The Peterborough Saxons are now 2-0 after a tight 18-6 opening day win over the Bedfordshire Blue Raiders, then a dominating performance over title favourites, beating the Milton Keynes Pathfinders 32-0. With the next game on Sunday the Saxons face off with the Pathfinders for the second time in a week, hoping to repeat both… [Read more…]
April 27, 2012
Not a Sooner, but we do have 1 Brit in the draft this year. Jack Crawford, much like our very own Tom Wort moved over to America during high school, but took a very different route. He went over to play Basketball in New Jersey for St Augustine not knowing anything about American Football. During… [Read more…]
April 3, 2012
A nice and early 6am wake up call rang around the house, today was Football time. Out the house for 07:00 to get to Nottingham to meet my brother for the next leg of the journey, to Peterborough. At 09:15 we hit Peterborough to pick up the Toone brothers and meet with the other Saxons!… [Read more…]
March 9, 2012
With our first game coming up on April 14th, moving away a little from conditioning drills to make time for Special Teams and other things we havent touched on much yet! Last training session was wet, it chucked it down non stop from around 5am and all through training, we were almost swimming. It came… [Read more…]
February 28, 2012
After the British American Football National meeting, schedules were finalised and handed out to teams. All game this year will be in conference and with 6 teams in our conference, it’s a straight forward home and away schedule for the Saxons this year. Unfortunately we have already being reminded how brittle this sport still is here, with… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012
I have seen these (I don’t know what they called so I’m going with) “What I do” photos going around the internet and twitter, most of them are bang on the money. The British American Footballer one is pretty much, 100% spot on for how it is over here for us guys playing the sport… [Read more…]
January 20, 2012
After hearing rumours that the Rams would be coming across to play the Jets, only half the rumour turned out to be true. I almost posted last night but well, If it turned out to be two totally different teams, that would have been two blog posts I would have been massively wrong on, and… [Read more…]
January 4, 2012
As most people who read this blog know, I try to promote the game across here as much as possible. It will never get close to what you guys all have, but for us few that play, it won’t get much better than this. The great thing about our season, is playing over the summer… [Read more…]
September 6, 2011
Whaley (@Dom_in_8) exploded onto the scene with 131 yards and 4 TD’s. He has an unusual story to say the least to walking on at Oklahoma, but being an International Sooner Fan, gonna talk about the time Whaley spend over in Europe, in Germany. Many people were surprised to hear about this on twitter when… [Read more…]
August 29, 2011
There’s no red carpet… There’s no rafters packed with fans cheering (20 or more would be great) or even a following outside of family and close friends. Often playing on the worst pitches, the ones that rugby/football teams let us use for a misconceived fear that American Football destroys the grass on the show pitches.… [Read more…]
May 11, 2012
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