Phew, that was a hell of a game! Have to admit that I often get bored-stiff with American Football, and much prefer Canadian Football, which is much faster, although many players are a tad too light for the American version. I am a Stampeder fan through-and-through! Thank you for the YouTube video info. Most enjoyable. Was as good as the England vs South Africa Rugby Union game recently, and that is a compliment, believe me!
If I have an American Football team I like guess it would be the San Francisco 49ers, and strangely, a dislike for the Green Bay Packers. Really don't know why, one of the quirks of being a sports fan? And so, I was quite pleased to see San Francisco shock the Packers in the freezing temperatures of Green Bay, Wisconsin, even more so when I viewed this video clip of a complete nut case of a Packers fan. What a twat, honestly! Greenbay Packers Fan Loses It After 49ers Win - YouTube Good grief, what a tosser! Edit: On reflection, am I any different? Hopefully in a more civilised manner though. Living down here in Bayern, I do not get the opportunity to see my favourite sports live, almost always video replays, (have never been interested that much in Winter sports which are so popular down here). However, am usually able to watch Rugby Union live (unless BT has anything to do with it), and I do get pretty wound-up at times, but not to the extent of our Packers fan/friend! He even wore military attire for the game, even though he was watching at home! The pizzas did look tasty though!
Hahaha, why oh why do people do that to themselves... It has been a great weekend for NFL fans, though i only watched the first two games due to the lateness of the kick offs in the other two. But you could not have scripted the four results, how they got to them and the drama that unfolded. That Chiefs-Bills game was just amazing to watch with the last 2 minutes holding more excitement than most games do in the 60 minutes they play...!!
Great Curling Yesterday's men's semi against the USA was tense and highly entertaining . Cram's effusive comments about the USA skip were straight out of the Farty Meldman bent referee sketch. Schuster started off as a positive, supportive inspiring skip at halfway and turned into a critical, bitter unsupportive skip by end9. Today's semi-final between Sweden and UK was similarly tense. Should have been the final.
Strange isn't it. Given other people's prejudices (which I don't have) I find it strange when they put up the red hand of Ulster flag for some Northern Ireland golfers. While Emmanual gets us to write Royaume Uni on our forms for travelling back to England and on letters home, I'll continue using UK. Macron is my guide.
It's always been this way. If it's Wales, it's Wales. If it's Scotland, it's Scotland. If it's Northern Ireland, it's Ireland (or maybe the land of Orangemen?) If it's England, never is it 'England', it's always 'Gt. Britain' or 'UK'. Internationally, that is. Bloody marvellous.
England, United Kingdom, Great Britain. When it comes to sport, other countries must wonder what the hell is going on. GB keeps our countries' individual identities for football, cricket, etc, but it's Great Britain when it comes to other sports. So when Sweden, a country of about 10 million people, plays Great Britain in a Curling final, they're against a team picked from nearly 70 million people. They must laugh when they they realise the team constitutes all Scotsmen. Likewise our Scottish neighbours when many would no doubt have wanted to compete as Scotland. How bloody convenient for GB, Scandinavians must think. Perhaps they should compete in Sport as Scandinavia.
Hasn't it always been a sort of "track and field extended to all the other nonsense which is now in the Olympics" scenario? Proper sports like football, rugby, cricket, snooker and darts have always seen players or teams representing their individual nation, rather than "UK" or "GB". Curling
Oddy, who luvs ya, baby Now for my short Sunday walk. Just hope I don’t replicate the UK horses at Cheltenham and get blown away by this horrible wind.
Point taken but GB and specifically Team GB is a relatively new thing. When it first appeared I questioned why it wasn't the UK and I was told (perhaps wrongly) that it allowed N. Ireland competitors to choose to represent the Union, and so be in (the Team) GB, or to represent Ireland. Sounds like a fudge to me and giving far too much leverage to Eire (that country that's sometimes called Ireland or Southern Ireland (despite it being north of Northern Ireland: well part of it is)). Actually for cricket other than mickey mouse world tournaments it's England. Many English cricketers were Scotch.
I've just watched Bernard Langer receive his 6th Charles Schwab Cup on the PGA Champions Tour for over 50's players. At 64 years old, what a credit to the game of golf Bernard Langer is- both as a golfer and a person. Listening to his acceptance speech, he's a shining example of what you can achieve at any age. https://www.pgatour.com/champions/v...s-after-winning-sixth-charles-schwab-cup.html
Who are these many Scotch cricketers that have played for England? I'd hazard a guess there's been more England lads who have played for Scotland. The same with football. English lads who know they'll never get near the England squad decide to go and play for Scotland. Liam Cooper, Scott McTominay and Che Adams out of the current Scotland team.
Sorry, my comments on here have tried to be amusing and maybe a bit flippant. To me where someone comes from doesn't matter a great deal. A lot of English cricketers have been 'Scottish born' but as you all know that can mean many things. For example Jardine (good Scottish name) was born in Bombay to two Scottish parents and spent a lot of his early life in St Andrews. I think I'd rate him Scottish, he isn't Indian is he? He was England captain and a fine batsman. As many of you know he was England's captain at the time of the Bodyline Series and is judged solely on that. (recommended read: David Frith's book on that series). I'm sure more English have played cricket for Scotland but is that surprising? In the realms of cricket, the Scotland cricket team probably rates as important as the English curling team. Other English Scottish cricketers are/were Denness (not a good name to mention in Yorkshire, how he was ever preferred over Phil Sharpe I'll never know), Peebles, 'Dougie' Brown, Hamilton, Such and Larter. I'm sure there have been many others.
Got to admit Bustino, as a lad there was a series on tv called Bodyline that showed the infamous Test series with the old foe and that got me in to cricket just as much as playing the game at school did. And as you rightly say, Douglas Jardine, born in India, raised in England, and i think had his ashes spread high up in the Himalayas mountains, was tarnished with that Test series for the rest of his days. On the birth country of a player who then ends up playing for a differing country, it seems every sport and country world wide have players who 'cross-over' so to speak. Nowt new there is there, been going on for ages...
