NFL Coverage In Japan

[Behan]

I didn't put those pics in my post, but thanks to whoever did. 'My' post looks a lot better that way. One of the mods did it I would guess.

[GuyJean]

Fuck NFL. For toughness, its on a par with gateball..

If you get concussions from gateball.. You suck at gateball!

Go Cards!.. Huge underdogs, but I've grown tired of Ratburger.

Warner will need some tricks up his sleeve to beat the P D..

GJ

[IkemenTommy]

If you can't tolerate the stellar NHK Super Bowl commentators discussing how green the grass is at the 50 yard-line, you are not alone. NBC's live online feed with the commercials is available.

[American Oyaji]

If you get concussions from gateball.. You suck at gateball!

Go Cards!.. Huge underdogs, but I've grown tired of Ratburger.

Warner will need some tricks up his sleeve to beat the P D..

GJ

Whoops. What was that? 100yard interception return??

GO STEELERS!!

[Mulboyne]

If you can't tolerate the stellar NHK Super Bowl commentators discussing how green the grass is at the 50 yard-line, you are not alone. NBC's live online feed with the commercials is available.

I'm glad you posted that. The link is now dead but someone there put up a link to another streaming site before it was taken down and it's working fine.

http://rincon-neutral.ucoz.com/index.html

[IkemenTommy]

Whoops. What was that? 100yard interception return??

GO STEELERS!!

Harrison is a good candidate for the MVP. Moore has made some key plays too, if they can hold the lead.. starting to get interesting late in the game.

[IkemenTommy]

Thanks Mulboyne, Justin.tv is a little shady and all the channels are getting pulled by the nazis at NBC.

[IkemenTommy]

Game over!
27-23.
That was an awesome awesome fourth quarter.

[Gilligan]

Game over!
27-23.
That was an awesome awesome fourth quarter.

Yeah, I was watching on ChannelSurfing.com, but the feed mysteriously cut with 1 minute to play. Needless to say I was NOT happy. I'll have to wait until Wednesday (I think) to catch the last minute on G+.

[kusai Jijii]

Yeah, I was watching on ChannelSurfing.com, but the feed mysteriously cut with 1 minute to play. Needless to say I was NOT happy. I'll have to wait until Wednesday (I think) to catch the last minute on G+.

Gill mate, its been on NHKBS 1 all morning.

[IkemenTommy]

He probably could only watch it on his PC at work.

[Gilligan]

Gill mate, its been on NHKBS 1 all morning.

Don't get BS old boy.

[kusai Jijii]

Don't get BS old boy.

Gill, how could you live without all the excelent NHK offerings on your cable package? You are really missing out!:p

[canman]

It was a good game, although I think once again the refs made some calls that were suspect. The roughing the passer was really bad, especially when they let Ben throw it out of bounds with no penalty. And they should have given Warner once more throw at the end, that was an incomplete pass. I won my bet but was cheering for the Cards. I agree I am tired of Ben, thank goodness he didn't win the MVP, he didn't do much this game. I guess Harrison's run was great, but I didn't see it that way. Good game though. I hope that the Cards can keep playing this way next year. Larry Fitzgerald is amazing, and with Warner throwing the ball, they could be better than Brady Moss, or Rice Montana/Young.

[GuyJean]

.. I guess Harrison's run was great, but I didn't see it that way...

He's a piece of shit! Did you see his unsportsmanlike penalty later in the game? What a fucking asshole.. I thought the Steelers were lined up in the neutral zone on his touchdown, but the run itself was pretty impressive. He's still a piece of shit though.

Good game.. Could've been better.

GJ

[Gilligan]

It was a good game, although I think once again the refs made some calls that were suspect. The roughing the passer was really bad, especially when they let Ben throw it out of bounds with no penalty. And they should have given Warner once more throw at the end, that was an incomplete pass. I won my bet but was cheering for the Cards. I agree I am tired of Ben, thank goodness he didn't win the MVP, he didn't do much this game. I guess Harrison's run was great, but I didn't see it that way. Good game though. I hope that the Cards can keep playing this way next year. Larry Fitzgerald is amazing, and with Warner throwing the ball, they could be better than Brady Moss, or Rice Montana/Young.

I'll agree that refs were pretty bad, but I'd say that it cut both ways. Yes the roughing the passer call was utterly horrendous, but I thought the personal foul on the Steelers' D-back on the sidelines was also something that usually wouldn't (and shouldn't) be called. 90% of the offensive holding penalties that were called (on both teams) would not have been called in the regular season--and while I would love to see the NFL start calling more offensive holding, the Super Bowl is not the place to begin doing it. There were also at least 2 VERY bad defensive holding calls (1 on each team). As for the no call on the play where Roethlesberger threw the ball away, it was the right call--he was a good 2 or 3 yards outside the tackle when he threw it away. On the other hand, Harrison probably would have been thrown out of a regular season game for his cheap shot, but I'm not sure that I would argue he should have been thrown out in the Super Bowl. As a general rule, any time there are 18 accepted penalties in a game, the refs have done a bad job.

I can't comment about the Warner fumble / no fumble though as, like I said, I didn't see it.

[IkemenTommy]

In case you missed the Hyundai commercial
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[halfnip]

I'll agree that refs were pretty bad, but I'd say that it cut both ways. Yes the roughing the passer call was utterly horrendous, but I thought the personal foul on the Steelers' D-back on the sidelines was also something that usually wouldn't (and shouldn't) be called. 90% of the offensive holding penalties that were called (on both teams) would not have been called in the regular season--and while I would love to see the NFL start calling more offensive holding, the Super Bowl is not the place to begin doing it. There were also at least 2 VERY bad defensive holding calls (1 on each team). As for the no call on the play where Roethlesberger threw the ball away, it was the right call--he was a good 2 or 3 yards outside the tackle when he threw it away. On the other hand, Harrison probably would have been thrown out of a regular season game for his cheap shot, but I'm not sure that I would argue he should have been thrown out in the Super Bowl. As a general rule, any time there are 18 accepted penalties in a game, the refs have done a bad job.

I can't comment about the Warner fumble / no fumble though as, like I said, I didn't see it.

I thought the personal foul on the field goal against Adrian Wilson was bullshit---the dude was tripping, but it ended up not making a difference anyways.. And yes, Harrison is a piece of shit for that penalty. I liked the close up they showed of him on the sidelines after the penalty showing the tat on his arm that says, "Peace". And as he was walking to the locker room during halftime, he shoots the snot out of his nose like a Filipino in Manila.

Fuck the game, what was up with the commercials this year? They all sucked ass... The only decent one was the Denny's commercial..

[Bucky]

Fuck the game, what was up with the commercials this year? They all sucked ass... The only decent one was the Denny's commercial..

Somewhere I saw that this commercial was voted the best from the Super Bowl:
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OH, and here is ad that NBC did not let on the Super Bowl. Apparently they felt it was TOO MUCH.
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http://www.peta.org/content/standalone/VeggieLove/Default.aspx

[Gilligan]

I thought the personal foul on the field goal against Adrian Wilson was bullshit---the dude was tripping, but it ended up not making a difference anyways.

I understand your point, but the refs really had no choice but to call that--you're not allowed to touch the holder, period. The guy's totally defenseless, so if you hit him, they're going to call it, and in this case, the guy just bowled him right over. The only way that penalty doesn't get called, is if the guy was blocked into him, which he wasn't. The worst possible thing to do to refs is start telling them to try to interpret the player's intent]Fuck the game, what was up with the commercials this year? They all sucked ass... The only decent one was the Denny's commercial.. [/QUOTE]

I couldn't agree more. Totally weak ass bunch of commercials this year.

[canman]

I know the NFL and the networks showing the game make a shitload of money from the commercials they air during the game, but it seems that the timeouts and the halftime are just way too long. I know that this year it didn't seem to have much of an effect, but it must really disrupt the players sense of timing etc.
Gilligan I disagree I think the Ike Taylor unsportsmanlike penalty was legit, and I don't think it had much effect on the outcome. But Harrison should have got tossed, and that would have been the game. Soon after he forced the Arizona lineman to take a holding penalty because of his speed.
The NHK/BS coverage was pretty bad, they used the NFL networks announcers, the play by play I didn't know, and Sterling Sharpe is not that good. He kept saying the Rogers-Cromartie was panicking and rushing things. The guy is a rookie and played a great game. Also they kept showing the Japanese trainer who works for the Steelers. Wow, how exciting some girl pouring water into oversized players mouths. They cut the graphics and charts as usual. But at least we did get to see the game, so I won't complain to loudly. But I would have preferred to hear Madden and Michaels, calling the game.

[Gilligan]

The NHK/BS coverage was pretty bad, they used the NFL networks announcers, the play by play I didn't know, and Sterling Sharpe is not that good. He kept saying the Rogers-Cromartie was panicking and rushing things. The guy is a rookie and played a great game. Also they kept showing the Japanese trainer who works for the Steelers. Wow, how exciting some girl pouring water into oversized players mouths. They cut the graphics and charts as usual. But at least we did get to see the game, so I won't complain to loudly. But I would have preferred to hear Madden and Michaels, calling the game.

canman, I sympathize with you. Most NFL announcers are bad, even Madden is starting to have more bad moments than good, but nobody is worse than Sterling Sharpe--the thing that amazes me most about him is that they keep putting him in the booth and he never gets any better.

[IkemenTommy]

The NHK/BS coverage was pretty bad, they used the NFL networks announcers, the play by play I didn't know, and Sterling Sharpe is not that good. He kept saying the Rogers-Cromartie was panicking and rushing things. The guy is a rookie and played a great game. Also they kept showing the Japanese trainer who works for the Steelers. Wow, how exciting some girl pouring water into oversized players mouths. They cut the graphics and charts as usual. But at least we did get to see the game, so I won't complain to loudly. But I would have preferred to hear Madden and Michaels, calling the game.

So true. The international feed that we were stuck with had Bob Papa and Sterling Sharpe commentating. I don't know which one it was, but one of them had that annoying squeaky voice like he had a bad cold or something. I would have rather enjoyed hearing Madden's play by play analysis than these two but I guess it could have been worse listening to the NHK gerbils in Japanese.

It was also a shame that they butchered the player stats on screen at every chance possible but instead filled the gaps with the Japanese water boy babe. The Japan feed was too obsessed with her it was making me sick. Instead of the cheerleader money shots, they had to keep zooming the camera onto that chick.

[Behan]

...USA (2-0) will play Canada (2-0) at 1pm on Sunday in the Gold Medal Game at Fawcett Stadium after [B]Canada defeated Japan 38-35. Mexico (1-1) will take on Japan (1-1) in the Bronze Medal Game at 7pm on Saturday at Fawcett Stadium[/B]

I had never heard of this, but thought I would post it anyway.

http://highschool.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=961534

The Japanese roster is listed on this web page:

http://americanfootball.jp/u19/2009/06/ifaf-3.html

[canman]

[IkemenTommy]

The Ball-Suckage coverage of the Super Bowl game sucks every year so this year was no different. Even with the English audio feed, they would switch over to Japanese at every opportunity they can find duing the "fillers" where I guess in the US they would show the Super Bowl commercials. They always have to explain play-by-play what the penalty was after every time the flag is thrown. It's insulting. Oh well, most people in Japan could not understand what the difficulty is for players to "wear thick pads and helmets to run the ball 10 yards".

And to top it all off, I had Pittsburgh to win.

Yeah no shit. Pittsburgh fucked up early in the game with too many costly penalties and mistakes that they never recovered. Not the best game they played in years.

[AssKissinger]

Well I just finished watching another hack job by NHK of the Superbowl.

Trying to watch sports in Japan is definitely something I do not miss. Even the way they cover their own sports sucks, like Morning Musume serving as figure skating analysts, the announcers acting like retards during soccer matches (yelling the whole fucking time), cutting off baseball games before they were over- The only thing they did a decent job with was Sumo and now that whole sport has gone down the shitter. The truth is, Japanese people don't give a shit about sports and that's why their coverage of it sucks so bad. Now I have the most advanced sports tier my cable provider has available. It's like 20 channels completely dedicated to sports. The rest of the world can say what they want but when it comes to sports America rules supreme.

[canman]

Can't argue with you on that point AK. Mind you I was a little bit surprised to see that Fox had a 5.5 hour pregame show. That seems to be overdoing it just a bit.
Does anyone know why NHK insists on using their own camera people for this event? It reminds me of when they do baseball games and the camera is constantly trained on either Ichiro, or Matsui, or whichever Japanese player is on the team. If not, they train it on the manager. Like some some dumb ass sitting in the dugout scratching his balls is something we want to watch for hours on end.

[AssKissinger]

Fox had a 5.5 hour pregame show

Well, the NFL Network basically had a two week pregame show. But you know, at least it's there if you want it.

[IkemenTommy]

Does anyone know why NHK insists on using their own camera people for this event? It reminds me of when they do baseball games and the camera is constantly trained on either Ichiro, or Matsui, or whichever Japanese player is on the team.

That's simple.. because NHK does not have the rebroadcast rights from Fox. I am quite certain that Fox demands a shit load of fee to rebroadcast their live stream.

As you mentioned above, I remember a few years ago --I think it was the last Super Bowl the Steelers played-- they constantly shifted attention on the team water gal who happened to be a Japanese chick. The NHK announcers championed her for the fact that a Japanese national made contributions to the NFL. I don't mind seeing shots of the big tittie cheerleaders every once in a while, but I do not think anyone watches the Super Bowl to see the bench warmer staff.