Is he just trying to throw the midterms?

[jon-nyc]

(And before anyone says anything, of course I don’t think it’ll figure in the midterms.)

[Axtremus]

“American rugby”?

[Renauda]

[Doctor Phibes]

Everybody else calls it American Football. I don't see the problem.

[jon-nyc]

I like the National Handegg League.

Has a ring to it.

[Doctor Phibes]

We had our company Christmas party at Gillette Stadium last night, and I got to watch some of a high school football game from a corporate box. Sadly Foxborough HS got beaten.

My God, it's a slow game.

[LuFins Dad]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:

We had our company Christmas party at Gillette Stadium last night, and I got to watch some of a high school football game from a corporate box. Sadly Foxborough HS got beaten.

My God, it's a slow game.

Yeah, much more exciting to watch guys lightly jog down the field, then back, then back again while people just kick the ball back and forth. And if you’re lucky, there is 1 scoring play. 1. For the entire time. Wow. That’s exciting.

[jon-nyc]

There’s always the 18 minutes of action in a baseball game spread out over 3 hours.

That’s fun.

[Renauda]

@jon-nyc said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:

I like the National Handegg League.

Has a ring to it.

Appears that John Cleese would concur:

https://www.facebook.com/thejohncleese/videos/366248136200359/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

[Doctor Phibes]

@LuFins-Dad said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:

@Doctor-Phibes said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:

We had our company Christmas party at Gillette Stadium last night, and I got to watch some of a high school football game from a corporate box. Sadly Foxborough HS got beaten.

My God, it's a slow game.

Yeah, much more exciting to watch guys lightly jog down the field, then back, then back again while people just kick the ball back and forth. And if you’re lucky, there is 1 scoring play. 1. For the entire time. Wow. That’s exciting.

I'm with you, I can't stand proper football either.

[jon-nyc]

I guess hockey and basketball are the only two major sports that have a reasonable action density score. (A metric I just invented)

[LuFins Dad]

Hockey is pretty cool. Basketball should just give each team 90 points and start the game with 5 minutes left…

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:

I guess hockey and basketball are the only two major sports that have a reasonable action density score. (A metric I just invented)

1-day cricket has tons of action, and is the second most popular global sport according to some AI twat.

[Mik]

Musical Princess just posted on FB about heading to a cricket pitch. I've watched it as there are a lot of Indians and Pakistanis here that play nearby.

[jon-nyc]

@Doctor-Phibes said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:

@jon-nyc said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:

I guess hockey and basketball are the only two major sports that have a reasonable action density score. (A metric I just invented)

1-day cricket has tons of action, and is the second most popular global sport according to some AI twat.

Perhaps, but I’m heterosexual.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jon-nyc said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:

Perhaps, but I’m heterosexual.

Just don't make eye-contact....

[LuFins Dad]

Link to video

[89th]

@LuFins-Dad said in Is he just trying to throw the midterms?:

Hockey is pretty cool. Basketball should just give each team 90 points and start the game with 5 minutes left…

Spot on. I like the relative slow speed of baseball, football, of course golf, and even soccer. It helps teach patience and strategy in such an ADD world.

Hard to beat the action you see in hockey, even players will completely tear their ACL and as they hobble off will score, or assist in a goal, it just happened the other day. In soccer if you look at someone wrong, they fall on the ground like they just got shot by a sniper.

I’m a huge Olympics fan, a lot of good sports there to watch. The biathlon, for example, is great, cross country skiing, which is by itself, intense and fun, combined with shooting. Sorry for any typos, I dictated this response.

[Renauda]

@89th

In soccer if you look at someone wrong, they fall on the ground like they just got shot by a sniper.

It’s one of the only ways to get stoppage in play so that the players on the field can get a breather in the two 45 minute plus stoppage time halves. In hockey the forwards and defence are rarely on the ice for more than a minute or two at most of continuous play before going back to the bench for a line change.

[jon-nyc]

That’s true enough but it seems to me they do it hoping to draw a foul not to rest.

Let me add the caveat that I’m only a soccer fan for a few weeks every four years.