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I intended no offense. Just well it's all a little confusing with "Football" being not a particularly descriptive name to begin with and then further muddied with US Football (which is hugely popular here and everyone talks about with only a minority noticing that it's more of a rugby, really), Australian Rules Football, Rugby, Soccer, unsw. And further pondering on how we of the US persuasion have this ugly habit of adopting things that aren't ours and just because we say so, doesn't necessarily make things true... internationally.
I'm not advocating anyone switch--the cat is out of the bag, at this point. I just wish when someone mentions that they enjoying playing/watching football, that one could automatically know what the hell they were talking about without it being a three minute conversation about how weird it is that they're all named the same thing when only one of them is really focused on kicking balls with feet. F'rinstance, being an American I assumed that Jay's proposal was a Fantasy Football League based on American Football, but with him being edumacated and internationally aware with the World Cup on, I couldn't help but think he might lean that direction. But I don't know.
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People play GAMES outside the U.S.? American football should be called "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"....then we should combine it with the Disintigrator-mouthed robot from that Dr. Who / Weakest Link episode.
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So how does fantasy whatever work, anyway? You draw up a list of players to be on your team, but then what?
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You get 10 guys who WISH they could play for real. Then you draw to set draft order from 1-10. Player one selects a player out of a list of ALL the players in the NFL. Then it goes on 1-10 then 10-1 etc. till everyone's roster is full (generally 15 players). Each week you will have to start a QB, 2 RB's, 3 WR's, a defense/special teams and a kicker (this can vary by league). A schedule is set of who's team plays who. You decide who to start or make active based on that players' matchups or the phase of the moon or what the psychic network tells you. Points are awarded to that player for touchdowns, passing, receiving, or rushing yards, field goals, XP's, or for the defense, opponents score, fumbles, ints, safeties, yards allowed. You add up the scores for your active players and compare it to your opponent. high score wins. This usually goes from NFL week 1 thru 14 with weeks 15 & 16 being playoffs & superbowl.
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Because the outgoing quarterback told him the coach liked to be called by his first name.
So, second group-stage matches have started. Which means we begin to have an idea about who'll be going onwards to glory in the knockout stages, and who'll be off for an early bath. England v Trinidad & Tobago tonight, a simple proposition one would think, except that T&T managed to hold Sweden to a goalless draw. Germany are almost certainly through, we'll know after the other match in their group this afternoon, Ecuador v Costa Rica.
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I just felt really bad for Poland last night...
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Is there no one other that Wizzy who wants to play?
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In the group stages, there's 4 teams to a group, who all play each other once. You get 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and the big 0 for a loss. At the end of the stage the top two go through to the knockout stage, based on points.
If there is a draw on points they go on goal difference etc, but they don't bother with replays because tha whole thing has been timetabled long in advance.
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If there is absolutely no difference between two teams that have equal points at the end of the group stage, even with goal difference, then they draw lots. Seriously, it's actually happened in the past. Hell of a way to crush a nation's dreams!
God, Sweden sucked last night. What a bunch of prima donnas, do they all play for Italian clubs or something? That last-minute reprieve they got was in no way earned. It's really too much to hope for that England will beat them next Tuesday, and that T&T will simultaneiously beat Paraguay with sufficient GD to drop Team Ikea into 3rd place - but it'd be no more than they deserved. The Soca Warriors have been fantastic, they've earned the right to progress, even if it does mean they run right into the Krauts in the next round.
And, I loved the way that just after Rooney was finally brought on, it was the amusingly-monickered Peter Crouch that went and scored. One in the eye for the Scouse Shrek!
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I was also happy to see Sven play Rooney. Not because I admire him in anyway - he is an incredibly ugly, spoiled, obscenely overpaied, petulant little arsehole with an IQ rivaled only by the very stupidest of rocks, but because it showed me that there are more people in the world who think Alex Furguson is a prick. That cheered me up.
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God, there was good football last night. Ghana (yay!) beat the Czechos - almost unheard of. And then - I watched Italy v USA with a couple of Italians. Needless to say they were in a real piss by the end of the match! Don't see why though - Italy did not play well at all. Even with ten men they should have annihlated the US (with 9 - this is only about the 4th World Cup game ever where there have been 3 red cards). But the Yank defence was superb, especially Casey Keller in goal. Hell, I'm no fan of Italy, but by the end I was quite definitely rooting for the States. I was nervous that the Azurri would manage to score again in stoppage time, something they did back in '94 against (a far superior performance by) Nigeria, and for which I've never forgiven them. . .
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