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Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by talcnturnip, Dec 28, 2011.

  1. connor wigham

    connor wigham Active Member

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    watch the nfl redzone then its basicaly where they show at once and go around (like final score) exept you actually watch the game when the play finishes they move on to the next game and because of the masses of breaks in each indervidual game you are watching NFl non stop for the time just lots of games you dont miss one play aswell and no ads
     
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  2. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    Yeah what he said..........i think.
     
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  3. MrRAWhite

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    As has been stated, the USA have adopted the name of soccer rather than invent it...
    I have no problem at all with Americans, who like every other nation in the world will have a mixed bag of good, bad and downright ugly people...However, if their is one thing that does bug me slightly about them, it is the way they have changed the spellings of certain English language words such as colour.
     
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  4. blackcatsteve

    blackcatsteve Well-Known Member

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    huh!

    I said i love the NFL, havnt missed a live game this year, that included the 1:30am kick offs over here, so i do understand the rules (its not that hard really) the plays i havnt got a clue about (apart from Blitz, Shotgun, Hail Mary) but the rules are easy.

    @ Wigan, I cant watch the red zone, dont have sky but Virgin and cant get the red button on Virgin on a sky channel, but i think I would rather watch 1 live game anyway than lots of snippets.
     
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  5. Uni_Mackem_MAHons

    Uni_Mackem_MAHons Active Member

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    The world series is named after the Boston world newspapaer i believe rather than it beng a global thing. (Although cuba hld the current world championship, and japan are no slouches either)
     
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  6. Commachio

    Commachio Rambo 2021

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    Do we actually give a fook, about them?
     
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  7. Amnesiac

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    Along with the use of z in words instead of an s, leaving most of us pissed off on the spellcheck with GoogleChrome.
     
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  8. Makemstine Roger

    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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    They call a mag with a hanky in his back pocket a ***, and i don't know which spelling i like the best....hahahahahah
     
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  9. HorsleyHillCat

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    Actually they are still part of our Empire, they just don't know it!!
     
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  10. connor wigham

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    fair play but you see every touchdown,play that goes for any yards and turnovers and watch it online at the same time??
     
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  11. Cannylad

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    Aluminum gets on my tits and I refuse to say it when I have to go and pick a load of it up. Also they sat erbs instead of herbs, that annoys me too, but other than that they are just a canny bunch of lads and I see enough of them, I go every week.
     
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  12. Chimera

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    In the thirties a boston newspaper called the boston world sponsored a baseball competition called the boston world series..the paper folded but the competition carried on and the boston bit was dropped.....probably the yanks liked the idea of world dominance wheras in reality they were the only ones to play their stupid game to any significant level.....How would the yanks react if the rest of the world changed the name of baseball or basketball...football is a uk game and rightly should be called football.....it dominates the world ..let the americans call their game football if they want but tell them to politly bugger off if they want to change our beautiful game...ps uni sorry i did not see your earlier post
     
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  13. Chimera

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    sorry but your wrong!soccer is a shortening of association football used by the toffs who get the accolades for creating the rules...but the game of football has working class roots and always has and always will be called football...like the chinese and the french the irish apear to have invented everything..but in the case of orginised football..the uk should be recognised as the originator of out great sport
     
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  14. Black Cat Kiwi

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    We call short skirts Fan belts :tongue:
     
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  15. Billy Death

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    The yanks can't pronounce the name Craig. Not sure why, they just can't.
     
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  16. Obertan's Rancid Toe

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    Just to enlighten you, its called the world series because of the American newspaper News of the World who wanted a play-off between the respective leagues. The paper has been long gone, just a pity International rounders as you call it hadn't joined it.:1980_boogie_down:
     
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  18. cuteybuns

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    That's another thing we blame the Americans for and they haven't done. Between 1619 and 1621, John Norden did a survey of lands owned by the crown to the north of York. If you look in there you'll find e.g. The Honor of Pickeringe. They haven't changed the spelling. What they've done is retain the way we spelt it at the time their ancestors left here. Honor, color, etc. are 17th century English spellings that we have inserted a 'u' into later. The same goes for the 'z' in e.g. realize.

    I must admit, mind, aluminum annoys me. And I'm none too fond of nucular.
     
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  19. ...And Out Come the Wolve

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    Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaasta.

    I've got an itchy fanny. (Thats not good in either use of 'fanny'.)
     
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  20. Not_cricket

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    The term soccer stems from a conversation a gentleman from Sunderland called Allen (who started the internationals against Scotland) was asked if he was going to play rugger (rugby union) and answered no I am going to play soccer. This makes it an English slang word
     
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