
At about 2:57 he decides to headbutt an opponent without his helmet - and these are the guys that get the girls...
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 21:35, Reply)

It's a bit of a cliche to insult American sports I know, but what you call 'football' IS basically British bulldog crossed with catch.
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 21:55, Reply)

But the three discs and the broken coccyx have ended that. It is a great game.
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 21:56, Reply)

if you're a defensive lineman or one of a bunch of other positions on the field, it looks a dull brutish and repetitive game to play
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 22:00, Reply)

I have a brother who just loved the rough and tumble of the line. Some of them don't mind getting hit.
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 22:06, Reply)

the dull british and repetitive game that is football. I'll take American football over it any day
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 23:18, Reply)

The problem with NFL is the stoppages and lack of imagination. yeah they might throw a long pass once in a while but its so repetitive and similar to every other game you've wacthed of NFL. Don't get me wrong I like watching highlights, but comparing it to what I call real sport like Football and Rugby, its not in the same league.
( , Sat 22 Sep 2012, 10:12, Reply)

but I find football and rugby borefests.
Different strokes for different folks.
I used to actually like football as a kid, but the game today is shit. Overpaid, pussy players who dive about at the slightest touch...bleeeeugh
( , Sat 22 Sep 2012, 13:48, Reply)

Didn't get a lot of choice, if there was a game on, it was on telly. I tried to like it, I really did. I just never once felt like I understood it. It just looked like a confusing and fractured game where the object seemed to be to inflict as much pain as possible on the opposition, and incidentally move a ball around a bit.
Baseball on the other hand, I took to in a way that probably only a cricket fan could.
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 22:16, Reply)

One team is in and one's out. The team that's out tries to get the team that's in out. Then the team that's out go in and the team that's in goes out and tries to get the the team that was out but now in, out.
The one with the most runs, wins.
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 22:56, Reply)

The other half will be leg side. This only goes for the team that aren't 'in', as most of them will be inside, either out or not out.
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 23:15, Reply)

I have NO fucking clue what's going on in a rugby match
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 23:19, Reply)

It is basically what cricket would be if you wanted people to watch it.
( , Sat 22 Sep 2012, 15:40, Reply)

i see it as more rugby at the pace of cricket.
something happens for 4 or less seconds, then lots of standing around, then another 4 seconds something happens, then more standing around....
If they had a tea break 1 hour after the start of play im sure they would be more civilised to one another.
( , Sat 22 Sep 2012, 1:57, Reply)

You see, it'd imply there's something there.
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 22:00, Reply)

makes the round ball game look like its being played by philosophers.
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 22:01, Reply)

You're pronouncing your American incorrectly.
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 22:41, Reply)

that is doing a study of American footballers head injuries. Im too hung over to find references.
( , Sat 22 Sep 2012, 2:23, Reply)

i loathe football. not even sure why i clicked play on that. but of the 20 seconds i managed to watch it does reinforce everything i can't stand about the game.
( , Fri 21 Sep 2012, 23:01, Reply)

I listened to it all and he sounds quite nice. He makes nerdy pop-culture references and mentions different forms of poetry. And then he wishes his competitor well at the end. I would be his friend.
( , Sat 22 Sep 2012, 4:13, Reply)

Agreed. He's on about haikus and Tales from the Crypt. Makes some good gags. Yank jocks are people too.
( , Sat 22 Sep 2012, 9:15, Reply)

Its almost like a well contructed piss take.
( , Sat 22 Sep 2012, 10:08, Reply)