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Thread ID: 79255	2007-05-14 04:07:00	I Need A NZ Interpretation Here	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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549740	2007-05-15 00:39:00	Basketball I think? Ken You got it...a chocky fish to ya! :D	SurferJoe46 (51)
549741	2007-05-15 08:46:00	:illogical Wow .. Good one Joe. Most sports are hard to understand unless you are brought up with them. Now can you explain why you Yanks have another sport that has a "World Series" but only has American teams in it??? :illogical Ken The baseball competition in question was originally sponsored by the "The World" newspaper hence the name The "World" Series which continues to this day and has only US teams playing in it.	winmacguy (3367)
549742	2007-05-15 08:49:00	Aside from "pre-game", "post-game" and "halftime" celebrations, to the uneducated, football looks very disheveled and sloppy . Nothing could be farther from the truth . Copious amounts of inebriating alcoholic beverages are consumed during, before and immediately after a good game (USC v UCLA is a good game) . The players are not allowed to drink anything like this, in fact they are denied sexual intercourse the night before just to make them angry . . NFL would be the only sport in the world where 60 minutes of ACTUAL game time takes 3 hours to "play" . go figure ;) Give me rugby any day ;)	winmacguy (3367)
549743	2007-05-15 16:52:00	The baseball competition in question was originally sponsored by the "The World" newspaper hence the name The "World" Series which continues to this day and has only US teams playing in it. I didn't know that..thanks :thumbs:	SurferJoe46 (51)
549744	2007-05-15 17:12:00	NFL would be the only sport in the world where 60 minutes of ACTUAL game time takes 3 hours to "play" . go figure ;) Give me rugby any day ;) It's the sponsors who stretch it out . . they need airtime to get as many commercials in as they can . . . But then again, there are heated debates by coaches on the sidelines, bad ref calls that need to be replayed (in severely disputed calls only now) and the occasional streaker . . alas almost always a guy and who wants to see a nekkid guy! It's not about speed and blitzing . . it's about tactics and planning and execution of plays that make it interesting . . . . kinda like a contact game of chess . If it was just mayhem on the field, then the home viewers would find it boring after a short time . Being able to see the play after the lineup and commenting on the tactics of the coaches is always fair game for the spuds at home . There is a lot of "cerebralization" about what went wrong, what worked and why isn't that being tried again by the viewers, so it becomes a running commentary that satisfies the need to be involved . . . even in a remote and non-effective way . This is especially true if you have other slightly inebriated bar hogs around you to slap you on the back or chide you if you are wrong about the gameplay . Involvement in the game at that level makes it a "good-ol'-boy" thing . There's strength in numbers; more so in slightly drunken numbers, and downright POWER when wearing beer goggles . Then there's the half-time show (see the previous comment(s) about yards of jiggling boobflesh) and consider that some advertisers pay $1 Million Superbowl dollars (US) for a 30-second spot where they either make a blooper or a zinger of an ad . I actually watch very few games any more . . . never really did anytime in the past that I can remember . . . but I have had an occasional delvance into a game or two in years past . I prefer trout and bass fishing . Fishing is a no-contact sport; no boobflesh either . Alcohol is an option . . . not very often though .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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