Following on from Freeze’s Thread,I thought I’d head over the Atlantic with a slight difference in the game they call Football.
Slight difference?
I must be kidding.
It’s a smaller ball,longer,thinner,which they generally throw,run with it without bouncing it,kick only to convert a Touchdown or to give it to your opponents deep in their territory.
Unless you fake a punt and run with the ball to get what they call a 1st down and retain possesion.
That’s the gist of it,punctuated by long periods of stopped play,which we find annoying.
Outside the Super Bowl,I’ve only really watched it in full,with games on their West Coast giving us a favourable time of day to watch it.
Night games our way tend to have you nodding off on the couch.
No good,unless you’re on holiday.
We never had it on our Sporting Curriculum,but if we did,I reckon I might have suited up on the front line in a Defensive Tackle position,trying to kill the Quarterback.
As for the Team or Franchise,…
San Francisco 49ers
Some guy called Joe Montana made 'em look really good in '84.
I didn’t really know too much more about him until '88.I heard more about Da Bears and The Fridge in '85,but didn’t take 'em up.
In the decades that followed,thanks first to Warren Boland,Don Lane,Pat Summerall and then,some maniac called John Madden,I learnt a hell of a lot more,…