--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Bryon Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >"John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > > At 09:53 PM 12/27/2003 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: > > > >At one point, they were my second-favorite AFC team. Now I like half > > > >the AFC East better. > > > > > > > > Julia > > > > > > > >not saying which half unless pressed hard > > > > > > Consider yourself pressed. :) > > > > > > JDG - GO BILLS AND SQUISH THE FISH!!!!!* > > > > > > * - no points to anyone who points out that they are mammals and not > > > fish..... :) > > > >Well, I see we're going to have a disagreement on the question of > >favorite AFC East teams, but I think we can live with that. :) > > > >Patriots and Dolphins. > > > >Patriots, I grew up in New England. > > > >Dolphins, well, that's a slightly longer story. One day around the time > > That's my current order of favorites as well... > > The Pats are my local team, so that's self explanatory. > > I like the Dolphins because, despite growing up in New Jersey, I knew a > surprising amount of Dolphins fans, who got me into them. > > I have a love/hate relationship with the Jets, given my Jersey loyalties and > the intense rivalry with the Pats. > > I used to hate the Bills (sorry John!), back from around the Giants- Bills > superbowl days. I'm a big Drew Bledsoe fan (he's a total class act), > though, so once they traded Bledsoe to Buffalo, I started routing for the > Bills a bit. I'd really like to see him succeed. (John - any thoughts on > Bledsoe? A lot of fans in Boston loved him, but many hated him. I'm > curious if Buffalo fans are thinking the same thing now, with his recent > not-so-great season.) > > Overall, it kind of leaves me pretty conflicted, since there's no teams in > my division that I can freely despise. :-)
I have the perfect solution to all your problems. Stop watching Grid- Iron and watch Rugby Football instead. Why? Grid-Iron is boring. It's nearly unbearable. Out of 10 minutes of viewing there is about 45 seconds of action. And that is if you are lucky. The game keeps stopping. There just doesn't seem to be any end to the reasons to stop the clock. Grid-Iron is predictable. 9 out of 10 times they will do exactly the same thing with the ball. Throw it forward to the tight end of one of the runners. These players will either catch the ball and be tackled, or not catch the ball. No finding holes, no running through. On the off chance that this kind of play does happen, the big slow fat guy with the ball goes to ground after just 10 yards. Never is there any attempt to move the ball to a more advantageous position, never does the game continue. It's like watching really bad tennis players. Did I mention that the game keeps stopping? Grid-Iron is essentially many little sumo resettling matches taking place while 3 or 4 other guys play catch. Did I mention that the game keeps stopping? Grid-Iron take 4 hours to watch. Did I mention that the game keeps stopping? Football players are sissies who wear hard helmets and pads all over their body. Granted, they do seem to just wily-nily slam into any apposing player in sight but that's not fun to watch. Anyone can move a ball forward if your 170k mate is slamming into any would be tackler. Did I mention that the game keeps stopping? With Grid-Iron there are 3 athletes per side. With Rugby, there are 15 athletes per side. There is nothing more exciting than when a back finds a whole in the defense, and runs through. Each player in rugby has to use their intellect and athletic ability to move the ball forward as a team. Variety. Not every thing that happens in Rugby is exactly the same. There are line outs, rucks, mauls, scrums, open play, tries, drop kicks, penalty kicks, touch kicks, and kick through. With Grid-Iron there is scrimmage, scrimmage, scrimmage, and more scrimmage. Oh yea, and center kicks. In Grid-Iron every kick is taken from the center. Easy! Those guys should try kicking from the point the ball enters the end zone. Make it more interesting. With Grid-Iron you just have to get the ball over into the end zone. Never mind that you get tackled close to the end zone and end up over in it. You have to be standing up. With Rugby you can slide in. The ball has to actually be "touched down" to score. This make for some very exciting dives. Penalties in Rugby result in kicks at goal, or the turnover of ball possession. With Grid-Iron seriously dangerous infractions result in nothing more than a loss of 5 or 10 yards. Rugby players make game play decisions; Grid-Iron ~coaches~ make game play decisions. If nothing else there is just nothing more exciting than when a ball carrier avoids tackler after tackler, sidestepping and exchanging the ball and then diving head first as there legs are being bound by a final defiant defense, then with arms outreached reach for the try line to score. I say role the clock back to 1905 and tell Teddy where he can shove it. There are far fewer injuries in Rugby then there are in Grid- Iron. In the last 70 years American Football has become monotonous and boring. It's the only sport (other than sumo wrestling) where the players are more over weight than the couch potatoes sitting at home watching. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
