Jarryd Hayne estreou na NFL no último Monday Night, quando o San Francisco 49ers derrotou o Minnesota Vikings, mas o australiano teve atuação discreta. Na verdade, quem roubou a cena foi Matt Cleary, um Blogger da Austrália que trabalha para o The Guardian e tem como missão acompanhar os passos de Hayne na NFL. Cleary atacou de novo, narrando o jogo de Hayne contra o Pittsburgh Steelers, partida em que os 49ers foram derrotados por 43 a 18. O "narrador" deu mais sinais de genialidade, enquanto em campo a estrala do Rugby australiano teve mais uma apresentação discreta (duas corridas para 3 jardas). Vocês podem ler o jogo todo, ou ver algumas amostras de como é legal acompanhar o jogo pela visão de Clearly e seus comentários precisos sobre a NFL: Novo apelido para Tomsula (bem legal): Jarryd Hayne had two rushes for three yards; Jim "The Hedgehog" Tomsula preferring others today. Dunno why. But you'd think twice before second-guessing the Hedgehog; he could stare daggers at you for America. Explicando as Terrible Towels dos Steelers: Two-minute warning that the game is about to finish, it's a Thing. Steelers people wave their yellow towels about their heads. It was first done many years ago and now everybody does it; went to a hockey game once in New York and they were handing socks to everyone, and we waved those socks above our heads like little helicopters. Good times. Como Touchdonws funcionam na NFL: Touchdown? No. Kaepernick’s knee hit the ground before the ball broke the plane, the imaginary line from the start of the end zone into the sky. All scoring plays are reviewed. And this one has resulted in no touchdown for the Niners because a man’s knee can’t have hit the ground before the ball has crossed the plane. And thus, ruling reversed. No touchdown. Pittsburgh ball. Benny R passando para Antonio Brown (Benny R só pode ser o Big Ben, certo?): Antonio Brown gets on the end of another Benny R throw, easy touchdown if there is such a thing. Certainly looked easy; there was an inevitability about it. Roethlisberger has had plenty of time to do his thing, and his running men have caught some long bombs on the run. It's been a clinic. Sobre a partida de DeAngelo Williams: Right. DeAngelo Williams makes very good yards; he can run like a hairy goat afire. Strong man, a nugget. Mais sobre Touchdowns e comemorações na NFL: Steelers fans, doing the towel thing. Davis! Nearly. Kaepernick. Touchdown? NO TOUCHDOWN! KAEPERNICK THREW IT TO MILLER IN THE END ZONE BUT BIG BRUCIE MILLER COULDN'T HANG ON, OR PLACE HIS FEET INTO THE END ZONE ... something. But it's no TD, baby, and the Steelers' line of D-men celebrate like they've won the lottery. Big celebrations, big chest-thumping. I would suggest some exclamation of We da bomb, or We are really good, and you are not, Niners. Take your silly offense away from here, this is our house and you can't come in like you are burglars, something like it. Hayne volta para o campo (gênio): Benny finds his man DeAngelo, but they can't make any yards and that's a nice little section by the Niners, and they've forced the Steelers to punt ... IT'S AUSSIE TO AUSSIE ... PUNT MAN Berry belts one to the Hayne Plane who catches, runs a couple yards and runs into a mobile wall of giant and physical human beings who all want to hurt him. Tip-top stuff. Sobre fumbles e comemorações (de novo): Niners on the 41. And .... STEELERS BALL! And they celebrate, leap about. Carlos Hyde drops the ball, and No.50 falls on it and he's a happy man, his teammates embrace him, do that funny leaping chesty-bumps one, as if to say, Way to fall on that ball, man. Way to fall on that ball.