>>>>>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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We've had high school, private, and collegiate rugby teams (both rugby leagues and rugby unions) here for years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina_Rugby_Football_Union

We also have Lacrosse teams (my daughter and I used to watch the high school games when her school played). They are not as popular as soccer or football though.