Around this time of the year, I, like many Americans do, dedicate my Sundays to football. For me, it’s borderline unhealthy, sitting on my couch from 1pm to 7pm, glued to watching grown men in uniform wearing pads running into each other (NFL RedZone is great for this). Following the end of the normal games before NBC’s Sunday Night Football Game of the Week: which featured a huge game involving the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots, I noticed I had some time to spare, so I decided to channel surf until then.
Upon looking through what I considered pointless programs (Competitive Drone Racing, seriously?), my eyes stumbled upon something that was entitled “Football”. I was immediately curious, did I miss the memo? Why wasn’t the game on NBC? It wasn’t until I clicked on the channel to discover that this wasn’t the NFL; this was the CAFL, the Chinese Arena Football League, China’s first Pro American Football League. I was slightly confused, I also realized that this was the “China Bowl”, the CAFL’s equivalent of the Super Bowl between the Qingdao Clipper and the …show more content…
Eight-on-eight, fast paced action, that is very different to what you would normally see in the NFL. I was expecting myself to change the channel to eventually watch the Seahawks-Patriots game, but I never did, the China Bowl was a surprisingly thrilling football game, with Beijing pulling out a game winning field goal against Qingdao, this coming only after the first attempt was missed, but a penalty flag was thrown, giving Beijing’s kick, Patrick Clark III a second chance at winning the game, which he successfully did, giving Beijing a 35-34 win. By the time it was over, I noticed that the “Game of the Week” was over, and I wasn’t even mad. I was still curious about the entire idea of American Football becoming “a thing” in China, so I decided to delve further and find out more, and this is what I
Upon looking through what I considered pointless programs (Competitive Drone Racing, seriously?), my eyes stumbled upon something that was entitled “Football”. I was immediately curious, did I miss the memo? Why wasn’t the game on NBC? It wasn’t until I clicked on the channel to discover that this wasn’t the NFL; this was the CAFL, the Chinese Arena Football League, China’s first Pro American Football League. I was slightly confused, I also realized that this was the “China Bowl”, the CAFL’s equivalent of the Super Bowl between the Qingdao Clipper and the …show more content…
Eight-on-eight, fast paced action, that is very different to what you would normally see in the NFL. I was expecting myself to change the channel to eventually watch the Seahawks-Patriots game, but I never did, the China Bowl was a surprisingly thrilling football game, with Beijing pulling out a game winning field goal against Qingdao, this coming only after the first attempt was missed, but a penalty flag was thrown, giving Beijing’s kick, Patrick Clark III a second chance at winning the game, which he successfully did, giving Beijing a 35-34 win. By the time it was over, I noticed that the “Game of the Week” was over, and I wasn’t even mad. I was still curious about the entire idea of American Football becoming “a thing” in China, so I decided to delve further and find out more, and this is what I