Posts by Hadyn Green
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@Stephanie Nope it's Madden and Michaels this year and you should come join us at Four Kings
@Jake was that your am-cam footage? Either way should the Steelers win we'll want coverage of the ensuing carnage
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Hmmm Kyle I think you need to come watch the game with us. Seriously it'd be worth the trip up.
I can't help but keep drawing the analogy to cricket. Gaps between deliveries and overs, setting the field etc. While all of that is terrible viewing you don't mind it because it's part of the game, it tells you things you need to know too. When the teams line up (in football) very quickly I can tell stuff about what might happen in the upcoming play much like a cricket fan would get information about a possible delivery by how the field is set (or something, I'm still learning cricket).
10 seconds wouldn't be long enough. A big part of the game is the play itself. The quarterback gets the message from the coach (checks the play on his cheat-sheet if he needs to) and then barks out some string of words that tells each player what they need to do (that's all the "zulu 25 break zoom 3 texas" stuff). Then they have to line up and do it. Meantime the defence is doing something similar.
Also yes they could play both sides of the ball (and they used to when it first started) but then it would more like league, and if you want to watch league do that instead.
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But the New Zealand equivalent of the sport, called bullrush, is much better.
Apparently in the UK it's called "bulldog", weird
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The fitness requirements aren't as high due to the breaks.
Ooo now hold on there. You're comparing sprints to marathons.
Put an American footballer intop game of rugby and they'll knacked before halftime. Put a rugby player into American football and they won't be able to keep up with the pace.
Each play is a sprint pace, so you run as fast as you can, hit someone (or be hit by someone) and then do that again and again. The short breaks between plays are not really enough to recover fully when you been hit by a guy the size of a bus. (note: The Bus isn't playing this year :) )
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Are they also called Rose, Oranage Sugar, Feista, Bud, Banjo or Heidi for a reason?
It's called the Heidi Game (Raiders v Jets if I recall) because NBC cut away from the exciting comeback finale to show the movie Heidi. Thousands of people roared in complaint and it became very important in terms of sports broadcasting in the States.
Also:
Once again no Lingerie Bowl this year. Ironically because the nudists wouldn't allow it. Dammit I thought Miami had a shot this year!But the Puppy Bowl is back! I think the game-breaker will be 1-2 punch of Isaac and Jacob but Charlie Brown looks mean!
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Hear hear. I get the basic concepts of the game, I just think the way it's played is designed around the need to insert frequent ad breaks, rather than play a game of sport.
You mean like at the end of each over in cricket?
There are 40 seconds from the end of a play before the next one has to start. It's only the timeouts and scoring that enable ad breaks. What those 40 sec intervals do is allow for replays. Beautiful technologically-marvelous replays!
Oh and John Madden and Al Michaels are commentating this year! It'll be a good one.
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And as always the Onion has the best reporting, including Keys to the Match-Up
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Sorry, was recalling that dreadful Auckland A fiasco some years back..
I have been told that the A sign for Auckland in the post is international sign language for AIDS.
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Who was the player that put the cellphone in the goalpost so he could phone home after he scored the touchdown?
That was Joe Horn and coolest thing was that he didn't do it on his first touchdown but on his second (which was in the same endzone)
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TO is just the absolute king...That trick he pulled with the vivd was insane
The famous "sharpie play" is my all-time favourite celebration. Not only did he have the audacity to sign the ball and give it to a friend in the crowd, he had the goddamn pen in his sock the whole time!
Though that Cantona one is a very close second.