Anyone staying up to watch it? I've tried a few times to watch American Football, but there are just so many breaks. How an hour long game can take four hours is beyond me. And as for the stats the stats, I like stats, but they just go so overboard with them.
I normally watch it live but i haven't been able to take the Monday off work this year so i may give in and just record it. It does go on rather! I enjoy the sport and the spectacle though and would like to go to one of the games at Wembley.
Those half time commercials (the cost of which would feed a small nation for a year) are amazing at times. This years is a real classic:
I don't like American Football. I have tried watching it a few times, but I just don't get the appeal.
I don't mind American football but as others have stated there are too many breaks. I have to say that my interest in the game has increased since purchasing a New York Giants bobble hat whilst in NYC. Unfortunately my kids have banned me from wearing it, my eldest says it makes me look as if I'm off to sign the register. The only place I'm allowed to wear it is in the house and even that's restricted to the loft.
I don't like either of the sides this year but I hope New England beat Seattle just for the fact that the knob head Richard Sherman & the other knob Marshawn Lynch get ****ed after doing stupid interviews all season, because they don't want to!
It's an impressive spectacle I suppose, and I did find the media stuff this week entertaining, if ridiculous, but it irritates me a bit that it seems to be growing in popularity in this country just because its a cool American thing to watch.
I must be in the minority then that I bloody love it! It does have a lot of breaks, but most of them are only 2/3 adverts long because otherwise you'd basically be watching the offensive/defensive teams swap places or just a load of team huddles.
Its not really because its a cool american thing. It is because most people enjoy it as a sport. If you take the American out of the title it is essentially a world wide sport its just referred to us as such to distinguish the difference. I think people just want something different to watch and with it coming over 3 times a year to wembley people have the opportunity to watch it. I've been watching for years and its far more entertaining to me and to others than some 'british' associated sports
I havent watched the stupid thing in years. They replay all the commercials anyway now so there is really no point in watching the game.
It's funny because in the UK one encourages the team with "come on you team name," whereas in North America it's usually, "Go team name go." That said with KO just a few minutes away, I'll be cheering for the Seahawks as their punter, Jon Ryan (#9) is a Regina lad and a good friend of my son since schooldays. Come on you Seahawks and go ****ing go ... Anyone watching?
Beer on the go, pizza, hot wings and wine to come and hopefully a more entertaining game and positive result compared to the huge disappointment of yesterday. Will you need toothpicks to keep your eyes open, Sir Cheshire Ben?
