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Generally mistaken for another Michael at betting.co.uk
“Why spend your time being sh*te at football in the pissing rain, when you can sit indoors and write about how sh*te the professionals are.” – Michael McKean
In Michael’s career as a copywriter and journalist, he’s written about everything from language and travel, to music, tech and sports – and has plied is trade in the UK, Switzerland, Brazil and a handful of EU nations. With a flair for writing everything from the pragmatic and serious, right down to the plain silly and ridiculous, Michael has earned a reputation among his fellow writers and editors for being the ultimate “Banterous Professional” (no one’s ever actually said that, he just made it up – coining the term “Banterous Professional” in the process).
Mike reached his current height of 6”2 before his 14th birthday, with his inability to head the ball leaving a great many youth coaches amazed and disappointed in equal measure at how useless he was in the box during set pieces, despite being a foot taller than everyone else around him.
(Sadly though his greatest achievement at betting.co.uk is being mistaken for another Michael).
In episode 2 of the Three Pints Podcast, the boys tackle the age-old question – is American football better than English rugby?
As always, there are some controversial opinions thrown in, with pros and cons put forward for both sports – as well as case for thinking they’re both just a bit naff and boring.
Is American football far more tactically superior than Rugby?
A Couple of the guys on our panel would agree – with a view that rugby is essentially just 16 blokes running at each other with a ball stuck somewhere in the middle of it all!
Does the price of a beer influence how good a sport is?
If there’s one area where the guys agree that rugby trumps the NFL, it’s when it comes to beer prices. While few rugby fans the length and breadth of the UK are being asked to part with more than four or five quid for a pint of ale, NFL fans find themselves paying upwards of $13!
In the wise word of Ashley, “I’d need to be absolutely hammered to watch a full game of American football”. With that in mind, you’d find yourself seriously out of pocket spending $13 on a beer over the four and a half hours it takes for an American football game to run from beginning to end.
Test your NFL knowledge with the pub quiz
As well as enjoying some not-so-serious in-depth discussion and keg-loads of witty banter, you can also test your knowledge against our hosts with the weekly pub quiz. On top of that, there are also the other regular features, including Desert Island Crisps, and Big Talk.
You can find the Three Pints Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3kJRkvY
The NFL is coming back to London!
In other, more serious news (well, sort of), the NFL schedule was announced last month, with games returning to London once more. There will be a new venue this time around though, as the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium replaces Wembley as the home of the NFL right here in the UK!
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