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They should always pick the statistically worst team in the NFL's stadium for playing the Super Bowl in.
Statistics
http://sportsillust...ball/nfl/standings/
Looks like the Super Bowl should be played in Miami next year : ) [quantum_flux, Feb 04 2008]
Souper Bowls
http://www.heh.com....BowlsLargeSmall.jpg
BIg game played in one on left, wee game on right.... [xenzag, Feb 04 2008]
Not quite to the Isle of Wight,
http://www.satirewi...n02/australia.shtml
but you could see where they were heading. [pertinax, Feb 05 2008]
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This would be important to someone in the US, I'm assuming? |
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Yes, well you can't have the worst team in the NFL if you don't even have a local NFL team to begin with. That being said, the "everyone" that this is referring to is technically referring to "every one of the US citizens that have a local team in the NFL". |
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You may have bitten off more than you can chew with this one qf. As an USer, I would like to know why also, although I'm guessing something to do with marketing? making a little cash for the city where it's held. |
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I'm not sure an underdog town would be excited. as a Redskin fan, (sigh) I would not have cared if the game was played in
Landover, MD or anywhere. |
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The game looks like a farce, with a lot of heavily armoured nancy-boys traipsing on and off the field so they don't have to have more than one skill but can be substituted out for a player who can catch, or another whocan kick. |
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Meanwhile, there's a minute or two break between set pieces, so everyone can get their wind back. |
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don't take it personally qf, UKers generally are disgusted by American football. |
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And USians are generally bored silly by soccer, and lets not even talk about cricket. |
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I wouldn't want to meet any of those heavily armoured nancy-boys in a dark alley. |
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The game would be perpetually played in Detroit. |
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my thought was always play in Miami or L.A. , considering the weather in Feb. |
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//don't take it personally qf, UKers generally are disgusted by American football// and UBers apparently. |
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If hosting Superbowl is a huge revenue raiser for the host, then is it wise give poor performing teams an incentive to lose games once they've reached the point in the season when they have nothing else left to play for? |
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"And the Lions come into tonight's game knowing that they need to lose it by 15 points to regain that highly sought placing at the foot of the league, following the Packers' impressive 0-72 loss to the Oilers earlier today." |
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[Later: Noexit, below, yep, you got me. The Titans used to be known as the Oilers. I picked a team from my dim recollection of NFL in the 90's, and it didn't even occur that the whole fekking team would have changed name and states since then.] |
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Bah. Flip a coin and play in the stadium of one of the two teams competing. |
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//...impressive 0-72 loss to the Oilers earlier today."// |
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A hockey team scored 72? whoa. |
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Packers and Oilers? Sounds like luggage experts and masseuses respectively. |
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and UBers apparently.
po, Feb 04 2008 |
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I'm sorry, I keep forgetting Australia is not part of the UK. |
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well, we could try squishing it into the Isle of Wight. |
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Don't feel bad, [dentworth]. War is America's way of teaching its citizens the geography they never learned at school. You haven't invaded either the UK or Australia yet, unlike your country's adventures in the 1770s and 1812. |
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Allow me to learn a little more about your home country, UB.... er, where do you live again? Also, does your country have freedom yet, or do we need to help you guys out by inciting a revolt and installing a puppet government? |
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//freedom yet// is that the place where you can freely take photographs from a train without getting arrested? |
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freedom - the right to freely take photographs of nude hippies holding a lovefest on a college campus from a train and to openly post it on the internet without any kind of legal repurcussions |
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free country - any country where a visiting American or drunk UK guy can freely walk around in public with sunglasses on and a beer in hand without any fear of getting the head chopped off by extremists |
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//do we need to help you guys out by inciting a revolt and installing a puppet government?//
I believe you performed this service for a few of your southern states about 140 years ago? |
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We seem to be free here. Our elections seem reasonably fair; We don't feel the need to assassinate our head of state every 20 or so years... we just ignore them until the next election (3 years apart). I've never had a gun pointed at me by an Australian officer of the law (Though that did happen to me in Hawai'i, which is possibly why I don't like America much.); I'm free to do and say pretty much what I please, barring incitement to violence and making explosive devices. |
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A lot like Canada without the snow, poutine and large American cars, I guess. |
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Cool, but I'm still a little fuzzy about where in the world Australia and Canada are though! I better call the Pentagon and have them help me find their whereabouts. Nah, just kidding, or maybe I'm not!? :) |
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Australia? It's that little country next to Germany, with the nice pastries and the obsession with music. Ask the Governator... he'll tell you where to find it. |
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I support this idea. Two teams make it to the super bowl. All of the before games are played in major cities and bring millions of dollars to the local economies. Phoenix has a shitty football team but a kick ass stadium but Phoenix is hardly broke. Having the super bowl in a city that consistently does not get to experience the super bowl would help that city immensely. Look at the numbers on how much business comes with a super bowl. maybe that added income will help cities develop a better football team and a better city as a whole. |
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Yes, attracting football louts and selling beer is soooo good for a city's economy. |
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[UnaBubba], I'm guessing that the weather on your side of, let's say, Austria is still as oppressively hot as it is on my side, and that this might be influencing the tone of your annos. Haven't we half-bakers already done U.S./RestOfTheWorld teasing ad nauseam? Could we drop it? |
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Do I have to? It's such an easy target. |
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You're free to make fun of the United States, but know this one thing .... Australia's football team will never make it to the Superbowl! |
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Umm, that would be because we don't play gridiron, I suppose. There are a few homesick Yanks who try it every so often but we tend to ignore them. |
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We have to make do with Rugby League (a game at which we dominate all nations playing it), Rugby Union (a game at which we traditionally excel, though poor coaching in the last few years has seen us in a slump. The US entered a team in the last World Cup, which is played by ***gasp*** more than 2 dozen countries), Australian Rules ( a game similar to Gaelic Football, but like your game, restricted to one country) and Soccer ( a game that is played in practically every country on Earth and at which we are increasing in world stature). |
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You might like to watch one of them sometime. They rely on skill AND fitness to play the entire duration of the game with only a half time break, and an absolute minimum of protective equipment. |
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American football seems to be what happens to a game after the health and safety officers and the TV stations' marketing departments have finished with a game that might be fun to watch if it wasn't comprised of 75% stoppages, 20% hype and 5% action. |
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I will simply defer to what someone else has once said: |
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"Football is for everyone, and those that don't like football are evil, because football is love, and therefore without football there can be no love. No football, no love. Know football, know love. |
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Those who love football need to educate those few, insignificant and lost people to the wonders of football. If the un-fans can't be educated and learn to love Football, they simply are without love and must be avoided. |
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Football is the perfect sport -- you can read the proof yourself in the Football handbook (there are many versions of the Football Handbook, but they are all 100% correct)." --Dave Silverman |
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Football is the perfect sport - yes, the one where the football is manipulated by the feet! |
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zzzzzzzzz counts American Footballers
instead of sheep, falling over a cliff one
by one and drifts off to sleep, smiling
contentedly. |
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Don't take the great words out of context, the football where the defense and offense line up and call plays is perfect in every way, shape, and form. |
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is it art not sport?
or heaven forbid - religion. |
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It's way different than religion! I've never once seen a religion win the Superbowl.....all right, I'm beating a dead horse here, aren't I? World soccer, hockey, basketball, and baseball are all good games too. |
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<clacks>testicle helmets<clacks> |
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The only good thing about gridiron is that you can pull off kamikazi hits on people with little/no fear of injury. Try that on a rugby field (either breed of rugby) and you'll go home on a strtcher. I know, I've done it a few times. |
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I've been asked ton stand in on a few Gridiron games, and hated it. I simply couldn't stand being told what to do every second. It's all so practiced and meticulously planned, I don't see why you need players at all. Just put the two coaches in front of a computer simulation, fer chrissakes. |
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//well, we could try squishing it into the Isle of Wight.// |
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It's been tried. See link. In fact, it's even got an on-topic punchline. |
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