Before I start this page of further views of the USA, I should apologize to any that I might offend. These are my own personal views of the USA, or that part of the USA that I have known in the time that I have been living in America.

To a person from anywhere else in the world except America and perhaps Canada, the word football means eleven players a side, charging around piece of varying types of land chasing a round ball, throughout the world. Names like Pele, Charlton, Best, De Steffino, Maradona, and Beckham bring visions to ones mind. However in America it brings forth a totally different vision.

What the rest of world calls football, the Americans call soccer. This being the fact that to an American football is a totally different sport.

Now, in England we do actually know what "American Football" is, our screens being filled on "Channel 4" during the early nineties on a early Sunday evening. Names like Dan Marina and Number 44, John Riggins were discussed around schools in the local pubs. When the fridge, was not a place for storing food but a Chicago Bear's player the size of a small out house. For those who do not know any better "Football" as we will now just call it, is played by what seems to be several hundred players a side, who stay on the filed a few minutes a time, before having to go off for what seems to be an endless supply of "Gatorade" a drink, seemingly invented for the event. Players have to ware what to any rugby player would seem a suit of armour, complete with a crash helmet center>

MAY 2004

I am, and will always be, an Englishman, living in the USA.

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