantum and string theory to get hold of those other dimensions scientists speak of.

BB with just human teams is after all bit boring, despite i am coaching one this very season ;)
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VABlitz: I have attempted to watch the game on numerous occasions, but perhaps you need to be drunk to enjoy it.
Actually one problematic thing about american football for me is the length vs liver -factor:

With all the pauses in the game and the match lasts 3+ hours id not only be drunk, but dead of liver failure. I mean, when the game pauses (which it does considerably often´) - what else one is expected to do but drink more?
Post edited June 29, 2014 by iippo
Posted June 29, 2014
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Tarm: Spandex and cheerleaders.
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LoboBlanco: The only way I´d be convinced to watch that sport :P
Ha ha. I've forgotten that picture.
Yes I agree. That would be about the only way to get me to watch it. For about five minutes. Then I'll have to go "bother" my girlfriend (Which reminds me. I need one again!) or watch a porno. ;)
Posted June 29, 2014
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tinyE: The thing that bothers me, and I don't really see that happening in here, is that people outside the U.S. are going to pick this up and think, "Oh, so that's America."

EVERYONE has a screwed up relative in their family. We stick them in the corner, give them their pudding, and ignore them because while they are annoying they are also more or less harmless. I urge the rest of the world, please do not judge us based on our screwed up relatives. :D
The thing is, the rest of us may stick our screwed-up relatives in a corner, but in the US you have a nasty habit of putting them on TV instead. Those broadcasts are then sold to TV companies all over the world, some of them go viral on YouTube, and they wind up giving the rest of the world the impression that 90% of Americans are too stupid to tie their own shoes.

I think most people are aware that there are idiots everywhere in the world in about the same proportions to non-idiots, but the US is very good at shouting "Look! Look at our idiots!", which really doesn't give the rest of the world the best impression of you.

It also really didn't help that you elected George W. Bush president. It was very hard to take you seriously as a nation after that.

In short, yes, we know that Ann Coulter is not "the average American", but as nations go, yours has just about the worst PR department in the world, and that's making it extremely hard for the rest of us to keep that in mind.
Posted June 29, 2014
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tinyE: The thing that bothers me, and I don't really see that happening in here, is that people outside the U.S. are going to pick this up and think, "Oh, so that's America."

EVERYONE has a screwed up relative in their family. We stick them in the corner, give them their pudding, and ignore them because while they are annoying they are also more or less harmless. I urge the rest of the world, please do not judge us based on our screwed up relatives. :D
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Wishbone: The thing is, the rest of us may stick our screwed-up relatives in a corner, but in the US you have a nasty habit of putting them on TV instead. Those broadcasts are then sold to TV companies all over the world, some of them go viral on YouTube, and they wind up giving the rest of the world the impression that 90% of Americans are too stupid to tie their own shoes.

I think most people are aware that there are idiots everywhere in the world in about the same proportions to non-idiots, but the US is very good at shouting "Look! Look at our idiots!", which really doesn't give the rest of the world the best impression of you.

It also really didn't help that you elected George W. Bush president. It was very hard to take you seriously as a nation after that.

In short, yes, we know that Ann Coulter is not "the average American", but as nations go, yours has just about the worst PR department in the world, and that's making it extremely hard for the rest of us to keep that in mind.
My thinking is that this is a result of US being very polarized and the biggest media nation. It's all My Side, My Team, Us Against Them or something similar. Very hardcore in that respect. Better to vote for an idiot that's on My Side than someone else that seems more reasonable and smart on Another Side.
Mix this with being a media superpower and extreme views get a lot of screen time.

But this is just a feeling I have and it's easy to miss if it's the same at home.
Post edited June 29, 2014 by Tarm
Posted June 29, 2014
I had recently commented to a friend something along the lines of "Is it just me, or is there something weird about this soccer push lately?" When we were growing up, it seemed practically non-existent.

Sure, it's had a market, albeit very small. I remember 25 or 30 years ago a team was created in Portland, Oregon, but the public wasn't into it.

So is it demographics? Perhaps. But what I think it really is, is someone finally found a way to make some serious money from it, hence the push. It just seems funny to me - now suddenly everyone loves soccer? Next the press will be saying "Everyone loves jai-alai!" and that'll start popping up everywhere.
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