Thursday, August 30, 2012

The new UCLA football team

Won 49 - 24, which sounds impressive. I wasn't impressed. Yes, they are better than in earlier years and have an explosive offense. All last season, they had one TD over 70 yds. Tonight, three. And another over 50. They can score.

But they are still shooting themselves in the foot big time. 3 blocked PATs! That's unheard of. 2 dropped TD passes. Another TD brought back because of a dumb arrogant personal foul. They have a long way to go. And a poor defense, especially pass defense.

So they will score points but they're not going to cause anyone to shake in their cleats.

And American football after watching all that world football during the Olympics? Man, American football is SLOW. Eighty percent dead time -- world football has almost no dead time. And so many commercials here! I'm not sure I'll be watching a lot of American football this season. More like catching scores, seeing how favorite teams are doing.


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