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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Mon Feb 3, 2014, 06:20 AM Feb 2014

So I hear the Broncos are looking forward to playing in the Superbowl next weekend

They must be glad for this week off, yeah?

(We showed it at a brewpub here in Mumbai and I was trying to explain American football to a few hundred locals. Statements like "That score you saw in the first play, the safety, is essentially unheard of" and "Four turnovers is fairly unusual" and "No, really, it's an interesting sport 99% of the time" abounded.)

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So I hear the Broncos are looking forward to playing in the Superbowl next weekend (Original Post) Recursion Feb 2014 OP

About like explaining Cricket stateside. Downwinder Feb 2014 #1

Try explaining pipi_k Feb 2014 #2

Yeah. Their practice game didn't go very well yesterday. In_The_Wind Feb 2014 #3

HA! elleng Feb 2014 #4

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)

1. About like explaining Cricket stateside.

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Mon Feb 3, 2014, 06:31 AM

Feb 2014

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)

2. Try explaining

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Mon Feb 3, 2014, 10:27 AM

Feb 2014

to them how a ball that's carried to a particular spot where the guy carrying it goes down and the refs just sort of put it on the ground where they think it ended up, then they bring out the chains to measure and it can miss being a first down by less than an inch.

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

3. Yeah. Their practice game didn't go very well yesterday.

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Mon Feb 3, 2014, 10:40 AM

Feb 2014

elleng

(130,902 posts)

4. HA!

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Mon Feb 3, 2014, 11:03 AM

Feb 2014

Had to explain a few rules of the game to my Pakistani friend (who's been a U.S. citizen for 40+ years!) We weren't watching it together, I didn't watch it at all, and I've never said 'No, really, its an interesting sport!'

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