American Football in London

Colin@Toyota said:
No skill whatsoever? 200 laps = 800 corners
Have you ever made 800 consecutive left turns at 200+ mph??
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Look up the 24hr LeMans for the real art of skill in a car:cool::p
 
Rich said:
Look up the 24hr LeMans for the real art of skill in a car:cool::p
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I quite enjoy watching LeMans. NASCAR, not so much. I agree that it is boring to watch.

That being said, I think it takes a tremendous amount of skill to control a car at those speeds, and to maintain those speeds around an oval with 50 other cars potentially within inches of the one you are driving.

I would like to see it in real life sometime... maybe it won't be quite so boring :rolleyes:
 
Nah, go to a real race track like say Brands Hatch and watch the motor bikes racing, far more exciting:cool:
 
Rich said:
Well not really, if they didn't make so much fuss labour would be over in about 5 minutes, it's just attention seeking:eek::cool:
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Ladies:
I'll hold him down...you can beat on him.:rolleyes:
 
Rich said:
Well not really, if they didn't make so much fuss labour would be over in about 5 minutes, it's just attention seeking:eek::cool:
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Don't they basically just knock them out nowadays anyway. With all of the wonderful pain-numbing drugs and easily hidden C-sec cuts without leaving scars, why would anyone go natural?
 
Rich said:
Nah, go to a real race track like say Brands Hatch and watch the motor bikes racing, far more exciting:cool:
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I can't argue there. I find Nascar boring and love watching bike races. Maybe I'm supposed to be a Brit... :eek:
 
Rich said:
That doesn't work with my Grandson, he eats the bloody stuff anyway:eek::D
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Rich, A grandson and you are only 21.! You are a truly remarkable person as I am sure you know.:rolleyes::D:D
 
Colin@Toyota said:
No skill whatsoever? 200 laps = 800 corners
Have you ever made 800 consecutive left turns at 200+ mph??
:p
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There arn't 800 corners as such because the tracks are oval in shape so the 'corners' at the ends are just one gentle curve.

If there were proper corners, the drivers would get confused because they may have to change gear or ease off on the accelerator.

Ex F1 drivers do it for the money - which is massive and also because it's less strenuous than F1. Thats why Michael Andretti gave up a brief foray into F1 - he just couldn't hack it. So he decided to go the easy money route in NASCAR

Col

Edit - I mentioned gear changing, which was silly, most US cars are auto so thats even easier.
 
Actually NASCAR cars have manual transmissions. Otherwise they couldn't push start them when they won't start (check footwork shots in "Days of Thunder").
Some Americans do prefer the manual to the automatic. It's just finding a car where its available.
The auto companies made the choice to go to automatics, not the consumer. A friend of mine only drives cars with manual transmissions. The dealer usually had to special order it.
Of course the Pontiac or Chev at the dealership bears very little resemblance to the one the track anyway (exept for the body).

Michael Andretti's father Mario made a brief pit stop in F1 back in the 70's. Seems Ferrari lost a driver, the NASCAR season was over and Mario filled in for the last 3 F1 races that season. Finished in the top 10 in all 3 as I recall. He was already under contract for the following NASCAR season so that was the extent of his F1.
 
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I went to the NFL match at Wembley and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think some of you would be surprised how many proper NFL fans there are in the UK. The amount of people with team shirts on at the match tells me very few people were there 'out of curiosity'. The reason the pre-season games stopped being successful is because they were pre-season games. Us Brit NFL fans don't want to see second string players in a meaningless match. I'm sure a regular season game every other year will continue to sell out (It will be every other year at most because Germany will get the other game).
 
bentheaker said:
I went to the NFL match at Wembley and thoroughly enjoyed it. I think some of you would be surprised how many proper NFL fans there are in the UK. The amount of people with team shirts on at the match tells me very few people were there 'out of curiosity'. The reason the pre-season games stopped being successful is because they were pre-season games. Us Brit NFL fans don't want to see second string players in a meaningless match. I'm sure a regular season game every other year will continue to sell out (It will be every other year at most because Germany will get the other game).
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I'm curious...with the time difference and the London game being shown at 4PM Eastern time in N America...what time did the game start London time?
 
In my head I remember it being a 7pm Kick-off London time but if it was 4pm EST then it must have been 8pm, I do remember getting home pretty late! A great thing about the NFL is that you can drink beer in your seat unlike at the Football (soccer). I went to the England v Croatia match a couple of weeks later and there was no alcohol for sale in the entire stadium! At least at most football grounds in the UK you can have a drink in the concourse.
 
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