Electrically heated socks ! Whatever next ? The Patriots are bound to win, they are the underdogs. Another frost here tonight, and fog. As the Met Office says: "What should I do ?"
I love The Bills and always have. I despise the whole Patriots organization from the top down. Best game I've seen in years. Happy to see them run up the score on a helpless New England. 17 - Buffalo FOURTY SEVEN!!!
I didn't know a meeting I had was in the same hotel that they were staying at for the 1994 Super Bowl in Atlanta. My 5'9" self was in the elevator when a bunch on them boarded. I felt like an ant.
Giants that can run twice as fast as you or I and do hand stands. The San Francisco Dallas game was a nail biter with a bizarre ending. I was rooting for San Fran.
Cricket: absolutely no good at all, must do better; my football team lost 1-4. and Patriots lost 7-2 in real football terms, and: it never even snowed. The folk on the touchline look cold, never mind, they are only games. Well done the Buffalo Bills.
Sporting Witness - Morten Andersen: The NFL Hall of Fame kicker - BBC Sounds "Morten Andersen arrived in the US at the age of 17 knowing nothing about American football. He went on to become a record-breaking NFL kicker and was later inducted into the Hall of Fame. Alex Last speaks to Morten about his remarkable career and hears why the kicker is one of the most under-appreciated skill positions in American football." Placekicker - Wikipedia With... "The presence of foreign born-and-raised players in the highest levels of gridiron football has largely been limited to placekickers, and more recently to punters from Australia as well. Occasionally, these players come from outside the traditional American high school or college football systems—and all but one of the women to have played men's American football at the college level were placekickers while the lone exception was a placekick holder. Notably Tom Landry recruited several soccer players from Latin America, such as Efren Herrera and Raphael Septien, to compete for the job of placekicker for the Dallas Cowboys. Cypriot Garo Yepremian was renowned as much for his kicking proficiency as he was for his complete lack of awareness of the sport early in his career. British-born kicker Mick Luckhurst was one of the first UK players in the NFL to have a long career, playing 7 seasons for the Atlanta Falcons during the 1980s and retiring as Atlanta's all time leading scorer. Mexican kicker Raul Allegre played 9 seasons in the NFL and won a Super Bowl in 1986. These anecdotes increase the perception of the placekicker as an outsider. As of 2017, only four kickers have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame: George Blanda, Lou Groza, Jan Stenerud and Morten Andersen, and among them, Stenerud and Andersen are the only ones who did not also play another position. There is only one special teams player (including punters, return specialists and long snappers) to ever win the NFL's MVP – Mark Moseley in 1982. Nevertheless, due to their duties in kicking both field goals and extra points placekickers are usually responsible for scoring more points than any other player on a team, and very often entire football games may come down to a single kick. The top 25 players in NFL history in career scoring are all placekickers"
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Don't let them furren kickers try to throw the ball. It'll cost you. He didn't know you could not throw a forward pass on a block FG attempt, but I am sure he did want to get hammered by those hulking D linemen. They would have killed him.
I've seen that replay at least 20 times over the years but never with such devastating announcing. Too bad OJ was on in the last 10 seconds. EDIT: I didn't know this: Yepremian was an immediate target to NFL players who considered American football the exclusive realm of Americans. Players were looking to take Yepremian's head off, and before his first kickoff his coach told him to run to the bench as soon as he kicked before his opponents could lay into him. Yepremian kicked off, then in a harried state ran to the wrong bench, finding himself sitting with the opposing team. Yepremian had never worn a helmet and at first decided not to use one with a face mask, but that changed during Week 4 of the 1966 season, when he was knocked to the ground and badly injured by Green Bay Packers linebacker Ray Nitschke. Afterwards, he started using a single-bar mask.[2] He was the last player in the NFL to not wear a facemask on his helmet.[3] Garo Yepremian - Wikipedia
Didn't know that either. Nitschke rated right up there with Conrad Dobler and Dick Butkus on the badass scale. I read an article about one of the three that said "he he didnt play football, he waged it."
Re. Rugby... Rugby Football History "Scoring through the ages Introduction In early rugby as played at rugby school, the only scores came from goals and there was no points value associated with scoring. The 1845 rules stated that in order to take a punt at goal (this had to be a 'place kick' not a' drop kick') a "TRY at goal" had to be earned by touching the ball down between the posts. The ball was then "punted" over the bar and between the posts without touching the dress or person of any player and in the face of onrushing defenders. The 1862 rules provide a detailed description of the complexities regarding touching down and scoring the goal." Is there any impetus to change the scoring rules in America football ever?
We should have more of the "fake" play, ( video posted 192 above ), for the two minute game highlight watcher such as myself. Hilarious! How dare they not kick the ball when the kicker comes on to kick the ball ? The commentators go bonkers. As for the Superbowl, the best bit is when the last notes of the national anthem fade and the jets fly over the stadium. It's a matter of timing. No second chance. Then I switch off and go to bed. May the best team win.
When else can you eat chicken wings, stuffed mushrooms, cheese, crackers, stuffed hot peppers, potato chips, salsa dip, clam dip, blue cheese dip, and wash it down with pitchers of beer all while watching one game?
The last time the scoring rules were changed was in 1994 to award 2pts for successfully running or passing into the endzone after a touchdown. I listened to an interesting podcast on the job and career of the "long snapper". According to an ex long snapper who teaches it the 3 most important attributes of a long snapper is someone with a large head, large butt and doesn't think too much.
I shall yet again sit down with a cup of tea and a digestive at 11.30 pm tonight and try to watch and understand the game
What to watch for CL1. The rules on the coin toss changed a decade ago. Heads or tails must be called BOFORE the coin is tossed instead of calling it in the air. I love seeing the speed and cat like reflexes of the receivers fighting to catch a pass. Most are human sized humans.
That scoring rule change was the NFL, which I don't watch. The college boys had that PAT option since the late 1950s, a few years before they went to two platoon football.
