The Americanisation of the BBC

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cu3ed said:
lol...American Football is very popular in the UK, and its ONCE a year.
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Where?
I've never met anyone who expressed any such interest, and only vaguely recall that it was once fashionable in the 1980s, for about two weeks, to wear those massive Dan Marino replica Miami Dolphins football shirts... or own an Athena poster of Marino, but never both.
 
I'd personally like the BBC to show more films and tv shows from other countries and less from the states. UK tv is looking like USA's own channel 5 these days.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Where?
I've never met anyone who expressed any such interest, and only vaguely recall that it was once fashionable in the 1980s, for about two weeks, to wear those massive Dan Marino replica Miami Dolphins football shirts... or own an Athena poster of Marino, but never both.
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I know a few that follow it, and have gone US to see their fav teams and gone to games hosted over here.
ALso its on VERY late at night, it only takes over sport stuff ONCE a year for the Superbowl which like it or not is the biggest single sporting event watched over the world.
Makes a change of crapping Football Cricket and Rugby, all of which I cannot stand.
 
chroniclard said:
Sport is global now, we are no longer a tiny insignificant island with little news of the outside world. We are now just a tiny insignificant island. :)
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I know you view any form of Patriotism as cancerous Nationalism that you must destroy by disparaging the UK at every opportunity, but from Wikipedia:

The United Kingdom has the world's fifth-largest economy by nominal gross domestic product (GDP), and the ninth-largest by purchasing power parity (PPP). It has a high-income economy and a very high human development index rating, ranking 15th in the world. It was the world's first industrialised country and the world's foremost power during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The UK remains a great power, with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific, technological and political influence internationally. It is a recognised nuclear weapons state and is sixth in military expenditure in the world. It has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946.
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If we're insignificant then there's seemingly few countries that aren't.
 
Roar87 said:
What views does he espouse that makes you call him a "right wing nutjob"?
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erm... climate change denial, proponent of across the board tax reduction and regressive flat rate income taxes, support for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, pretty sure I remember some holocaust denial somewhere in the dark past too.
 
cu3ed said:
I know a few that follow it, and have gone US to see their fav teams and gone to games hosted over here.
ALso its on VERY late at night, it only takes over sport stuff ONCE a year for the Superbowl which like it or not is the biggest single sporting event watched over the world.
Makes a change of crapping Football Cricket and Rugby, all of which I cannot stand.
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I have zero interest in gridiron, but your opinion of football, cricket, and rugby I can agree with, particularly cricket and rugby.
When I’m in the US, I’ll try to catch a baseball game, they can be exciting, and once in a blue moon I’ll watch an ice hockey game, but I just don’t “get” gridiron, so I don’t watch it.
 
inogen said:
erm... climate change denial, proponent of across the board tax reduction and regressive flat rate income taxes, support for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, pretty sure I remember some holocaust denial somewhere in the dark past too.
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Yeah nothing you've written there is a right wing issue, and wanting lower tax rates doesn't make you a nutjob.
 
So we can all agree Gridiron is ****.... Baseball has it moments (its also great to Drunk to) Just like Cricket. Ice Hockey is by the far the best of the lot but it gets no coverage as its not diverse enough and henceforth a white supremacist game.

Been to quite a few NHL games, the winter classic is awesome, Baseball again a few games, but I left the grid iron game it's just crap. I guess it's like F1 the hype is more exciting than the sport.
 
SPG said:
So we can all agree Gridiron is ****.... Baseball has it moments (its also great to Drunk to) Just like Cricket. Ice Hockey is by the far the best of the lot but it gets no coverage as its not diverse enough and henceforth a white supremacist game.

Been to quite a few NHL games, the winter classic is awesome, Baseball again a few games, but I left the grid iron game it's just crap. I guess it's like F1 the hype is more exciting than the sport.
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Yeah its a terrible game but its massive, unlike the rest.
 
SPG said:
So we can all agree Gridiron is ****.... Baseball has it moments (its also great to Drunk to) Just like Cricket. Ice Hockey is by the far the best of the lot but it gets no coverage as its not diverse enough and henceforth a white supremacist game.

Been to quite a few NHL games, the winter classic is awesome, Baseball again a few games, but I left the grid iron game it's just crap. I guess it's like F1 the hype is more exciting than the sport.
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Personally I dont think basketball or American football are diverse enough. I want to know whats being done about it
 
The best part about the BBC's NFL coverage is those two ex-players they have on, Jason Bell and that other guy whose name I can never remember. I find hearing them joking around and talking about it more entertaining/interesting than the sport itself. They would make great team leaders on A Question of Sport tbh.
 
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