Grrrrrrr

[blamebrampton]

The only thing worse than having both the Ashes and the Tour on in the middle of the night (and thus developing RSI in my channel-switching fingers) is having Australia do well in the cricket.

I love 99.7% of things Australian, but it is not within me to love the cricket team.

Actually, that's not wholly true, the women's team is lovely.

Comments

[ozdobe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what's wrong with the men's cricket team? I don't even get to see cricket over here at all - I get bored by the football they think they play (don't you have to use your feet to play football; shouldn't American 'gridiron' be called handball?)

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

They're still boofheads for the most part. Admittedly it has improved since the Warney days of a few years back, but not enough for me to cope. Everything is mixed up with sportspeople here: the soccer team is made up of the nicest lads you could hope for, the cricket team mostly moose.

And yes, gridiron is a fake sport, just a cross between catch & kick and wrestling.

[jadzialove.livejournal.com]

I feel compelled to clarify.

Football is called such, in the US, because when they named the sport, they actually kicked the ball. You know, with a foot. No one thought of picking it up and throwing it for several years. Then they realized it was more fun, but the name stuck.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's more fun because they all secretly want to be wrestlers!