American Football

[dakegra]

I've no idea who this guy is, only that he appears to be very, very good at what he does.

I remember watching american football with my dad back in the eighties - Channel 4 did a weekly (iirc) programme covering the goings on in the NFL. We followed the Redskins, the Cowboys, the Raiders, the Dolpins, all these cool-sounding teams with armoured giants clashing against each other.

I remember the time that quarterback got tackled so hard his knee went completely the wrong way. I remember The Refrigerator, who was built like a, well, refridgerator.

Happy days. I wish our TV showed more american football. I'd love to go see a game sometime. Maybe some of my Minneapolis Posse will take me one day?

Comments

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

so, what you're saying is don't go and see the Lions play?

:-)

Apparently college football is HUGE over there, I hear. Over here the only people who would know about it would be the players!

[magda-vogelsang.livejournal.com]

And I work at the university with one of the biggest (if not the biggest) stadiums. There have been at least 100,000 fans at EVERY home football game here since 1975.

If you want to run errands on a home game day, you need to plan your route and/or timing around the game traffic.

[dakegra.livejournal.com]

I'm not a huge football (soccer) fan, but I'd imagine that there are some Premiership football clubs (top level in the UK) that would love attendances like that.

*googles*

Take for instance Newcastle United, 'my' football team - they played Manchester United in August, a very big game and attendance was c. 75k.