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Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
i'd like to see an AMERICAN football team play the REAL football without collapsing from exhaustion...
Originally posted by Dr Love
Originally posted by madnessinmysoul
i'd like to see an AMERICAN football team play the REAL football without collapsing from exhaustion...
First off, American football players wouldn't lower themselves to playing a game where the only physicality involved was tripping. Second, if it's all about not collapsing from exhaustion then I guess you could round-up a whole bunch of Kenyan marathoners and cut them loose on a soccer field and it would be just as exciting.
The World Football League (American football) is taking off in Europe. You will all be assimilated in time.
Peace
[edit on 9-12-2005 by Dr Love]
Originally posted by LostSailor
world cup... Is that golf or something?
Originally posted by Amorymeltzer
1. Football players need mass and strength. Soccer players need agility, speed, strength, and skill.
2. Football players are (aside from the QB) unspecific. You've got 40 guys on the field for offense, then 40 guys on the field for defense. In soccer, you've got 9 guys playing the entire field.
3. Football is played like this: 5 seconds of play, 2 minutes of setup, 5 seconds of play, 2 minutes of play, etc. Soccer is played like this: 100 minutes of play.
4. The world cup is the most watched game on television.
5. The entire world is NOT wrong.
Originally posted by LostSailor
You don't know "anything" about American football do you? I don't claim either sport to be better then another... but this made me laugh a bit.
One thing about soccer.. yes on the world level it is the most popular sport. Mainly because it can be played in 3rd world countries where buying the equipment required to properly play sports like Football and Ice Hockey is not feasible. Basketball seems to be catching on pretty quickly in a lot of these countries as well.
Originally posted by Amorymeltzer
1. Football players need mass and strength. Soccer players need agility, speed, strength, and skill.
2. Football players are (aside from the QB) unspecific. You've got 40 guys on the field for offense, then 40 guys on the field for defense.
3. Football is played like this: 5 seconds of play, 2 minutes of setup, 5 seconds of play, 2 minutes of play, etc. Soccer is played like this: 100 minutes of play.
4. The world cup is the most watched game on television.
5. The entire world is NOT wrong.
Originally posted by Amorymeltzer
1. Football players need mass and strength. Soccer players need agility, speed, strength, and skill.
2. Football players are (aside from the QB) unspecific. You've got 40 guys on the field for offense, then 40 guys on the field for defense. In soccer, you've got 9 guys playing the entire field.
3. Football is played like this: 5 seconds of play, 2 minutes of setup, 5 seconds of play, 2 minutes of play, etc. Soccer is played like this: 100 minutes of play.
4. The world cup is the most watched game on television.
5. The entire world is NOT wrong.
Originally posted by gimmefootball400
Plus don't they add time for an injury to a player that has to be taken off the field? I most certainly think that they do. Then my question is if auto racing in general is an inferior sport, then why in the hell do more people attend auto races than what they do football games?