The last time anyone rushed a tight end at Wembley was backstage at a George Michael concert but this weekend the usual sound of footballers gelling their hair and fiddling with Alice Bands is being replaced by whatever sounds American Footballers make. Pass me another handful of cream doughnuts judging by the size of some of them.
90,000 grid-iron fans will take their seats at Wembley this Sunday to watch Miami Dolphins take on the New York Giants as the Americans bring their national sport to our shores.
I don't know how it has gone down in America, but fans of the Dolphins and Giants would have every right to be aggrieved that they have to splash out hundreds of dollars and fly across the Atlantic to watch their local team play or watch it on TV at some ungodly hour.
Putting to one side the obvious marketing reasons for the trip over here, it seems to have quite a following for a sport that has almost no exposure in our media and is generally dismissed as rugby for cissies by the rugby playing fraternity who are in turn generally dismissed as drunken upper class idiots by the rest of us.
As it is Liverpool's turn to get beaten by my team this Sunday evening i will be watching that on TV instead but having carefully considered both the Giants and the Dolphins, taking into account form, balance of the teams and reams of stats i will plump for the Miami Dolphins. They have a better badge after all.
Go Dolphins.
4 comments:
Well, rooting against New York is always its own reward.
But then again, the Dolphins are so bad this year, you will be seeing the worst we have to offer, but on the bright side, I have Eli on my fantasy team. Go Eli, lets have a high scoring game coupled with a Dolphins victory. I have to root for the AFC, because the Bears need all the help they can get in the NFC standings. Lucy make sure when Eli is under center, and he calls Trips right R-ZOOM 219 R-bench, that you watch the Tight-End (Jeremy Shockey) shed his block and make his way to the side of the field by the First Down marker for a reception from the younger Manning. And you say that we don't speak the same language.
Great first sentence! Thanks for the laugh. I don't have much to say or add, since my home team is the Forty-Niners. Their glory days are long gone, and people whine about that a lot. Honestly, I find soccer more intriguing, and the guys are really pleasant to look upon!
I will keep my eyes peeled for Eli's blocked tight end zooming to the side Cody.
To be fair annie, apart from the Fridge who was famous about 20 years ago, i don't know any other American footballers so couldn't comment on how pleasant they are to look at but as our football has a player called Paulo Maldini, they would have to be greek gods to beat him. (preferably with tight ends)
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