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Last edited by blademaster (2007-05-18 07:40:20)

American football sucks.


It's boring as fuck, commercialized to all fuck, and I'm unimpressed by it. I would rather watch a real football match (soccer), rugby, or hockey, because at least there's some movement, rather than this stop and go bullshit. It's just another high scoring game that I could care less about. The beauty of rugby and soccer is that there is a lot going on. You don't need constant scoring to consider a game intense. The best soccer matches are when you've got a score of 1-2 at the end. Rugby and soccer players run all over the place the entire game, and they do plenty of hard sprints throughout, and they take hits without padding. Don't try to give me shit that they're pansy games either, because if you've every played a real soccer or rugby game, you know you get shitbeat the entire time. American football players wouldn't last 20 minutes.

heggs wrote:

American football sucks.


It's boring as fuck, commercialized to all fuck, and I'm unimpressed by it. I would rather watch a real football match (soccer), rugby, or hockey, because at least there's some movement, rather than this stop and go bullshit. It's just another high scoring game that I could care less about. The beauty of rugby and soccer is that there is a lot going on. You don't need constant scoring to consider a game intense. The best soccer matches are when you've got a score of 1-2 at the end. Rugby and soccer players run all over the place the entire game, and they do plenty of hard sprints throughout, and they take hits without padding. Don't try to give me shit that they're pansy games either, because if you've every played a real soccer or rugby game, you know you get shitbeat the entire time. American football players wouldn't last 20 minutes.

Apart from the majority of the pro "soccer" players that is.   But yeah, amateur football is definately like that.

Did we pwn all the Yanks so much that they shut up?

Last edited by Entertayner (2007-05-18 08:48:45)

fadedsteve wrote:

I love how guys write rugby is tougher than football. . . .

If an American football team went out there against a rugby team, they would destroy the rugby team!

A. Bigger and Stronger B. faster (rugby has too many white dudes who think they are fast). C. overall better athletes play football/more variety of athelete

Rugby players are big, but not as big as American Football players. . . .Rugby players are fast, but couldn't come close to the speed of some runningbacks, recievers, and cornerbacks have in the NFL.  Lets put it this way, I would much rather have some international rugby player hit me coming over the middle than say a Brian Urlacher or Ray Lewis. . . .or in the past Lawrence Taylor!!!

For christs sake, linebackers in the NFL are as fast as the "speedsters" in rugby, AND BIGGER AND STRONGER!!!!

Rugby is great, but you dont see too many rugby players steppin up and playin football. . . .the only rugby players I have seen "step up" become kickers in the NFL!! LOL

You're right, American football players are, generally, bigger.  And yes, if you lined everyone up in American football style they'd smash the rugby players about. 

For about three minutes.  At that point, the big Americans would need to stop and have a breather, and the rugby players would just keep at it.  Rugby forwards run more or less non-stop, pausing only for scrums and line-outs (I played second-row and flanker).  They have to not only have size and strength, but also endurance, and technique. 

I don't know how fast linebackers, running backs and so on are in American football, but I know that the fastest rugby players (usually the wingers) can typically cover a hundred meters in about 11 seconds.  That's not bad by anyone's standards.  The forwards are usually the biggest men on the pitch, and the big guys there are usually 18-20 stone (260-280lbs.)  How much bigger are NFL players?

One of my favourite ever players is/was Jonah Lomu, a New Zealander.  Look at the stats on that wiki page, at his prime he was 273lbs and could cover the hundred meters in under 10.9 seconds.  And, he could keep on running for an entire 80 minute match.

I'm not in the least bit surprised that rugby players rarely move on to NFL, they've built themselves up in entirely different ways, it'd take months of training to bulk up the extra muscle, and more months of training to learn how to tackle differently and so on.

They're two different games, with two different kinds of body-builds needed.  NFL demands huge bulk and sheer power, coupled with sprinting ability.  Rugby also needs bulk, power and outright speed, but not to the detriment of the players endurance.  NFL players would destroy rugby players at American football.  Rugby players would destroy NFL players are rugby football.

I much, much prefer rugby over NFL.  I don't like the way the game breaks so often, rugby's continuous flow of play is far more entertaining for me.  NFL seems to be all about the 'plays' and specific tactics, which you set up for and then try.  In rugby, you have far less control over how you set up, and specific tactical plays are less rigid and defined, instead you have a match-wide strategy to follow.

It's personal preference, I guess, and when you think about it the two games aren't particularly comparable, but for my money the stop-start pace of NFL is a pain in the arse.  I find rugby to be one of the most enjoyable spectator sports around, and I've introduced more than a few of my American buddies to its joys when they've been to visit.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tp-0g8YGbMM


im a big dolphins fan myself.  Greatest team in nfl history.  1973

Last edited by GunSlinger OIF II (2007-05-18 09:55:22)

Rugby also stops and starts quite a bit. But nothing compared to American Football.
It is a shit sport. The point of smashing players about? None. None whatsoever. Yet they still do it. Like rugby. Like the pointless sport of bullfighting ( yes I come from Spain, but from a completely different part ).

Football, on the other hand, doesn't have "brute strength" printed on all application forms for a player. ( I am just using this as a metaphor, don't be a smart-ass and tell me American Football forms don't have that, I don't care )
Football requires skill, athleticism and teamwork without the use of violence and dump tackling.

ergh soccer players wear shinpads, but for very good reason, i will explain why too the yanks if they ask, but they probaly wont, cos they'll say 'hey yawl theres a euro game'

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:

Taten wrote:

ergh soccer players wear shinpads, but for very good reason, i will explain why too the yanks if they ask, but they probaly wont, cos they'll say 'hey yawl theres a euro game'

No, the fact is that we just don't give a shit.  In the dictionary for the word bored it just says, (See soccer).

another bastardy comment by a mericun, gg

Entertayner wrote:

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:

Taten wrote:

ergh soccer players wear shinpads, but for very good reason, i will explain why too the yanks if they ask, but they probaly wont, cos they'll say 'hey yawl theres a euro game'

No, the fact is that we just don't give a shit.  In the dictionary for the word bored it just says, (See soccer).

And under American it says:

DICKSHANARY wrote:

(See over powered but still power hungry big ass country full of stupid dickheads with their heads so far up their tiny asses that their fat heads become Adam's apples.  Which, coincidentally is the only reason they have Adam's apples as none of them are actually of the male gender, they are all simply lesbian porn actors to cater for all kind of fetishes, mostly old and wrinkly ones.)

(bar Heggsypoo and a select few others.)

www.mericuns.justgotowned.com

jord wrote:

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:

Taten wrote:

ergh soccer players wear shinpads, but for very good reason, i will explain why too the yanks if they ask, but they probaly wont, cos they'll say 'hey yawl theres a euro game'

No, the fact is that we just don't give a shit.  In the dictionary for the word bored it just says, (See soccer).

You speaking for all Americans there?

I do hope not, I'd have to pwn them all in arguments in that case.

jord wrote:

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:

Taten wrote:

ergh soccer players wear shinpads, but for very good reason, i will explain why too the yanks if they ask, but they probaly wont, cos they'll say 'hey yawl theres a euro game'

No, the fact is that we just don't give a shit.  In the dictionary for the word bored it just says, (See soccer).

You speaking for all Americans there?

I figure there are about as many "mericuns" that like that pansy ass sport you call football, as there are Euros that like our football.

well i dont watch am football at all, its so fucking stupid, i'd rather watch  fucking eastenders or corrie (no offence to the soap lovers in good old blitey intended)

sfarrar33 wrote:

the americans keep saying the american football players are larger but then...
*random googled image 1*
http://www.ultraflat.org/_public/portfo … 582EB8.jpg
*random googled image 2*
http://www.staronetickets.com/images/wc2007.jpg
now i just chose those photos on the clearest view of either player running with the ball (and there wasn't one for rugby hence the 'close enough' photo)

You just compaired a picture of a High School football game with a Professional Rugby game.  Not exactly apples to apples.  Not to mention the High Schoolers lool like the could hold their own.