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Re: "Good News" for the NFL
« Reply #28 on: Mar 29th, 2006, 5:07pm » |
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Not so sure this is how I envision the gap between East and West, America and China specifically, being bridged, but... here it is... From "The REAL Feed":
NFL considering playing preseason game in Beijing
ESPN: NFL (29.03.2006 17:01)
Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said Wednesday the league is
considering playing a preseason game in Beijing next summer, one year before the Olympics are staged there.
American football is SO VERY Americana, despite baseball's being our "national pastime". It's a very "involved" game, I would say, furthermore, in a distinctively American way, and not cheap to do right, mind you. I don't think, vis-a-vis basketball, baseball and soccer, it will ever be a great candidate for a "World League" sport. I think it will always have trouble vying for hearts and minds the world over. At least, it's going to have a hard time finding an audience in a 1) culturally, politically, socially, etc., isolated country like China, 2) whose values are derived from a yin-yang tradition that does not put much stock in a "might is right" mindset, which is quite a bit at the heart of American football, as it was for our ancient Greek predecessors and their gladiators.  In short, China does not have a "gladiator" tradition. 
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Re: "Good News" for the NFL
« Reply #33 on: Apr 16th, 2006, 4:21am » |
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Nice gesture of support for a foundation whose namesake is a true NFL man of courage, valor and principle...  From "The REAL Feed":
Plummer among 8,000 to participate in Tillman race
ESPN: NFL (15.04.2006 19:51)
Broncos quarterback Jake Plummer was one of more than 8,000 people who participated in the 4.2-mile "Pat's Run" Saturday, raising $350,000 for the foundation established to honor Pat Tillman's memory.
Way to go, Jake! 
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Re: "Good News" for the NFL
« Reply #37 on: May 27th, 2006, 4:12pm » |
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Again, as per my post above, I don't really know if this is good news or not... But, I think we think it is... From "The REAL Feed":
NFL ponders two regular-season games abroad
FOXSports.com :: NFL (27.05.2006 14:31)
The NFL has proposed playing two regular-season games outside the United States starting in 2008, league officials said Saturday.
Mark Waller, head of NFL international development, said the proposal to play abroad was put to team owners Tuesday in Denver. It came after the 49ers and Cardinal...
"American" football is so American that I just see the spread of the NFL (if it were to succeed, a big IF, mind you) giving the "international" community yet one more reason to play the "American hegemony" card, which sucks.
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Re: "Good News" for the NFL
« Reply #40 on: Jun 27th, 2006, 7:12pm » |
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This is gotta be considered "good news", right? ... From "The REAL Feed":
NFL adds amphetamines to banned substances list
ESPN: NFL (27.06.2006 12:30)
The NFL has added amphetamines to the list of performance enhancing drugs banned by its policy against steroids and related substances and, beginning with the 2007 season, will toughen sanctions against players who test positive.
Another performance enhancer bites the dust...
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Re: "Good News" for the NFL
« Reply #45 on: Sep 8th, 2006, 10:42pm » |
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BOY, I wish they had this when I was in Korea,... especially when I lived in places that did not get the Armed Forces Korea Network (AFKN). From "The REAL Feed":
Yahoo to Webcast NFL outside North America
SI.com: NFL (08.09.2006 19:05)
 , Yahoo!!! 
And, currently "topping" "The REAL Feed"... and the charts... As for the state of the game domestically:
NFL opener attracts record TV audience
SI.com: NFL (08.09.2006 21:15)
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