Are you ready for some FOOTBALL

[Hosakawa Tito]

The Tavern is temporarily closed due to the start of the football season (thursday don't count dammit). Meet us all here after today's games for the post games Tailgate party. Any non-believers (football-wise) will have to serve themselves this afternoon. Don't drink all the Blue Sapphire gin, save some for me. Idaho , stay out of the till. ~:joker:

[KukriKhan]

OK! Kukri reporting for brat-grill duty
https://jimcee.homestead.com/files/bratwurst.jpg

So, who wants a hot brat & a cold beer?

https://jimcee.homestead.com/files/Beer_served_2.gif

Man, I made some rotten picks this week, pool-wise. But it's early!

[JAG]

By football I take it you mean that game which involves fat men hitting each other with huge protective vests on? *runs*

[Ja'chyra]

Didn't the real football start a few weeks ago?

[Mount Suribachi]

LIONS WIN!!!!!!!!

LIONS WIN!!!!!!!!!

Bye bye 24 game road losing streak ~:wave: ~:wave:

Now, pass me a burger and a beer, I got me some celebratin to do ~D

Here ya go m8:https://jimcee.homestead.com/files/burger.jpghttps://jimcee.homestead.com/files/corona.jpg

[KukriKhan]

Jumpin' Jehosaphant and Great Googly-Moogly!!! Li-ons, Li-ons, Li-ons!~D

I'll join ya~:cheers:

[Red Peasant]

OK! Kukri reporting for brat-grill duty
https://jimcee.homestead.com/files/bratwurst.jpg

So, who wants a hot brat & a cold beer?

https://jimcee.homestead.com/files/Beer_served_2.gif

Man, I made some rotten picks this week, pool-wise. But it's early!I'm not a veggie by a long chalk, but that 'food' looks disgusting.

No wonder those yank football *cough* players are so fat. ~D

No worries m8, we aim to please our international friends; here's your bratwurst taco https://jimcee.homestead.com/files/tacoBrat.jpg, or would you prefer some bratwurst sushi, or curried brat?

[Sjakihata]

The Wikings won easily vs. cowboys, I enjoyed the game the first couple of quaters.

Ahh, one Brat Kringle for our Scandanavian contingenthttps://jimcee.homestead.com/files/bratKringle.jpg

[Teutonic Knight]

I'm not a veggie by a long chalk, but that 'food' looks disgusting.

Blasphemy!!!! ~:mad:


(j/k) ~;)

[IrishMike]

I still hold out the remote possibility that the Bengals might one day win the super bowl but until then I will have to side with the cowboys but they don't look so good either.

[Lehesu]

This time Carolina is going alllll the way! :knight:

[Mount Suribachi]

No wonder those yank football *cough* players are so fat. ~D



I think it has less to do with bar-b-cued meat and more to do with the NFLs non-existant doping controls...

[Hosakawa Tito]

I'm not a veggie by a long chalk, but that 'food' looks disgusting.

Don't know what you eat Red Peasant, but I see sausage, speedies (shish-kebob without the veggies) and hamburgers. Add copious quantities of cold beer and you got a tailgate party. I realize it isn't kidney pie, fish'n chips with room temperature beer, but don't knock it till you try it.
Yank football players ain't fat, they're BIG BONED. ~:joker:

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

I've always found it peculiar that a nation which prides itself on it's masculinity and athletic prowess finds it neccessary to strap on massive amounts of protective padding to play rugby...~;)

*ducks for cover*

[Lord Godfrey]

Packers are on tonight - Go Pack

[Hosakawa Tito]

I find it odd that all those masculine rugby players don't play American football, where the real money is, I'm talking multi-million $$$ contracts baby. I'm sure they would dominate the league with their superior atheletic ability, strength, toughness etc... they probably don't want to show up their American counterparts, yeah, that's probably it. ~:rolleyes: ~:joker:

[Mount Suribachi]

Martin Johnson (captain of the World Cup winning England rugby team) is a HUGE NFL fan. A journalist friend got him a try-out with the 49ers a few years ago - not a serious one to get a job, just to see how he got on. At 6 foot 6 with his rugby ball handling skills they figured Tight End would be his ideal position. The coaches were very impressed with him and wanted to know what College he went to ~:) ~:)

[Ja'chyra]

For those more discerning sport lovers there is a real game of football on tonight, Celtic vs Barcelona.

What's the odds Henrik scores against us?

[King Edward]

For those more discerning sport lovers there is a real game of football on tonight, Celtic vs Barcelona.

What's the odds Henrik scores against us?

GAH, Chelsea v PSG is the game to watch!

Id say the Odds of Larsson scoring are hight, he scored for Barca the other night when he was playing right wing!

[zelda12]

Don't know what you eat Red Peasant, but I see sausage, speedies (shish-kebob without the veggies) and hamburgers. Add copious quantities of cold beer and you got a tailgate party. I realize it isn't kidney pie, fish'n chips with room temperature beer, but don't knock it till you try it.
Yank football players ain't fat, they're BIG BONED. ~:joker:

I take offence at the beer thing, fish'n chips I agree with, but a good British Ale is worth ten thousand American imitations. ~;)

By the way what is kidney pie. I've heard of steak and kidney pie, which is not nice steak and kidney pudding now thats another story, but what is kidney pie.



(No beers were harmed in the making of this post.)

[Kraellin]

lol. didnt we already have this conversation on american football vs rugby and didnt we all finally agree that squamish is the only REAL man's game?

for those not familiar with squamish, you'll have to go back through your old Mad magazines, circa 1963-4-5, to find the rules for this man of man's sport. just one tidbit on the game that i recall.... it was played with a shepherd's crook :)

K.

[Jacque Schtrapp]

Prepare to be faked out of your shoes!

http://www.switsport.com/img/products/01-vick-theplay.jpg

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

PACKERS!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for the spam. ~D

[Kaiser of Arabia]

JETS JETS JETS JETS JETS JETS JETS JETS...
or...
DENVER DENVER DENVER DENVER DENVER DENVER...
or even...
TAMPA TAMPA TAMPA TAMPA TAMPA TAMPA TAMPA!

Me 3 favorite teams.

kurkri, SEND ME THOSE DAMN SAUSAGES NOW! Or a good olde Italian Pepper and Sausige Sanwitch would really kick great arse.

[dessa14]

by football you must mean, aussie rules, but that started back in april?
GO BRISBANE LIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CRUSH ALL THOSE PITIFUL SOUTHERNERS!!!!!!!
Thanks,
dessa

heres the Football Ladder
Rugby Union (come on easily mates, its a mix of skill and strength and brains)
"Real" Football AKA Soccer (all about skill.)
Australian Football (come on this game is compleatly insane, mid air tackles, hurling posts without the net, and some of the most insane rules, plus you try kicking a ball 50 metres into a little space between two poles while four people are trying to tackle you)
Rugby League (all brawn, only ball skills required are passing and some running skills required, simplest of all the games)
American Football.(what do you call a game that has nothing to do with your feet and still has the word football in it, come on guys it really isn't footy at all, and ive played "American football" before and it doesn't hurt, well not like a midair AFL Tackle, or a rugby tackle, you wear enough armour to march off and crusade :knight: for heavens sake.)
American football field.

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not like an afl field.
i can't show it, its too insane.
thanks,
dessa

[Gregoshi]

Oh come on folks, let's not get into another "why American Football is inferior to Tiddly Winks (and also a misnomer)". We've been around that block so many times I'm gettin' dizzy. No, wait, I'm usually dizzy...but you get my point I hope. Same goes with American beer vs beer anywhere else in the world - been there, done that, done that, done that, done that...~;p

[Ja'chyra]

Damn, damn, damn, damn damn.






We lost ~:mecry:

[English assassin]

I had forgotten about Aussie rules football, or "no rules" football rather. Its a shame they don't show that in the UK I reckon it would be really popular.

OK: The American football season has started, right? (BTW what is "Tailgate") And I seem to remember the rosebush or whatever (that's the end, right) is in january? So you only get five months football a year?

Why?

And another thing. I can't tell from the posts above, do you all have a team that you follow year in year out, or do you try to pick the team you think will win so you can follow a different team each year (is it a league or a cup btw). Seems to me from the posts above that some people do one thing and some the other.

Almost entirely for football (soccer) in the UK people have their own team to support however rubbish it is. Mine will be lucky to survive in the championship/first division (these are the same thing but they changed the name this year and its really confusing me, not least because I can well remember when it was the old second division anyway before the first division became the premiership). But nothing could make me support Arsenal, or even care very much whether they or Man U win the premiership.

(Oh and BTW bitter (aka English beer for you Americans) sholdn't be served room temprature, its served cellar temprature. It ought to be cool, but not chilled. To be honest though I keep mine in the fridge in the summer, but the garage is fine in the winter. And don't feel too bad about American beer, its no worse than Australian beer and you'd think that was a nation that knew its beer if anyone did. AND they drink halves over there from what I hear.)

[King Edward]

Aussie rules football is on sky on sat lunchtimes in the Uk.

[English assassin]

Boo, don't have Sky and do have things to do on saturdays.

[Kongamato]

A tailgate is the vertical door on the rear end of a pickup truck or SUV. They're used as benches or buffet platforms at tailgate parties, which are get-togethers by fans in the giant parking lots of the football stadiums. Of course, tailgating is a base term for what has now become a wider tradition. Many tailgate parties involve portable tables and chairs, and it's almost required that you have a grill. BBQ food is preferred. Some of these can get very involved.

http://www.tailgating.com/Tour%2003/03Images/chicago%20new%20tailgating%20spots.jpg http://www.tailgating.com/Tour%2003/03Images/chicago%20good%20looking%20pig.jpg

Now, "rosebush" sounds like a truncated Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl is a college football game(in the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, CA) traditionally between the best in the Big Ten and the best in the Pac-10. Sometimes it determines the national championship, but that's a quagmire I won't go into. The NFL season ends around February. After 16 weeks plus playoff time, the players get pretty banged up after all the head-on tackles at full speed. Those pads they wear do not give as much protection as one would think. About the pads, I think that they were required after the early 20th century due to various deaths playing football. I have a suspicion that the use of hard plastics in armor development turned the pads into a weapon that now everyone had to wear in order to survive.

About loyalty, it's like any other sport. Most root for the hometown team, some root for whoever is on top, others root for the underdog.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

that pig looks good...

[Mount Suribachi]

Aussie rules is indeed a fine game, very exciting to watch ~:) The players are totally psycho, and the centre of the ground is usually cricket wickets in the summer, so its like being tackled on concrete! Go Swans!


As for the padding, like Kongamato says, they were forced to wear it after players kept dying.....even with it, the injury rate in the NFL is horrific and the average career length is like 3 years. Very few players play on past 32 or 33....

[Lehesu]

Damn Packers.

[Lord Godfrey]

Damn Packers.

Never bet against Favre on a Monday night game :wall:

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Never bet against Favre on a Monday night game

Well, as a Packer fan, all I can say is, "duh".

~D

Sorry for more spam.

[Nelson]

OK: The American football season has started, right? (BTW what is "Tailgate") And I seem to remember the rosebush or whatever (that's the end, right) is in january? So you only get five months football a year?

Why?

And another thing. I can't tell from the posts above, do you all have a team that you follow year in year out, or do you try to pick the team you think will win so you can follow a different team each year (is it a league or a cup btw). Seems to me from the posts above that some people do one thing and some the other.



Tailgating started when folks began eating at the back of their vehicles on the parking lot before the game. It’s a pre-game party. I tailgate before Maryland games.

North American weather is extreme. Summer is too broiling hot for football and winter is too bitter cold up north. Fall is the best time. We also do baseball in the spring and summer so our two most popular sports compliment one another.

I am a Ravens fan. Most of us support the local team we grow up with through thick and thin, year after year, all our lives. If you merely follow a winner you are considered to be “jumping on the band wagon” by true fans who are genuine students of the game. Bandwagoners are contemptible.

The NFL is a league having 2 conferences each with 4 divisions of 4 teams.

I like many football fans follow the college game as well as the pros. I have season tickets for the University of Maryland where my oldest son attends school and plays in the marching band. Go Terps!

[KukriKhan]

Today's tailgate treat: Deep-fried Houston Texans (spam substituting :) )

https://jimcee.homestead.com/files/greasepot.jpg

Go Lions!

[thrashaholic]

I can't help but say that that looks quite sickening....

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Now I'm hungry...

Here ya' go m8: https://jimcee.homestead.com/files/tailgate1.jpg ~Kukri

[KukriKhan]

I can't help but say that that looks quite sickening....Maybe you'd prefer next week's tailgate menu; The Detroit Lions host the Minnesota Vikings, so lutefisk:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/files/lutefisk.gif

But I dunno: grilled, smoked, or deep-fried? ~D

[thrashaholic]

*dashes to lavatory gagging*

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

~:eek: ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry:

My Packers lost... to the Bears... :inquisitive: :no:

[ichi]

Vikes / Eagles just kicking off

I think it safe to say that most Americans divide the year into halves - either Monday Night Football is in season or not.

go Eagles!! and take the Phillies with you!!!!!

ichi

[Lehesu]

At least Carolina scored on the rebound. I say again: Damn Packers.

[Teutonic Knight]

~:eek: ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry: ~:mecry:

My Packers lost... to the Bears... :inquisitive: :no:


Muwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! :laugh4:

oh wait, the bucs have lost the first two games in a row! :bigcry: