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    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.
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    OK! Kukri reporting for brat-grill duty


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



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    By football I take it you mean that game which involves fat men hitting each other with huge protective vests on? *runs*
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    Didn't the real football start a few weeks ago?

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    LIONS WIN!!!!!!!!

    LIONS WIN!!!!!!!!!

    Bye bye 24 game road losing streak

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

    Here ya go m8:
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    Jumpin' Jehosaphant and Great Googly-Moogly!!! Li-ons, Li-ons, Li-ons!

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    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan
    OK! Kukri reporting for brat-grill duty


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



    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.

    No worries m8, we aim to please our international friends; here's your bratwurst taco , or would you prefer some bratwurst sushi, or curried brat?
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    The Wikings won easily vs. cowboys, I enjoyed the game the first couple of quaters.

    Ahh, one Brat Kringle for our Scandanavian contingent
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    I'm not a veggie by a long chalk, but that 'food' looks disgusting.
    Blasphemy!!!! :


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    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.
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    This time Carolina is going alllll the way!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Red Peasant
    No wonder those yank football *cough* players are so fat.
    I think it has less to do with bar-b-cued meat and more to do with the NFLs non-existant doping controls...
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    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.
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    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...

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    Packers are on tonight - Go Pack
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    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.
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    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
    "I request permanent reassignment to the Gallic frontier. Nay, I demand reassignment. Perhaps it is improper to say so, but I refuse to fight against the Greeks or Macedonians any more. Give my command to another, for I cannot, I will not, lead an army into battle against a civilized nation so long as the Gauls survive. I am not the young man I once was, but I swear before Jupiter Optimus Maximus that I shall see a world without Gauls before I take my final breath."

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    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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 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?
    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!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito
    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.
    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.



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    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 :)

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    Prepare to be faked out of your shoes!


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    PACKERS!!!!!!!!!!

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

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    by football you must mean, aussie rules, but that started back in april?
    GO BRISBANE LIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    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 for heavens sake.)
    American football field.










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






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    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.)
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    Aussie rules football is on sky on sat lunchtimes in the Uk.
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    Boo, don't have Sky and do have things to do on saturdays.
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