Super Bowl XLII

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:27 pm

Anyone watching it?

Anyone at all?

*anticipates jokes about good bowls*

tom-pie · **Posted:** Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:39 pm

i wouldnt watch a bowl unless it really was something special, it would have to have a lid for starters

Fensy · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:15 pm **Posts:** 6471

I think that I might put it on but will probably start reading the book that I bought the other day and glance at the telly every now and then

BillinghamPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:12 am

I would rather poke my eyes out with pointed sticks.

Mute Witness · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 10:10 am **Posts:** 3572

I'm sick of watching my washing up bowl mount.

On an unrelated subject but similar word, I need to empty my bowels.

PoolieBarnes · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 12:52 am

I know what you mean Tom, but apparently it is 'Super'.

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:28 am

what is?

Mr Irrelevant · **Joined:** Thu Aug 17, 2006 8:25 pm **Posts:** 22635

It's a bit like rugby but for poofs who wear more body armour than an infantry battalion. Oh by the way, theres lots of popcorn.

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:00 pm

Mr I wrote:

It's a bit like rugby but for poofs who wear more body armour than an infantry battalion.

WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA

CLICHÉ ALERT

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:23 pm

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

Mr I wrote:

It's a bit like rugby but for poofs who wear more body armour than an infantry battalion.

WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA WAAAA

CLICHÉ ALERT

Come on Ginga, it's shite!

It's only played by Yanks and saddo Brits who for some reason believed it would overtake Football as a spectator sport by the early 1990's

Cheese Skittles is still more popular.....

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:26 pm

American Football is brilliant. It seems most people are averse to it because it's American. :roll:

Harder hitting, better depth, more athletic, etc etc. I'd like to see the game replicated without pads by rugby players and count the injured, wounded or dead after the first quarter.

It was also brilliant because the underdog won and beat the unbeaten Patriots. Surely some people can enjoy that fact?

Although many of you would have loved the American commentary... "The Giants used the training facilities of Chelsea when they went to London, a team that has now gone 15-1-4 since that rainy day in England"

And Talbot, as much as I am a fan of The Indoor League, I'm under no impression that it will take over anything as a spectator sport. I played both rugby and Ameircan Football and it's no contest which is the better game all round. Plus, we don't have a national team in it that is generally fucking awful rolfl

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:33 pm

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

American Football is brilliant. It seems most people are averse to it because it's American. :roll:

No, I'm averse to it because it is slow, boring and lacking any form of real skill apart from being heavy or being able to catch and run fast.

P.M.T. · **Joined:** Mon Jul 02, 2007 2:14 pm **Posts:** 968

A quote from a commentator " All the Brits support New England Patriots because it has England in the name"
Stupid yanks rolfl

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:51 pm

LDB wrote:

It wouldnt be so bad if they just got on with the game. It would only last an hour, and would probably be quite entertaining.

But its american so they have to destroy it.

And whats with all the substitutions?
stpid

There aren't substitutions. What's wrong with interchanging players? Makes perfect sense to me clappp

P.M.T. wrote:

A quote from a commentator " All the Brits support New England Patriots because it has England in the name"
Stupid yanks rolfl

Yeah, that was part of the Chelsea comment - but the funny thing is, most people I know who support the Patriots is because of exactly that!

Mr Ripper wrote:

No, I'm averse to it because it is slow, boring and lacking any form of real skill apart from being heavy or being able to catch and run fast.

Well sir, I suggest you watch it instead of prejudging before watching. :roll:

Salty · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:09 pm

it was the top story on SSN this morning, WTF?!

as if the FA Cup final would be the top story over there!
Its a shit minority sport and should barely get a mention, and dont get me started on all the arsepeices it showed a-whooping and a-hollering watching it on a big screen in LONDON! idiots

nuke the frigging lot of em :evil:

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:09 pm

My only problem with it is why do they call the damn thing Superbowl EX EL EYE EYE instead of simply Superbowl 2008? Or even Superbowl 36 would do - XLII does translate to 36 doesn't it? That is the *answer*, right? :wink:

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:11 pm

Salty wrote:

it was the top story on SSN this morning, WTF?!

as if the FA Cup final would be the top story over there!
Its a shiit minority sport and should barely get a mention, and dont get me started on all the arsepeices it showed a-whooping and a-hollering watching it on a big screen in LONDON! idiots

nuke the frigging lot of em :evil:

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:11 pm

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

Mr Ripper wrote:

No, I'm averse to it because it is slow, boring and lacking any form of real skill apart from being heavy or being able to catch and run fast.

Well sir, I suggest you watch it instead of prejudging before watching. :roll:

I have watched it.

Both first hand and on the telly.

It's rubbish.

Portsmouth Poolie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:14 pm

Mr Ripper wrote:

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

American Football is brilliant. It seems most people are averse to it because it's American. :roll:

No, I'm averse to it because it is slow, boring and lacking any form of real skill apart from being heavy or being able to catch and run fast.

True, but don't most of Pools players lack any real skill???? bbolt

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:15 pm

Mr Ripper wrote:

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

Mr Ripper wrote:

No, I'm averse to it because it is slow, boring and lacking any form of real skill apart from being heavy or being able to catch and run fast.

Well sir, I suggest you watch it instead of prejudging before watching. :roll:

I have watched it.

Both first hand and on the telly.

It's rubbish.

No you haven't.

You've seen it all in your head.

You're rubbish. :roll:

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:16 pm

TheGingerPoolie wrote:

No you haven't.

You've seen it all in your head.

You're rubbish. :roll:

But I have... :roll:

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:23 pm

Just wait till Mr.Mouldy claps eyes on this thread with you lot slagging off American Football!!!! :shock:

parmopooly · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:03 pm

Richard M. Head wrote:

My only problem with it is why do they call the damn thing Superbowl EX EL EYE EYE instead of simply Superbowl 2008? Or even Superbowl 36 would do - XLII does translate to 36 doesn't it? That is the *answer*, right? :wink:

no, it's my shirt size

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 3:49 pm

Fantastic game enjoyed every minute and i also watched Scotland v France and guess what the Scots fowards had shoulder pads on. rolfl

tom-pie · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:03 pm

i like it but the seasons not on for long enough

aphemia · **Joined:** Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:02 am **Posts:** 73

+1 to all American Sports

Be sucked in by the stereo-type blinkered view if you like, but the athleticism of American Footballers is incredible and the depth of tactics, fascinating.

Basketball is my favourite spectator sport. Incredible game and the skill of those dudes is scary. Plus, you must have all known a big-lad at school. Bet you he was about as co-ordinated as...something very unco-ordinated...These guys are absolutely massive but so agile it's just amazing.

bbolt

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:16 pm

MutleyRules wrote:

Just wait till Mr.Mouldy claps eyes on this thread with you lot slagging off American Football!!!! :shock:

Mutters i will not lose my temper on this thread as they all talk sh*te. rolfl

Spender · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:40 pm

It is the only game ever designed for television viewers. :roll:

Useless fact no 107. :grin:

Salty · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:24 pm

aphemia wrote:

dudes

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 8:56 pm

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS 18 - 1 no title

HARTLEPOOL UNITED MONKEYHANGERS 23 - 10 no title

Fortune never favours the team that goes on an unbeaten run, eh ?

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37149

It's shit...end of, just above basketball (netball for tall people) where the score grinds out to something like 98-97.... yawn2

...then there's American rounders ......baseball...I could go on but what's the point. Pointless sports for yanks and their sychophantic wannabes over here. The sort of mildly self deluded easily aroused 'character' who would probably try pro-am genocide/ethnic cleansing if it was advertised on Channel 4 as a sport... I can just see it as two teams of pimply students turn out at Grayfields on a Saturday morning watched by the one rather gormless token girlfriend they all share as battle commences between the Bishop Cuthbert Butchers and the Fens Flamethrowers.... casualty were informed, there were no survivors...thankfully. :roll:

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:15 pm

Snowy wrote:

It's shiit...end of, just above basketball (netball for tall people) where the score grinds out to something like 98-97.... yawn2

...then there's American rounders ......baseball...I could go on but what's the point. Pointless sports for yanks and their sychophantic wannabes over here. The sort of mildly self deluded easily aroused 'character' who would probably try pro-am genocide/ethnic cleansing if it was advertised on Channel 4 as a sport... I can just see it as two teams of pimply students turn out at Grayfields on a Saturday morning watched by the one rather gormless token girlfriend they all share as battle commences between the Bishop Cuthbert Butchers and the Fens Flamethrowers.... casualty were informed, there were no survivors...thankfully. :roll:

You love rounders though Snowy i bet.

verbalkint · **Joined:** Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:08 pm **Posts:** 3135

utter utter utter shite, tried watching it one morning when i couldnt sleep and couldnt get my head round it, very boring and slow with very annoying people talking a load of bolloxs ! and crowds full of idiots drinking bud and eating chilli dogs wooping and hollowing at anything, and what other country has a WORLD SERIES in baseball when there is only them in it

TalbotAvenger · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:57 pm

verbalkint wrote:

utter utter utter shite, tried watching it one morning when i couldnt sleep and couldnt get my head round it, very boring and slow with very annoying people talking a load of bolloxs ! and crowds full of idiots drinking bud and eating chilli dogs wooping and hollowing at anything, and what other country has a WORLD SERIES in baseball when there is only them in it

I composed a little poem regarding American Football while I was waiting for my tea to cook.....

American Football is Cack
Why did they invade Iraq
The Hartlepool Steelers were shite
Anyone who played for them wasn't very bright

Good eh?!

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:22 am

verbalkint wrote:

what other country has a WORLD SERIES in baseball when there is only them in it

Actually there are other countries in it. Shite countries but countries nonetheless. :laugh:

mouldy old dough · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:21 pm

It sounds like you hate America rather than the sport is this because they saved this country in the 2nd world war and pulled this country out again in the 2 iraq invasions.

Mr Ripper · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:34 pm

mouldy old dough wrote:

... and pulled this country out again in the 2 iraq invasions.

Eh?

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:40 pm

verbalkint wrote:

what other country has a WORLD SERIES in baseball when there is only them in it

Well Mr Kunt, therein lies the only time I have ever had to apologise to an American. :roll:

I wasn't proud but when he explained that the trophy was sponsored by a Newspaper (now long gone) called the New York World.......well what could I do??

I kicked his fookin head in, drank his beer and made an unwelcome attempt at his girlfriend......

Mind she was up for it but the ambulance wouldn't take him without a witness....

I said, sorry love, your loss.... :grin:

Poolie of Kent · **Posted:** Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:33 pm

HARTLEPOOL STEELERS... 9-1 (1988) ?

I thought that was good ?

Never mind the Patriots, that record could have won the Super Bowl now.

TheGingerPoolie · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2008 12:50 am

The World Series wasn't named after a newspaper, which I'm sad to admit (given it would have been quite a cool comeback).

Then again, baseball is the single most boring sport I've ever watched. It's like cricket, but less happens and it's not even fun to play.

I also like Snowy et al's points... mostly they just point to the fact that they are averse to the concept as they are American sports and thus shit, perpetuating an age-old blinkered view of Transatlantic sports rolfl

"Puff's rugby" yadda yadda yadda... yawn1

. You probably wouldn't criticise Korfball or Jai A'Lai... but they're not American rolfl

Snowy · **Joined:** Fri Aug 18, 2006 12:18 pm **Posts:** 37149

It's got nothing whatsoever with them being from across the pond. I actually like the Yanks and have never been taken in by the constant and apparently accepted portrayal on the media of an entire nation, by smart arse liberal comedians, (who've never travelled beyond the reaches of the local comedy 'workshop') that they're all dumb Bush clones.
The simple and unamazing fact is...I find the three 'sports' in question tedious and the football the most tedious of all

p.s I also detest rugby, tennis and golf ....and what is the point of any motor racing?

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