Superbowl

[Des Parrot]

What a story for Tom Brady, discarded by New England after winning 9 Championships & 6 Bowls, takes completely unfancied Tampa Bay to the Superbowl. The greatest QB ever versus the heir apparent in Patch Mahomes & the odds on favourite Chiefs.

I know the NFL is not everyone's cup of tea but this has been one of the best seasons ever and could be the Leicester City season if the Buccaneers win

[ToTaL ITK]

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Gladyou are enjoying it
i would equate the superbowl to how many think of cricket ...one giant (sponsered advertised) bore fest

[surge]

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What a story for Tom Brady, discarded by New England after winning 9 Championships & 6 Bowls, takes completely unfancied Tampa Bay to the Superbowl. The greatest QB ever versus the heir apparent in Patch Mahomes & the odds on favourite Chiefs.

I know the NFL is not everyone's cup of tea but this has been one of the best seasons ever and could be the Leicester City season if the Buccaneers win

A bit like Spurs signing Bale (who fully recovers from injury) and is followed by Ronaldo (Gronk) and Modric (Antonio Brown) winning the Champions League while Real Madrid crash out much earlier on. A Leicester City story this ain't.

[xsnaggle]

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I loved american football many years ago. My team were the Dolphins, always wanted them to beat the Packers and the 49ers in particular. But they're not the team they used to be.
They used to say that the noise was so intense in the Orange bowl when the dolphins were in defense that the opposition QB couldn't make himself heard by his own players 6 feet away .
I remember them playing Chicago in Chicago in a blizzard. The game still went ahead. Any ball sport in this country would have been called off before they even started. It's a great game if you understand it. And if the rules in soccer put the ball in play as much as it is n ithat game all these players would be creamed after a match.

[Loramski]

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What a story for Tom Brady, discarded by New England after winning 9 Championships & 6 Bowls, takes completely unfancied Tampa Bay to the Superbowl. The greatest QB ever versus the heir apparent in Patch Mahomes & the odds on favourite Chiefs.

I know the NFL is not everyone's cup of tea but this has been one of the best seasons ever and could be the Leicester City season if the Buccaneers win

My lad had a bet on Tampa Bay before the season started at 16-1 so the Leicester comparison doesn't quite hold but it's been an incredible achievement, I agree. Mahomes is a phenomenon, him and Brady going head to head in a Superbowl is quite a prospect. Kansas City are streets ahead of everyone else though, they'd have to freeze on the night to let Tampa win, surely?

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Incredible athletes, incredible skill in the passing of the ball for the guy to get the touchdown but its not for me

Football , Rugby I can deal with

[bigjoe]

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Debbie does Dallas was a bone fest.

[Harry Paget Flashman]

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I remember them playing Chicago in Chicago in a blizzard. The game still went ahead. Any ball sport in this country would have been called off before they even started. It's a great game if you understand it. And if the rules in soccer put the ball in play as much as it is n ithat game all these players would be creamed after a match.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_NFL_Championship_Game#%22The_Ice_Bowl%22

Can't see the Ice Bowl making it past Derby's groundsmen.

[NYCBlue]

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Incredible athletes, incredible skill in the passing of the ball for the guy to get the touchdown but its not for me

Football , Rugby I can deal with

Rugby just looks like a big mess to me. I would half-heartedly watch if Wales were playing, but then every time I do, I just think "how is this a spectator sport?". They show club rugby over here too, I pay it no mind.

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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Rugby just looks like a big mess to me. I would half-heartedly watch if Wales were playing, but then every time I do, I just think "how is this a spectator sport?". They show club rugby over here too, I pay it no mind.

I think international rugby is a great spectacle

I particularly like watching Australia

But Welsh club rugby I don't bother with

However football will always be number one

[the other bob wilson]

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Not sure why, but after being a big fan when it used to be shown on Channel 4 in the eighties, I kind of lost contact with American Football, but have got back into it somewhat in the last two seasons. My teams in the eighties were the Houston Oilers because they were crap (they seem to have disappeared into the ether somewhere in the last thirty odd years) and the Green Bay Packers because it snowed so often in their games. So I was hoping they were going to win it this year and I certainly didn't see what happened on the weekend coming. I'd usually be wanting the team that had won the previous year to be beaten, but I'll be supporting Kansas City because even someone with such a patchy knowledge of the game as me can see that Mahomes is something special - as is Brady of course, but, perhaps wrongly, I'm not a fan of his because of Deflategate.

[Zowhore]

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Chiefs will win again and should dominate for years too come, they utilise free agency and draft so well adding in Mahomes as a talisman you’re always going to be there or there abouts.

But, I think the Ravens will come again next year, Lamar Jackson should keep progressing and if they draft/sign a new WR1 and OL help they could be worth a punt next year currently 10/1

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

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Not sure why, but after being a big fan when it used to be shown on Channel 4 in the eighties, I kind of lost contact with American Football, but have got back into it somewhat in the last two seasons. My teams in the eighties were the Houston Oilers because they were crap (they seem to have disappeared into the ether somewhere in the last thirty odd years) and the Green Bay Packers because it snowed so often in their games. So I was hoping they were going to win it this year and I certainly didn't see what happened on the weekend coming. I'd usually be wanting the team that had won the previous year to be beaten, but I'll be supporting Kansas City because even someone with such a patchy knowledge of the game as me can see that Mahomes is something special - as is Brady of course, but, perhaps wrongly, I'm not a fan of his because of Deflategate.

The Oilers moved to Tennessee and then changed their name to the Titans. Houston got a new team in the expansion (I think - this happened when I stopped following it for a while too).

[A Quiet Monkfish]

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Somehow whenever someone mentions American Football the scene in Flash Gordon springs to mind :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poir-QmgaZU

Just can't take it seriously - nor can the rest of the world so it seems.

[the other bob wilson]

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The Oilers moved to Tennessee and then changed their name to the Titans. Houston got a new team in the expansion (I think - this happened when I stopped following it for a while too).

Yes, I noticed that Houston still has a team, but usually when a franchise moves it takes the name with them don't they - I was going to say it's probably because Tennessee has no reputation for oil production, but it seems it does have an oil industry.