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Samuel William Surridge

incapable hulk

Best served cold
US sports are insanely expensive. My mate paid $18 for a can of Budweiser at a hockey match in New York, and they still expected a tip for picking it off the shelf for him.

I went to a baseball match in Cincinatti a few months ago and it was the same story there.

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I went to see the knicks at msg last december and it was about $40 for two beers and yeah they expect a tip too. Its absurd.
 

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion

HBB

Jack Burkitt
By no means an indictment of a country but when I went over a few years I was both amazed and appalled by the cost and the quality of the food and beer on offer at sporting events but also just in general, it was horrible, I can count the good meals I had on the fingers of one hand.
 

Project Zeus

Steve Chettle
By no means an indictment of a country but when I went over a few years I was both amazed and appalled by the cost and the quality of the food and beer on offer at sporting events but also just in general, it was horrible, I can count the good meals I had on the fingers of one hand.
The bar food in the US is brilliant. The processed food and "fresh" produce you get in supermarkets is some of the worst in the world.

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Grenville 1898

Nicolás Domínguez - King of the Press
I should add, it was about 5 years ago. Tickets were $60-80 each from my vague memory. We certainly didn't pay hundreds or we wouldn't have gone.
When I saw the Oakland Raiders a few years ago, tickets were in this price range. Today, and now that they have relocated the franchise to Las Vegas and their shiny new stadium, the cheapest tickets are $200-300. For the more prestige games, $400-500!
 

Malwood

Geoff Thomas
The economics of US sport is interesting. NFL teams only play 8/9 home games a year, the stadiums aren't any bigger than top European football stadiums, they have an enormous squad of players to pay, huge training facilities to maintain etc - but yet they are the richest sports organisations on the planet.
 

BuckeyeRed

Jack Armstrong
They make enormous amounts of money because with the salary cap as compared to the tv deal, teams are guaranteed to make a fortune before they even sell a ticket, a beer or any merchandise. That lucrative tv deal has come at a price though and that is the quality of the game. The stoppages are so long and you get a very "canned" product that only provides 7-12 minutes of actual action in a 3 hour game. The biggest ripoff though is that they force season ticket holders to purchase pre-season games (where you'll only see the starters for a series or 2) at full regular season price. The average NFL fan is so gullible, they snatch the tickets up.
 

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
They make enormous amounts of money because with the salary cap as compared to the tv deal, teams are guaranteed to make a fortune before they even sell a ticket, a beer or any merchandise. That lucrative tv deal has come at a price though and that is the quality of the game. The stoppages are so long and you get a very "canned" product that only provides 7-12 minutes of actual action in a 3 hour game. The biggest ripoff though is that they force season ticket holders to purchase pre-season games (where you'll only see the starters for a series or 2) at full regular season price. The average NFL fan is so gullible, they snatch the tickets up.
This is why I prefer the college game.
 

Retro

Geoff Thomas
Surridge subbed off in the 68th minute.

Nashville piss poor. Almada for Atlanta should be in one of the big leagues.
 

Redemption

Seeking the business end 🔭
Twixxer is aghast, again, that Sam didn't get more chances at Forest after another great finish.


In the EPL, there's no way he even gets that opportunity.

Also, the relative size of him compared to his team mates. He was just average height at Forest.
 

Redemption

Seeking the business end 🔭
He scored one similar in the promotion season where he opened up his body and put it in the top right corner. Lovely finish.
He scored some lovely goals in the promotion season. The Swansea hatrick was testament to that.

But the time and space he needs is just unlikely to present itself in the EPL, and even to some extent in the EFL although there is more chance of coming up against teams that are as open as a brasses legs.
 

shearstone

Misses the champ
I love Sam as I love the whole team who got us up. But I watched the game against New England and jesus the defenders looked tiny and defending at all was shit. It's a mile away from premier league football.

Not sure if Sam was good enough for the premier League, probably not but he gave us some good performances against Brentford and Leicester and scored against Bournemouth .Unfortunately we then got Andre Ayew and never really saw him again.
 

Captain Sinister

Senior doom Monger
Good to see sam scoring.
I always thought he had the physical appearance of an American college soccer player, and from the video clip he looks right at home ya'll
 
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theloner

Viv Anderson
Twixxer is aghast, again, that Sam didn't get more chances at Forest after another great finish.


In the EPL, there's no way he even gets that opportunity.

Also, the relative size of him compared to his team mates. He was just average height at Forest.
The co-commentator's accent! 😅 It's like Belfast, via Toronto and has ended up in Boston.

Sammy - a good lad. Great to see him score.
 
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