... And every single resident of Australia who has even the vaguest idea of what's going on in gridiron is watching it.

Actually that's not entirely true. On the bus on the way to work this morning I saw three guys wearing Seattle Seahawks jerseys. "What are we going to do for the next three hours?", one asked. "Chilli dogs!", replied another. And they didn't even have American accents, so clearly they were locals who were getting into the spirit of things.

I would of course have backed Seattle as well as it's one of my favourite cities, but alas they lost to the New England Patriots 28 to 24. (They score in gridiron? Really? Do they use a system or anything?)

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