From: Diablos Rojos on

"Baldoni" <BaldoniXXV(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:88c8jmFfjvU1(a)mid.individual.net...
> RickyBobby submitted this idea :
>>
>> "Pakistan Meteorological Department" <PMD(a)SIBU.HQ> wrote in message
>> news:hvqjgt$k8p$3(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>> Big Bad Jocko wrote:
>>>
>>>> more wide open and maybe some goals
>>>
>>>
>>> Listen laddie, the whole world plays the game how *we* all like it and
>>> we do not need some yank telling us how to iprove it. Capice?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The Yanks only pay polite attention to the game once every four years.
>> Three or four guys playing offense against eleven guys playing defense is
>> not exactly our idea of a sport and nil-nil is not really our idea of a
>> result. The rest of the world considers American football to be deranged
>> and Americans consider football to be pointless. That way everyone is
>> happy.
>>
>> Formula One is no better. It is the only form of auto racing that does
>> not allow for passing on the track. The world can keep both of them.
>>
>> The most important thing in spectator sports is the lead change. Or at
>> least the likelihood of a lead change. Neither football nor Formula One
>> offer much of that. They are each like going to a restaurant and reading
>> the menu but not being allowed to order.
>
> What are you doing on a football related forum if you don't like the game
> son ?
>
> --
> Count Baldoni
>
>

same reason you live in a Manchester United NG despite not liking the team.



From: RED DEVIL on
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:22:28 +0100, "Diablos Rojos"
<diablos_r0j0s(spam)@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>"Baldoni" <BaldoniXXV(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message
>news:88c8jmFfjvU1(a)mid.individual.net...
>> RickyBobby submitted this idea :
>>>
>>> "Pakistan Meteorological Department" <PMD(a)SIBU.HQ> wrote in message
>>> news:hvqjgt$k8p$3(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>>> Big Bad Jocko wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> more wide open and maybe some goals
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Listen laddie, the whole world plays the game how *we* all like it and
>>>> we do not need some yank telling us how to iprove it. Capice?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> The Yanks only pay polite attention to the game once every four years.
>>> Three or four guys playing offense against eleven guys playing defense is
>>> not exactly our idea of a sport and nil-nil is not really our idea of a
>>> result. The rest of the world considers American football to be deranged
>>> and Americans consider football to be pointless. That way everyone is
>>> happy.
>>>
>>> Formula One is no better. It is the only form of auto racing that does
>>> not allow for passing on the track. The world can keep both of them.
>>>
>>> The most important thing in spectator sports is the lead change. Or at
>>> least the likelihood of a lead change. Neither football nor Formula One
>>> offer much of that. They are each like going to a restaurant and reading
>>> the menu but not being allowed to order.
>>
>> What are you doing on a football related forum if you don't like the game
>> son ?
>>
>> --
>> Count Baldoni
>>
>>
>
>same reason you live in a Manchester United NG despite not liking the team.
>
>
I wish his boss would put him on lunch shift again so we wouldn't have
to endure his shite.
RED DEVIL
From: RickyBobby on


"Baldoni" <BaldoniXXV(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:88c8jmFfjvU1(a)mid.individual.net...
> RickyBobby submitted this idea :
>>
>> "Pakistan Meteorological Department" <PMD(a)SIBU.HQ> wrote in message
>> news:hvqjgt$k8p$3(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>> Big Bad Jocko wrote:
>>>
>>>> more wide open and maybe some goals
>>>
>>>
>>> Listen laddie, the whole world plays the game how *we* all like it and
>>> we do not need some yank telling us how to iprove it. Capice?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> The Yanks only pay polite attention to the game once every four years.
>> Three or four guys playing offense against eleven guys playing defense is
>> not exactly our idea of a sport and nil-nil is not really our idea of a
>> result. The rest of the world considers American football to be deranged
>> and Americans consider football to be pointless. That way everyone is
>> happy.
>>
>> Formula One is no better. It is the only form of auto racing that does
>> not allow for passing on the track. The world can keep both of them.
>>
>> The most important thing in spectator sports is the lead change. Or at
>> least the likelihood of a lead change. Neither football nor Formula One
>> offer much of that. They are each like going to a restaurant and reading
>> the menu but not being allowed to order.
>
> What are you doing on a football related forum if you don't like the game
> son ?
>
> --

If both England and USA win today I will like it somewhat better. The
players are skilled and all that good stuff. It is just those goofy rules
and horrid officiating that are the major faults. But it is a spectator
sport and it does have billions of spectators so it must be given its due.