Super Bowl 2022

TastyReuben said:
Bengal tigers. The Cincinnati Zoo has long been associated with white Bengal tigers, and there was a previous, unrelated football team named the Bengals, so when the current team was founded, it was a nod back to that history.

Wings are just a popular bar food when you’re out watching a game, and they’re easy to make at home, so they’re sort of a natural fit. They used to be dirt cheap, but not anymore. Pizza, ribs, nachos…all those finger foods are popular for the SB, American football, and a lot of other sporting events in general.
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That pretty much Nails it. Some teams have names that are tied to their city's history. My team, the Pittsburgh Steelers got their name because Pittsburgh was known as the "Steel City," because of all of its steel mills in Pittsburgh a century ago. The Dallas Cowboys, well, it's Texas. The San Francisco Forty-Niners name relates to the San Francisco Gold Rush of 1849.

I hope some of us can help some of you understand the game of American Football. In return, maybe you can help me figure out (at least partially) Cricket. I once sat in a hotel pub in London where some gentlemen were watching Cricket. I was there quite a while -- easily four pints worth. I left having absolutely no clue how that game is played. :laugh:

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Cricket is simple.
There are no breaks for commercials at all.:D:D:D

"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!"
 
caseydog said:
I hope some of us can help some of you understand the game of American Football.
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I have a basic understanding of American Football, thanks to hubby's attempts to educate me - he watches all kinds of sports (except for golf) and we've often talked about getting tickets to one of the London American Football matches. We'll get around to it one day.

caseydog said:
In return, maybe you can help me figure out (at least partially) Cricket. I once sat in a hotel pub in London where some gentlemen were watching Cricket. I was there quite a while -- easily four pints worth. I left having absolutely no clue how that game is played. :laugh:
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Yes cricket can seem to be a bit complicated, but like any sport it takes time to learn what's going on. It took me a good few years to really understand everything....much easier though when you watch a game with someone who can explain what's happening :okay:

In my opinion the newer, shorter, formats of the game are much more accessible to newbies than test cricket (the one that lasts for upto 5 days), they're certainly a lot more interesting to watch.

Very very basic things to know about cricket, trying to use as little jargon as possible:
- An Over: a set of 6 balls, bowled by the bowler from one end. After each Over another bowler will bowl the next Over from the other end. Shorter forms of the game have a set limit of overs per innings - eg. in a T20 game each side has 20 overs to score as many runs as they can.
- A Run: each time the batsmen successfully run between the two ends they score a run. If the batman hits the ball over the boundary rope they score 4 or a 6 runs (and don't actually need to physically run): a 4 means the ball hit the ground before crossing the rope, a 6 is when it crossed the rope without hitting the ground first.
- A bit like baseball, the fielders are trying to get the batsmen out. They can do this in various ways, but the most common are: a) a fielder catching the ball before it hits the ground, b) the bowler hitting the stumps with the ball, c) Leg-By-Wicket (LBW) which is when the batsman obstructs the stumps with his leg and stops the ball from hitting the stumps, d) run out when one of the fielders hits the stumps with the ball whilst the batsman is running. There are other ways of getting out, but I think I covered the main ones. When a batsman is out, its described as losing a wicket.
- When the fielding side get 10 batsmen out that's the end of the innings and they swap over. Some games you have two innings per team, other types of games you only have one each.
This doesn't explain the whole game, but are some of the building blocks....any questions, just ask :happy:

karadekoolaid said:
The Super Bowl is on UK TV at 11.30 pm.
I don´t think I´m going to be watching that until 3.30 am.
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Yep its a bit late for us, especially as its a work day the next day.
 
caseydog said:
I hope some of us can help some of you understand the game of American Football. In return, maybe you can help me figure out (at least partially) Cricket. I once sat in a hotel pub in London where some gentlemen were watching Cricket. I was there quite a while -- easily four pints worth. I left having absolutely no clue how that game is played. :laugh:

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Back in my college days, I've left bars not even knowing my own name..a couple of those times, thanks to the bouncers, I didn't even have to use my own feet..
 
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karadekoolaid said:
Cricket is simple.
There are no breaks for commercials at all.:D:D:D

"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out.

When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!"
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ5vspsNS1g


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Tonight's Super Bowl Buffalo Wings.

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