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May. 11th, 2007 11:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labellementeuseI acquired the Friday Night Lights pilot last night (like, a week before it starts airing on NZ tv, sigh) and as I finished the episode - which didn't really get me until the last five minutes or so - I thought, gee, I really can't start watching this show, because I'll have to learn stuff about american football. Like what a quarterback is.
People have previously attempted to explain this shit to me in terms of rugby, which is kind of wasted effort, since I know how rugby is played and I can follow a game but I don't know a flank from a hooker.
So of course I downloaded the second episode, and then the third, and now, well, now I am wiki-ing american football.
ETA: forward passes? I am blown away! And "lateral"/ "side" real passes are uncommon? Freakish.
ETA again: Oh, but this is hilarious: all that ridiculous padding they wear is designed to protect them from injury, which is fine, but since it was introduced, players actually tackle harder and more violently, resulting in more dangerous injuries. *snort* Job well done, then!
People have previously attempted to explain this shit to me in terms of rugby, which is kind of wasted effort, since I know how rugby is played and I can follow a game but I don't know a flank from a hooker.
So of course I downloaded the second episode, and then the third, and now, well, now I am wiki-ing american football.
ETA: forward passes? I am blown away! And "lateral"/ "side" real passes are uncommon? Freakish.
ETA again: Oh, but this is hilarious: all that ridiculous padding they wear is designed to protect them from injury, which is fine, but since it was introduced, players actually tackle harder and more violently, resulting in more dangerous injuries. *snort* Job well done, then!
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Date: 2007-05-11 05:01 am (UTC)Y'all should get together a rugby team, plenty of women play rugby, or touch. Touch rugby is good fun.
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Date: 2007-05-11 10:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-11 06:56 pm (UTC)I must to be thinking about doing that next semester. However, once we start it, I;ll be gone, since (OMG!) I'll be in NZ for the next school year!
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Date: 2007-05-11 07:52 pm (UTC)That's confirmed? Holy shit, how did I miss that? :D That is SO cool! We're gonna meet up at some point, right?
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Date: 2007-05-12 05:15 am (UTC)Yeah, It's not totally confirmed, yet, but after my OChem final...I'm hoping. I'm so excited!! Yeah, we totally should meet up, that would be most fantastic and such things.
*uber squee of hope and joyness*