My Journey to Newcastle from Pennsylvania NUFC
I’m an American from US state of Pennsylvania who grew up during the 70s and 80s on American football. High School games on Friday nights and Saturday mornings, college games on Saturday afternoons, and professional games on Sundays and Monday nights. This is still a way of life for millions of Americans.
The Steelers of the 70s aside, the Philadelphia Phillies took 97 years to win their first Championship, Philadelphia Eagles fans waited 57 years between Championships, and our Flyers have not won a Championship since 1975. We savour wins, secretly convinced we can beat anyone, while publicly proclaiming that we knew the next loss was inevitable.
Once my second son was old enough to start attending high school games and my oldest was ready for flag football, my wife made a sudden family announcement – No son of hers was playing American football, so Dad had better start taking his sons to watch something else. I think for most American football Dads, this would have put a marriage at risk, but I knew she was making it easy for me by announcing that decision.
Two months after those revelations, my 11-year-old son and I watched one of my first complete Premier league matches. My son was a big Robin van Persie fan, so we planned to watch anmatch against a team from the North East dressed like American referees. While I was impressed with the crowd support, the first half was abysmal for the home team. As I recall, van Persie had two goals in the first half alone with Arsenal finishing the half 4-0. Anyone reading this knows how that match ended.
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