While Lesley’s studying at an ashram in India, her husband Crayton is guest-posting. Please be kind to him.
Wow, that was an impressive victory by Los Santos in el Super Tazón. I don’t know how to say “onside kick” in Spanish but:
“First down” = “Primer diez”
“Second down” = “Segunda oportunidad”
“Touchdown” = “Anotación”
Interestingly, Mexico has four different ways to watch the Super Bowl. You can watch on one of the two national broadcast networks, Televisa and TV Azteca, and on two cable networks, ESPN and Fox Sports. No matter what you watched last night, El Who’s halftime performance was weird, with the vocals out of sync with the video. We chose Fox Sports for the broadcast. The announcers, who called the game from a studio with occasional “color” feeds by cellphone from a guy who was actually in Miami, just seemed a little more knowledgeable than the rest.
American football (as opposed to “football,” which is soccer, guys) is quite popular in Mexico. In my first year in el DF, the Steelers seemed to me to be the most popular team based on the jerseys I saw, so I’ll be interested to see if that changes now that we have a new champion. The Cowboys are perennially popular, along with the Pats and the Broncos. I’ve spotted a good number of jerseys of my team, the Bears. I think the north of Mexico is pretty exclusively Cowboys territory, but the capital is a little more diverse.
Someone once told me that the Steelers – the Acereros – are popular in Mexico because the NFL first started broadcasting in the country in the 1970s, when the Steelers were pretty much everything one would want in a football team.
I ‘ve posted a bit before about how to watch American football in Mexico. You can get the Sunday Ticket here if you are able to get a satellite TV receiver. There’s no (legal) way to do it over the Internet here, though you can sign up for Internet broadcasts in other countries further away from the U.S.
That’s where the NBA has the NFL beat. I’m addicted to International League Pass, the gateway to U.S. professional basketball. I can watch my Phoenix Suns play every night, along with every other game in the league. Thanks, Internet!
OK, i just checked. “Onside kick” is “patada corta.” Now you know.
(Oh! I almost forgot! Some people like to watch the Super Bowl just for commercials! Not so much in Mexico, where there are just regular commercials for cars and such, nothing special. To watch the Real Super Bowl Commercials, expats must rely on the Internet once again. Pass the guacamole!)
Hay Crayton-
Wouldn’t “touchdown” be “goooooooaaaaaaaalllllllllll!!!!!!!” en Espanol?
VAMOS LOS SANTOS!
I guess they could do that with a field goal. But field goals are much less exciting. The Spanish-language broadcasts in general are much more toned-down affairs than soccer coverage. Probably mostly because the American football broadcasters aren’t actually at the game.
Great sports coverage, Crayton! We watched on ESPN because the commentary was in English, and they showed an awful lot of erectile dysfunction commercials. That and airline commercials. Does that mean that the people who watch the Super Bowl on ESPN are impotent guys that like to travel?
The old guy from Foxsports (Fernando Von something) used to be a TV Azteca commentator.
Fernando Von Rossum! He does have a great on-screen presence, though he’s of the Brent Musburger school of understated announcing.