Hey Fergy...bout Bama football?

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Fergy, I just found out that there has never been a Heisman Trophy winner from Alabama. I found that hard to believe with all those great Bear Bryant years and the likes of guys like Namath. BTW, even though I'm from OK, I hope your boys beat those Cowboys. :)
 
Yeah, makes you wonder a little with the championships and players that have come from there....Namath, Starr, Stabler, Alexander. The closet Bama ever came to winning one was in the mid-90's. David Palmer came in third, behind second place Heath Shuler and winner Charlie Ward. Cornelius Bennett actually finished in seventh place one year, even though he was a LB.

Bryant did coach one Hypeman :)D ) Trophy winner, John David Crow from his Texas A&M days.
 
My cousin Kalusha was African Player of the Year in 1988. You know him?
 
Kalusha Bwalya - Zambia?

"The adventures of King Kalu
(FIFA.com) 09 Sep 2004"
http://www.fifa.com/en/news/feature/0,1451,103112,00.html?articleid=103112

google - http://www.google.com/search?source...GGL:en&q=Kalusha+"African+Player+of+the+Year"

Very interesting :) Unfortunately soccer (football to non-americans) isn't a sport i've followed much. I don't know why it's never had much success in the US. It is very popular through middle and high schoolers and kids are always playing it. With their own rules of course <g>
 
SlowNeasy said:
Very interesting :) Unfortunately soccer (football to non-americans) isn't a sport i've followed much. I don't know why it's never had much success in the US. It is very popular through middle and high schoolers and kids are always playing it. With their own rules of course <g>
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I can answer that for you...we Americans just don't like things pushed down our throats. You can make the kids like the sport, and good for them, but when they grow up, they forget about it. I remember when Kyle Rote Jr was such a big deal here with the ability he had for doing different things, but even he couldn't bolster the fan base.

Another sport that has a following but not what conventional wisdom would have us love is women's basketball. Here in Winston Salem, one can often get tickets to Wake Forest women's games for very little, but even when the men's teams are not very good (as in the present), getting a ticket is going to cost you a nice penny.

It doesn't matter how good the competition is, what matters is how it's pushed onto the public. If anything is good enough to stand on it's own, it will make it. If not, it'll go the way of the buggy whip.
 
bx3 said:
He is good, I play like him. But he's better.
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BX3 if you actually are where you say you are.. This thread alone is proof of how small this world is. And that proof also includes how necessary it is for us to all get along.
Getting along is the game we all need to play the same.
Betsy;)
 
Just in case anyone doesn't know, this thread is about American football, which is nothing like soccor and is similar to rugby, but yet not.

Folks, if you like soccor and want to talk about it and those people who played it, start a thread about it. I'm sure you will find preteens who would love to join in on the conversation.

Soccor and American football is about like Kevin Harvick and Greg Biffle! Wait, did I hear someone say cricket? I imagine our Chuck would love to chat with any Brit about that subject. :beerbang:
 
We had John David Crow for a head coach here at NLU, until he went to sell Coors.
 
Buckster.......football is way different outside of the NFL et al. The USA has a pretty dang good Soccer team, and as of this year I believe Brazil won the World Cup again. BUT the fans get quite CRAZY! You think Nascar fans throwing crap on the track is bad? WATCH a BIG soccer rivalry destroy a stadium, riot and bash each other to a pulp!
BX, I think the USA should recruite both you AND your cousin!
HEADDER.......GOAL!!!!!!
 
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