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upthestripes
July 17, 2012, 11:03am

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July 17, 2012, 11:20am
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Wowee. Some Americans sure are stoopid. Very amusing to read, however.

The fact that they gave this bloke a job as a Professor sounds ridiculous but it certainly explains a lot when you see his expertise lies in "Religion and Philosophy". Sheesh.
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July 17, 2012, 11:53am
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That just made me laugh. How can someone say football is boring when he comes from a country that gave the world American football and baseball? Baseball in particular being so excrement that nobody else will participate in the "world series".
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Wowee. Some Americans sure are stoopid. Very amusing to read, however.

The fact that they gave this bloke a job as a Professor sounds ridiculous but it certainly explains a lot when you see his expertise lies in "Religion and Philosophy". Sheesh.


Yeah saw that. Astounding ignorance, it's gobsmacking that they published this in a respectable paper. Nice bit of light sexism in there too just to cap off a great argument!


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That just made me laugh. How can someone say football is boring when he comes from a country that gave the world American football and baseball? Baseball in particular being so excrement that nobody else will participate in the "world series".


Dunno if I dreamt this but wasn't Gridiron invented by an Englishman anyway?? Sure I read that somewhere.


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One of the comments states that it was a satirical piece from elsewhere which the WSJ re-published without noting this. It certainly looks daft enough to be a satirical article!
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One of the comments states that it was a satirical piece from elsewhere which the WSJ re-published without noting this. It certainly looks daft enough to be a satirical article!


Oops   In fairness though, it's hard to tell with the yanks!


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Dunno if I dreamt this but wasn't Gridiron invented by an Englishman anyway?? Sure I read that somewhere.


I seem to remember reading that Gridiron was previously a lot more like Rugby with a more free-flowing game. Originally, they weren't allowed to make forward passes, either!

I'd imagine that a free-flowing game proved too difficult for the Yanks to follow so they had to change the rules to break things up a bit.  
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lol. And allow more breaks so that more burgers could be sold and eaten.


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July 17, 2012, 12:32pm
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Like most people who practice religion - absolute idiot.
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I was watching the MLS game the another night on TV and the Red Bulls fans were cheering and celebrating behind the goal when they were drawing 2-2 with a few minutes to go. That would never happen here in a game you were expected to win at home (this was against Seattle) - fans would be screaming for a winner. So even the people who do watch it don't seem to get it.

It's good that the Americans have their own sports though otherwise if they really adopted "soccer" in a big way then more top players might be drawn away from Europe than is already the case.


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July 17, 2012, 3:13pm
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Baseball is just glorified rounders anyway, and it can take up too 4 hours + to complete a game and you'd have to get drunk in the stands to enjoy yourself.
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Americans should stick to what they are good at.....bullying smaller nations and pillaging their oil resources!


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Saw a study that proved American Football has on average 11 minutes of actual action per game. Painfully boring.
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Saw a study that proved American Football has on average 11 minutes of actual action per game. Painfully boring.


Sound ideal for me to play, I could manage 11 minutes  


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Sound ideal for me to play, I could manage 11 minutes  


American footballers don't last very long. Most of them have a very short career of around 3 years, and their life expectancy is in their 50s unbelievably (probably because many of them are very fat).

http://www.thebigbangauthor.com/2011/10/nfl-players-life-expectancy-might-be.html


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They've actually discovered recently that Gridiron players are getting brain damage even from a really young age - even at High School, due to the impacts they endure in the games.

Actually, this explains quite a lot...  
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American footballers don't last very long. Most of them have a very short career of around 3 years, and their life expectancy is in their 50s unbelievably (probably because many of them are very fat).

http://www.thebigbangauthor.com/2011/10/nfl-players-life-expectancy-might-be.html


Sounds perfect for me....Cheers Rob  


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They don't like football 'cuase you have to watch the action for more than 3 seconds.
Which is the average length of there attension. if you notice most tele programmes have cuts to a diferent shot approximatly 3 second apart.


Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
It is bound up with hatred,jealousy,boastfullness,
disregard of all rules and a sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence;
In other words it is war without the shooting.
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They've actually discovered recently that Gridiron players are getting brain damage even from a really young age - even at High School, due to the impacts they endure in the games.

Actually, this explains quite a lot...  


Think they must have brain damage before they play. Only explanation why they'd choose to play such a poor sport.
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American football is just fat yanks mincing about in shoulder pads, leotards and helmets whoooping and hollering at fcuk all.


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