Yawn: Giants vs. Dolphins at Wembley
The jig is up, kids.
Boss recently discovered that I have a weekly Friday installment at Sports by Brooks and he was not down with the conflict of interest. After a long discussion where he talked and I stared at him while thinking about the bowl of Lucky Charms growing soggy on my desk, we decided (as in, he decided and I nodded my head) that it was best for me to resign my little post.
So head over to check out my last day of work and ogle some boobies while you’re at it because you’re stuck over here from now on and I won’t be showing you tits (mine or anyone else’s) before each installment of anger and sarcasm.
In other news, the Giants and Dolphins are the two unlucky teams slated to travel to London this fall for a gridiron battle in front of rugby fans with nothing better to do.
Now, correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t the whole point of this overseas madness to broaden the reach of the game – gain some new fans, sell some more jerseys?
If so, how did the NFL ever rationalize scheduling such a snoozer at Wembley Stadium?
If their reasoning is that there’s no use in sending a marquee team (or a team with a marquee player) because England is owned by soccer, rugby, and cricket – fine. I can accept that. Should that be the case, then sending the Giants actually sounds like a good idea. They won’t be able to put Tiki on parade and give the English a sense of Johnny Wilkinson but they can showcase Eli and then sell both his and Peyton’s jerseys in the concourse. It’s like a two-fer. Most of the English won’t know the difference and will simply assume that they’re buying home and away kits for the same bloke.
But if they’re trying to give this whole "real men play football like Americans!" display, then send out some real teams! Or at least a real player! You can’t come correct showing up with Eli Manning, Ronnie Brown, and a guy on the DL that does bizarre commercials with Subway Jared! Having been knocked out of playoff contention by the end of October, the Dolphins will be wholly uninspired and the Giants will be in the process of commencing their annual 5-game skid. But now that I’ve talked this out, maybe that’s what the NFL is on about… this whole plan is like killing four birds on a wire with a shotgun – give the English a little pickle tickle, take Jeremy Shockey out of the trailer park and get him a little culture, and make a few dollars all without destroying any real team’s hope at a Super Bowl run!
I think I get it now. Bravo, NFL!
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At least we can take comfort in the fact that Madden can’t be covering the game
Sorry to hear the big guy gave your side job the hatchet. No more boobies? Ah well, that’s why Jebus invented the other internets. We can all have our cake and eat it too! How many Brits will actually attend this NFL game? Would the attendance justify sending top flight teams? The domestic TV numbers will be fairly weak, so it could be that the NFL just doesn’t feel it’s worth a primetime matchup.
reached you through sbb so thats bad news but im glad ur stickin with ur own site. gonna be a regular visitor from here on out.
The question is do we really need to expose another continent to Tom Coughlin’s ineptitude?
If you’re going to try and get another country to embrace your sport send 2 GOOD teams. Apply the concept to music “Lets get Bangladesh to start listening to American music, send ‘em 700,000 K-Fed CD’s”
Americans always complain there isn’t any scoring in english football, so we send the DOLPHINS? That’ll show ‘em!
Send the Saints and the Chargers, anyone besides these 2.
And what is the over/under on how many times Jeremy Shockey says “Cool accent where you from?”
I’ll call it right now, “Shockey In England” would be the greatest reality show to date. Not that the list is real long right now, but deep down you know I’m right.
Now I wonder why Sooze links you. Sorry about the SBB, but that’s life, unfortunately.
Now to agree with Tree on something. If we’re producing “Shockey in England”, how many Brits will call him a slag and a wanker? Two, how many fights will he get into while in London? Three, when he sees a true to life chav, will they shank him or call him their long lost American brother?
Also, with Britain’s frustration in Beckham’s scoring problems, the NFL shows them that it could get a lot worse by sending the two teams that couldn’t score if the refs let them hold, interfere with passes or chop block the defense. In other words, Flash did catch on to their plan.
just saw you, JJ, Sawyer, Danielle, and AJ on NFL Network walkin through some “experience” stuff. I’m hating all of you fucks right now. Its fuckin negative degrees here. just for that, I’m glad about the SBB thing! TAKE THAT warner!
the Strahan Subway commercial is probably the most disturbing thing on tv right now. Plus, Strahan actually makes Subway Jared look like the masculine one.
Somebody needs to call VH1. They can squeeze Shockey Goes to England in between Surreal Life and that scary bitch New York.