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Who outside the US watches ANY American sport? I watched about five minutes of baseball once (broadcast at about 2am on Channel 5) and was almost bored to tears and that's saying something considering I can sit through about two hours of cricket and still be amused by the Australians' and their funny coloured nose cream.
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Yeah, don't watch baseball. Football (American football) is a little more fun to watch, but it's less exciting than Rugby and it's harder to recognize the players with all that gear. Where's the humanity, I ask you?
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Well, their names are printed in large letters across their backs. And they have even larger, individualized numbers that can help if you can remember them.
I mean, how many players in a given game could you match names to faces for, anyway?
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quote:Originally posted by Ritten: "England didn't win very convincingly." Are you saying the the Australians should have won, and that there was foul play????
Oh, this is sports, not politics... Nevermind....
I'm saying they won in the dying seconds of the second extra time of the final match... by 1 field goal kicked by Johnny Wilkinson.
Well, yes like I said it was a very close run thing between two very good teams and an excellent game. Whinging Aussie syndrome appears to be making an appearance...
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Oh, well, you have me there, it isn't two bad teams trying to see who is the ruler....
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TSN: "Well, their names are printed in large letters across their backs. And they have even larger, individualized numbers that can help if you can remember them."
Hmm. (yes I'm gonna do it!) Reminds me of...any other major teamsport in existence.
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And it's different with the names and numbers if you haven't been paying attention all season and don't know the players' statistics. They are just these largish blobs of padding with logos and numbers painted on them and big plastic balls where their heads ought ot be. It's not the same as, "Ooooh, that's the ruddy blonde guy with the scar who was scowling at the skinny guy with the freckles so much on the last try." or whatever. Or not. Nevermind.
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quote:Well, yes like I said it was a very close run thing between two very good teams and an excellent game. Whinging Aussie syndrome appears to be making an appearance...
Oh they're just whinging because they've been deprived of a good old fashioned pommie bashing.
quote:Originally posted by TSN: I mean, how many players in a given game could you match names to faces for, anyway?
Well, I could manage between 50 and 100 footballers, and I'm fairly shit at stuff like that. I'm sure most people who have been watching it since they were, say, 6, could get many, many more.
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quote:Well, yes like I said it was a very close run thing between two very good teams and an excellent game. Whinging Aussie syndrome appears to be making an appearance...
Oh they're just whinging because they've been deprived of a good old fashioned pommie bashing.
I think Whinging is usually associated with "Pommie" not "Aussie".
Does anyone else think that Martin Johnson is a Neanderthal!?!?!
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