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Spurs or Sex? said:
Bloody hell, the traffic around Tottenham and surrounding areas would be manic.

On the flip side, I live a 15 min walk to the Lane, never watched a full NFL game in my life so might stick around and get a ticket for it, could be a decent day out.
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Fullstop or at the stadium? I'm going to my first live one at the weekend, i'm intrigued whether it will be worse or better than on tv. At least at home during the breaks in play you get adverts and you can do other things while the game is on. I fear it could be pretty dull actually at the stadium. Although i guess a lot of people like it so it can't be that bad, right?
 
Spurs or Sex? said:
Bloody hell, the traffic around Tottenham and surrounding areas would be manic.

On the flip side, I live a 15 min walk to the Lane, never watched a full NFL game in my life so might stick around and get a ticket for it, could be a decent day out.
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Just hide in the toilet after the first game, save buying a ticket?
 
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Spurm said:
Fullstop or at the stadium? I'm going to my first live one at the weekend, i'm intrigued whether it will be worse or better than on tv. At least at home during the breaks in play you get adverts and you can do other things while the game is on. I fear it could be pretty dull actually at the stadium. Although i guess a lot of people like it so it can't be that bad, right?
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I've never watched one full stop. I've caught glimpses of a match on TV and on the big screens in the sports bar up Leicester Square casino but never seen a full 90 mins (is it even 90 mins? Lol). My mate follows it a bit, can't say who he supports but there is a side he takes a keen interest in.
 
Spurs or Sex? said:
I've never watched one full stop. I've caught glimpses of a match on TV and on the big screens in the sports bar up Leicester Square casino but never seen a full 90 mins (is it even 90 mins? Lol). My mate follows it a bit, can't say who he supports but there is a side he takes a keen interest in.
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Its 4x15mins spread out over the course of about 3hrs
 
Spurm said:
Fullstop or at the stadium? I'm going to my first live one at the weekend, i'm intrigued whether it will be worse or better than on tv. At least at home during the breaks in play you get adverts and you can do other things while the game is on. I fear it could be pretty dull actually at the stadium. Although i guess a lot of people like it so it can't be that bad, right?
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Go and watch some rugby union. Cheaper and infinitely better to watch.
 
Spurs or Sex? said:
What an earth do they do for the extra two hours?!?!
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Timeouts for adverts. Timeouts for tactics. Pauses in play so they can choose what to do because creativity and ad-hocness is not something valued in NFL players. It's basically a very slow game.
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Go and watch some rugby union. Cheaper and infinitely better to watch.
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MMA is my other love when it comes to Sport. Get a good 6-7 hours of (usually) top fights. Was at the Bellator show the other month, met Michael Page outside the O2 just hours before he done this (excuse the OTT pokemon celebration):
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Ah, yes that would make a difference. I know NFL tickets are like rocking horse ****. It's the one American sport that I just don't get as a spectator sport. I like the others, particularly baseball.
 
Spurm said:
Timeouts for adverts. Timeouts for tactics. Pauses in play so they can choose what to do because creativity and ad-hocness is not something valued in NFL players. It's basically a very slow game.
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The clock is only on when the ball is in play within the field. If the same was true for football each half would only be about 25-30 mins I reckon.
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Ah, yes that would make a difference. I know NFL tickets are like rocking horse ****. It's the one American sport that I just don't get as a spectator sport. I like the others, particularly baseball.
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My opinion maybe 15 years ago was:
Basketball > baseball > NFL > ice hockey

But i've completely changed my mind, especially since spending more time here and eventually moving here to:
Ice hockey > NFL > Basketball > baseball
 
Spurm said:
Timeouts for adverts. Timeouts for tactics. Pauses in play so they can choose what to do because creativity and ad-hocness is not something valued in NFL players. It's basically a very slow game.
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I watched a little baseball on BT Sports the other day (it was a slow night on TV) and that is beyond tedious. Most of the pitches (by which I mean throws) were out of the zone and so had to be retaken, and any hits went about 30 yards. All done really, really slowly. And they say Cricket is dull!
 
It seems that certain parts of the stadium can be assembled very quickly indeed once
the pre-requisites are done.
 
Can anyone corroborate a story that Levy has had to buy those construction
cranes because he was not able to get them on hire ??

If true, perhaps we should start singing :

:emoticon-0159-musicThey're all of our own, they're all of our own.
The Harry Cranes, they're all of our own.
 
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