The big questions is which team will win Super Bowl XLIII. Click here to vote.
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Steelers or Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII?
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The big questions is which team will win Super Bowl XLIII. Click here to vote.
I have to root for the underdog which is Arizona.
Who’s playing White? ;0)
The Cardinals got white. They’ll be the home team even though the game is played in Florida.
I have never been able to understand this freaking “sport”. I think it really takes being brain damage to follow it…or like it…or enjoy it.
It’ll not be close. There’s no way Warner will be able to move the ball against this defense. I predict Steelers 20-3.
Why is this game called FOOTball when they play mostly with their hands???
This game is not interesting…
Regarding
:: Who’s playing White? ;0)
here’s a question. In the FIDE World Championship knockouts, was there a toss for colors—and did the winner of the toss have the option to “defer” having White until the second game?
The rule whereby the winner of the opening coin toss can “defer” and receive the opening kickoff in the second half rather than the first is new this year, and has been a subject of controversy. Deferring is right in theory—try to get an extra possession in the second half when it’s more important—but seems to be wrong in practice. It may be more important humanly to take the ball and try to get an early lead, as Pittsburgh has done.
:: Why is this game called FOOTball when they play mostly with their hands???
The “missing link” is that Rugby was originally called “Rugby football”, meaning the variant of what were then various rules of soccer that originated at the school in the town of Rugby, England. “Soccer” is itself is a nickname for “Association football”, since British (but not Americans) abbreviate “association” or ‘society” to “soc”. The US version grew out of rugby, and as a variant is properly called “American football”, but while rugby dropped the football, we dropped the “American”. Which maybe helps it get on CTV in Canada where I’m watching it now—and mind you Canada’s version also goes back to the mid-1800a!
:: This game is not interesting…
American football is riveting when it is compressed into 30 minutes—as geniuses at the BBC did to make a weekly NFL programme that became incredibly popular (with no US flag waving) among indigenous Brits in the late 1980s. That and similar interest in Europe paved the way for “NFL Europe”. The only problem is that you can’t package NFL football that way in real time—though such compression for the sake of increased TV appeal has been attempted in real for time for some other games, for instance chess…
“I have never been able to understand this freaking “sport”. I think it really takes being brain damage to follow it…or like it…or enjoy it.”
It is not nice to talk about chess that way!