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American football, at both the professional and top college levels is definitely up there. With stadiums that seat 50 to 100,000+, hours to get properly pissed up before the game, long-standing rivalries (many college football ones go back over 100 years), a small schedule (16 games for the pros before playoffs, only 12 for college) so the result of each game is critical, and crowds dominated by young males violent bullshit is pretty inevitable. In typical U.S. fashion, people don't often get killed, so the violence isn't mentioned much. I experienced some nasty stuff on a regular basis when I was an undergrad including some full-scale skirmishes that stretched out over blocks and required riot police and tear gas to break up. I've also had some quite menacing stuff at certain away games, including, memorably, some hateful shouting and chanting directed at my then-pregnant wife.

2 more points in the table. Edit: Congrats to Davide. Hope he doesn't get hurt.

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Thank you leffe! I've got espn2 on, and it's showing american football as always. I'm in the US on work until xmas and then it's back to bangalore. Also streaming on ESPN3 for those stuck at our desks.

Seeing Beardsley play is why I chose to follow Newcastle from afar. Thank fuck they didn't start showing games on TV over here while he was at Liverpool.

Pardew T-shirt now available in the club shop AND included in the 2 for £20 promotion!

11 pages of not caring already today . . . .

Audio's a second or so ahead for me.

Massive white patch on the back. Looks fucking terrible.

Announce or pronounce? Can see Fat Sam having real problems with that one . . . .

The commercials have been amazing. Hoping for the German version of Neil Sika to be calling the match.

That Everton keeper is a standard Nike template too. My daughter wore it (last season! ) in white for her U10 team: http://images.nike.com/is/image/DotCom/PDP_P/Nike-Park-IV-Long-Sleeve-Boys-Goalkeeper-Soccer-Jersey-000448265_100_A.jpg?wid=500&hei=375&fmt=jpeg&

This is, by far, my favorite thread. My heart beats a bit faster seeing a new post in it than any other.

Yep.

Can't believe it took until page 57, tbh.

Just trying to quash Chelsea's interest in him. Smart.

"Personal circumstances" = his wife killed him.

Nope. He can't even do that right.

It soon became clear to all that it was Shola who had farted.

:lol: As always, this thread is the highlight of Transfer Deadline Day.

On the grounds that Gervinho was merely removing a speck of dust from Joey's brow, after Joey had kindly helped him up earlier. There was a mosquito on Barton's cheek, just about to have a bite. Just helping a fellow professional by giving it a slap, tbh.

3, 6, 21, 8, 4, 11, 15, 1, 19, 16, 24, 23, 20, 22, 7, 2, 10, 17, 12, 9, 5, 13, 18, 14

Lass at works mother texted her at 5PM and told ger to be careful going home cos it was kicking off up the west end. Northumbria Police twitter reckons there's sod all happening up here. Aye i know. She lives Benwell though so she'd be better placed than someone on a pc in Ponteland. Well I'm off down the west end in an hour so if I come back with a new flat screen telly and some Air Jordans, it was all true. FYP.

Won a blue ribbon in the soccer goal shooting competition at my hometown's primary school field day competition when I was in 4th grade. In the late '70s that was pretty much the American equivalent of playing professionally.