Football is coming! - ok other sports too...

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1. Toss-up between Hockey and Baseball

2. Philadelphia Phillies, with the Philadelphia Flyers a close second, and the Philadelphia Eagles 3rd.

3. Yes! I have full season tickets to the Phillies this year, and I'll probably get them again next year. I usually go to 3-5 NHL games per year. I rarely go to football games, I prefer to watch it from home - better camera angles and a comfy sofa make for better football viewing.

 

1) Ice Hockey

2) Toronto Maple Leafs - followed in order of preference by the Montreal Canadians, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks - o.k. I admit it, I am kind of biased towards Canadian teams

3) Almost never. If I am given free tickets I will spend the money on dinner/parking/public transit required to attend the game but I have never paid for tickets or to receive any sort of extra tv coverage.

It is kind of funny, a local radio station was giving away an assortment of free prizes to people who answered trivia questions. One of the prizes was a pair of Argos tickets. After all of the other prizes were claimed and the next three people had turned down the Argos tickets the host finally just announced that anyone who actually wanted the tickets should just phone in and they could have them without answering any questions. For the next half hour there were repeated mentions that the tickets were still available until someone finally called in to say he would take them.

[ July 09, 2004, 14:01: Message edited by: JSBB ]

 

@joacquin

On football:

Every team plays 16 regular season games. Throughout the course of the regular season, there are weeks that certain teams have off, called "byes". Each team has one bye over the course of the season, so that means the regular season is 17 weeks long. They never play more than one game per week, and the games are almost always on Sunday (there is a weekly Monday night game, and there are always two Thanksgiving games). The first week of the regular season is usually the weekend following Labor Day, so yes, it's usually early September.

Additionally, there are four "pre-season" weeks as well. These games are also televised. So each team plays 20 games a year at minimum. There is a week off between the last week of preseason games and the start of the regular season, so that part of the season lasts 22 weeks. Then there are 4 weeks of playoffs, with the Super Bowl occuring on the 4th week. The Super Bowl always lands on either the last weekend of January, or the first weekend of February.

So all told, the football season actually lasts a total of 26 weeks, although your team may only be playing 20 of those weeks, and only 16 of those weeks the games actually count. Fortunately because almost all the games land on a weekend, you can see most of them.

 

@Aldeth. A sports bigamist eh ...is there a penalty against this...if so I plead insanity.

 

1. NFL football!
2. New Orleans Saints
3. Nothin'.

Incidentally, any NFL fans here NOT seen "Any Given Sunday"? Go Oliver Stone!

(...uh, in this one context...)

 

Don't tell me you actually liked that movie Grey! You're the last person I see enjoying such a film. Didn't you think that was way over the top? Especially the part with the eyeball on the field (I think that was only in the EE DVD)? I mean, how could that even happen?

As an aside, I'm not the least bit surprised that your favorite team is the Saints. I didn't know you were a football fan, but if I had to guess what team you rooted for, it would have been the Saints.

@ Apeman - I have no idea why we call American style football "football". The closest comparison sport is rugby, and I think that is referred to as football by some people as well. I'm sure we could find out if anyone did some research into the origins of the game. Although I do admit that most sports have some basis for their names in fact. For example baseball has bases, and basketball has baskets. But of course, this does apply universally - where does the work "hockey" come from?

 

It is generally agreed that the word hockey comes form hoquet - which is an old French word meaning a shepherd's crook or bent stick.

 

OK, the eyeball was just dumb...and the cursing, the debauchery, the general tackiness was completely out of line...not the kind of movie I could easily recommend. But still! It was the kind of movie to make you proud to be an NFL fan!

Yeah, it's ironic...football is as close to Catholicism as I get. Far better Charlton Heston's team in Any Given Sunday - the Crusaders!

Speaking of which...someone once told me that we may think it fun to have tomahawk chops and raindances for teams with Native American names...but just imagine if every time the Saints scored, the fans genuflected and a fake priest came out to give communion?

Not to be off-topic, but is it really so unreasonable to ask the Redskins to change their name to something more symbolic of Native American battle prowess, like the Braves or Tomahawks or some equivalent?