Posted on 01/31/2016 9:12:38 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Dave Bry?
Nobody on this side of the pond ... which means nobody watches ...
Yes, he is one of you.
Utter rubbish. Millions of Americans watch and play the sport. NBC showed the RWC live. Start to finish.
67,000 just filled Soldier Field last year to watch the US play NZ.
Watch a game, you will enjoy it, TV or in person.
CNN makes the same claim as to viewership ...
You seem upset...
Nobody should be taking advice from the Guardian, or the Nanny State British government.
FFS, have you not been following this thread?.
For the spewing of Anglophobia based on what an AMERICAN has written. You are damn right.
Don’t be flippant, you have been exposed on your ignorance.
I don’t get upset at the usual 1776/1812, and WW1/2 comments. I actually pity the idiots who write such ignorance. Their problem, not mine.
Remember, in a nation of 318 million millions of people can do something and it’s still nobody. If 2 million American follow a sport there’s your millions, and they’re less than 1 percent. That’s the thing cable TV has recently figured out, in a big country small niches are still a lot of people.
Sorry, I could resist.
It was a gag line from an American TV series in the 1970’s called “Maude,” produced by famed American TV producer Norman Lear.
Maude, played by Bea Arthur, had a British housekeeper played by Ermine Ginggold (not sure of that spelling), an elderly woman.
The show was about a friend who was a homosexual, and the British housekeeper made the quip, “Oh, I just adore homosexuals. In England, the only one we’re sure isn’t a queen, is the Queen!”
That line popped into my head Scotsman, and I couldn’t resist.
P.S.: I know American football is gaining popularity in the U.K.....a franchise may be coming there soon.
When I lived in California years ago, rugby was rather popular on my college campus. That was pretty rough and tumble.
LOL, fair enough, as a Scotsman, I agree!. English poofs lol.
AF has been on UK tv since 1982, weekly and live, and SB highlights since 1971. It was most popular in the 80s. More a large hardcore now. If that’s not a contradiction.
LOL! Tell the truth. Rugby players eat their dead.
The only time outs are to carry injured players off the field.
I just love logical disconnects!
When we played flag football, we tackled the guy, and pulled the flag off. That’s how its supposed to work, right?
That’s the way we played...and it was always a red flag to hide the blood from nosebleeds.
;-[)
Lear famously adapted (and ironically toned down) the classic BBC series Till Death Us Do Part. Maude was shown here, not sure of the 70s, but def. in the 90s by Sky TV.
Bread and circuses, man!
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