>>>>>>The NFL does not permit vulvazoombas at games.
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>>>>>#298 The NFL stops the USA being fully interested in football and the benign hand of US television advertising squashing it into a 3 hour advert fest.
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>>>>How did the game in London Sunday go? I don't really know what the interest in US Football is in the UK but somebody seems interested in getting some franchises going. My first instinct is it has a better chance of taking off there than soccer does here, but I'm obviously biased.
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>>>LOL
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>>>You are on the BBC sports other sport category. Along with thing like Badminton :-)
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>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/american_football/9126726.stm
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>>>Though I'm sure they managed a better performance than the recent England games at Wembley.
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>>Yeah, have to admit that as much as I think American football is an intrinsically cool game, I can see that our love of it is very much a product of high school and then college football. With no colleges acting as farm teams for pro teams I can't see how you could really have it in UK or Europe without just filling it with American players. the barriers would be pretty much the same as soccer faces here or the reason baseball and cricket have never really been able to cross the pond. ( I actually like cricket better than baseball but that is probably because nobody ever told me I had to like cricket when I was a kid )
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>>Rugby would probably be the best candidate but everybody we have here crazy enough to do that is already playing football <g>
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>>( Actually if the NFL wanted to get something going overseas they should probably start subsidizing high school and then college teams in Australia )
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>I don't see the Aussies going for all that body armour. Australian rules football looks like quite a game though.I think its played on an enormous pitch and allows a lot of contact.

Yeah, from what I've seen of it it looks like fun. It was described to me by an Aussie friend as a game created for people who wanted to throw the ball like American football and were too drunk to play rugby. (though in college we always felt being drunk was part of pre-game warmup for rugby)

I think they can forward pass, kick (including each other) and pretty much anything else.

UPDATE I was way off on Aussie football. can't throw it - but you can HIT it. 18 men on a side. Elliptical field. Kicking a big deal. Now I've got to find some film .this really sounds like fun.