It's a largely unknown fact that not only do I love sh*tball, but I also love American sh*tball.

In fact I want to marry them both.

But that's illegal.

Anyway, the playoffs get underway tonight with my team - yes my team - the historically, usually, awful Buffalo Bills kicking things off against the Indianapolis Colts tonight at 6pm.

Anyway, poll above is included so you can all vote on who you think will be the American champions of the world in the unbelievably incredible and unutterably awesomely amazing and without equal hyperbole*.

GEDDIT!?


*Superbowl

I support the Pittsburgh Steelers for reasons which are now lost in the mists of the 80s.

Anyway, to aid your already knowledgable decision here are each of the teams logos.

Which do you find most aesthetically fetching and/or dymanically stimulating...

Baltimore Ravens



Buffalo Bills



Chicago Bears



Cleveland Browns



Green Bay Packers



Indianapolis Colts



Kansas City Chiefs



Los Angeles Rams



New Orleans Saints



Pittsburgh Steelers



Seattle Seahawks



Tampa Bay Buccaneers



Tennessee Titans



Washington Football Team

Fangirl Three wrote:

I support the Pittsburgh Steelers for reasons which are now lost in the mists of the 80s.

Steelers play Browns on on Monday.

I don't really respect any of the 'new' teams or any who've horribly redesigned their logos/helmets.

Also, it's very hard to feel any love for 'franchises' who keep moving city.

Los Angeles Chargers indeed.

Don't even get me started on the Las Vegas Raiders.

Are the Dallas Ditchwaters no longer in existence?

They sure are.

However, this season a number of the normally good and/or famous teams have been rubbish.

BTW, end of first quarter.

Bills - 7
Colts - 3

Nightjar wrote:

They sure are.

However, this season a number of the normally good and/or famous teams have been rubbish.

Actually, I think the Dallas Cowpats have been pretty rubbish for a while.

Crap even.

Two minute warning!

Bills trail.

Half Time.

Bills - 14
Colts - 10

A very tough, ugly game.

Lots of ultra-tight chuffs calls and some of the darker arts in American Sh*tball deployed on both sides.

The only one I've heard of is the Green Bay Packers, so I've voted for them.

It could be argued that you've won the moral victory.

The Packers are, in brutally, cold-eyed honest truth, probably the most unreconstructedly wholesome team in all of American sport.

Hailing from a miniature, blue-collar town of about 100,000 at the freezing b*m-end of Wisconsin, they're even owned by the fans.

Like John Lewis.

Or the Communist USSR electric company.

I don't even know where Green Bay is.

Why does it have a team if no one knows where it is?

How are people supposed to get there?

I remember chatting to someone in an online chatroom who was from Green Bay, Wisconsin. That'd have been circa 1999/2000. They had similar interests and "issues" as me and I couldn't find anyone any closer who shared those same interests and "issues".

Actually, that makes me feel old as those interests aren't really issues anymore but wholly accepted by society, both here and in the US. I want the old days back, it's all so boring and predictable now. Can I come out yet?

Well, this thread has suddenly become more interesting.

Butterfield wrote:

I want the old days back, it's all so boring and predictable now

I dunno, I prefer nowadays when I can be reasonably sure that if someone does have a go, everyone else present will tut at them.