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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Win Smith who wrote (22257)	8/16/2001 12:05:10 PM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 82486

It was Channel 4 in this country (then a new terrestrial, free-to-air channel) which pushed American football; and for a while it did have some following on TV. I think though that the audiences weren't big enough to please the advertisers, so they dropped it, and there simply weren't that many fans who really cared - the teams were all rather artificial, manufactured for merchandising rather than having any roots, and it showed <g>. They still show Superbowl, I believe, although it may have gone to satellite - but it's no longer an event publicised as it was 15 years ago. Certainly it doesn't make the main sports pages (back page) any more, and that's a big indicator that not many people are interested: the tabloids are very careful to follow fashion... Claymore is a mine, but the name comes from the old Scots claidheam-mor (spelling mine, and approximate) - the greatsword. Basically this was a somewhat flattened iron bar, usually from 4'6"-6' long, wielded two-handed; it didn't cut so much as club. Not a subtle weapon <vbg>