Westham67
12:45 Mon May 10
Re: American sport
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Any sport is better to watch live than on the box it's the atmosphere. I would say ice hockey would be the nuts Nutsin
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Block
11:35 Mon May 10
Re: American sport
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Love watching NBA, my team are the knicks who like West Ham are massively punching above their weight this season and due to make the playoffs for almost 10 years.
LETS GO DDDDDDDDDDDDDD FENCE
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mashed in maryland
2:54 Sun May 9
Re: American sport
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Basketball is exciting as fuck
MMA can be great
But CORNHOLE is where its really at:
https://youtu.be/ZFlFoPiXmuQ
Could waych this all day and night and never get bored
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Northern Sold
3:41 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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Joke tight VESTS... Joke tight SHORTS.... Joke GAME... from a Joke COUNTRY.... no wonder no other CIVILISED country plays it... JOKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI-t_aIbr6Q
BWHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Sven Roeder
2:57 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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Bouncing the ball off a wall and catching it?
Ha ha ha
Saw a rugby player kick the ball 40yds across the pitch to an unmarked player who waltzed in for a try and everyone lost their minds.
Obviously most struggle to kick a ball due to excessive chafing caused by FAT THIGHS
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Northern Sold
2:50 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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Yeah Sven... love to see your tight vest wearing AFL benders do this... you dont half talk SHIT....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEGmGeoMosg&t=50s
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arsene york-hunt
2:48 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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!. It not fucking football, it's American something or the other I would say rugby.
2. A boring game for blokes over 7 feet tall, which is just something people do in PE. A poor man's netball (which is more aesthetically pleasing). Not to be taken seriously.
3. It aint Hockey, it's fucking ice hockey..
4. Baseball? kind of like rounders is it not.
Among the great contributions the septics have made to sport are big rubber gloves, the time outs, endless stopping for adverts, and that hideous whooping noise they do. Also that wonderful piece of sartorial elegance, the baseball cap,which generally tells you the wearer is a cunt.
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Sven Roeder
2:20 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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Have always found American football too fragmented with all the DEFENCE and OFFENCE teams trotting on and off.
And like Rugby union I find the abysmal kicking skills offensive being an AFL fan
I like basketball having grown up with it in Australia and try and catch a Knicks game when I go to NY. They are as close to having a team as I have in US sport ... I see they are a lot less shit this season.
Have been to watch the Yankees (the Mets have never been at home when I have been there) & enjoy it like a low key cricket ODI. Chance for some leisurely beers in the afternoon in one of the few environments where wearing a baseball cap is acceptable.
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nychammer
2:11 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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I hate most of it. Football I just never got into, it’s too fragmented and stop start. Baseball is more about bud light and hot dogs and chatting to your mates than actually watching a game. It’s also up itself for having a World Series that nobody else can play in. Basketball is too fast. No concept of relegation or promotion in any sport. Football (soccer) is catching on but the standard isn’t great,
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Iron Duke
1:41 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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NFL is shit.
Basketball is shit.
Baseball is boring.
ICE Hockey is okay.
Wrestling is embarrassing.
MMA is mostly shit.
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El Scorchio
1:21 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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Talking of the Cubs, the doc 'Joy in Wrigleyville' is a really good watch, if you can dig it out somewhere.
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Northern Sold
12:44 Fri May 7
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Burns... no mate not done Chicago...
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El Scorchio
12:27 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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Football and baseball are the two I actually follow- football moreso. Not so fussed about basketball or hockey but I'll watch it if it's on and there's nothing else. Likewise college football.
Been over there in various cities and watched them all live except for basketball.
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Mr. Burns
12:14 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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You been to Wrigley Field Sold0?
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Northern Sold
12:08 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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Yeah Fenway Pk is on my to do list... hopefully within next 3 years or so... loved Yankee Stadium.. always a big to do for me... incredible how they kept the old features of the old stadium in the move... US stadiums kick absolute arse... love them
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Woodford Green
11:49 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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Follow the big 4 reasonably closely mainly because in my younger years I had a love for American culture (a big regret of mine is that I never tried to emigrate there) but in order of priority:
NFL - Like others on here I've followed the Redskins ever since Channel 4 started their coverage. Been to a few of the London series games. I'll be fucked if I know all of the squad names these days.
NBA - Boston Celtics- I remember World of Sport covering the classic Celtic/Lakers finals of the early 80s and Larry Bird looked oddly out of place so kind of wanted him to win just for that. Only watching him on YouTube in later years have I realised what an incredibly skillful player he was). Never seen a game but a couple of years ago I gave the Mrs 7 years notice that I'd love to see the Celtics play at the Garden on Christmas Day 2025 (a day after my 50th birthday).
MLB - Went to Fenway Park in 1997 and absolutely loved the stadium and have followed the Red Sox since. Was absolutely elated when they turn around a 3-0 deficit against the Yankees in the playoffs. Been to a number of ball parks since including the London series but nothing compares to Fenway and the Boston support. I can get why some people find it boring but once you study the game and its intricacies it can be fascinating. Plus I love to have a beer and people watch at the game just like a day out at Lords or the Oval.
NHL - Reduced to just looking at the standing every other week but always look out for the Canucks (saw my first game in Vancouver on my honeymoon in 2007) and absolutely loved it. Went to the regular season game played at the O2 not too long after.
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Lee Trundle
11:22 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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Far Cough 11:04 Fri May 7
Yeah, I'm not much of a fan!
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goose
11:16 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9DPV4-lpbo
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Far Cough
11:04 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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Trunds, the Royals won the world series in 1985, George Brett and pitcher Bret Saberhagen
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Lee Trundle
10:51 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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NFL: I support the 49ers, for the same reasons Nutsin has given. Soft spot for the Chiefs as I married into a family who are season ticket holders. I don't mind watching the college games either.
Basketball: I only ever bother with March Madness and that's only really if the Jayhawks are doing well in it. I don't watch the NBA.
Hockey: Don't bother with it.
Baseball: I followed the Royals in 2015 when they won their first ever World Series.
MLS: I've been to a few Sporting KC games. I look out for their results if I ever stumble across anything MLS, but I'm hardly a follower or supporter of them.
Boxing/MMA: I'll watch most decent boxing cards, and pretty much every UFC event (or at the very least, the highlights).
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Far Cough
10:37 Fri May 7
Re: American sport
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I'm a huge baseball fan, my team the Twins won two world series while I was living there, Kirbyyyyyyyyyy Puckett (RIP)
I follow the Vikings in the NFL, I've got a Teddy Bridgewater shirt from watching a game at Twickenham
Love Ice Hockey, I went to a fight once and a game of Hockey broke out. Don't know the rules but I think Icing is the equivalent of offside in football?
NBA, no thanks
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