Super bowl

Frank the tank

Anybody watching this absolute bore fest?

Crickey me, glad I'm on earlies tomorra, it gives me a good reason to go to bed and miss it.

finchy

Frank the tank wrote:

Anybody watching this absolute bore fest?

Crickey me, glad I'm on earlies tomorra, it gives me a good reason to go to bed and miss it.

A bit of advice - American football is always boring. That's why nobody else bothers.

gkerr4

agree - it's absolute bollocks

redvee

Waiting for Bruce.........

redddraggon

Could be worse, could be motorsport.

Lagavulin

redddraggon wrote:

Could be worse, could be motorsport.

I'd rather watch re-runs of that U.S Grand Prix (ironic) where only six cars raced than American football.

I remember a mate trying to get me to play some Madden '9* (insert year of daft franchise) game on his Mega Drive or Playstation and it was just utter tosh.

37, 24, 62, and I'll have a 99 with two flakes.

crankycrank

I love the Super Bowl here in the U.S. It means everybody is off the roads watching the game and I can have them to myself for a nice bike ride. I might join the aftergame festivities (pizza and cheap beer ) though.

Jez mon

Watched it, if you like American Football (I do) then it was a GREAT game, could have gone either way until the dying seconds!

akcc05

Nah...college is better, don't know much but the BigTen (my team's conference) was crap this year, the SEC, ACC and the Big12 were more exciting, although the Tebow & Co. domination got a little boring at the end, at least he didn't win the Heisman...

Nuggs

But they do have the cheerleaders though. I'd find any sport exciting if the prospect of cheerleaders was a real one!

akcc05

Then you will definately like college football even more than the NFL!

hisoka

I played American Football in university over here in the UK. It is a great sport to play, and I don't mind watching it but I don't go out of my way to I have to admit.
Cheerleaders rock

CHRISNOIR

I used to be a massive fan but drifted away. The last Superbowl I watched was 2005; I was unemployed so was able stay up half the night watching it. I wasn't expecting much but although my memories are a bit sketchy it was a brilliant game.

Anyone else remember early Channel 4 coverage with Nicky Horne and OJ Simpson? And didn't Gary Imlach do a stint presenting NFL?

JLM74

I used to be a massive fan, but with the games taking 3 hours in the middle of the night, there's the choice of either being massively sleep deprived the following day, or spending all of Monday evening watching a recording.

Gary Imlach did the C4 NFL coverage for a number of years, always liked his sarcastic wit.

Rob Sallnow

I'm sure plenty of people find watching the Tour de France absolute bollocks, always boring and an absolute borefest and start threads on their own interest forums about it....and that would make them twats too.

Yet another former massive fan here, first Super Bowl I saw was XX though sadly like a large number of people drifted away from it as the game was dumped by Channel 4 (like the TdF) after a variety of presenting styles...from Horne to Frank Gifford...to the 'Vicious Boys'....to Mick Luckhurst. Channel 5 took over and used to show a game every week but the the Super Bowl. Not a huge fan of the BBC presentation mainly because of the anchor man but Mr Carson is a great loan from Five.
Wandering back every couple of years is quite an eye opener as the way the NFL is run you don't get total domination for years on end like say the Premiership and one time you see the Buccaneers are a regular 4-12 team and then you come back a few years later and they've won the Super Bowl. Some of the most exciting sport I've seen on telly have involved last second game winning TD drives by John Elway and the Broncos...great stuff!!

As for the game last night, bloody brilliant and loved the 100yd interception TD return!! 8)

Rob Sallnow

I'm sure plenty of people find watching the Tour de France absolute bollocks, always boring and an absolute borefest and start threads on their own interest forums about it....and that would make them twats too.

Yet another former massive fan here, first Super Bowl I saw was XX though sadly like a large number of people drifted away from it as the game was dumped by Channel 4 (like the TdF) after a variety of presenting styles...from Horne to Frank Gifford...to the 'Vicious Boys'....to Mick Luckhurst. Channel 5 took over and used to show a game every week but the the Super Bowl. Not a huge fan of the BBC presentation mainly because of the anchor man but Mr Carson is a great loan from Five.
Wandering back every couple of years is quite an eye opener as the way the NFL is run you don't get total domination for years on end like say the Premiership and one time you see the Buccaneers are a regular 4-12 team and then you come back a few years later and they've won the Super Bowl. Some of the most exciting sport I've seen on telly have involved last second game winning TD drives by John Elway and the Broncos...great stuff!!

As for the game last night, bloody brilliant and loved the 100yd interception TD return!! 8)

redvee

Seems some viewers got a little more excitement than others

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W5454

The Yanks play the game amongst themselves then call the winners World champs.
And what's with all the armour and padding?MTFU you puffs.

akcc05

W5454 wrote:

The Yanks play the game amongst themselves then call the winners World champs.
And what's with all the armour and padding?MTFU you puffs.

you obviously don't understand the game

robbarker

akcc05 wrote:

you obviously don't understand the game

Maybe he does,

Rob

(Who is not in the least bit bothered about the 2" gash above my right eye incurred by an opposition flanker whilst lying on the bottom of a ruck on Saturday afternoon. Sh1t happens when you play big boys' games.)

akcc05

I watched a 19 year old college kid break his spine in a game when there was a head to head hit, without a helmet, there would have been brain matter everywhere. It was Indiana University v Ball State game. I think the kids name is Dan Love, look for it on youtube. I'm not saying rugby is not a great sport, it's just that the rules are different so you can't really compare. Hope your gash is fine.

W5454

akcc05 wrote:

W5454 wrote:

The Yanks play the game amongst themselves then call the winners World champs.
And what's with all the armour and padding?MTFU you puffs.

you obviously don't understand the game

Yes I do.

redddraggon

W5454 wrote:

akcc05 wrote:

W5454 wrote:

The Yanks play the game amongst themselves then call the winners World champs.
And what's with all the armour and padding?MTFU you puffs.

you obviously don't understand the game

Yes I do.

Obviously you don't. I've never heard the Super Bowl winners called "World Champs".

I guess you are easily confused, and you are thinking about the World Series in Baseball.

robvalentine

the main things i like about american football(rugby really) is the tactics, i.e. you have to outsmart the oppasition more than football (soccer), and if they get knocked over they aren't rolling around injured, unless they are actually injured.....

it is very stop-start though.

akcc05

W5454 wrote:

akcc05 wrote:

W5454 wrote:

The Yanks play the game amongst themselves then call the winners World champs.
And what's with all the armour and padding?MTFU you puffs.

you obviously don't understand the game

Yes I do.

No you don't. You never get tackle from behind in rugby but they do in American football, quite often too, hence the padding and armour. And you are not allowed to high-tackle in rugby, neither can they in football, but they do tackle much higher in the torso, hence the helmet.

Both sports are great, but you can't compare the two. Must admit the Americans make a party out of it in addition to the game itself (cheerleaders and mascots).

akcc05

robvalentine wrote:

the main things i like about american football(rugby really) is the tactics, i.e. you have to outsmart the oppasition more than football (soccer), and if they get knocked over they aren't rolling around injured, unless they are actually injured.....

it is very stop-start though.

+1 for the tactics. Unranked Oregon State beat no.1 USC at the beginning of the regular WAC season because they had better tactics. They have separate defence and offense organisers, punt team, kicking team, return team etc. The quarterback has a whole tactic book on his wrist full of different plays.

alfablue

akcc05 wrote:

W5454 wrote:

akcc05 wrote:

W5454 wrote:

The Yanks play the game amongst themselves then call the winners World champs.
And what's with all the armour and padding?MTFU you puffs.

you obviously don't understand the game

Yes I do.

No you don't. You never get tackle from behind in rugby but they do in American football, quite often too, hence the padding and armour.

I don't think that's right, plenty of it goes on.

And you are not allowed to high-tackle in rugby, neither can they in football, but they do tackle much higher in the torso, hence the helmet.

Plenty of high tackling on the torso too, it causes yellow cards when the neck is involved. But of course the football players do need the headgear etc, if only because they have developed the style of play to take account of it - no turning back.

Both sports are great, but you can't compare the two. Must admit the Americans make a party out of it in addition to the game itself (cheerleaders and mascots).

Well, I really want to like football, but I just don't have the patience. I will keep trying (and the fact that Johno is a complete geek about it suggests there is a lot that must be good in the game).

akcc05

Could be worse: Baseball. A game that I will never take serious of. Those guys re-tie their gloves, and then the shoes etc after every single swing. Can't they just get on with it? They don't even try and run 100% to get to the base, very unsportsmanship like. People only go and watch it because they can drink in the stadium.

Wonder how the Americans see rugby, would they be more open to the sport across the Atlantic or will they have a negative view like the majority of us here.

DaveyL

Good to have a discussion on a cycling forum about a sport that's even dirtier than cycling!

akcc05

Shall we start on football (soccer) then?

DaveyL

Go for it!