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It always facinates me that a country which prides itself on it's macho front straps on a load of padding just to play rugby.
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Basically the picture is right, as far as naming stuff goes. Doesn't mean soccer is a better game. What American football has that other sports don't is the drive: it takes sustained, repeated offensive performance to get anywhere. There's a rising level of tension over whether the success can be sustained all the way to a payoff. It's a constant battle and counter battle to take advantage of your opponent's weakness. Contrast that to soccer. One team kicks the ball down the field. The opposing goalie grabs it (with his hands, in case nobody noticed) and kicks it back. His team kicks it to the other goalie, who picks it up, kicks it back ... repeat for 90 minutes. There's nothing sustained, just a succession of failed attempts. The problem is the goalie has too much power. Good offensive attacks and bad offensive attacks almost always have the same result. Scoring is mostly a matter of getting lucky and catching the goalie out of position. It could be a lot more interesting, just make the goalie play by the same rules as everyone else The defense would have to play a lot tougher, but a team couldn't just sag back and play defense because it would be impossible to stop every offensive attack. Better yet, nobody is allowed in the box in front of the goal. No goalie soccer is a great game. Too bad we're all stuck in a tradition.
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Ya you guys are right NFL Biggest players: QB JaMarcus Russell 6' 6" 263 lbs or 119kg RB Brandon Jacobs 6' 4" 264 lbs or 119kg FB Jon Bradley 6' 1" 310 lbs or 140kg LM Langston Walker 6" 8' 366 lbs or 166kg and thats just guys playing now biggest lineman on record is Aaron Gibson who weighed 410 lbs or 185 kg and dont think all these guys are fat either And for all you Brits and Aussies that like to talk shit guys in the NFL where pads because if they didnt someone would die. I just spent 5months in Australia and rugby has nothing on the NFL as far as toughness its all sideways passes and wrapping up the other guy
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That's his elbow, not his hand...
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Stupid other people! America is clearly the best country ever... and wtf! why did you call the footBALL and egg? Are you retarded or something?
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YEA! Also, why doesn't Cricket have little chirping insects? And I have yet to see any carpets any rugby!
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OH BOY HERE WE GO
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....go hockey. Woo.
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Scumbag America lol! Buy Scumbag Steve Hat! On Ebay! Item#140882247286
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We don't mind if you consider your sport superior. Now go in the other room while the adults visit.
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These Yank pussies should try Aussie rules football, they wouldn't last 10secs without all that padding & helmets.
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Ok i am a brit nd i think american football is amazing, but im not gonna have the stupid argument of which is better, coz im not that sad.
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wow you all are sad... their just sports who gives a damn what they're called.
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American's your doing it wrong
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i'm an american but i always thought Football was not the right name for that game. Football goes better with Soccer. And i find it dumb to tackle each other for a ball. Just chase it and if you end up with it, then kick it.
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I dont know what you non American fags call eggs over there in NOT America but that 1 foot piece of leather goodness is an American classic. Props to the All Blacks though
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We've been playing handegg all these years and no one told us
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your 6 ft 7 lineman is standing still cause hes so american fat. the 6 ft 7 rugby players are in shape, 280 lbs and running full speed...good luck
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Bearsnatch would be a GREAT name for it.
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American football's for pansies. Now Aussie rules, that's where it's at!
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The American football was originally (it has been shortened since forward passing is now allowed) a foot long. So it was a foot long ball. A football. Sheesh
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hahahahaha never really thought of it that way but this just cracks me up!!!
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I noticed quite a bit of padding on the cricket players but none on the baseball players...now go put your short pants on and kick the bally to each other.
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Sounds like you're just jealous because you don't live in america ahahah
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Personally I think the comparsion is incorrect and it should have been rugby V amercian football. Then it becomes clear where the real men come from!
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It is called a football because it is 1 foot long, didn't you tea sandwiches make up our preposterous system of measurements, just saying! haha
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i would like to see some rugby douche get hit by mike alstott in a full sprint without pads.. or hey maybe dwight freeney who by the way is 271lbs and runs a 4.3 40 yard dash. so yeah a small cushion to a blow like that might be smart. As far as the names of the game who really cares? ill call it baresnarch it doesnt change the way the game is played.
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This is why Americans don't like soccer: It's a shapeless, formless back-and-forth scurry, where you run yourself ragged and score only once every equinox or so. It's too much like real life!
It always facinates me that a country which prides itself on it's macho front straps on a load of padding just to play rugby.