#4015293 - 09/27/14 11:24 PM
Re: Is American football really that popular in the UK?
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@ Stormtrooper - Of course the major difference is that Eurythmics doesn't suck while Nickleback does. Truer words have never been spoken.
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#4015314 - 09/28/14 12:20 AM
Re: Is American football really that popular in the UK?
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#4015459 - 09/28/14 10:29 AM
Re: Is American football really that popular in the UK?
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Has the UK updated TV yet? Last time i was there it was
BBC1 BBC2 ITV Ch4
ITV and Channel 4 were the only ones worth watching lol. A quick browse through the channel guide now shows: BBC1 to 4; ITV1, 2, 3, 4 (the motorsport channel); Channel 4, More 4, Film4 (I don't know if they are all related); E4; Channel 5, 5 USA, 5*; Dave (Top Gear repeat channel); Pick; Really; Yesterday (similar to your History channel???); Quest; And a whole bunch of other assorted channels, +1 channels and ad channels. Yes, we have craploads of TV channels! The upshot of that is that now, none of them are worth watching... (That's a bit harsh, since I'm going to be tuned into ITV4 for the next 8 hours since they broadcast a full racing Sunday for the Touring cars and support races.)
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#4015501 - 09/28/14 01:04 PM
Re: Is American football really that popular in the UK?
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A new channel (4) started showing other sports in the 1980's rather than the interminable soccer, racing, cricket etc. NFL and Sumo were very popular. We only saw edited coverage of gridiron, and it was not until watching a full match that I realised how dull it can be. It was very popular though, and gave rise to a number of teams starting up here; some of the top players even being talented enough to play Stateside.
Baseball and ice hockey didn't really seem to catch on over here.
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#4015507 - 09/28/14 01:27 PM
Re: Is American football really that popular in the UK?
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I played organized football (american) when I was living in the UK. Solent Scorpions. Funny enough, a quick google search reveals that there's now an ice hockey team called the solent scorpions in the same area.
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#4015526 - 09/28/14 02:45 PM
Re: Is American football really that popular in the UK?
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I think the owner of the Sabres bought the Bills, they are staying in Buffalo. Yep they had a big party about it a week or so ago, along with celebrating Jim Kelly being cancer free, the fans seem really happy about them staying in Buffalo I'm happy they are staying there too. My young cousin when he was still at school played flag football, when we were down on holiday they had a game and we went to watch, that was it I was hooked. A few months later we finally got Channel 4 in Caithness after waiting for it for a few years, I discovered they had NFL coverage and shortly after I started a team so I could play Edit: The only online link I could find about the team, I stopped playing in 1992 when I moved away south, as far as I know some of the lads still practice together. We did win the Highland Mini League, but from Caithness it was a long way to travel to a match, our closest rivals were 117mile south of us and some of the matches we played were 600 or 700 mile round trips. http://britballnow.co.uk/History/Britball%20Teams/CaithnessVikings.htm
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