Yeah... well you gotta have a sense of humour if you're Canadain

Seriously though I had no ideayou guys had your own league

Well when you invented the game I guess you need your own league
In other news, basketball originated in Canada

Now there's a sport I can get into

close I believe the bears play the pats this weekend ,

Bondi, When you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose... it's how drunk you get.

Hey.... I know how to play ball

Yes, they do. If the Bears lose, which they will, You and JRock should have to send Hott a picture of your balls, via PM, just for humiliation. Here's my prediction: New England 14 Chicago 7.

well it will depend if grossman shows up to play football or tidlie winks .. damn they need a new 25back . im thinking chicago by 3 , My balls to Hott now that might be a plan .

I'm thinking New England by 4. What a game! Off with your balls, off to Hott, that is.

I know .

Miami is our next victim. Their only hope is if the plane carrying the Patroits crashes before it reaches Florida. Used to be they always came north to play in December, but due to incessant whining, the league changed it so we have to play down there, in the heat.

Miami is playing pretty good , I wouldnt get to cocky just yet , the bears clinched but damn they need a .25 back bad

From a selfish point I am glad.... please read

Wille Mason plays Rugby League in Australia for my favourite team the Bulldogs. He has harboured some fleeting desire to play NFL, because he is a showman and he says there is no bigger stage worldwide for football...

Could he cut the mustard?

To put in as bluntly as possible: No chance at all. The first reason is the most persuasive: simply too old. Guys that play in the NFL have been playing since they were really young. The only exceptions are receivers, sometimes they are sprinters and runners in school, ie, really really fast. The ones that can do the fastest times, and can catch a football, which are very few, MIGHT get a tryout. At 26, no football knowledge or skill, he's lucky to even get a look by a scout. The NFL is a multi-billion dollar business, run by men who consider an NFL team a "hobby". The athletes that compete at that level are, literally, the best in the world. You can be a number one pick or a Heisman Trophy winner and STILL flame out in the NFL. I think most people, even fans, are misguided in the atheticism and skill that it takes to succeed in pro football. It's literally, off the charts. Look at it this way, there are way more people who graduate with Phd's from M.I.T. or Harvard in any given year than make the NFL. There are more geniuses than NFL players. It's an extremely difficult set of skills that makes a player an NFL caliber player. Personally,I think it's one of the most under -estimated sports, in terms of what it takes to play on a professional team, that there is.

Which is basically what it said in the article... you really need to play throughout high school and college.

I don't profess to know much about Gridiron except that yes, it is a very highly skilled and technical game, on that would be hard to pick up over night.

I do however think he'd be tough enough if he had the necessary skills. Don't forget, in Rugby League these guys bash the living shit out of each other without any pads at all... just a pair of shorts and a jersey. No helmets etc etc and they do it 26 weeks per year plus representative games!

Big Willie, as he is known here, is my favourite player, he plays with my team and Im glad he's going no where!!!

I also don't think most NFL players could excel at Rugby. It's kinda like thinking a street brawler, who never loses fights, could contend for a championship title against a highly trained boxer. Within the ring, the boxer would kill him, but if they got in a street brawl, who knows? Two different skills needed, with only a bit of overlap.

Intersting posts. I think closeups covered most of it. But I would never say "no chance". It's often hard to know how someone will transfer over to a new skillset til they try it. It's not like this guy is a slouch. He is still a world class athlete, in a similar sport(well in the full spectrum of sports it's similar). But whether you like the NFL or not, one has to admit these guys are unreal athletes. Top percentiles for speed, size, strength(and bangin ho's ) I remember a couple years ago Brock Lesner tried out for the Vikings(I think). Now for those who don't know, Lesner was a pro wrestler, which doesn't say much. But before that he excelld at the national level in amateur wrestling. This guy is about 6'4" and 295 pounds. And is an amazing athlete. Extremely strong, agile, fast. Anyway, he barely made the practice squad. It was just too hard to learn the game at that level. Yes he was probably as athletic as the guys he was competing against but they had many years practice on him.
But determination is a powerful thing. I would like to see how he does.

And that is all.

In a similar situation, Steven Neal was a national champion wrestler in college, played some football and now starts for the Pats. Remember when Ed "too tall" Jones tried pro boxing, he got his head handed to him. Michael Jordan and baseball, he was okay, but not good enough. These athletes don't get paid 10, (or 100's) of millions of dollars because their "good". It's because they're the best.

What about Bo Jackson?
Or Deion Sanders?
Or Jim Thorpe?

You're right, there are exceptions to the rule. Not that baseball isn't hard, it's extremely difficult to hit a ball going 95mph. But learning the game is relatively easy. Not with football. Some sports need lots of brains some need lots of strenghth and agility, football needs it all. Same with basketball. You'd think that if by some freak of nature some guy grew to nine feet tall, he'd excell at basketball. But probably not. A few receivers were sprinters in school, you can't teach raw speed. But they still have to have the skills to get open and catch the ball. Which very few of them have. I think you can be a lucky no-talent and still make millions acting in movies, but luck has very little to do with pro sports.

BTW, I was wondering if any of you sexy women want to take over where Foragoodtime left off. That girl was a real trouper.