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<blockquote data-quote="captainamerica" data-source="post: 14331"><p>Offence? None is ever taken, mate. <img src="http://www.therugbyforum.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> </p><p></p><p>I emailed the guy who wrote the gamespot hands-on for Rugby 2005 (thankfully, his article wasn't as bad as the 'Martha Stewart' one, or others write-ups for any rugby game, but his was still "When Americans think of Rugby, we think of ...) </p><p></p><p>Well, I told him that as an American, I was tired of reading other Americans making asinine comments about the sport (i.e. 'Rugby is wacky!' stuff) and basically his reply was: <em>"For all intents and purposes, our audience is American and Rugby is still a fringe sport that most people don't know about. Therefore, not only do we have to preview/review the game, but we've continually got to re-introduce the sport whilst doing it."</em></p><p></p><p>Now, I can understand that completely, but it just sucks. Bad jokes are not the way to go <strong><em>but we're using humor</em></strong> screw that just talk about the sport <strong><em>but I don't know the sport</em></strong> then why are you reviewing it <strong><em>cause if someone like me can understand the game then our readers will too </em></strong>where's my gun . . . sorry, had to have an internal dialogue with one of the voices in my head to better understand this guys point. </p><p></p><p>My conclusion: Until the States win the Rugby World Cup, we're gonna see bad joke previews and ain't rugby weird reviews for every game. Drink up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="captainamerica, post: 14331"] Offence? None is ever taken, mate. [img]http://www.therugbyforum.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif[/img] I emailed the guy who wrote the gamespot hands-on for Rugby 2005 (thankfully, his article wasn't as bad as the 'Martha Stewart' one, or others write-ups for any rugby game, but his was still "When Americans think of Rugby, we think of ...) Well, I told him that as an American, I was tired of reading other Americans making asinine comments about the sport (i.e. 'Rugby is wacky!' stuff) and basically his reply was: [i]"For all intents and purposes, our audience is American and Rugby is still a fringe sport that most people don't know about. Therefore, not only do we have to preview/review the game, but we've continually got to re-introduce the sport whilst doing it."[/i] Now, I can understand that completely, but it just sucks. Bad jokes are not the way to go [b][i]but we're using humor[/i][/b] screw that just talk about the sport [b][i]but I don't know the sport[/i][/b] then why are you reviewing it [b][i]cause if someone like me can understand the game then our readers will too [/i][/b]where's my gun . . . sorry, had to have an internal dialogue with one of the voices in my head to better understand this guys point. My conclusion: Until the States win the Rugby World Cup, we're gonna see bad joke previews and ain't rugby weird reviews for every game. Drink up. [/QUOTE]
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