Foot-Americain

The French were nice enough to televise the Super Bowl on France2. It’s terrible. They have no clue what football is. They had to expain what a Seahawk is. They talked through the entire national anthem.

It is so funny. Basically they have the feed from ABC and are dubbing over the English version. They are showing clips from the year of the NFL and the announcers are trying to explain the game of football. “That was a throw for a touchdown, which is a score in American football, magnificent.”

It’s funny but unbearable. I really can’t watch more. It would be better with the TV muted. Very few of the football terms translate to french, so it’s almost like speaking in Franglais. It would also help if the announcers knew anything about football. They also have crappy French commercials, but they only show them a quarter of the time – they either have really boring shots of huddles while ABC is on commercial or they go back to their Paris studio where they have one french football player and many tiny, plastic, American flags. I guess I’ll just have to watch it on Tivo when I get home.

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  1. Becca February 5th, 2006 10:55 pm

    oh WHINE WHINE WHINE i’m in paris WHINE WHINE WHINE i can’t watch football WHINE WHINE WHINE… fie on you, tim timminy. fie.

    (i think i’m going in march!!!!! yay.) :o )

  2. Meg Morello February 6th, 2006 2:09 am

    Funny! Becca is Funny! I think it was one of my favorite Superbowls- it was actually appropriate for me to sleep through it, considering the broadcast began ay 11:30 pm.

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