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keny686

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Posted: May 26, 2009 - 01:36 PM
Post subject: Anyone into american football in shanghai?

jt moved in, kinda bored... wanna find some games... is there some regular play in the park? something like that?

keny686

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Posted: May 26, 2009 - 01:37 PM

let me know, keny686@gmail.com
cheers

monalisalee

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Posted: May 26, 2009 - 08:11 PM

Really?. I hope not. You are bored, and want to play the most boring game in the world?.

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Posted: May 26, 2009 - 09:15 PM

monalisalee wrote:

Really?. I hope not. You are bored, and want to play the most boring game in the world?.

Is it too much to simply answer the question (or not) and refrain from injecting your personal thoughts, biases, crap?

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Posted: May 26, 2009 - 09:18 PM
Post subject: Re: Anyone into american football in shanghai?

keny686 wrote:

jt moved in, kinda bored... wanna find some games... is there some regular play in the park? something like that?

Not much in terms of US football, flag, touch, or otherwise. However, there are a couple of rugby leagues and ultimate frisbee leagues. Check the expat magazines for times and places.

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monalisalee

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Posted: May 26, 2009 - 10:25 PM

Ha Ha. Love it when I touch a nerve. Know where you are from. No bias there.

Why would the OP expect to find American football in China, when it never made it out of the U.S? Duh!

Suggest join a table tennis club. I believe they play that game here.

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Posted: May 26, 2009 - 10:32 PM

Its doubtful you'll find any sort of organized team, but if your looking for someone to sit back and watch a few games. PM me, since I've been in Shanghai I've had a hard time even finding someone to watch a game with, usually about 5 minutes into they start kicking off about the evil of American football.

Klick

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Posted: May 26, 2009 - 11:23 PM

monalisalee wrote:

Why would the OP expect to find American football in China, when it never made it out of the U.S? Duh!

That's a bit of a silly statement. Why wouldn't the OP suppose that, considering there are actually lots of Americans here, there might not be a few blokes who get together to play on an informal basis? One can go to Central Park in New York and see people who get together to play cricket - a sport that pretty much no native New Yorker gives a crap about.

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Posted: May 26, 2009 - 11:57 PM

Cricket is played all over the world, and you bring it down to one city.
Silly statement. American football is NOT played all over the world, and never will be.
Imagine playing that game informally, without the shoulder pads?
I cant.

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Posted: May 27, 2009 - 12:03 AM

Well what is "American football" anyway ? Looks to me like rugby with protectors (=fagby)

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Posted: May 27, 2009 - 12:09 AM

monalisalee wrote:

Is there some kind of bug up your butt tonight or something? My point was, a sport does not have to be 'indigenous' to a particular area in order for there to be a sufficient number of persons interested in playing it. NYC was just an example. And lots of people play informal games of American football without equipment - you don't play as hard, you don't tackle, but you play. Many families do it as part of their annual Thanksgiving tradition - a big family game out in the local park. Just because you are ignorant of such things does not mean they do not exist, you know.

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Posted: May 27, 2009 - 12:36 AM

@ klick. American football without the "equipment", without the tackling?

Are they actually allowed to touch each other?, do they use a ball?

Please let me know when the next event takes place in Shanghai, and I will go and watch for my higher education.

Thank you.

John.

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Posted: May 27, 2009 - 01:13 AM

monalisalee wrote:

@ klick. American football without the "equipment", without the tackling?.

You are displaying your ignorance to the whole world, pees.

It's called touch football and every boy in the US has played. It's a mainstay of PE classes all the way through high school. Not sure they have PE these days tho. Seems like all the PE teachers are here in Shanghai teaching English now.

Other practitioners included the Kennedy family. Torrent yourself a Vaugh Meader album, The First Family.

As for fagby, well, at least we don't lie there in a pile grunting and grabbing each others' balls. Do they have co-ed rugby ? That might be fun.

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Posted: May 27, 2009 - 01:36 AM

Hmm. Touch and feel Rugby. Two balls are usually used, butt not always.

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Posted: May 28, 2009 - 10:02 AM

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As for fagby, well, at least we don't lie there in a pile grunting and grabbing each others' balls. Do they have co-ed rugby ? That might be fun.

LMAO... i ain't expect to bring on a debate... sadly it's not NFL season time now.

MarkDow

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Posted: May 28, 2009 - 10:27 AM

I would love to see Fantasy Football here in Shanghai, lots of fun in USA.

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Posted: June 01, 2009 - 01:39 PM

keny686 wrote:

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As for fagby, well, at least we don't lie there in a pile grunting and grabbing each others' balls. Do they have co-ed rugby ? That might be fun.

LMAO... i ain't expect to bring on a debate... sadly it's not NFL season time now.

There should never have been a debate. Don't worry about it. Some people just have too much time on their hands.

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Posted: June 01, 2009 - 02:20 PM

When did cricket begin to be played all over the world? English commonwealth nations, check. Some other European countries, check. Some other European colonised nations, here and there elsewhere? Check. The world over! Alas, this is news to most of the world.

Gil

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Posted: June 15, 2009 - 04:15 AM

There is a European League of American football and it does include a couple of teams from England.

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Posted: June 15, 2009 - 01:37 PM

I am up for a pick-up game if you can get a group out. Can we even find a ball?
Always ready to watch a game, anywhere.
Chicago will make a run next year!

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Posted: June 15, 2009 - 01:59 PM

well i think american football is one of the funnest sport out there if you say its boring then you probrably never played it.

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Posted: June 15, 2009 - 02:59 PM

monalisalee wrote:

@ klick. American football without the "equipment", without the tackling?

Are they actually allowed to touch each other?, do they use a ball?

American football without equipment doesn't necessarily mean "touch" football. Used to play tackle football regularly with my buddies back in university, amazingly good fun. But be forewarned there is an exponential dip in pain threshold and recovery time as the years pass. If I were to play tackle football now without pads my body would get absolutely wrecked.

virtual_barman

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Posted: June 15, 2009 - 04:14 PM

I am not american and feel that the critism of American football is unwarranted.
I think that a game where a bunch of fat people can get away with running less than 10 yards and falling out of breath after 4 times is great. Even better that after these four times and multiple time outs you can have a rest and a cigarette.
To judge the amount of time you get to rest. The game lasts 60 minutes of real play, but actually goes on for three hours. 2 hours rest and 1 hr work....GREAT..

Occasionally one of the players will make it more than the ten yards and get big girly hugs from their mates.
Better still that you wear more body armour than a commando stood in the middle of a fire fight; therefore never getting hurting yourself.
If you set up a game I am in!!!!!!

yupitssean
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Posted: June 15, 2009 - 05:17 PM

^ Have you ever even played American football? Those "hugs" you mentioned don't feel so warm and fuzzy when a 350lb linebacker supplants you from the ground onto your ass making you feel like a freight train knocked you senseless into another dimension. But having said that, I do agree it's not necessarily the most cardiovascular intensive sport there is.. but still hellaciously fun.

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Posted: June 18, 2009 - 06:53 PM

Can't wait for football season. Happy to join you guys to watch a game when fall comes.

ChiBob, I sure as hell hope the Bears make a run, but i'm skeptical after last year's slop. We'll see how Cutler fits in...