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Originally Posted by illdefined
SantananMan, your posts have been fascinating. how did you become such a Redskins fan?
i think i was the first poster here to want this to happen, i think american football has evolved into one of the relatively few genuinely american art forms (remember the U.S. is only 230yrs old!) like jazz, and it should be appreciated world-wide.
may sound hokey, but its not. i dont know any other sport that is as fiercely physical as it is cerebral (John Madden not withstanding) and i think it'd be a good american contribution to the world.
maybe it needs a name for those outside of the U.S. like 'soccer' is futbol to us? what could they call it?
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I became a fan somewhere around 1989/1990 (about 12/13 years old), years before that I had remembered kids in school saying about a "superbowl", new england patriots vs chicago bears, but at the time it meant nothing to me, but around 1989 or thereabouts I must have gotten my first taste of football and got hooked.
I remember staying up late (remember we are 5 hours ahead of EST here!) to watch the Scott Norwood wide right SB so I must have been a fan by that time.
I think it was a kid who worked in my dads shop who introduced me to the game by telling when when it was on TV (at that point a 1 hour highlights show and thats it) and lending me "TV Sports Football" the video game.
I obviously watched it and played the game and got hooked, how I came to be a Redskins fan is unclear,probably due to me always having had a fascination for Indians and I probably saw them on TV and thought "cool" (thank god I didn't see the chiefs first!). At that time teams like the Giants, Redskins, Dolphins, 49ers would have been shown a lot hence why they have larger longterm fanbases in the UK (though with increased coverage we are seeing a lot of Patriots fans about recently, hmmm).
I got John Madden Football (the first of the series) an from there I slowly learnt the game (as 1 hour a week can only teach so much), with increased coverage/internet in the mid 90's my learning curve got accelerated and well, here I am today!
Seeing as I had no alliegance to any sporting team until I found football and the Redskins, the Redskins became "my team" and that has continued today, theres not another sport/team that I love more than NFL and the Redskins!
Football is apprecaited worldwide nowadays and the NFL is held as the standard that all sporting leagues should aspire to.
Outside of USA, football is referred to as "American Football" so as to not confuse it with the "other" football in these countries, as I am discussing the sport on a football forum I obviously can drop the american (and only have to use it to fellow foriegners to explain that my sport of choice isn't the one that consists of Man Utd/Barcelona/etc).
Geez my posts have been lengthy recently, apologies for the verbal explosion that has occourred recenly, but I guess it allows you guys a little glimpse into my world as a foriegn NFL and Redskins fan.