After the Eagles disastrous season I was hoping I would get to root for either the 49ers or the Ravens...now I'm looking forward to the Ferris Bueller ad <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.png" class="smilie" alt="" />
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No preference, but typically defense and special teams are what win big games, the Giants might have a slight, slight margin in that regard. I,m looking more forward to the commercials and the extra hot buffalo wings washed down with some ice cold Stella Artois ( and maybe one XX , so as not to piss off the most interesting Ricardo Montalban wannabe ), but the game might be surprisingly good, so who knows..? And it will give me a short break from watching soccer all the time, a far more hard-hitting sport...for spectators, that is !!
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Soccer - ah, with its world cup, where the world learns to yawn in 65 different languages <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> .
Sorry, couldn't resist, although I realize I've done the equivalent of insulting somebody's religion <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/ohmy.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/tongue.png" class="smilie" alt="" />
Sadly, the same could be said of Formula 1 as well.
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That's IT ! You're off my Christmas gift list .. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/tongue.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> Sheesh, insulting two of the most SACRED things in this world ( hint; the middle one is, ironically, the least sacred .. to me, anyway . <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/unsure.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> ... )
And furthermore, when I'm in your town this November , yes for for the F1 !! , I take back the offer to buy the drinks, you're paying for those now ! Infidel <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/laugh.png" class="smilie" alt="" />
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lol - I'd better build that underground bunker asap and hide the family! I like F1, just wish it was more competitive. Having a competitive American driver or two would help as well. Plus, the thought of how many track session I could buy for the price of the event tickets gives me pause, to say the least.
As for soccer, as the son of Eurpoean immigrants, fanatical enthusiasm for the sport should be coursing through my veins. But I can't get past the thought that the dexterity of our arms and hands, and hand-eye coordination, are possibly the most significant physical characteristics that separate us from the animals. So I can't help but think that any sport that doesn't allow the use of said appendages is, dare I say it, just plain dumb. And yet, it's by far the most popular sport in the world. Been trying to wrap my brain around that one my whole life... (insert head-scratching smilie, if we had one)
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" All it takes is a patch of ground, a kickable object, and a couple of kids. "
+1 off my Christmas list now..
ok, back to this sissy sport erroniously referred to as " FOOTball " ( as opposed to the non-sissy but comparable sport Rugby which is a lot rougher and none of the "ladies" wear pads or helmets to protect them from an "ouchie" .. ) - just a tip for you guys that bet $$ on games : one of my close friends, "GB" ( Gabrielle ) texted me earlier today and said she's going to " give Tom the ride of his life " on Saturday, so he'll likely be way too exhausted to do anything the next day..
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I'll probably be as accurate here as I typically am with my stock market predictions, but I sense the Patriots in a rout. Just too many weapons.
I never really played football, but as far as it being a sissy sport, given the mess the typical 40-year-old retired NFL player is, both physically and mentally, I can't imagine what Rugby, if it is in fact "tougher", must do to a body.
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I fought in full contact tae kwon do tournaments and even back then in my prime ( 35+ years ago ) , and at a hefty 235 lbs, I still would not have walked on a rugby field to go head to head with any of those athletes - watched many rugby matches live, and the beating a body takes is as brutal as any MMA cage fighting one sees ..X 2 ! Absent the helmet to helmet hits I don't think American football is that rough.. sure, rougher than soccer in terms of pure impact to the player but still a far cry from crazy-risky sports where you must possess sado-masochistic tendencies to play . <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/glare.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
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I fought in full contact tae kwon do tournaments and even back then in my prime ( 35+ years ago ) I still would not get on a rugby field with any of those athletes - watched many rugby matches live, and the beating a body takes is as brutal as any MMA cage fighting one sees ..X 2 ! Absent the helmet to helmet hits I don't think American football is that rough.. sure, rougher than soccer in terms of pure impact to the player but still a far cry from crazy-risky sports where you must possess sado-masochistic tendencies to play . <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/glare.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
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I'm sure you're right about rugby being a brutally physical sport, but I think you're underestimating the incredible pounding, as evidenced by the horrific long-term damage its players suffer, seen in football. I don't know much about Rugby, but from what little I've seen of it, I get the impression a lot of the contact takes place over relatively short distances, whereas in football, the big hits are often delivered at the end of a sprint of decent distance. At very high speed, in other words. It depends on the position, of course, but if you're a running back, tight end, linebacker, or possibly a receiver or member of the defensive secondary, your chances of making it through life post football without serious long-term problems are not great, although I'm sue they're better today than they were 20 or so years ago.
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Good point about hits stopping a longer distance sprint, that does indeec happen with greater frequency in football. In that sense, there is a heightened risk of a more serious injury to happen, but I was more focused on the constant beating rugby or Australian rules football players take over an exponentially longer period of time during any given game. Must remember that football players are in action for a few seconds at a time and then they take a break and/or a few of them get switched for the following play and only rotated back after an even greater break in the action. Whereas, most players in the majority of the other soprts have no such luxury..( I'm not including baseball in this conversation, where there is a total of about, what, 1 minute, 43 seconds of actual play during a 4 hour game ? ;-) ). Anyway , I think the demands of , and durability of rugby, or soccer, or basketball, or tennis, or probably the greatest of all, any Tour de France cyclist, are arguably far above that of football players.
Back to the prediction : I will be ready to make my prediction tomorrow evening.. :-)
And now, I have to find when they're broadcasting the lingerie league superbowl, that's a much better game to watch :-)
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