You have to read the Aussie blog writings for ex-Rugby player and now Niner, Jarryd Hayne's debut.

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Here are a few.

Full-time: Minnesota Vikings 3-20 San Francisco 49ers

Niners ball, still. Couple of minutes to go. Carlos Hyde again, a human battering ram. They risk using him up. He’s being bashed up like a packet of crackers. Flags? What? The crowd are making some noise, no-one knows why, not even the crowd, it’s just like a mass noise made by everyone at once, for no reason, just sporadically. Oh - that’s it! Ha. No air raid siren from 1944 London? It’s the game. The clock is counting down. And everyone’s shaking hands! Everyone’s on the field, camera people, everyone. And there’s the siren for full-time and it’s, ha, like a fog horn from the Titanic, which is how the Vikings have fared this evening. And that’s the game, people. Thanks for watching, reading, whatever it is you do in this particular fun little media. I’m Matt Cleary. Goodnight, good afternoon and good on ya. And bye for now.

Updated at 6.23am BST
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9h ago
01:07
Niners ball. Second and eight. Carlos Hyde gets a first down with his 83rd run tonight. And it’s time for a break. One of the coaches calls a time-out, possibly, and they swap all the players over and decide to use one of the 9,000 move in the playbook, who could remember all that stuff? Who would want to? It would send a man mad. Stone crazy. The worst kind of crazy.

Updated at 6.08am BST
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9h ago
01:04
Oop, we’re back. And the 49ers have the ball. And surely now it’s time to release the man, the enigma, the rugby playing kangaroo man, Jarryd “Hayne Plane and/or Train” Hayne. What’s the worst can happen?

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9h ago
01:03
Time for a break.

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9h ago
01:03
Bridgewater starting to throw the hamburger, now. He gains several yards for his squadron with a pass to No44, Asiata. Then he’s sacked. And now it’s second and 16. Darryl Patterson takes a catch and is jumped upon by a huge man. There are flags. It’s an illegal substitution. There will be no illegal substituting in this referee’s National Football League, no sirree Bob Hoskins. Third down. The Vikings have 12 yards to go in a down. Something. It’s fourth and eight. What do they do? They run... and get sacked. Teddy’s collared. It’s all 49ers as Aaron Lynch gives poor Teddy nightmares. Sacked. Couldn’t tell you why it’s called that. But sacked he was, Teddy, sacked like a poor employee.

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/live/2015/sep/15/jarryd-hayne-san-francisco-49ers-debut-against-minnesota-vikings

[Auggie]

1. "Here’s the Hayne Plane! His first touch in the NFL. And... he drops it?"

"Oh my goodness me, he drops it! His first touch is a fumble! He’s grassed it. Oh my."

Australian fans of Hayne brought inflatable Kangaroos to the game:

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2. Very funny indeed.

I love the not-so-serious perspective on God's Game. The game of which one coach (I misremember whom) said that, to succeed, you "have to be smart enough to understand it and stupid enough to think it matters."

-- Mal