The sissification of America continues.
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I can't completely agree with you. Our boys were gracious winners, and the teams tended to complain about the mercy rule, because the kids wanted to keep playing even if they were losing. I don't think it's the kids that are lacking the skills, it's the parents and the leagues.
That depends on why they launched the complaint. Just because the story says it was because of the score, doesn't mean it was because of the score.
That is what I meant. Schools have become places where being nice is more important than learning math & english. That isn't the kids doing it, it is the adults.
Having played football I can imagine there was some intimidation and taunting going on. It is a very aggressive sport and lends itself to getting in your opponents head that way. I've seen many parents complain because little Johnny will be traumatized for life because the opposing lineman was beating him badly and calling him a girl. Poor kid is probably far more scarred by Mommy stepping in like this.
There have been two American football matches live on Channel 4 here recently. Well, actually, Channel 4 has been showing live NFL matches for years.
A couple of weeks ago we had one of the annual Wembley NFL matches - and there's another to come soon, Jacksonville Jaguars playing San Francisco 49ers on 27 October, the Yanks desperately wanting to create a London NFL team and to make the sport big here - and a few days ago there was a match live from America.
I lost the will to live after half an hour. During all that time there was about five minutes of gameplay. Most of the rest was TV adverts and people talking in the studio. They really do need to do something about the amount of stoppages in the game.
A crowd of 83,519 saw the Minnesota Vikings beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 34-27 at Wembley Stadium in London on 29th September
A couple of weeks ago we had one of the annual Wembley NFL matches - and there's another to come soon, Jacksonville Jaguars playing San Francisco 49ers on 27 October, the Yanks desperately wanting to create a London NFL team and to make the sport big here - and a few days ago there was a match live from America.
I lost the will to live after half an hour. During all that time there was about five minutes of gameplay. Most of the rest was TV adverts and people talking in the studio. They really do need to do something about the amount of stoppages in the game.
A crowd of 83,519 saw the Minnesota Vikings beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 34-27 at Wembley Stadium in London on 29th September
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There have been two American football matches live on Channel 4 here recently. Well, actually, Channel 4 has been showing live NFL matches for years.
A couple of weeks ago we had one of the annual Wembley NFL matches - and there's another to come soon, Jacksonville Jaguars playing San Francisco 49ers on 27 October, the Yanks desperately wanting to create a London NFL team and to make the sport big here - and a few days ago there was a match live from America.
I lost the will to live after half an hour. During all that time there was about five minutes of gameplay. Most of the rest was TV adverts and people talking in the studio. They really do need to do something about the amount of stoppages in the game.
A crowd of 83,519 saw the Minnesota Vikings beat the Pittsburgh Steelers 34-27 at Wembley Stadium in London on 29th September
The NFL doesn't want a team over there. The scheduling and logistics are a nightmare. It works much better if they can throw you a couple of meanignless boring games and have you pay out $$$ to go. With 83K, you are obviouly well attached to the leagues hooks. After last weeks games (week 7), the win total of 3 of the 4 teams playing over there combined is 3. This tells you how important the NFL views this opportunity.
I don't have any issue with the pace of an NFL game. It certainly beats watching some "athlete" playing soccer get bumped gently and fall down on the field in agony while looking around to make sure the official is viewing his drama. Such exciting action.
I've got an issue with the non-gameplayof American football.
When I tune in to watch sport, I want to watch sport, not 7 seconds of action and then no gameplay for the next 7 minutes as soon as the ball hits the ground.
American football is more tedious than watching paint dry. Cricket has more action than American football.
"Soccer" players, unlike American footballers, don't wear bigger helmets and more kevlar body armour than soldiers do on the battlefield.
Your "Bundy-esque" football experience, fascinating as it may be for some, is somewhat irrelevant to my point. We simply do not have first hand knowledge of what occurred at the football game in question and I, for one, am not interested in formulating an opinion based on one person's story.
That's an excellent point. I wonder how many of the fellas crying "sissy" would last for three plays on even a high-school football field.
I could last for three years playing American football and not have a scratch on me.
Unlike footballers or rugby players I've never once seen any of them spilling blood.
Yes, you're quite the hard man.
On the internet.
You profess to never watch it, so how could you? Unless you're lying. Again.
That's why I don't play American football.
Hard men like me don't play Cissy Rugby.
How did they do it? They scored about 28 points per quarter which tells me the other team was probably unable to even move the ball on offense. And there are Referees that would certainly penalize Aledo TX if they were committing penalties.
That is a really good point. Really good coaches put the second string in the game when they are cruising to a win.
James Michener's 1985 Classic, "Texas', has a chapter on this.
Sounds like Texas hasn't changed.
If Western Hills could have I am sure they would have.
Even the coach from Aledo stated he tried to find ways not to score that night. If you call a simple dive play, and the O-Line pushes the D-Line back and the RB gets in space... BOOM... hes gone!
What can you do right?
Putting in the JV...How do you know that did not happen?
You did read my post stating that Western Hill HS has yet to win a game and have pretty much been blown out in every game correct? They're getting killed by everyone!
I'm not sure what it's like elsewhere but, in school sports around here, the emphasis is on winning instead of skills development. I assume it's the same across the country. That's probably why canada sucks at basketball and volleyball on the international stage
You and your rugby buddies wouldn't last a set if downs, if you haven't trained for it.
You wouldn't get up after the first hit. I can hear that awful splat already of a 255lb linebacker with 4.0/40 speed driving you to the ground.
Skills development is for practice. You are supposed to WIN in a game, it is the entire objective. You sound like you are one of those bleeding heart 'its all about having fun' parents who doesn't want to keep score because their kid sucks.
This is silly. Rugby (and Aussie and Gaelic) have a different tackling style. They don't do the head-on hits the way Americans and Canadians do. Neither did we back before the modern equipment. It was more of a side-step, arm-grab, pull-down thing. If you tackled North American style without the gear, you'd be dead.
All this couch-potato d ick measuring is undoubtedly providing the ladies with much eye-rolling mirth.
All this couch-potato d ick measuring is undoubtedly providing the ladies with much eye-rolling mirth.