11-04-2006, 01:10 PM
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Experienced Starter w/First Big Contract
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Indy game on Channel Five (UK)
I am good friends with a Brit emigre to America. I remember him jeering at American football since there was substitution and the play constantly stopped. He used to speak of the toughnesss of "football players" who run around continuously for an hour or more.
Then he started to catch on that the American game is an "explosion & power" game more than an "endurance" game. As for toughness, he stopped talking about that. He also ceased mentioning the athleticism and ballet like instincts of a good striker, when he saw the acrobatic acts of some WRs...
Today he is an avid American football and Pats fan, and says he can't stand to watch a boring "football" game of the "soccer"' variety any longer. He absolutely detests the all to frequent situation where they play a game to a tie for over an hour than play, and completely different one-on-one game shootout that has nothing to do with the "real" "football" game.
He can't bring himelf to call it Soccer. It'll always be "football" to him, though.
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