I have never heard rugby referred to as "football".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_football

Which seems like the Americans way of separating Rugby from American Football

So was this game worth watching, so I'm not sitting for 5ish hours yawning?

It's not "metric" ball. The gridiron is measured in yards. So, "foot"ball. Yankee we do. Live with it.

Sorry, I was actually responding to papafern...tongue in cheek in fact...
"I don't know where "foot"ball comes from either since it's a sport mostly played with your hands."

I thought her performance was boring and choices of her older songs were classics yes but done exacly how they were sung in the late 80's early 90's......snoozer. The choice of other artists to perform with her were also snoozers. Come on C-Lo? What in the hell did he even do up there? And just when you thought it might get better with the appearance of LMFAO we then hear a butchered version of Party Rock and a 53 year old woman trying to bust moves to it....laughable imo.

I thought the lighting and trippy stage effects looked great and even that dude bouncing on the wire like a trampoline was cool. If they wanted to go 80's I could think of bunch of other performers I would rather see. This was just a snooze fest I'm sorry.

I was thinking it must involve soup. If it doesn't, it should.

I was up at 2am so I did put it on. And then I got confused. A lot. So I turned it off and watched the highlights of Wales v Ireland instead.

Huh, I never knew that. So the whole sport is basically one big F U to the metric system? Sounds American

Not really. the final scores we're pretty low. and not alot really happened.

It was bizarre, pointless, and (outside of the humorous jabs my friends and I leveled at Madonna's expense) unentertaining. But it was a far cry from "worst". That dubious claim was staked by the Black Eyed Peas and has been unchallenged to date.

Well yeah if I was a treasonous knave.

Heard a brilliant thing about American sport from Clarkson the other day. You've got this amazing ability to turn dull sports into things that are half interesting such as NASCAR, which is people driving around in circles for hours on end, which is made better with explosions and stuff.

It's true, though. I mean, although F1 is theoretically more interesting, it's so bogged down in rules, bureaucracy and a very wide "us and them" gulf between the teams and the fans that it's absolutely mind-numbingly dull; NASCAR might just be some good ol' boys driving round in a circle for 186 billion years but actually it looks much more exciting. Because it has explosions and stuff, but it also doesn't have the po-faced legion of rule-makers.

I went to one drivers-going-in-circles event when I was a kid as part of a friend's birthday party. It was the dullest six hours of my life. Not even the crash near the end could save it, because they had to pause the race to get the ambulance in. I don't even think the guy died!

I didn't think is was that bad. It was Madonna. What did people expect? The cameos were fun and images projected on the the field were cool.

So is this like the World Cup final, just far less popular?

It would be like the World Cup final, if any other countries in the world cared about American football.

Fixed

When something is as popular as the WC final, when people all over the world take the day off or watch the game during work hours, then, you may use the entertaining card. As of yet, and as of the next 100 or so years, you can't.


I should have added "for Americans".

Hey now, cricket is very popular across the world. . .

I rest my case.

Wasn't horrible just a bit... ordinary.

Yes, I could drive ten minutes to Seattle and see the daily match of people whacking things on horses with mallets. Or am I thinking of crochet? Either way, no British sports are really popular in the US. Though I hear the Canadian Curling is starting to gain a following...

Rounders and netball are quite popular from what I understand. And championship knitting.

I have definitely heard of those...

It sports...not sport. Similarly, it's going to the hospital...not going to hospital.

By the way, what the heck is Scotland Yard doing in London?
Never mind, I don't want to know.

Wow. This belongs in the International Inquiry thread...and no mistake.

think baseball and basketball only played by children.