SUPER BOWL WHO DO YOU LIKE (Page 2 of 3)

The excitement of soccer depends upon team tactics and 0-0 can be a helluva game. The 'keeper for Manchester United just last week kept a record of 11 clean sheets - that's no goals past him in 990 minutes of play, so if you see that 0-0, then both keepers had good games.

I helped set up an American Football team in Belfast way back in the 80's. Channel Four had just started showing games back then and a crowd of us had been watching the games - as far as I remember the Redskins played the Raiders that year. We were well on by the time the game ended early Monday morning and we decided we were going to set up a team ( no playing for me though - rugby had already done for the cartilage in one knee, broken my only nose, and left me with a barometer for a shoulder - so I know what you're talking about UYK ).

I did the press work for it (which helped get me my first real job BTW ) and we ended up with 40 guys, one ball and no idea what to do with them. Thankfully the deputy US Consul appeared and another guy who was on a US christian mission to the heathen Irish (such as myself) and they took us in hand. The team was called the Belfast Blitzers and, after a while playing flag football, everybody got the gear and blood was let. I think the team eventually folded.

Baseball is a great summer game and for sheer hilarity,the late  George Carlin did one of his funniest routines comparing Baseball and American Football.  I wish I could find and post it.  But after a day of shovelling and roof raking 2 feet of snow I neither have the energy or attention span to dig it up!  <sigh>

One of my greatest pleasure is playing "softball" a version of baseball played at a slower pitch and with a bigger ball.   I'm a bit competitive, but I love to play for the sheer fun of it!

So lets have a world series where we are going to be the winner ... lol ... dont matter that the rest of the world arent allowed to compete ( because of two things - a complete lack of interest and a boring game ).. but what the heck ... we are yanks we are the best ( so why is obhama apologising  ? ) - enjoy it.

Oh admit it you love watching Serena Williams "bouncing" all over the court!   <wink>

<grin>  I do!

Or as me and my lovely wife like to say, "We may be married, but we ain't dead!"  Hee-hee

"ahem", I fail understand what "bouncing" female tennis players or soccer has to do with the super bowl, you forgot to mention tiddly winks (its a sport somewhere) or lacrosse,arm wrestling,competitive hot dog eating,timed breath holding or the 5 yard sprint for walkers

Zurf I just googled a few youtube vids of Martina and were not talking bout football are we?

football is...............................................

na I canny be bothered getting back into this football the real name and soccer and american football

Not exactly.  She surely is beautiful and that has its attraction on its own, but she really was very exciting to watch play as well.  She never seemed to panic or rush, and always kept each game and the matches in control.  She never lost, but was sometimes beaten (which she accepted as gracefully as she did wins).  Her strategy was always impeccable and she had absolute mastery of the basics of the game - which carried her to the top and kept her there for five or six years straight.  The only person who really ever contested her position was Lindsey Davenport.  I recommend checking her videos as well.  She's as tall as Venus Williams (6'2"), but didn't play the Venus Williams power game - using her height for power only when it was called for and not as a fallback position.  The two of them playing - Martina Hingis vs. Lindsey Davenport - were absolutely epic games. 

When Serena Williams plays on clay, like at the French Open, it's a thing of beauty.  But you should have seen Martina Hingis do it.  Simply amazing. 

- Zurf

p.s.  Go Steelers.

Now when it comes to Tennis greats ... I still think, in her prime, NO one could touch Steffi Graf ... Fraulein Forehand would scare the heck out of opponents ... funny how she became beautiful AFTER she retired and married Andre Agassi ... but on a side not, Agassi and Sampras had some AMAZING tennis matches.

And it seems all the hot female tennis players come from Russia or former Eastern Bloc Countries ... maybe I should move there   

I abhor tennis and I loath soccer, boredom ad infinitum if Gort were here "klatu berratta nicktoe"
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Ken that's what makes the world go,variety in taste,sports,music and I dont find American football boring I grew up on it, from the glory days of the Green Bay Packers and the merging of the old AFL and NFL but nobody played soccer in the United States till later and then only a handful of soccer clubs and schools featured this sport,admittedly its grown in popularity but will never replace football or baseball as the national sport here

A pastor said that to me once when I was wearing a tuxedo.

- Zurf