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Superbowl 2009
Tom:
What's a "superbowl"?
Slick:
My housemate was talking about 'this bowl thing' that would be going on later today, so I got to wondering about who holds the guiness world record for the largest bowl of cereal, and then got to thinking about how awesome it'd be to just fill that super-huge mine in Russia with cereal and milk some day.
Alex C:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 01 Feb 2009, 22:02 ---Ah, okay. The Superbowl is the only game of American Football I ever watch (apart from anything else, it's the only game that's on free-to-air here) so I don't know the game well enough to know what the "turn-a-blind-eye" infringements are.
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It can be pretty mystifying for long time fans as well, really. About the only area they're truly consistent is personal fouls/unnecessary roughness. Getting away with a bit of holding is pretty easy, particularly if it the guy you're trying to stop has a bad angle on the ballcarrier anyway; the zebras don't want to slow the game down over a non-issue. On the other hand, if you cut block (aka, dive at the guys knees) the guy from behind rather than hold him, you'll get called every time even if it happened away from the ball. Hell, especially if it happened away from the ball; the NFL doesn't even like to hear players joke about punishing/headhunting other players, so you're pretty much guaranteed to be fined as well in that case.
Johnny C:
Tom:
Those pants do wonders for him...
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