Football, American Home Style

So, today being a beautiful fall day and a Saturday to boot, we promoted a little thing we like to call "Learn to play American football." This is Russia and most Russians have never seen a football, much less understand anything about the game. Think of it as similar to the way the average American looks at cricket...yeah, it is that strange to them. But, in the interest of cultural connections we attempted to (I would say succeeded in) teaching some of our willing students to play football. We had over twenty students turn up. Joanna, Eric, Molly, and I were semi-in charge and Bob later joined in.


Most of the students who showed up were girls, but that is not too surprising since the majority of our students are girls and women.

So, this is my team at the snap and here is Joanna's friend Vova (short for Vladimir) on the recieving end of a touchdown pass. This game is fun and easy, right? My team won our two games and, all-in-all, we had a great time.



Also, don't forget to read Joanna's post on the subject.












Yup, and this last one is us playing American football in the shadow of the Golden Gates...a fun juxtaposition, don't you think?