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[SeaCat]

They have a special on right nw showcasing the best of the commercials from past Superbowls Some of these are just too funny.

Cat

 

[oggbashan]

My youngest daughter and son-in-law are going to be in Chicago at the time of the Superbowl, watching it from inside a bar.

I'm sure they'll enjoy themselves as long as they support the "right" team.

What is the Superbowl anyway? A game of cricket for softies? Or what?

Og

 

[matriarch]

My youngest daughter and son-in-law are going to be in Chicago at the time of the Superbowl, watching it from inside a bar.

I'm sure they'll enjoy themselves as long as they support the "right" team.

What is the Superbowl anyway? A game of cricket for softies? Or what?

Og

Nah, Ogg. You got it wrong. It's rugby for softees.

 

[oggbashan]

Nah, Ogg. You got it wrong. It's rugby for softees.

Oh. That game they call football?

I played it once, with my Australian school rugby team against a visiting US High School "Football" team. We offered to play them at Rugby. Their coach watched us play a match against another school and decided it was too dangerous for his "Kids". He watched an Australian Rules match and thought it was too close to real combat. Even our school's lacrosse team scared him.

So we played his version of "football". We didn't bother with the armour and helmets. We ran rings around them because we were so much lighter and used to playing continuously. We were fitter at the end of the game than they had been at the start. We couldn't win at Rugby playing any Rugby team, but we could win at American "football".

He took his team to watch a professional Australian Rules match. He thought it might give them ideas. It scared them stiff. It wasn't a good match, the equivalent of the Second Division where the teams were short of players. One player broke his thumb. He continued playing until the next intermission, got it strapped up, and then played the rest of the match. The only player removed from the field for injury had a leg broken in two places. Visible blood was normal and stitches had to wait until the player could be substituted or the end of that session of play.

To parody Oscar Wilde: Rugby is a game for oafs played by gentlemen; Football (Soccer) is a game for gentlemen played by oafs; Australian Rules is a game for thugs played by murderers; American football is a game played by celebrities for television ratings.

Og

 

[S-Des]

Oh. That game they call football?

I played it once, with my Australian school rugby team against a visiting US High School "Football" team. We offered to play them at Rugby. Their coach watched us play a match against another school and decided it was too dangerous for his "Kids". He watched an Australian Rules match and thought it was too close to real combat. Even our school's lacrosse team scared him.

So we played his version of "football". We didn't bother with the armour and helmets. We ran rings around them because we were so much lighter and used to playing continuously. We were fitter at the end of the game than they had been at the start. We couldn't win at Rugby playing any Rugby team, but we could win at American "football".

He took his team to watch a professional Australian Rules match. He thought it might give them ideas. It scared them stiff. It wasn't a good match, the equivalent of the Second Division where the teams were short of players. One player broke his thumb. He continued playing until the next intermission, got it strapped up, and then played the rest of the match. The only player removed from the field for injury had a leg broken in two places. Visible blood was normal and stitches had to wait until the player could be substituted or the end of that session of play.

To parody Oscar Wilde: Rugby is a game for oafs played by gentlemen; Football (Soccer) is a game for gentlemen played by oafs; Australian Rules is a game for thugs played by murderers; American football is a game played by celebrities for television ratings.

Og

Not to start WWIII or anything , but the difference is a touch more pronounced than you think. Rugby and especially Australian Rules are vicious, excellent games. However, the athletic difference is night and day (if it wasn't, the players would come over here and take over our sport so they could make millions as well). As an example, the average size of an NFL defensive lineman is about 6'2, 300lbs. Not only are they huge, they run sub 5 second 40 yard dashes. The running backs and receivers often poses world class track speed. Our best player is Brian Urlacher. He's 6'4, 258lbs and runs about a 4.5 40 (picture the guy making the semi finals of an indoor track sprint). If he hit a rugby player with a full head of steam, all that would be left would be the shoes.

Not to say they're not tough (or crazy). Rugby takes a level of skill and endurance that is incredible. I highly doubt most American football players would wish to play your sports. But I always chuckle at people who think they shouldn't need the pads. Because the plays are so stop and start, it gives the players a chance to set up for bigger hits. It's not an endurance sport, more of an acceleration (and rapid deceleration) one. Your daughter is going to have a great time. Chicago is really ready for a big party. Win or lose, the game is going to be a blast.

 

[lipsofanangel]

This will be the first Super Bowl in years I'll actually watch.

I'm so torn on who to root for though, so I'll probably cheer for both before it's all over.

 

[SlickTony]

Rugby is a game for oafs played by gentlemen; Football (Soccer) is a game for gentlemen played by oafs; Australian Rules is a game for thugs played by murderers; American football is a game played by celebrities for television ratings.

I love it. What was the original quote?

I am going to watch the Super Bowl, too. I bought four squares in the company pool. This is the only reason I ever bother to watch football.

 

[cloudy]

Australian Rules is a game for thugs played by murderers

Wow - this brought back something I hadn't thought of in at least ten years or so. When I was in college, ESPN used to show Australian Rules football late at night. One of our favorite pasttimes was to smoke a joint, and then try to figure out the rules (no one knew them).

I wish like hell we'd written some of them down, it was brilliant comedy.

 

[oggbashan]

I love it. What was the original quote?

I am going to watch the Super Bowl, too. I bought four squares in the company pool. This is the only reason I ever bother to watch football.

I'm still searching for it. Here's one Oscar Wilde quote to start with:

"Football is a game for rough girls, not suitable for delicate boys"
Oscar Wilde

And this:

"The old saying is that football is a gentleman's game played by thugs and rugby is a game for thugs played by gentlemen."

Og

 

[SlickTony]

Wow - this brought back something I hadn't thought of in at least ten years or so. When I was in college, ESPN used to show Australian Rules football late at night. One of our favorite pasttimes was to smoke a joint, and then try to figure out the rules (no one knew them).

I wish like hell we'd written some of them down, it was brilliant comedy.

When I was in college in the early 70s I took some acid and then wrote a brilliant dissertation on Bob Dylan's song "Watchtower." Unfortunately, the ms got destroyed, so I'll never know how brilliant it actually was.

 

[SimonBrooke]

Not to start WWIII or anything , but the difference is a touch more pronounced than you think. Rugby and especially Australian Rules are vicious, excellent games. However, the athletic difference is night and day (if it wasn't, the players would come over here and take over our sport so they could make millions as well). As an example, the average size of an NFL defensive lineman is about 6'2, 300lbs. Not only are they huge, they run sub 5 second 40 yard dashes. The running backs and receivers often poses world class track speed. Our best player is Brian Urlacher. He's 6'4, 258lbs and runs about a 4.5 40 (picture the guy making the semi finals of an indoor track sprint). If he hit a rugby player with a full head of steam, all that would be left would be the shoes.

I don't want to start a war either, and I'm not rugby fan. But your Brian Urlacher wouldn't be an unusually big man in a professional rugby team. He'd be about average size on the current Scotland team, and they don't win much.
The Aussies would slaughter him, pick their teeth, and ask what's for lunch; and the New Zeelanders would slaughter them.

 

[oggbashan]

Football quotations:

'The lovers of football are large, boisterous, nobby boys who are good at knocking down and trampling on slightly smaller boys.' - George Orwell

'Men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals.' - Isaiah Berlin

'There is no real substitute for a ball struck squarely and firmly.' - Billy Bragg

'Am I my brother's keeper?' - Cain, in the Book of Genesis

'You base footballer!' - William Shakespeare

'Each succeeds in reaching the goal by a different method' - Niccolo Machiavelli

'All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football' - Albert Camus

Will I reach the goal, so long sought after, so long pursued?' - Paul Cezanne

'In seeking a goal a woman acquires that magnificent possession - the absolute' - Simone De Beauvoir

'The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement' - Sigmund Freud

'Football is an art' - Germaine Greer

'It is not just a simple game. It is a weapon of the revolution' - Che Guevara

'Football can be categorised as a type three masturbatory technique.' - Shere Hite

'There is no greater glory for a man than that which he achieves by his own hands and feet.' - Homer

'It is a foolhardy, crazy game I have entered into.' - Henrik Ibsen

'The unhappy individual is forever quite close to the goal and at the same time some distance from it' - Soren Kierkegaard

'There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the stadium.' - Milan Kundera

'Everyone needs to score now and then' - Hugh Hefner

'If a man is greatly injured by a single person, and is not avenged to his satisfaction, he seeks, even with its ruin, to get his revenge.' - Niccolo Machiavelli

'If the game is lost, your earthly life is wasted.' - Henrik Ibsen

'Men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals.' - Isaiah Berlin

'Football is one of the most unifying activities amongst us.' - Nelson Mandela

'The goal passes through a series of phases independent of the will of man. - Karl Marx

'Football is War. - Rinus Michels

'The goalkeeper is the lone eagle, the man of mystery, the last defender.' - Vladimir Nabokov

'I never felt at home on the team' - Henrik Ibsen

'There's quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roar of infuriated spectators.' - George Orwell

'Football? I'd prefer a good game of Camogie any day!' - Sharon Stone

'Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt' - George Orwell

'In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.' - Jean-Paul Sartre

'Am I so round with you as you with me, that like a football you do spurn me thus? You spurn me hence and he will spurn me hither. If I last in this service you must case me in leather.' - William Shakespeare

'No goal is impossible.' - Stirner

'Football causeth fighting, brawling, quarrel picking, murder and great effusion of blood, as daily experience teacheth' - Stubbs

'I stood on my balcony and urged them not to accept an incomplete victory.' - Leon Trotsky

Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disegard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.' - George Orwell

'Football is a game for rough girls. Not suitable for delicate boys.' - Oscar Wilde

'The sturdie plowman, lustie, strong and bolde overcometh the winter with driving the football, forgetting labour and many a grievous fall' - Barclay

'Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The sixth day is the Lord thy God's. The seventh is for football.' - Burgess, Anthony

'A man is created for his acts. His goal is paradise.' - Henrik Ibsen

'You play to win and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win.' - George Orwell

'With thy brawls thou hast disturbed our game.' - William Shakespeare

'Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.' - Oscar Wilde

Og