Hello boys and girls its time for ..FOOOOOTBAAALL!!
As someone of you might know last Sunday Superbowl XLII was held in Phoenix Arizona, US. Contenders were the perfect team: New England Patriots featuring weapons as such as Wesker, Brady, Maroney and mr.Cool - Randy Moss. On the other side of the pitch the defiant wild card New York Giants lining up with the younger Manning - Eli, Burroughs and a mean gritty defense!
Game was aired in Portugal nearby 11h30m and ended nearby 3, 3,30m am..that was late in the night to finnally get some shuteye...
I was hoping for a Patriot Win and thus settling a new record in NFL: 19-0 but the Giants Defense, with a capital D, was Huge that night and simply smoke away the NE offense. I'm somewhat sad to see the majority of media stating that 18-1 means nothing if they didn't ended up with shinny superbowl rings...Ah well, the way i see it they had a terrific campaign and managed to get to the Superbowl undefeated and that IS something.
Of course I don't follow all the scandals that surrounded their walk trough, all the imperfections, flaws, lack of running plays, etc. that so many pointed out already. How should I? I'm an European and this was the first season that i picked up of NFL. Here in the old Continent we don't know what a sack, a down, a guard, a quarterback, interception is, much alone an offside, pass interference, down by contact, fumble or shotgun formation is. We just don't! We're bombed with football innuendo in Hollywood movies that simply goes to waste in our soccer, as you call European football, minds. For the majority NFL is a variety of Rugby with the difference that players sport shoulder pads, helmet, body armor and, most likely, a complete lack of respect for the opponents physical integrity. Thats the message that is convoyed! The majority of sports channels were just air the Superbowl and that alone. We're treated with a rough summary of the NFL prior to the SuperSunday and we tune in later for a 60 minutes of action sport! A mere minority around here gets NASN and with that the full pack of NFL games, replays, tidbits of trivia and timed debates of NFL,NHL, Baseball, College Football and College Basketball. Not bad, eh?
Still some complains can be filed! NASN should do a better work of explaining the game, tactics, penalties, timeouts, challenges, special teams, formations, positions, etc etc. It sure can be cryptic to follow a live commented game for the typical continental. It really is honest. NFL is so badly marketed around here so there's no way the majority of the audience will stay and watch a full game that they dont know nothing about and worse, there's not much effort unto explaining it. Why should average joe should watch a show where they discuss more stats and do more number crunching than actually talk about the game?? They're broadcasting with an american type of viewer in mind and they're prime target should be the average viewer.. Nevertheless: better to have some grasp of American sports than not at all. Im not bowing for content change, im just pleading for a better package!!
I own, and play, NFL 08 - Wii version, and although I'm generally pleased with a broad offer in game modes, players, teams, happy to see beautifully animated players in motion, addicting game play with the Wii-mote and settled for low-res graphics that EA gifted this version, i'm really not happy with the tutorials and learning to play the game. It fails to deliver information on the fouls existing in the game, formations, etc. Its a really old franchise that is lacking effort in the localization of the European, and Asian?, version of the game..It's somewhat sad all of this...
I wonder how soccer is faring up in the States. Is it understandable? No? Yes? Better than NFL on Europe? Worse?
Looking forward to see some replies. I'm off to beat up NYG with the Patriots offense. Cya around
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