NFL 2023-24

[gloryhuntersince85]

I'm starting to get a bit too giddy about the Dolphins.

I'm not falling into that trap again, remember last time we went 3-0 a few weeks later it was 3-3

 

[Protein Junkie]

Hail to the Redskins :-) getting giddy after that comeback win

3-21 down to 35-24 up and nearly blew it.
It’s the Redskins way :-)

 

[grim up north]

I'm starting to get a bit too giddy about the Dolphins.

Phins up

 

[AirbagsOptionalTheReturn]

Hail to the Redskins :-) getting giddy after that comeback win

I feared the worse at 21 - 3 but this offence is going to be pretty good once the OLine gets its game together

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I don't object to it being covered by, say, the BBC, but I'm genuinely puzzled. I do not so much as look at the scores. There's an item about someone called “The Patriots” at present. I don't know who they are, I don't know where they're situated (except in America, I have to suppose) and I truly don't care.
On the rare occasions when I've had clips of the sport imposed on me, it strikes me as one of the ugliest sports ever invented by man, to replace his need for warfare.
I'm puzzled that it's now being covered in certain U.K. media because — no word of a lie — I literally do not know one single person — and have never known one single person — who either plays the game at an amateur level or follows the professional version of it. Even American friends of mine over the years didn't appear to have any interest in it. They would occasionally gather for something called the Superbowl, but I get the impression that's a pretext to get together with friends around a screen, have a bit of a knees-up, consume large amounts of American lager and munchies, and maybe get a glimpse of Janet Jackson's tits at half-time (? quarter-time? third-of-a-time?).
Thoughts? Anyone who follows it avidly and wants to defend their sport?

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Thoughts? Anyone who follows it avidly and wants to defend their sport?

There's a thread on the off Topic pages NFL 2023-24.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

There are a few fans on here. God knows why anyone likes the sport, it’s awful and they seem to have 20 seconds of play then 2 minutes of stoppage

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

There's a thread on the off Topic pages NFL 2023-24.

Thanks for that mate, it had escaped my notice. But I'm coming at it from a different, more general angle, so it seems to me this thread might be worth some sort of discussion nonetheless.

 

[KnaresboroughBlue]

I follow it, though not as avidly as I once did. It's a fine sport, as is baseball.

 

[smevchenko]

Different strokes for different folks....

You say you know nothing of the sport, people you know have no idea about the sport, even Americans you know don't have a clue.

I love the sport, know people who love the sport, and having been to America a few times, plenty of Americans I know/have met love the sport.

Not sure it needs defending, you obviously don't like it, but many others do, much like everything else in life.