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I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
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Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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