I remember when I was a student of one of the biggest classes at the University of Michigan--go blue!
我记得在密歇根大学读书的时候,我们在橄榄球赛的时候会喊"冲啊 蓝色军团"
My favorite football player, I'd have to say... let me think about that for a second, there's a lot of them.
我最喜欢的橄榄球运动员,必须得说……让我想想,太多了。
But he never forgot that day and when he grew up after a short spell playing football at LSU he did become a hobo.
但随着他渐渐长大,他没有忘记那一天的事,他在路易斯安那州立大学打了一阵橄榄球,后来成了流浪汉。
They had these huge stands, and it was sort of like a football stadium, except it was longer and narrower than what our football stadium would be.
观众席非常宽阔,有点儿像橄榄球场,但比橄榄球场更长更窄。
I always want to--modern football helmets which are monstrous-- I'm so old we used to play with leather ones without a face mask.
现代美式橄榄球的面具就跟怪兽一样的,我老了,我们小时候打球都是皮质头盔而且没有面具的
That's twice the Michigan football stadium.
这些士兵可以坐满两个密歇根橄榄球场
Now, you used to have-- there was a very famous cover of The New Yorker in which you had a map of the United States as seen from New York, and where you had New York, and then you had this sort of large ditch that finally--then, Los Angeles was half a football throw away, and everything in the middle was just sort of desert, basically.
现在,你们曾见过,这是纽约客杂志一张十分有名的封面,这张地图表现的是从纽约的角度看全美国,纽约在这里,这是一条极长的鸿沟,最终,洛杉矶有半个橄榄球场那么远了,图片中心的所有东西基本就是沙漠
So for example, in United States, Super Bowl is a really big time for us to advertise
例如,在美国,橄榄球超级大赛对我们来说就是做广告的重要时刻,
I mean, from day one, I was taught, I was shown football, baseball, sports, you know.
我想说,从一开始,人们就教我,给我看橄榄球、棒球这些运动。
So people would get in on a scholarship for, you know, to play football or basketball,
所以有人能拿到奖学金,来打橄榄球或者篮球,而被大学录取,
Oh, and they love violence and football and stockcar racing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
对了,他们还酷爱暴力和橄榄球,还有改装车比赛,等等等等
and I know there's a barbecue. I think there's probably a football game,
我还知道有烧烤会。我觉得也许还有橄榄球赛,
Or a football player--when you're running down the field, why did you go to this way instead of that way ? when you're running down the field?
或者是问一个橄榄球运动员--当你在操场上奔跑时,你为什么要往这边跑而不是那边呢,当你在操场上跑的时候?
Can you imagine ? Harvard vs. Yale football without the law of gravity?
你能想象哈佛和耶鲁,在没有万有引力的情况下进行橄榄球赛吗?
You've probably heardit eight zillion times at football games.
你可能已经在橄榄球赛上听到过无数遍了
I play flag football over on the courts. That's a lot of fun.
我还玩夺旗橄榄球。这非常好玩。
and like, I guess that's why Americans like it because it's violent,
所以我猜就因为这个美国人喜欢橄榄球,它很暴力,
But at here at Yale, I played rugby for a while,
但在这儿,在耶鲁,我打了一阵橄榄球,
Here, this guy looks like kind of an overweight NFL player who hasn't really gotten ready for the drill.
这个家伙像是一位橄榄球运动员,身体超重并且没有充分训练
So, he can't wait to tell Franny that the professor said he should try to publish it, and then my favorite thing: he wants to read it to her over the football weekend. " Hey, come, let's read my English essay." Hello.
所以,他迫不及待地告诉弗兰尼教授说,他应该出版它,还有我最喜欢的事情:,他要给她读,在这个橄榄球周末“,来吧,让我们一起读我的文章,嗨。
Anyway, if you imagine sort of putting on a modern football helmet, with that mask in front of you, you would begin to get an idea, only begin to get an idea of what it was like to have that bronze helmet on your head.
总之,如果你戴着一个现代橄榄球头盔,前面还有面具,你就能稍微体会一下那种感觉了,但这还是跟铜质头盔的感觉,相去甚远的
Got any football players here?
有没有玩橄榄球的
There are still people now that live--there's a woman that lives near our village and she's lived in our village, she was born in the next village, and she's lived in our village for forty years because she married a guy from the village; and she's from the next village, about twenty football throws away, or a little more than that.
现在还有人住在,有个女人住在,我们村子旁边,她曾经住我们村,她是在邻村出生的,她在我们村住了,有40年,因为她嫁到我们村来了,不过她是邻村人,扔二十次橄榄球就到了,也可能远点
So in high school, I played American football at Exeter.
高中的时候,我在埃克塞特(英格兰西南部的一个城市) 玩美式橄榄球。
If you think of two towns down here, Brive,b-r-i-v-e,famous for its rugby, and Tulle,t-u-l-l-e,which is a capital.
如果你可以想起来这儿的两个城镇,布瑞福,b-r-i-v-e,以英式橄榄球运动而负有盛名,图勒,t-u-l-l-e,是一个省的首府
So like football, that's why Americans like it so much,
就像橄榄球,因此美国人喜欢,
Why do you think Americans are so enthusiastic about football?
你觉得为什么美国人这么喜欢橄榄球?
just watch football like, people trying to hurt people.
就说橄榄球,人人都试着去伤害别人。
We have the Harvard-Yale football game every fall,
每年秋天我们有哈佛—耶鲁橄榄球赛,
but I don't really watch football, so yeah.
但是我不怎么看橄榄球,所以就这样。
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