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Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:07 pm
by hax103
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:27 pm
by Grudge
Watching Ajax-Arsenal as we speak.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:17 pm
by seremtan
ManYoo 2 - 1 Benfica :icon14:
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:55 pm
by Hannibal
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:00 pm
by Guest
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...
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:25 pm
by mik0rs
I agree :icon14:
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:03 am
by blakjack
/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 )
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:11 am
by ajerara
why do we care whether europeans watch american football again?
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:25 am
by Hannibal
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:28 am
by busetibi
blakjack wrote:/me waves the australian rules flag
truely the best form of football :P
fucking aerial pingpong
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:25 am
by MKJ
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
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 7:40 am
by blakjack
busetibi wrote:
fucking aerial pingpong
are you dissing ping pong? :icon6:
:icon33:
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:05 am
by +JuggerNaut+
"football", baseball, basketball....all pretty boring
Soccer, Hockey, Rugby, and Formula one get airtime on my teli. unfortunately, it's tough to find Rugby.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:58 am
by busetibi
blakjack wrote:busetibi wrote:
fucking aerial pingpong
are you dissing ping pong? :icon6:
:icon33:
believe it
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:09 am
by ajerara
why does KINGMANSULTRA need validation from europeans?
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:15 am
by blood.angel
America.
Cant win wars they start, cant invent good sports.
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:18 am
by 4days
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!
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 8:08 am
by +JuggerNaut+
blood.angel wrote:America.
Cant win wars they start, cant invent good sports.
blood.angel. fat nerd with a chip on his shoulder.
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:32 am
by Nightshade
blood.angel wrote:America.
Cant win wars they start, cant invent good sports.
That's not true, we won the Civil War.
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:33 am
by MKJ
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
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:26 pm
by raw
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:29 pm
by mik0rs
lol
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:29 pm
by DooMer
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 2:48 pm
by plained
our crowds would rather party and cheer than hoolliganfight it up ey
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2005 7:21 pm
by losCHUNK
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
