Why don't Europeans play American Football?

Post by **hax103** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:07 pm

losCHUNK wrote:meh, play a sport everyone plays

LOL. Actually, the most popular sports worldwide are:

Volleyball 998 Million (participants)

Basketball 400 Million

Table Tennis 300 Million

Football (or soccer to the Americans) 242 Million

Basketball is a fun spectator sport - nice combo of action, skill, and strategy.

With Football scores often so low (i.e. 1-1 or penalty kick winners), I can imagine why the Yanks find it deadly boring.

With American Football's millions of rules and shit, I would imagine most Euros have no idea whats happening nor why.

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:27 pm

Watching Ajax-Arsenal as we speak.

Post by **seremtan** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:17 pm

ManYoo 2 - 1 Benfica :icon14:

Post by **Hannibal** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:55 pm

R00k wrote: There are hits in football just about every weekend, that could possibly kill or paralyze players if they weren't wearing pads.

lol, 'pads are for pussies'. Right. Look, if American football isn't your thing, that's fine and I respect it but don't make yourself look twice the nerd for saying something so utterly moronic.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:00 pm

mik0rs wrote:I personally don't like the stop-start of it, I just find it boring. Just my preference and apparently the preference of a lot of people who weren't brought up with it.

I thought that at first but now that I've been watching it awhile I've found the short bursts of action always entertaining to watch and then the strategic element of seeing what plays are chosen for each side is interesting. I do agree that football is probably the more strategic of the two but it's like comparing apples to oranges...

Post by **mik0rs** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:25 pm

I agree :icon14:

Post by **blakjack** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:03 am

/me waves the australian rules flag
truely the best form of football :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Rules_Football

half the country here plays afl, the other half play rugby, and we have the same pointless arguments over which is better. funny thing is, 4 of the past 5 afl flags have been won by teams from predominantly rugby cities. soccer is a minority albeit a growing one with increasing multiculturalism.

american football is as slow as soccer but at least they score semi frequently (and afaik, arent plagued by riotous crowds bored brainless :P )

Post by **ajerara** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:11 am

why do we care whether europeans watch american football again?

Post by **Hannibal** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:25 am

ajerara wrote:why do we care whether europeans watch american football again?

We don't, but apparently the question has kept KINGMANULTRAMAN up at night.

Post by **busetibi** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:28 am

blakjack wrote:/me waves the australian rules flag
truely the best form of football :P

fucking aerial pingpong

Post by **MKJ** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:25 am

ajerara wrote:why do we care whether europeans watch american football again?

to soothe KINGMANSULTRA's ego. apparently, when you dont like the NFL, you hate america

Post by **blakjack** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:40 am

busetibi wrote:
fucking aerial pingpong

are you dissing ping pong? :icon6:

:icon33:

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:05 am

"football", baseball, basketball....all pretty boring

Soccer, Hockey, Rugby, and Formula one get airtime on my teli. unfortunately, it's tough to find Rugby.

Post by **busetibi** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:58 am

blakjack wrote:
busetibi wrote:
fucking aerial pingpong
are you dissing ping pong? :icon6: :icon33:

believe it

Post by **ajerara** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:09 am

why does KINGMANSULTRA need validation from europeans?

Post by **blood.angel** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:15 am

America.
Cant win wars they start, cant invent good sports.

Post by **4days** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:18 am

MKJ wrote:
ajerara wrote:why do we care whether europeans watch american football again?
to soothe KINGMANSULTRA's ego. apparently, when you dont like the NFL, you hate america

turrurist!

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:08 am

blood.angel wrote:America.
Cant win wars they start, cant invent good sports.

blood.angel. fat nerd with a chip on his shoulder.

Post by **Nightshade** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:32 am

blood.angel wrote:America.
Cant win wars they start, cant invent good sports.

That's not true, we won the Civil War.

Post by **MKJ** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:33 am

Nightshade wrote:
blood.angel wrote:America.
Cant win wars they start, cant invent good sports.
That's not true, we won the Civil War.

k that made me smirk and glee

Post by **raw** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:26 pm

Post by **mik0rs** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:29 pm

Post by **DooMer** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:29 pm

Post by **plained** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:48 pm

our crowds would rather party and cheer than hoolliganfight it up ey

Post by **losCHUNK** » Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:21 pm

lol

seriously though

comparing A.football to rugby/soccer is like comparing drafts to chess

quite simply i find american footy to be to boring to hold my attention

its good to watch when nothing else is on but thats about as far as it goes