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[james st.john smythe]

souness is out. whats newcastles chances? i say the F.A cup

[Quartermaster007]

Why.... why do you put this is the Daniel Craig forum?

[Dunph]

Salient point, so I moved it.

I'm sure no-one in the US cares about the fact that Souness is out, or that the Six Nations have started or that the British economy is strangely skewed at the moment.

American Football is for pansies anyway, it's basically boring Rugby with body armour and helmets.

[Seannery]

Salient point, so I moved it.

I'm sure no-one in the US cares about the fact that Souness is out, or that the Six Nations have started or that the British economy is strangely skewed at the moment.

American Football is for pansies anyway, it's basically boring Rugby with body armour and helmets.

Ha! Your small rugby guys would get crushed in the NFL.

[Quartermaster007]

Oh, yes, I also don't give a toss about the super bowl.


Go Steelers, though!

[Bon-san]

American Football is for pansies anyway, it's basically boring Rugby with body armour and helmets.

Not that football players or their fans need defending, but that argument always strikes me as lame.

Were Medieval knights pansies because they wore body armour and helmets? Was jousting "for pansies" because the participants wore armour and helmets?

[Janus Assassin]

Umm its because we live in AMERICA. I think that why we like it.

[Gabe Vieira]

souness is out. whats newcastles chances? i say the F.A cup

I understand that you could care less about the Super Bowl, james st.john smythe, but there's no real reason to complain about it when it doesn't not even involve your country. I'm not trying to be a dick here, but your complaining is utterly pointless.

[Rolex]

I guess if they were playing a Bond trailer everyone would give a toss. Has there ever been a Bond trailer shown on Super Bowl night?

[Jim]

American Football is for pansies anyway, it's basically boring Rugby with body armour and helmets.

Not that football players or their fans need defending, but that argument always strikes me as lame.

Were Medieval knights pansies because they wore body armour and helmets?

Whilst that's a very good point, did they have to stop fighting every thirty seconds to have a five minute break?

[Solex Agitator]

PUPPY BOWL on Animal Planet.

Enough said.

Word.

[Dunph]

American Football is for pansies anyway, it's basically boring Rugby with body armour and helmets.

Not that football players or their fans need defending, but that argument always strikes me as lame.

Were Medieval knights pansies because they wore body armour and helmets?

Whilst that's a very good point, did they have to stop fighting every thirty seconds to have a five minute break?

Well said, and our lads don't prance around in satin longjohns. Grr. Mud.

[Carver]

souness is out. whats newcastles chances? i say the F.A cup

Relegation? With Roeder in charge, that's a big possibility. I'd rather think about West Ham's chances- Europe maybe?

[Jim]

American Football is for pansies anyway, it's basically boring Rugby with body armour and helmets.

Not that football players or their fans need defending, but that argument always strikes me as lame.

Were Medieval knights pansies because they wore body armour and helmets?

Whilst that's a very good point, did they have to stop fighting every thirty seconds to have a five minute break?

Well said, and our lads don't prance around in satin longjohns.

Arguably a disappointment.

[james st.john smythe]

souness is out. whats newcastles chances? i say the F.A cup

Relegation? With Roeder in charge, that's a big possibility. I'd rather think about West Ham's chances- Europe maybe?

thats the spirit my son!

[Seannery]

American Football is for pansies anyway, it's basically boring Rugby with body armour and helmets.

Not that football players or their fans need defending, but that argument always strikes me as lame.

Were Medieval knights pansies because they wore body armour and helmets?

Whilst that's a very good point, did they have to stop fighting every thirty seconds to have a five minute break?

Well said, and our lads don't prance around in satin longjohns. Grr. Mud.

Well your little lads play pretty well for such small guys--scrappy little buggers.

[Skudor]

Oddly enough, I gave a toff... put some money on some silly sweepstakes that I didn't quite understand. Apparently I lost. Go figure.

[DLibrasnow]

American Football is for pansies anyway, it's basically boring Rugby with body armour and helmets.

Not that football players or their fans need defending, but that argument always strikes me as lame.

Were Medieval knights pansies because they wore body armour and helmets?

Whilst that's a very good point, did they have to stop fighting every thirty seconds to have a five minute break?

Well said, and our lads don't prance around in satin longjohns. Grr. Mud.

American Football is a much rougher game than rugby. They didn't used to wear "body armor" as you call it, but then there was a season where a number of the players were killed and the padding was introduced to prevent further fatalities.

How many rugby players are killed every year?!

[Dunph]

17.

[Mister Asterix]

who give a toss about the super bowl?, not me!!!!!!

souness is out. whats newcastles chances? i say the F.A cup

[mra]If no toss is given by you, why

[Bon-san]

All right, no sense carrying on the deception any further. It's an undeniable fact that all NFL (American) football players are pansies. And, since they like to watch these pansy games, all fans of American Football are pansies as well.

[Seannery]

The high level of this conversation is amazing.

[Bon-san]

The high level of this conversation is amazing.

Well, it's been very enlightening for me. Today, after all these years I realize it was my pansi-ness that was responsible for the separated shoulders, torn cartilage, and herniated disks I suffered in high school, and not the 260 pound linemen I faced each game.

It seems that if I hadn't been wearing those stupid pads, I might've come out better off. Although, the fact that the football helmet is one of the more dangerous weapons around might negate that notion.

[Blofeld's Cat]

How many rugby players are killed every year?!

17.

And they are just the one that don't make it through training!

[Seannery]

How many rugby players are killed every year?!

17.

And they are just the one that don't make it through training!

Without pads you'd have almost the whole NFL crippled or dead in a few years--the size, speed and intensity of impact is unparalled in sports.

[Jim]

How many rugby players are killed every year?!

17.

And they are just the one that don't make it through training!

Without pads you'd have almost the whole NFL crippled or dead in a few years--the size, speed and intensity of impact is unparalled in sports.

I've no issue with that - it does look jolly rough - but I'm still mystified why the game has to keep stopping (although I suspect it's because it is so rough).

I fully appreciate that in Cricket, we have a game that can last five days and involve a lot of tea and cake, but this stop-start is always something that's prevented me enjoying American Football (as it's known around these parts).

[Seannery]

How many rugby players are killed every year?!

17.

And they are just the one that don't make it through training!

Without pads you'd have almost the whole NFL crippled or dead in a few years--the size, speed and intensity of impact is unparalled in sports.

I've no issue with that - it does look jolly rough - but I'm still mystified why the game has to keep stopping (although I suspect it's because it is so rough).

I fully appreciate that in Cricket, we have a game that can last five days and involve a lot of tea and cake, but this stop-start is always something that's prevented me enjoying American Football (as it's known around these parts).

I guess it's part the roughness, part intensity, part set-up, part strategy and part TV commercials. I suppose also because it is so regimented time-wise--being exactly 60 minutes of play with the clock ticking down every second of play. So in between the ticking of the clock and of play there are the timeouts for strategy, for setting up the next play and commercials. It is hard looking at it from the outside--I for one would have a hard time getting all of Rugby and especially Cricket.

[Jim]

I've no issue with that - it does look jolly rough - but I'm still mystified why the game has to keep stopping (although I suspect it's because it is so rough).

I fully appreciate that in Cricket, we have a game that can last five days and involve a lot of tea and cake, but this stop-start is always something that's prevented me enjoying American Football (as it's known around these parts).

I guess it's part the roughness, part intensity, part set-up, part strategy and part TV commercials. I suppose also because it is so regimented time-wise--being exactly 60 minutes of play with the clock ticking down every second of play. So in between the ticking of the clock and of play there are the timeouts for strategy, for setting up the next play and commercials. It is hard looking at it from the outside--I for one would have a hard time getting all of Rugby and especially Cricket.

I've never known that - seriously. I'm beginning to see the point. Thanks.

[Seannery]

You're welcome.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Yes, the NFL isn't about football at all; it's about TV revenues.