American Football

I really wonder why nobody plays American Football outside of America. Its quite sad, really. It sure looks like fun.

 

The N.F.L has a Europe League.

The game was played in the U.K. down to a very small club level during the height of it's popularity from the late 80's to the Mid 90's.

 

We had the Barcelona Dragons team.
Don't know if it still exists.

 

We have some American Football team over here, I believe they are called the Amsterdam Admirals. Just like the national baseball team, they try hard enough but they simply don't measure up to American teams.

By the way, Americans, congratulations on beating us in our own field! The new speed skating world champion is a black American.

 

International Rugby Board (IRB) Rugby World Cup 2003

Following complaints made to the IRB about the All Blacks being allowed to motivate themselves by performing the 'Haka' before their games, other nations were asked to suggest pre-match rituals of their own. The IRB Rugby World Cup 2003 Organising Committee has now agreed to the following pre-match displays:

a.. The England team will chat about the weather, wave hankies in the air and attach bells to their ankles before moaning about how they invented the game and gave it to the world, and how it's not fair that everyone still thinks New Zealand are the best team in the world.

b.. The Scotland team will chant "You lookin' at me Jimmy?" before smashing an Iron Bru bottle over their opponents' heads.

c.. The Ireland team will split into two, with the Southern half performing a Riverdance, while the Northerners march the Traditional route from their dressing room to the pitch, via their opponents dressing room.

d.. Unfortunately the Committee were unable to accept the Welsh suggestion following representations from the RSPCA.

e.. Argentina will unexpectedly invade a small part of opposition territory, claim it as their own "Las In-Goals-Areas" and then be forcibly removed by the match stewards.

f.. Two members of the South African team will claim to be more important than the other 13 whom they will imprison between the posts whilst they claim the rest of the pitch for themselves.

g.. The Americans will not attend until almost full time. In future years they will amend the records to show that they were in fact the most important team in the tournament and Hollywood will make a film called 'Saving No.8 Lyle'.

h.. Five of the Canadian team will sing La Marseillaise and hold the rest of the team to ransom.

i.. The Italian team will arrive in Armani gear, sexually harass the female stewards and then run away.

j..The Spanish will sneak into the other half of the pitch, mow it and then claim that it was all in line with European "grass quotas". They will then curl up under the posts and have a kip until half time, when their appeal for compensation against the UK Government will be heard.

k.. The Japanese will attempt to strengthen their team by offering good salaries to the key opposition players and then run around the pitch at high speed in a highly efficient manner before buying the ground (with a subsidy from the UK Government).

l.. The French will declare they have new scientific evidence that the opposition are in fact all mad. They will then park lorries across the halfway line, let sheep loose in the opposition half (much to the delight of Wales!) and burn the officials.

m.. The Australians will have a barbie before negotiating lucrative singing and TV contracts in the UK. They will then invite all their matesto come and live with them in Shepherds Bush



BTW - how mnay wins in a row is that now for Wales in the 6 nations???

 

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At least one too much since last saturday.... :angry:

 

As much as it greaves me I wish them luck, they have played very well and deserve it. :cry: :cry:


Sheep s******g t***s. :lol:

 

I just hope we beat Scotland and Italy, but at this rate I think the wooden spoon would beat England.

 

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Doesn't England field a lot of unexperienced players at the moment?
I watched our 18-17 victory over England( :smok: ) lately and remember having heard something like that....

 

Doesn't England field a lot of unexperienced players at the moment?
I watched our 18-17 victory over England( :smok: ) lately and remember having heard something like that....[/quote]

They haven't fielded a full team yet, and they keep changing. :cry:

 

& there was me thinking that this was an American football topic




(Can't you tell I'm bored)

 

That's right David. American Football is amazing. I like the Houston Texans, because they are VERY new and not that good.

 

Not as new as you might think. They were the Houston Oilers Francise which was birthed in the early 60's.

 

The Houston Oilers became the Tennessee Titans several years ago. That left Houston without a team. They talked the NFL into letting Houston host another team and named them the Texans in honor of a now defunct old time football team.

 

A difference between American football teams and real football, is the allegiance to a town or city. A football team would never move location, maybe ground but not town or city. I believe that in the past most American football teams have moved location. According to the book ‘stranger in my own country’ I will check the title.

 

The Exception being Wimbledon FC, who split into 2, with one half going to Milton Keynes.
And look what happened to them!

 

I agree wholeheartedly with GP. The city or even state hopping of N.F.L francises is a bad thing for the fans & for the sport. Look at L.A. Americas 2nd city. Now with no N.F.L representation.

I enjoy both Gridiron football & Soccer. (to give them both their correct names) Football is a "family" name, covering a number of different sports. But let's not go there.

 

Yes, I never really understood that.
In France(or anywhere else in Europe), a football club is often the pride of a town or a region, it's part of the folklore and could never move away from where it's roots are.

How does that work in the US, when for example a club X moves from a town A to town B, do the supporters from town A still support it, or do they look for a new club?

 

yeah lets do go there!

soccer isnt the correct name :angry:

correct name is association football, only those who do not play football as the national sport call it soccer ie usa, canada australia etc.

The vast majority of the world it is called football plain and simple.

anyway football = good american gridiron rugby type thing = bad

 

No C_M! It's only called Association Football in Great Britain, possibly only in England.

Now you know why I said let's NOT go there! :angry: