American football, anyone?
 

Has anyone here been bitten by the NFL bug like I have? Or college football?

Living in a big football town has definitely had an affect on me - I am definitely on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers bandwagon and have been since about 2000!

However, as much as I like the American variety, proper footie (soccer) will always be my favourite sport to watch!

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It's baseball season!

Huge NFL and Baseball fan! Cant get into Basketball or NASCAR though, even though they are the national sports of NC.

Go Pats!

Red Wings/Pistons/Tigers/Lions.........

at least 1 of the 4 teams I follow ain't bad.

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Certainly have been, after attending my first NFL game last year, Cowboys v Redskins. Awesome atmosphere.

I do like rounders too, wow 'bout them Texas Rangers? 2.5 games ahead in AL West!

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LOL two years ago people would have laughed at you for claiming Tampa was a football town. The Bucs were always the pits of the NFL. Its amazing what a superbowl win will do for a franchise. In case you didnt know. The Bucs owner(Glazer) now also owns a big chunk of Man UTD.

I'm a Redskins fan and have been since 1982. Of course, I live in the other pits of a football town having to watch Cardinals games. However, Dennis Green should start turning the thing around soon I believe, plus we have a nice looking stadium being built for 2006. Looks like I'm going to watch the super bowl champs (Patriots) in week 2 when they come to town.

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I'd have to disagree with that one. The Bucs have been huge here since I moved here in '99. Obviously the level of support went a huge step further with the '02 Superbowl win. It's probably because the Bucs were the best team Tampa had for any sport (except the AFL's Storm, but Arena football's never been that popular). Now we've got the Stanley Cup winners the Lightning as well. Too bad that the Devil Rays are still a load of pants... I'm not a baseball fan anyway. :D

And yeah, I knew about Glazer owning part of ManUre. Doesn't Steinbrenner have a stake in them as well?

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The Bucs couldn't buy a win in the late 80's didn't they go 0-16 one year?

One season wonders doesn't make a franchise. And there looks to be no hockey next year anyhow..........
When Lecavalier and St Louis's contracts run out they'll go to one of the major bankroll teams like Colorado/Detroit/Toronto/LA/Boston
I hasten to add with a big blech, but also the NY Rangers.

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0-14 first year ('76), then lost first 12 of the following year. 0-16, all time record. The 2003 Tigers may even have been able to beat them it is rumoured.:)

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Doubt it.

I went to watch the Tigers a few times last year (tickets were not hard to come by.........)

by god they were poor.

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Agreed, they were a pile of shite in the 80s, but it was in 1976 that thy went 0-14. However, the person that made the original comment was talking about two years ago.

The Bolts had a decent playoff run last year, so they're starting to get the ball rolling on having a good run.

Quite possibly, but we will see! There are plenty of younger players on the team that will have the invaluable experience of playing with the likes of St Louis and Lecavalier - hopefully at least if that strike doesn't mess things up!

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At least the Bucs finally got some manly uniforms. The old day-glo orange kit with a swishy pirate logo was not exactly intimidating.

The rumour is that Glazer is going to try to buy all of Man U.

I myself have grown to love American football and have become a bit of a fantasy geek during the season. I started playing just to be social, but it is very addictive once you understand the sport. So many stats.

I suppose given my forum name I should support the NY Giants, but I'm a 49ers fan through and through.

The 49ers and Leeds United. WTF did I do wrong?? :scared:

Leeds? I'm sorry! :D :p

Didn't they get relegated last season?

I like the story of the 1st Buc's coach McKay, when asked a question on the execution of the Bucs offense replied "I think it's a good idea.''

I really enjoy watching NFL, I can't wait till it starts up again. Nothing like stretching out on the sofa on a sunday afternoon, with a big bowl of chicken wings or tex-mex, whilst slurping down some camals piss (coors light!).

I played rugby more than footie growing up, so I don't miss english footie much at all.

I was flicking through the channels last night and they had a right couple of spanners commentating on Fulham V Blackburn, it was so bloody annoying, something called fanzone I think.

CAM ON YOU COWBOYS !!! watch out....tuna's about:D

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Go Broncos!!!!!


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Ok, so my two years were probably a little bit of a stretch, as there were the two NFC championship years before they shipped out Dungy and brought in Gruden. However, if you claim that Tampa is a football town, in the sense that Green Bay, NYC, washington or Dallas is, then no. There is too many years of bright orange shirts, poor records and even poorer players to rule that out. It will be interesting to see if Gruden can turn around last years mess now that the core players from the 2002 super bowl season have gone. Carolina are the team to beat in that division now.

P.S. The defending expats fantasy football champ(ME) is ready to start another league and defend his crown, if anybody else is interested ?.

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Hairy Palms United is ready to kick ass this season Pimp, count me in!

Somebody mantioned fantasy football. Anyone up for going into a yahoo league? No cost, no prize, just for fun!

duh, i need to read!

Well, OK, maybe Tampa isn't such a football town, I guess I just meant that it has a reasonably popular NFL team. Probably wouldn't be nearly as popular if they still had the orange strips!

And count me in for a fantasy football league... I may be a newbie but I'm planning on sticking around for a while. :D

I am up for a fantasy league twatting.

I'll give it a try too..... My small amont of knowledge could prove to be dangerous.

I'll try to set up the league tonight when I get home from work. We will need at least 8 to 10 teams to make it worthwhile. You will all need a yahoo username to enter the free yahoo league.

Count me in!

Me too....

I'm definately in! I've been hooked since the first year I played! I'm smarting from last year as I didn't win, first time in 3 years.

Count me in Pim.

And me as well.

I gave up watching gridiron. I watch the Detroit Lions instead.

There was a joke awhile ago.

A suspiscious substance of white powder of undetermined origin was found at Ford Field.

Team President Matt Millen whom couldn't fathom where the white powder had come from called in the DEA and FBI to investigate.

The investigation was called off once the authorities had determined the white powder to be the "Goal Line"

What do you expect when we had Marty the Moron ? A coach who wins the coin toss for overtime & elects to kick !

wasn't that just the bizarrest thing?

I was sat in a sports bar with the misses in Michigan (with about 150 others) and we were like WTF?

I used to watch the NBA on TV when i was a kid, and i always rooted for the Timberwolves, so now that i am in Minneapolis, i stuck with them. I watch the Vikings games during the NFL season so you can say i have been bit by the bug. As for Baseball and Hockey, i would rather watch paint dry.

Luckily we have FoxSports World on cable so i can keep up with the footy back home,

MOAN THE KILLIE!!

Jeez.. and I thought I had problems.. :D :D


How do you keep Vikings off your front lawn???

Put a set of goalposts at the side of the kerb. ;)

Saw Wayne Fontes the other day in a sports bar....

Cleaning tables ?

Na cellar man....

Sadly they don't show SPL stuff. Maybe they'll come up with a deal with Setanta to show Scottish games next season - if Setanta get enough subscribers in the UK....