Categories: just-life
Date: 07 February 2008 13:35:05
... or the Superbowl as most people know it.
Now I realise that this was actually played back on Sunday, and that I already know the result, but i have been slowly working my way through the game using the joy upon joy that is the <a href='http://www.bbc.co.uk'bbc's i-player. If you've not come across this yet, imagine YouTube but with BBC shows from the last seven days (it means you've still got a couple of days to see the Wales/England game if you want).
I'll admit that I'm not the biggest fan of American Football, mainly because I am a fan of rugby where they don't take four hours to play a game, the team is made up of fewer than forty-five players and they play for longer than seven seconds at a time (not to mention padding and rucks, mauls and scrums*)
However, I decided to make the effort to watch through this game as it's supposed to be rather important and I have a couple of friends who think that I should at least try to follow American Football on the off chance I'm ever dragged to a game. Well, I'm about three hours into the show (midway though the fourth quarter) and apart from the bits that I've dozed through it's going ok. One thing I am glad of is that because it's the BBC showing the game there are no commercial breaks!!! The game still has breaks in it for the commercials, but they are shown to Americans who don't know better and so watch the game on American tv channels.
So there is not something like seven mintues of play left, and they're going to make it fit into the last hour of the show.... I'm not suggesting that the rate of play is slow, but an eighty minute rugby game is played inside two hours, and that includes national anthems, half-time and injury time!!!
* - yes, I think Rugby League is for pansies as well.