Yes, look at how many more posts the "English Premiership" has!  I've been pretty content with just watching the Colts go to 4-0.  Also, the offensive appears back on track now.  Still, it's a long way to the Super Bowl.

Back to the games, whatever you call the sport.


Green Bay is 0-3 so far this season and look worse than their record.

The Broncos just trounced one of the most dangerous teams in the AFC, the Chiefs, 30-10 at home.  By my count, Denver played three consecutive halves of high-school level football and have now played three consecutive halves of play-off level football.  If (and this is a big if) Denver can play this well next week at Jacksonville, Denver's back.   

However, Denver has played only one game on the road this season, and looked pathetic.  Jacksonville may or may not be a play-off team this year, but the Broncos, even with injuries, have no excuses.

The undefeated teams right now contain one expected team and three surprise teams:

The Indianapolis Colts look very dangerous because they now have a really good defense along with last year's best offense.  (That offense has yet to show up this season though.)

The Cinncinati Bengals are a huge surprise as a 3-0 team, and look likely to make the play-offs for the first time in 15 years!

In the NFC, there are two teams that remain undefeated:

The Washington Redskins (huh?) and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.  At least the Bucs are a play-off quality team, but the Redskins are a complete mystery to me.  We'll see in the next few weeks whether they're for real.

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'American Rugby' does sound like a much better descriptive name. 

- Which reminds me of an old Michael Moore 'documentary' (for lack of a better word) in which he proposes that the USA should rename itself simply 'The Big One', (which should supposedly deter all enemies of the US). Furthermore, he also wanted to change the national hymn to some tune people will remember the lyrics of, i.e. 'We Will Rock You'!

All three suggestions sound like good ideas imo, so I suppose none of them will be realised... 

Alumbrado is right on all points, but...

While I prefer soccer/football to football/American football, I know it's largely for cultural reasons.  I discovered the joy of soccer when I move to my mother's land for my father's tour of duty there in the early 1970s.  I was at the right age to start playing sports in an organized way, and my time in England marks one of the happiest times in my childhood.  (BTW psychologists agree that ages 9-11 should be the happiest times for developing males.)

My father used to watch football when I was too young to really understand the game, but I saw how much he enjoyed it.  So for me, watching the game became part of being an adult.  I didn't find out until much later that my father had been a football star in Georgia.   

When I moved to America, the Dolphins and Vikings were the dominant teams in the NFL, and all the school kids were choosing sides.  It was then that I discovered that my watching my father watch football was something other kids respected.   

When I was asked who were my favorite teams, I responded with "the Broncos" (who were terrible, but local) and the Packers.  Everyone thought I knew a lot about football because I mentioned one of the best teams historically in the game.

I started watching football and rooting for the Broncos because that's what an adolescent male did in my town in those days.  I fell in love with the game, and now I have several loves in sports.

I love track and field, especially the distance races that I ran in high school.  I love to play and watch soccer, which is a very free-flowing game.  I like basketball for the same reason.  I fell in love with hockey because of its speed (although I still hate the large number of "cheap" goals that are scored on ricochets).   

I love football because the breaks between plays actually build the tension and importance of each play.  This makes the play-calling very cerebral.  It isn't chess.  But as George Carlin once said, it's "organized violence punctuated by committee meetings." It's fun to watch!

So I am one of the rare breed that truly loves both "footballs".  Oh, and I agree with most of the world that American football aint football, and should change its name.  But to what???

I see the Seahawks completely crushed the cardinals
And in an away game to boot 8)

(MNb's trying to post as much as possible tonight! Go, MNb, go! 8) )

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I'm not quite sure when it was either, sometime between 1989 and 1992 I suppose. It was probably live from the play-offs as the chosen game started around midnight. I remember that Miami was wicked in those days, they had some guy who seemed able run through defenders like quicksilver, scoring touchdowns from mid field rushes about every third time he got the 'ball'...

Around here American Football is even smaller than chess. In my chess club in the early 90s we actually had a couple of players alternating between the two. - Every time they had a broken arm they'd start showing up at the club again...

I suppose I'll have to go for the Minnesota Vikings, just for their name!

How come the Dallas Cowboys and Miami isn't mentioned? Have these teams been discontinued or relocated since the last time Am Football was sent on swedish tv? (it's been a while since then, anyway I remember it as fairly interesting to watch   )