|
|
Football Vs American Football | ||
Discussion by DjLuki with 55 Replies.
Last Update: October 31, 2011, 3:39 am (View Latest) | Page 1 of 2 pages. | ||
![]() |
|
|
QUOTE
The World Cup is over, and NFL training camps open in less than three weeks.Which got the FOX Funhouse staff thinking about why we like our football better than the world's football ...
Much better looking trophy given to the champions.
Overtime is sudden death ... first to score, wins.
Championships not decided by the random guessing game that is a penalty kick.
Football has cheerleaders.
Players only carried off field on stretchers for real, serious injuries.
There's no "magic spray" in football.
There's no pretending to be fouled.
There's no pretending to be hurt.
A blowout isn't 2-0.
Ties rarely ever happen.
Offsides rule in football easier to understand than offsides rule in soccer.
With obvious exception of Philly and Oakland, very few hooligans.
As amazing as this is to admit in light of the 2006 Super Bowl, referees are more competent in our football.
The U.S. would never lose to Ghana in a game of football.
now i wanna know which sport is actually better american fotball or real football (soccer)?
in my opinion, all those things he said are stupid and that guy must be an idiot. First off, in soccer you don't have 300 pound guys standing there on the field, they're not athletic . and he also said "no pretending to be fouled" which is stupid, we have seen that in american football too. and it is not a beter looking trophy. if u win the superbowl, you are not a world champion, you are only in us becuase nobody else plays it. High scoring games in football? please i have seen many games in football where its like 3-0.. and it took 3 or 4 hours for that score. it stops every 2, 3 minutes.. to many commercial breaks, in soccer u get nonstop action, no stopping. The names Football makes no sense for the game. If they think that are that tough, let them go play rugby, and watch what real "futball what you call it here i guess" is . also in soccer you don't need to wear protection all over your body. this is stupid, they say futball is more physical than soccer, but in soccer your only protective gear is your shinguards. also, put a football player in running for 90 minutes see how long he can actually do it.. maybe 30 the most.there's no timeouts either. i got a lot more but i also want to hear your opinions on which sports is actually better. Soccer or Football.
For me, I enjoy both of the sports, but, since I am from america, yes, I enjoy football much more than "futbol".
The concepts of both sports differ greatly. Football is much more physical, let's be honest, much much more physical than soccer. It is not an endurance sport so no, a player wouldn't be able to run around a field for 90 minutes. I do say, though, that if you happened to stick a soccer player on the football field and let him be the running back for a play, he may not walk off the field. Soccer players suffer from cardiovascular punishment, while in football it's purely physical punishment.
I hate sports that has a setup where games can end in ties. The world cup recently just proved to myself how much I really don't like to watch or follow soccer. Who wants to see a game end in a tie? Rather, who wants to see a 100 or whatever length of a game end in a tie. I surely don't want to watch 100 or so with no one scoring, then walking out of the arena without the feeling of winning or losing...it's stupid. In football, that can also happen, yet it almost never does. Even if one was to end in a tie, there was atleast a lot of drama along the way. Trust me, every football game provides many more entertainment value moments than soccer, it's pure fact.
I like soccer, but I won't get hooked on it or follow any teams. And heck, you complain about commercial breaks and such, heck, 85 minutes of a 90 minute soccer match is a commercial break to me, with the other 5 minutes going to potential goals and maybe some good individual moves. Also, I do enjoy an injury from time to time, laughing as someone is carried off in a stretcher for having a bruised toe or a lump on their head, only to come back onto the field like nothing ever happened (which is always the case). That kind of stupidness turns my face away from the game.
So while I do enjoy a soccer game from time to time, it's rare, real rare. I do admit though, arena soccer is definitely something to watch, since the field is much smaller and the action more intense since there's much less room to keep the ball in control. If I'm going to watch a soccer game, it would probably be indoors, in a shortened field, but again, I'm not quite sure the enhland folks take part in such a variation of the sport.
So I guess, um, I choose football over futbol...
QUOTE (DjLuki)
i found this article this guy wrote about why american football, which i not really true. this was posted by a fox sports writer at their site. here is what the wrote..
now i wanna know which sport is actually better american fotball or real football (soccer)?
in my opinion, all those things he said are stupid and that guy must be an idiot. First off, in soccer you don't have 300 pound guys standing there on the field, they're not athletic . and he also said "no pretending to be fouled" whicih is stupid, we have seen taht in american football too. and it is not a beter looking trophy. if u win the superbowl, you are not a world champion, you are only in us becuase nobody else plays it. High scoring games in football? please i have seen many games in football where its like 3-0.. and it took 3 or 4 hours for that score. it stopes every 2, 3 minutes.. to many commercial breaks, in soccer u get nonstop action, no stopping. The names Football makes no sense for the game. If they think that are that tough, let them go play rugby, and watch waht real "futball what you call it here i guess" is . also in soccer you don't need to wear protection all over your body. this is stupid, they say futball is more physical than soccer, but in soccer your only protective gear is your shinguards. also, put a football player in running for 90 minutes see how long he can actually do it.. maybe 30 the most.there's no timeouts either. i got a lot mroe but i also want to hear your opinions on which sports is actually better. Soccer or Football.
Link: view Post: 265473
Makes pretty good sense to me what he said. The reason 300 pound guys can play the game is precisely because there's more to the game then running and kicking, which is pretty much all there is to what we call soccer over here, and one of the main reasons I don't like it. Baseball you get running, throwing, hitting, pitching, and catching going on nonstop. Football allows big burly guys to block and tackle, the QB is throwing or handing off to a guy who'll catch and run it. But in soccer about all that happens is somebody gets a ball and runs it/kicks it to where someone else can kick it. Then occasionally the one goalie person who gets to use their hands gets to try catching it but aside from him all there is is running and kicking, unless you count throw-ins, which take a LOT of arm athleticism...
And I agree with the other posters, you're very rarely going to see football end in a tie. At any given moment the QB can hurl a long bomb into the end zone, have the team do an onside kick, recover, get the ball back, and score 16 points in a minute to win the game. In baseball a bunch of late inning hits and a big home run can result in 6 or 7 runs shooting up on the scoreboard real fast for a late win. In basketball the team can rally with defense and offense to spark 20 points in a minute to win the game. And soccer? If they score 2 goals in 10 minutes you're talking edge of your seat exitement. To see more then 10 points combined in a game is practically unheard of. I don't know what 3-0 football games you saw but the teams must both be pretty bad. No matter what you say, professional football teams combining to score that few points is about as rare as a blue moon.
As pointed out, you give a soccer player however much pads and put them in a football game, I doubt many will be capable of walking after the first hit or two. The reason they need all those pads is because football doesn't have a bunch of anorexic little long-distance runners running around but those 300 lb. guys you look down your nose on. There's a big difference between a 150 lb. little soccer player trying to trip you up and a 300+ lb. linebacker bearing down on you from behind. Send your soccer players in to handle that kind of punishment and see how long it is before they want pads, or even to keep playing.
Let's face it, soccer lacks excitement because of the sparsity of goals over huge amount of time. Soccer has a lot of players faking injuries, probably more a problem then in baseball, basketball, and football. The refereeing is pretty bad compared to other pro sports. The fans are always a risk to stampede over someone or get into fights. I don't go around insulting soccer out of the blue but I'll take baseball, basketball, or football over it any day of the week.
sports in their own rights. But like most American sports, the Americans don't
think they've seen a good game unless there has been a barrel load of goals/points.
Look at the kind of scores run up in American football and basketball. Yet American
football is one of the slowest games to be played. Have you ever watched one live?
The action comes in bursts of 5 or 10 seconds and then you may have to wait another
couple of minutes to see the next play! How fans manage to keep their bums on their
seats for hours on end is beyond me when the sport in question just keeps stopping
and starting.
I have watched soccer games that have ended up 0-0 and come away
thinking "That was a cracker of a game". Americans have no sense or appreciation
of style or skill, they just care about the end result in their own sports.
Whereas Europeans and southern Americans realise there is more to Football than just
knocking a ball around a park. There is something infinitely more spiritual about
Football and the fans attitude towards their choosen teams that americans will never
appreciate.
I will now explain why.
Football is a sport because it doesn't put in danger the lives of the players, american football puts the players lives at risk, in fact, many players die quickly and most of them very slowly, everyone knows the problems caused by drugs that they take, which they must take in order to old on the pain after each and every game they play, no matter the opponant,
Second, i think american football is even worst then box, boxers are trained, and trained hard to get punched in the mouth/head, american football players do not, most of them think they are, and coachs want and must show to all people and all media that this players can support all games, all pain, without pain killers, without drugs, B.S.!B.S.! I do not beleave, and i know what the truth is!
Third and last, i am tired of writing, the people and all the media do not care for the players of american football, they just want to see a good game, they do not care if a player lost his eye during the game, if a player is taking drugs and can't stop playing because he is so f.k. up with the drugs that he won't get a job anywhere else, et cetera.
Personaly, european football is the best for this and many other reasons.
I agree with khalood87 that American Football has a pretty odd name for a sport where players rarely even use their feet.
Why don't you guys argue over Rugby and American Football?
Rugby may be reasonably big world-wide, but is only in "development" stage in the US of A, Canada, and various other developing countries. The major strongholds would have to be NZ, Australia, Great Britain, France and South Africa from memory, with the other nations at least capable of upset every now and again.
QUOTE (GodOfEarth)
i think that the only thing thats similar is the name football. Its like compairing golf with snowboarding. Same with rugby too. They have a compleatly differnt set of rules and is a very differnt game. A pointless argument in my opinion.
Link: view Post: 291427
i suppose you do have a point there.
QUOTE (Jeune)
Personally, I am big fan of futbol and I don't watch NFL, but if you ask me there's no point arguing which sport is better because, they're both different sports especially in the way they're played.
I agree with khalood87 that American Football has a pretty odd name for a sport where players rarely even use their feet.
Link: view Post: 291359
Some other sports use the word "Football" although much of the time hands and kicking are used, Rugby Football and Australian football being other obvious examples.
-Steve
-reply by bobby
Seriously. Only the US plays american football. Shouldn't that speak for itself?
Americans will rate this up till they die because it's an AMERICAN sport. Totally blind to all the better things out there.
-reply by blunt
QUOTE (iGuestblunt)
<a href=http://www.trap17.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=38930&view=findpost&p=293682>Replying to Jon Jon</a>Seriously. Only the US plays american football. Shouldn't that speak for itself?
Americans will rate this up till they die because it's an AMERICAN sport. Totally blind to all the better things out there.
-reply by blunt
Link: view Post: 404148
The same could be applied to Australian Rules Football if we use that logic on other local sports. But overseas some countries may play either American Football or Australian Football for example, obviously due to being introduced by ex-pats of those countries, for example. But every sport has a beginning, so obviously any new sports wont take off that fast, although its not possible for a sport to become popular in the future.
So I can't see how they can say football is boring, and least we add time on for stoppages. If you prefer and game of tactics, skill, technique and team work over a 90+ minute period then watch football.
If you prefer short bursts of action with people running into each other, watch american football!
If you want something in-between, watch Rugby.
simple
But as for American Football v Soccer, I enjoy watching both, but If I had to pick I'd go for Soccer ahead of American Football due to less stoppages in soccer.
Football Vs American Football
I have played f�tbol(soccer to them american ignorants) since I was 5. And I have been in shape since then. But F�tbol is the best sport in the WORLD! Soccer needs stamina, and endurance, and football needs what, fat!! Thats not very healthy. Coming out of Pro American Football with arthiritus and die soon. How long can you play Pro Ame. Football huh?? IN F�tbol you can play pro until you at least 40. That is the longest. American Football is kinda retarded, big guys tring to prove who is fater? wow big deal, while in f�tbol, who has more skill, more endurance, and elegancy when they play. And who wants to watch a game that has plays lating 5-10 seconds, while in f�bol it is on average 80 minutes+ of nonstop action!!
-reply by Lobo
Football is a game where strength and team strategies are key to winning. You have to be able to physically hold off the opponent team
and then use your team strategy to slowly push up the field. Soccer however is all about agility and finesse, you can't use any physical
contact at all for an advantage. So really they aren't comparable.
i don't watch American football...i don't even know all its rules, but i know even if i knew it..i would never have been able to judge these two....both are different..you can never say one is more athletic or technical than the other...it is just a matter of interest....
I like soccer a lot because firstly i play it regularly...and American football is not popular in India....anyways both are great on their own grounds....
Football Vs American Football
"I was proud of what you all Football(soccer) players said".I love football not American football. I play and watch it every time. Most Americans are always behind in football(soccer) because most Americans have interest in their own football. They know that football(soccer) is better than the American football, they just can't admit it.There cultural sport is football so they don't want to let it down, so they fight to make it best sport. Its funny because Us is like 200 million in population and they try to say Football(soccer)is worst football when they know that 5 billion+ people watch and love football(soccer). FIFA is a multi billion dollar, sport board ever. So for those of you American football lovers, don't mess with the real football and keep your gridiron football conversation to your self.
-reply by Cristiano Ronaldo7
Similar Topics:
Is Football The King Of Sports?
Some American Football Questions
Arena Football
Can It Be Love Without Meeting? (6)
|
(15) Nudity On Tv
|
Loading...
HOME 





American Football Hardest tackles in history
american football ... pick me
American Football - Never Meant
Top 3 Best NFL American Football Trick Plays HD
Trick Touchdown American Football
American Football - Honestly?
american football bloopers
High School Football America - Pink Arrow Pride
2011 All-American High School Football Game Highlights
American Football Tackles

