I must say, I am a bit surprised by the news today that the NFL has decided Brit's are either too drunk all the time or perhaps brain dead, that they'll welcome a re-run of last years game at Wembley Stadium between the New York Giants and the Miami Dolphins. Yes, the game was a sell out, but in the nineteenth century P.T. Barnum's freak shows were also a sell out, but they didn't last.
I don't think the European temperament is suited to a game that has one hour playing time, yet can last for four hours, because the teams spend more time falling down or sitting on the sideline than actually touching the ball. Which reminds me, why do Americans insist on calling it football, when virtually no one touches the ball with their foot. Shouldn't it be handball.
Oh, and finally, why does each team have 80 players on the sideline, many of which never actually get on the pitch? Then again, stupid me forgets that unlike Soccer, as they call the "beautiful game" here, when the rest of the world calls it football, American football has more non-playing time than playing time... So it's actually the perfect American TV sport, as the time to run non-stop commercials far outweighs the playing time.
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