Angi said:I was not expecting this thread to be so interested. Great thread. I amn amazed at how smart/knowledgable some of you are.
Ha! I just don't have many other hobbies and really like to read about stuff and share what I learn. If the thread was something like the upcoming Superbowl, I could not contribute squat. I honestly do not know who is even playing.
But since I like research, I looked it up to see that NFL and AFL are involved somehow. Further research shows that the AFL is the Australian Football League and their Grand Finale is October 1, 2011, so I am not sure why all the hype this early. I am also a bit unsure why they would play the National Forensics League here in the US? Debate and Aussie football go hand in hand, certainly, but this seems to be taking it too far.
Oddly, I find no info on the Superbowl site anything about Australia or Forensics, so apparently they are hugely confused about it all too. Heck, the ball they call a 'football' doesn't even look like a BALL, much less the football the Australians use.
Further, all of the players in the Superbowl site are wearing some sort of helmet-like headgear that none of the people in the AFL or NFL's sites show. I can sort of see the need for headgear playing Aussie 'football', but why would debaters need it?