NFL 2013 Off-Season Thread

[CSL]

Originally Posted by Next Big Thing Is the NFL relatively popular in England/UK/WhatevertheFuckYouCallYourselves? How did you get into it CSL? Just curious.

it's growing in popularity, quite a few people pay attention to the Super Bowl nowadays but most don't really have a clue what's going on, nobody really cares about the draft or the regular season etc. For me personally some of my earliest memories are of NFL related things, my Dad played tight end for a team over here during the 80's Channel 4 popularity boom and I was some kind of unofficial mascot running around like a dickhead 3-4 year old with a helmet on, remember the coach journeys, remember having a Dan Marino jersey, became a Giants fan pretty much strictly because of Jason Sehorn, had my NFL sticker book open on the Houston Oilers page the moment I was told my Dad was dead blah blah blah. Knew "football" existed before "soccer" really. As I grew up I had Madden every year, I'd read books from the library etc etc. That's the only reason I know more about the history of the game, "memorable moments"/stories, players, stats etc than the average British person or maybe even "average general fan" should.