Why don't Europeans play American Football?

[emoticon]

1 game, 20,000 players, 40 referees, 1 hour game time, 4 hour reality time, start stop after every play,



sounds like fun

That's why I can't stand Rocket Arena or threewave ctf strike or freeze or any game where you sit and wait for action.

[Nightshade]

For the unitiatiated, these are the All Blacks. They do a tradiational aggressive dance before the games called the Haka, it rocks.

WTF? How did they end up doing a Maori war dance? I've watched the real thing done, very impressive.

[losCHUNK]

I dont get rugby too much,

You need to watch the All Blacks play, and maybe Wales now we're good (at least for 5 minutes).

**cough**

1 New Zealand
2 South Africa
3 Australia
4 Argentina
5 Wales
6 France
7 Ireland
8 England
9 Scotland
10 Italy

[losCHUNK]

Football rocks. I dont get rugby too much, but it's similar. Gotta convince the pretentious brits to change over to football, then it will go somewhere. I think, however, that football is a little too americanized for the rest of the worlds' tastes.

thats what it is i think

to many breaks, advetising and the commentators are dicks

i remember watching a 'soccer' match with yank commentry

"here comes owen, and he has to be the best soccer player in the world, right next to david beckham"

it almost gave my brain trauma

and

"HEAD BALL"

its called a 'header' innit !

[seremtan]

If you disagree, you obviously hate America...

i obviously hate america

[seremtan]

Football rocks. I dont get rugby too much, but it's similar. Gotta convince the pretentious brits to change over to football, then it will go somewhere. I think, however, that football is a little too americanized for the rest of the worlds' tastes.

thats what it is i think

to many breaks, advetising and the commentators are dicks

i remember watching a 'soccer' match with yank commentry

"here comes owen, and he has to be the best soccer player in the world, right next to david beckham"

it almost gave my brain trauma

and

"HEAD BALL"

its called a 'header' innit !

lol, and a penalty is a 'PK'. those guys who commentate on argentinian futbol on ch5 are pretty good though

GooooooooooaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLer!!11

[losCHUNK]

heh, ive tried avoiding it after that, so dunno much else :]

and american footy is getting more popular in britain, watching it on chan 5 now and the superbowls are talked about (a few yrs ago i dont think it was even shown on TV )

but yea, its still to crap, soccer / rugby just feels so much more 'sexy' and strategic n shit

[R00k]

Well, soccer and rugby are more on-the-fly strategy games by the players.

American football is playcalling strategy by the coaches and quarterbacks.

I've played rugby a few times, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Soccer kicked my ass though, way too much running around. That field is fucking massive.

[Maiden]

just as you boycott real football so do they, and in all fairness "soccer" was here first

uhh, we do have MLS

and its going to be great when the U.S. team wins the world cup to listen to the rest of the world cry, beaten down by a nation where the game is predominately played by little girls.

[saturn]

just as you boycott real football so do they, and in all fairness "soccer" was here first

uhh, we do have MLS

and its going to be great when the U.S. team wins the world cup to listen to the rest of the world cry, beaten down by a nation where the game is predominately played by little girls.

lol, nice out-of-reality contemptuous sneer

[mik0rs]

I dont get rugby too much,

You need to watch the All Blacks play, and maybe Wales now we're good (at least for 5 minutes).

**cough**

1 New Zealand
2 South Africa
3 Australia
4 Argentina
5 Wales
6 France
7 Ireland
8 England
9 Scotland
10 Italy

Dunno if you you think I should suggest Aouth Africa or I should talk up Wales more. I don't want to risk talking them up too much in case we get the wooden spoon next year

[MKJ]

rugby is where its at. not that american football pussy shit. helmets. pwa, how old are you again?

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[mik0rs]

For the unitiatiated, these are the All Blacks. They do a tradiational aggressive dance before the games called the Haka, it rocks.

WTF? How did they end up doing a Maori war dance? I've watched the real thing done, very impressive.

They're from New Zealand (if you didn't know already, they just decided very early on to go with all black kit), I can't remember exactly why but I think the majority of players might have been Maori (still a lot in there now), there's also a New Zealand Maori side that plays touring teams usually in the lead up to the main test series against the full side. The Maori side makes up a fair deal of the full side.

[arak0r]

i really hate it when people try to argue about one sport being better than the other. they both have their pros and cons. it comes down to opinion. when they start to bring in america v w/e based on the sports, its fucking absurd. my favorite sports ARE nfl, and fifa styles of football been going to most of the mls local teams games, pretty fun stuff.

the us national team btw, has been improving greatly the last few years, as has the mls.

[Maiden]

just as you boycott real football so do they, and in all fairness "soccer" was here first

uhh, we do have MLS

and its going to be great when the U.S. team wins the world cup to listen to the rest of the world cry, beaten down by a nation where the game is predominately played by little girls.

lol, nice out-of-reality contemptuous sneer

hey buddy, go check a prostate

[Don Carlos]

Coz Rugby owns the fuck outta American Football

[Mr.Magnetichead]

Why don;t we play it? Because it's a game for pregnant women. We play rugby.

[Fjoggs]

Last time I checked, American Football was more about cheerleading then assbeating. Then again, I never checked.

[SmokeyTreats]

American football is the best sport that ever was and ever will be.
I don't need to devalue any other sport to to have confidence in that fact.

[SmokeyTreats]

My question is why anyone would care if euros like it?

[losCHUNK]

meh, play a sport everyone plays

[Bdw3]

I'm all about some ping-pong. :icon14:

[Geebs]

i remember watching a 'soccer' match with yank commentry

"here comes owen, and he has to be the best soccer player in the world, right next to david beckham"

it almost gave my brain trauma

[Tormentius]

If you disagree, you obviously hate America or have never really got into the sport.

You forgot the third branch of people who think its a boring and pointless sport which is way too Americanized. Personally, I'd rather jam a rusty fork in my eye than sit through an NFL game.

[R00k]

rugby is where its at. not that american football pussy shit. helmets. pwa, how old are you again?

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To be fair, in rugby you don't have a guy who stands still holding the ball for 15 seconds. You also don't have up-for-grabs passes from 40 yards away, with two or three guys running full steam toward each other fighting for the same spot of ground.

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