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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: FILA::AUS on September 15, 2002, 04:42:53 PM
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OK
I've always wanted to know this:
Why do your American Football Players wear SOOO much protective shit when they play???
If it's for protection then they are all a bunch of pussies, because we play Rugby here, where players wear NOTHING except a mouthguard.
The game is very similar. In rugby one guy always gets tackled by at least 3-4 other guys, so you can't sya there is really any higher danger in American football because of the way of game.
That always puzzled me?
Oh and also, WHY does the game stop so often. I watched the Superbowl last year and they were stopping the game every 4-5 minutes. It was sooooo annoying.
???? Enlighten me
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well tha superbowl stops every 4-5 minutes cuz its cuz of advertisements an shit. tha reason they wear equipment is cuz there bigger tha rugby players an them steroi...... natural herbal supplements make them stronger
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Put a American Football lineman up against a Rugby player, both without protective padding, and see who is the pussy.
Football players got way more mass so they need the protection. They break at every play because the game is as much mental as it is physical. They gotta plan their moves. Soccer is much more spontaneous.
I cant stand watching football on TV. "Soccer" is alot more exciting.
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Put a American Football lineman up against a Rugby player, both without protective padding, and see who is the pussy.
Football players got way more mass so they need the protection. They break at every play because the game is as much mental as it is physical. They gotta plan their moves. Soccer is much more spontaneous.
I cant stand watching football on TV. "Soccer" is alot more exciting.
Soccer?? I hope you did not confuse soccer with rugby, coz thats what the reply sounded like.
And to both of ya'll...
I completely disagree that American football players are any bigger than Rugby players. Rugby players are fucking huge, and most Rugby player weighs around 100-110kg's. There is a lot of Rugby players that get offers to play American football in US so they obviosuly cannot be smaller.
Umm..Puppy Mason, stopping the game for adds??? WTF is that, what kind ofsporting game can u have with such frequent interuptions.
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i said tha superbowl not all games have as many frequent stopages as tha super bowl
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Nah dog. The rugby players are like the size of NFL quarterbacks. The linemen are like 250-300 pounds.
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Show me a gang of 6'7 360 pound rugby players, and I'll agree with you sayin they are the same size.
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rugby players wud kick the shit outer football players. End of.
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After actually playing American football for 6 years, and Rugby for a little bit, I can say that it's simply 'cause it's easier to have players last long. Football is faster pace, 'cause it's a straight explosion sport, Rugby is more of a paced sport. Hence a hit in Football is a lot harder than a hit in Rugby. Plus, if I'ma drop 3 million a year for a football player, I would want him to last longer than 3 games. Fuck toughness, that's for dump Austrailians and English to argue over, I want to win with the best players. Therefore, if my all-pro runningback is gonna play, I want him for the whole 16 games, not playing every game risking injury. Injurys are bad enough in the NFL with great players lasting only 5-7 years like Terell Davis, and Jamal Anderson, why risk other young players. Some players can hang and play 18 years like Jerry Rice, Clay Mathews whos a lineback which is the toughest man on the field, and other greats. That's be fuck to end your multi-million dollar career 'cause of being tough. And all the pads have evolved from all the deaths and injuries of Footballs past. Football evolved from Rugby in 188-something, and had no pads. Rules changed as responds to situations and deaths. Keep you toughness, I prefer playing for fun instead of dying over pride.
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I don't care about the pads argument, pads are far more sensible like M Dogg said, it's a game safety first, and Gridiron players are generally bigger than Rugby players.
However I think it is very disturbing (and I've raised this before) that your games are often controlled by adverts. lol. That's dumb. The Superbowl is the biggest game in Gridiron right? And "tha superbowl stops every 4-5 minutes cuz its cuz of advertisements an shit". Imagine the biggest game in all of sport, the World Cup Final in football (soccer) having to stop every 5 minutes? Isn't this capitalism gone too far?
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I don't care about the pads argument, pads are far more sensible like M Dogg said, it's a game safety first, and Gridiron players are generally bigger than Rugby players.
However I think it is very disturbing (and I've raised this before) that your games are often controlled by adverts. lol. That's dumb. The Superbowl is the biggest game in Gridiron right? And "tha superbowl stops every 4-5 minutes cuz its cuz of advertisements an shit". Imagine the biggest game in all of sport, the World Cup Final in football (soccer) having to stop every 5 minutes? Isn't this capitalism gone too far?
Altough I love American football, I agree with you on this statement. This is definitly capitalism gone too far. The only thing I like about Soccer is seeing no commercials for large periods of time.
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well tha thing about tha superbowl is most of tha people watchin arent even watchin for tha game but rather tha commericals
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Well, shouldn't it be for real fans?
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Well, shouldn't it be for real fans?
tru, i dunno damn u brits *turns to direction of brittain an shakes fist*
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Tom, you never said where your dad was from. The flag with the dragon remember? Your mum was from Poland or is it your dad?
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BTW I mean where there family descended from
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BTW I mean where there family descended from
my dads ancestors r from scottland
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lol
Dumb jock
Quote from Braveheart:
"The trouble with Scotland is it's full of Scots"
That wasn't the Scottish flag you posted btw
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lol
Dumb jock
Quote from Braveheart:
"The trouble with Scotland is it's full of Scots"
That wasn't the Scottish flag you posted btw
tha web site i got it from said it was scotland an ive seen a shirt tha had that flag on it an said scotland
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tru, i dunno damn u brits *turns to direction of brittain an shakes fist*
lol
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yeah that flag is on the soccer shirt
(http://www.fotw.ca/images/gb-scotl.gif)
Thats the flag
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In regular games, games move a lot faster, as U.S. people like faster pace games. But the Super Bowl is different, one because every play means so much that a lot of stategy is used, and two, not everyone likes watching the Rams, so why just watch the Rams when you can have funny commercals too. Super Bowl commercals have became a sort of tradition, as many busnesses spend millions of dollars of one 30 second space to grap peoples attention when the whole nation is watching. So for all non football fans, they can watch commercals, all football fans can watch a game, and coaches can fully plain the next play as oppose to having the title determand by quick mistakes for a true winner.
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Willy Mason is a mad cunt
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U.S. people like faster pace games
Bullshit.
Football (soccer) is one of the fastest games in the world, with no stoppages at all apart from a 15 minute break at half time. Baseball and Gridiron are always stopping and starting.
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Scoring wise partner. The U.S. likes basketball and football. Baseball is declining is popularity, and Hockey is picking up, but some don't like Ice sports. Football is faster in terms of explosion plays. One play in Football goes fast, as were soccar is paced, like Rugby, and scoring is very limited. U.S. people hate that, that's another reason Hockey is not big. We like lead changes every other minute, upsets, rallies, and comebacks. Soccar rarly provides that.
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I don't know why people who love soccer bitch over foorball. Is it some sort of pride thing? I just don't understand it. Most Americans dont mention soccer because they could care less about it. Those who love soccer always complain. Especially the soccer team at my school they always bitch about how they dont get funding when the truth is, no one sees their games so why fund? lol
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no offence, but soccer in my opinion sucks. they get slightly pushed and theyre on the ground screamin like a bitch. it pisses me off, coz they say its a "tactic". Whoa, cryin like a lil slut is a tactic?
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I don't know why people who love soccer bitch over foorball. Is it some sort of pride thing? I just don't understand it. Most Americans dont mention soccer because they could care less about it. Those who love soccer always complain. Especially the soccer team at my school they always bitch about how they dont get funding when the truth is, no one sees their games so why fund? lol
Maybe because it is clearly the better sport, and is the most popular sport in the world while gridiron is something like the 45th most popular sport, and still you have the nerve to call it soccer when it's called football
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The bottom line is we don't like 0-0, 2-1, 1-1 scores. Come on. People in the U.S. like good old fashion comebacks, ralleys, blow outs, a true winner in a game. Why do you think hockey has never truly caught on, yet baseball in popular still. 'Cause you can score a grip of points in baseball. Why is it that basketball is the number one sport in the United States, 'cause you can score 10 points in one minute. You can be down 8 points with 10 seconds, and still win (Reggie Miller vs. Knicks). We like that, 3-0 blow outs aren't fun compared to sports that allow a team to comeback. More scoring, bottom line.
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I dunno..Football is probably the biggest sport in America..The superbowl has 40 times the commercials as a regular game.And the reason they wear pads is because we would have a shit load of dead people for love of the sport..Have you seen the size of a lineman compared to a rugby(usually the size of NFL kickers)They are usually skinny tall pussys..They would easily get crushed.
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Maybe because it is clearly the better sport, and is the most popular sport in the world while gridiron is something like the 45th most popular sport, and still you have the nerve to call it soccer when it's called football
45th most popular? hahahahaha. Please name 44 other sports more popular than Football.
Oh, and I write soccer because it saves me time. Please oh please forgive me for not wanting to type "American Football". It's not like you can't understand what I'm typing.
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Soccer
Rugby
Basketball
Baseball
Athletics
Tennis
Golf
Horse Racing
Motor Racing
Cycling
Skiing
Swimming
That's 12 lol
Ok I exagerrated
But the point still stands
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13-Boxing
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actully football is the most popular sport in america.how is it 45th...i highly doubt horse racing and tennis and them bullshit sports like swimming are more popular
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LMAO
I MADE A LIST OF THE MOST POPULAR IN THE WORLD
WAKE UP PEOPLE
AMERICA IS NOT THE WORLD
AMERICAN FOOTBALL IS NOT A WORLDWIDE SPORT
Horse Racing and Swimming most definitely are
What a fucking retard
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Its not worldwide but you guys have your own league. No one complains that y'all don't give a crap about it.
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LMAO
I MADE A LIST OF THE MOST POPULAR IN THE WORLD
WAKE UP PEOPLE
AMERICA IS NOT THE WORLD
AMERICAN FOOTBALL IS NOT A WORLDWIDE SPORT
Horse Racing and Swimming most definitely are
What a fucking retard
The bottom line is Soccar and Hockey can never catch on here. We like more scoring... lead changes... comeback from behind victorys... and fuck ties. Soccar at 2-0 score is a blow out. In football, they got late drives... coaching choices for plays... statagy... it's like chess with actual huge people. Don't knock what you don't understand. The U.S. has tried to like soccar, but we like who we are, don't knock us... just get mad 'cause our football teams have bigger players.
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OMG American Football is prolly more popular down here in Oz than Soccer is, for the main reason that in soccer is too low scoring. Also the fact that American Football is not a absolute fuckin pussy ass game may contribute
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soccer and rugby are irrelevant in the us...no one cares....nor do i...as far as a football player against a rugby player....LMAO...your kidding right ;D ;D ;D
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I think London used to have an American Football team, London Towers or Knights or some shit like that. I dunno what happened to them.
Anyway, i've caught a few NFL matches, i dont understand it and it does'nt appeal to me, but as long as it makes some people happy then its all good in my book.
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yea the NFL europe players are the 3 and 4 string NFL players..SO basically they are the bench warmers grouped together
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Maybe because it is clearly the better sport, and is the most popular sport in the world while gridiron is something like the 45th most popular sport, and still you have the nerve to call it soccer when it's called football
No need to get bitter...
I don't like soccer.
Football is clearly the better sport.
It's all an opinion thing.
Like Sikotic a.k.a. Tha Pink Pantha said-
"I don't know why people who love soccer bitch over foorball. Is it some sort of pride thing? I just don't understand it. Most Americans dont mention soccer because they could care less about it. Those who love soccer always complain. Especially the soccer team at my school they always bitch about how they dont get funding when the truth is, no one sees their games so why fund? lol"
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I think London used to have an American Football team, London Towers or Knights or some shit like that. I dunno what happened to them.
Anyway, i've caught a few NFL matches, i dont understand it and it does'nt appeal to me, but as long as it makes some people happy then its all good in my book.
I don't see how soccer.....OH WAIT pardon me...."football" arenas can lose control and have riots over guys kicking a ball around a feild. Probably because I don't have any emotional attachment to the sport but I mean come on.
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I don't see how soccer.....OH WAIT pardon me...."football" arenas can lose control and have riots over guys kicking a ball around a feild. Probably because I don't have any emotional attachment to the sport but I mean come on.
I dont see what this has to do with my post, but your right, you dont have any emotional attachment to the sport.
I can't tell you why football fans riot because i've never been involved in one, maybe its a testament to their passion for the sport, usually their just idiots who want massive ruck, (Milwall, Russians etc).
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also because soccer fans are fuckin psycho over soccer most of the time... but its mostly 1 or 2 ppl who start the riots n ppl are just like wtf r they doing but then they just end up joining in