You've been warned.

[Gob]

American Football fans warned against dangerous excitement of watching cricket



American Football fans have been warned off cricket as they might find it too exciting this morning.

Doctors are concerned that fans of Gridiron might find cricket ‘too thrilling’ and suffer heart attacks from the nerve-shreddingly fast paced game.

Cricket, the only sport with a tea-break, is regarded as too dangerously fast-moving and adrenaline-fuelled for people who watched last night’s Super Bowl.

Although spectators are known to doze off during test cricket, medical experts have warned this might cause undue stress to people enthralled by a game whose highlight was a performance by Coldplay.

In order to prevent Denver Broncos fans being overwhelmed by the comparatively lightning-quick play, cricket authorities are planning several changes to the rules including taking advert breaks between every ball, and asking players to walk rather than run when they get a hit.

In other sports news, Manchester United have pledged to make their playing style slower and less interesting in a bid to attract fans away from the NFL.

Reports from the United States indicate that the Super Bowl halftime show has just entered its second day.



http://newsthump.com/2016/02/08/america ... g-cricket/

[Bicycle Bill]

THIS, ladies and gentlemen, is a trophy worthy of enshrinement in its own glass case under brilliant illumination.


So is this.


Even this.


This, on the other hand, is a knick-knack better suited for display in someone's grandmother's curio cabinet.


btw — has anyone ever looked inside that itty-bitty urn to see just what was in there, if anything at all?  For all we know, someone tipped an ashtray into it and those stuffy Brits (and the blokes they shipped off to Oz) have been competing over nothing more than a bunch of dog ends for the past 130-odd years.

-"BB"-

[MajGenl.Meade]

Ah, the difference between gaudy ostentation and subtle (and humorous) good taste

[oldr_n_wsr]

The best trophy in all of sports is Lord Stanley's Cup.

Sorry for this post if BB included the Stanley Cup in his pictures, they are not displaying for me.

[Gob]

Subtly and refinement has never figured large in US life, has it?

[oldr_n_wsr]

Subtly and refinement has never figured large in US life, has it?

Not at all.
MORE!!!
is our motto.

MORE house
MORE car
MORE food
MORE tv
MORE stuff
MORE alcohol (oops, didn't mean that)

[Bicycle Bill]

Subtly and refinement has never figured large in US life, has it?

No, probably not.  But when you are a country that is roughly 75 times larger than England (and something like 40 times the size of the entire United Kingdom); a country where just one small region is known as NEW England; a country that spreads over almost one-fourth of the world (six time zones), not counting other possessions and territories; a country that in its infancy took on the greatest colonial power of that time and fought them into submission not just once but twice ; a country that despite the earlier history of rebellion and armed conflict later came to the aid, support, and defense of its parent land not just once but twice ; a country that is acknowledged by friend and foe alike as one of the major superpowers, if not THE major superpower, in the world today —

well, who needs subtlety??

-"BB"-

[MajGenl.Meade]

"took on the greatest colonial power of its time..." Ah, you mean the French?

[Big RR]

Ah yes, the sun never set on the French Empire.

You could have tried the Spanish, but the French?

[MajGenl.Meade]

Er, no Big RR. I meant that the French "took on the greatest colonial power of that time and fought them into submission". Without them, no one was fought into submission in 1812 (except the French of course)

[Gob]

well, who needs subtlety??

Only people of taste, distinction and intelligence.

So you're right.

[Crackpot]

Then why do you like it?

[Gob]

[dales]

Subtly and refinement has never figured large in US life, has it?

Yeah, especially on June 6, 1944.

[Lord Jim]

I had no idea that Donny Osmond had become a pro cricket player...

[BoSoxGal]

The best trophy in all of sports is Lord Stanley's Cup.

I agree!

Is that itty bitty thing in the other picture truly the highest prize in cricket?!?!?

[MajGenl.Meade]

No, it is not. That itty bitty thing is an old joke that became tradition. As I wrote earlier in this thread, it is "the difference between gaudy ostentation and subtle (and humorous) good taste".

Wikki, she say:

The Ashes is a Test cricket series played between England and Australia. The Ashes are regarded as being held by the team that most recently won the Test series.

The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, their first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia". The mythical ashes immediately became associated with the 1882–83 series played in Australia, before which the English captain Ivo Bligh had vowed to "regain those ashes". The English media therefore dubbed the tour the quest to regain the Ashes.

After England had won two of the three Tests on the tour, a small urn was presented to Bligh by a group of Melbourne women including Florence Morphy, whom Bligh married within a year. The contents of the urn are reputed to be the ashes of a wooden bail, and were humorously described as "the ashes of Australian cricket". It is not clear whether that "tiny silver urn" is the same as the small terracotta urn given to the MCC by Bligh's widow after his death in 1927.

The urn has never been the official trophy of the Ashes series, having been a personal gift to Bligh. However, replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series

It's a bit of fun.

The cricket World Cup competition is held every four years - Australia has won it five times while England have only managed to be second four times. This is the trophy:

[BoSoxGal]

Ahhh . . . now that's a trophy!