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Why in the U.S American FOOTBALL Rules over Futbol

xpowderxxpowderx Member UncommonPosts: 2,078
As a fan of football and not futbol. Here are the links why American Football is liked more so than futbol in America. Mind you the videos I have linked are just to our college teams. These are not even our professional teams. My team, The Louisville Cardinals may be considered a pro team by college standards. But they are just college level.



Enjoy the reason why American football PWNZ soccer





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and



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Thanks for watching! Just imagine the Pros..
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  • DraenorDraenor Member UncommonPosts: 7,918

    I always thought it was stuff like this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_HVnxFN-uc

    ps. Go Colts

    Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.

  • xpowderxxpowderx Member UncommonPosts: 2,078
    I agree Draenor, I played both. <mod edit>Ohh wait!! It is in the U.S. They talk about control.. lol.. play a wide reciever in American football and tell me all about that control thing. ROFLMAO. Too much.



    <mod edit>Dont see many broken bones in soccer. But will  see them in American football. Wonder why? Unlike soccer American football you can permanently be disabled for life from a injury. Besides, unlike soccer where half the injuries are faked by the players. In American football a injury is for real.



    Try to play soccer with 11 other guys on a  enemy team trying to knock your head off then talk smack about football. <mod edit> Football Rocks soccer.. HARD!
  • DraenorDraenor Member UncommonPosts: 7,918
    <mod edit>



    The hits aren't any harder in Rugby...the only difference is that the guys in American football are wearing a bunch of hard plastic...you think wearing a helmet makes getting hit in the head feel good?  I've given multiple people concussions, I've gotten a concussion, I've permanently injured my wrist (repeated trauama) I've knocked people out cold, I've even seen a dude DIE on the field...yes, he literally died at one of our games...<mod edit>

    Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.

  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182
    Originally posted by xpowderx

    I agree Draenor, I played both. Ohh wait!! it is in the U.S. They talk about control.. lol.. play a wide reciever in american football and tell me all about that control thing. ROFLMAO. Too much.



     Dont see many broken bones in soccer. But will  see them in American football. Wonder why? Unlike soccer American football you can permanently be disabled for life from a injury. Besides, unlike soccer where half the injuries are faked by the players. In American football a injury is for real.



    Try to play soccer with 11 other guys on a  enemy team trying to knock your head off then talk smack about football. Football Rocks soccer.. HARD!
    Actually there are a ton of injuries in football, and if you watch the sport news in just a small country as the Netherlands, not a day will go by without reports of injuries and disabled players because unlike American Football, real football players don't play in plate mail.



    <mod edit>



    In the US, American football owns football, but in the rest of the world, football is the most popular and most played sport, while nobody cares about American football. In fact, The World cup is the most viewed sports TV program in the world, not even the olympic games can match that.
  • InfernalSoulInfernalSoul Member Posts: 35
    <mod edit>

    Hey, I didnt see anyone bashing 1 of the 30,000 futball posts that littered the forums for the past week. Plus, dont get all huffy puffy about a sport where not all 6 billion people can play it and you feel like bringing down a more elite, selective sport. <mod edit>
  • DraenorDraenor Member UncommonPosts: 7,918
    <mod edit>

     

    The injury roster of a soccer team is more akin to that of a basketball team...injuries in football tend to be much more severe, sorry there's just no getting around that with the style of game that it is...and if you think wearing pads is like wearing plate mail, then I'd love to see you give a couple hitting drills a try...true story:  The star soccer player at our school was our kicker for our football team, one day we had him do a few hitting drills with some of our really wimpy guys (we didn't want to injur our kicker, we just wanted him to see what it felt like to hit someone)

    After he hit the smallest dude on our team (a guy we called Icyhot) he came back over to me, barely able to breathe, and said quietly to me "Joe...that hurt like hell, I don't ever want to do that again"

    he quickly learned that football isn't the wussy sport that soccer fans make it out to be.

    Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.

  • xpowderxxpowderx Member UncommonPosts: 2,078
     Lets see 2 billion people watch soccer(supposedly). Only 50 million watch American football..uhh ok.. Then again of those 2 billion people more than 60% watch in 3rd world countries where they have no money. While those who have money watch American Football.Unlike those other countries that have community TVs, most of us have 2-4 T.Vs per household.



    American soccer will always be boring. Almost like watching a golf game. Ohh yeah, that tricks thing!! Golfers have cool tricks too. And it requires even more finesse than soccer. But still is a extremely boring sport unless you play it. Even then its still boring. Tennis requires skill and talent as well. Its more exciting than a soccer match.
  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182
    I never said that football was more, lets call it "dangerous", then American football, My post was in reply to XpowderX, he makes it sound like its all roses and butterflies in football, which is definitely not the case.



    as I can show you here:



    www.youtube.com/watch



    He broke his foot. Keep in mind that those two were running at full speed.
  • gpettgpett Member Posts: 1,105
    To the OP. He sees American football on TV from the age of 5 and assumes it is better.  You were nurtured into your love of the sport because of the location you live.  It is as simple as that.



    If you had been watching real football from the same age you would have the same passion for it.



    <mod edit>
  • DraenorDraenor Member UncommonPosts: 7,918
    <mod edit>



    The problem with stuff like that is that it's not very common...If you were to go to an NFL team in the middle of the season and look at their injury list it would have at least half a dozen players out because of various broken bones (most common would be fingers and collar bones)

    It's just much more common in football because of the nature of the sport...that plate mail doesn't protect against much when you got a 250 pound line backer about to turf you...helmets provide protection against concussions, but trust me, getting hit in the head is ridiculously painful...it feels like your head has been put inside of a microwave.  Getting hit in the body is no picknick either...the only time I ever had to come off of the field during a game because of injury was because of a cheap shot that somebody took at me after a play...hit my right in my side...I could barely breathe for a good 10 minutes.  Of course, it was illegal, but most cheap shots like that go unpenalized anyway.

    Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.

  • lolatswgvetslolatswgvets Member Posts: 18
    <mod edit> American football players wear lots of protection, compared to Rugby players that wear only a shirt. Between the two games, the game of rugby is a far tougher game then American football; you have to be tougher to play the game of Rugby then the game of American football. I appreciate that you have injuries from your time playing football; Golfers get injuries as well LOL. You have seen a football player die playing football, that is unfortunate that such things happen in sports I have personally seen several players die in Rugby matches. Does the fact that I have seen more players die in the game of rugby make it a tougher sport then American football, not at all, what makes rugby a tougher sport then American football is the fact that not one single American football player would dare play the game without their protection, they think its insane to do so. That and the game itself is what makes rugby a far tougher sport then American Football, and for yourself to sit there and state that you have played Rugby I find that highly unlikely because if your truly have played the game, you would know this.
  • DraenorDraenor Member UncommonPosts: 7,918
    Originally posted by gpett

    To the OP. He sees American football on TV from the age of 5 and assumes it is better.  You were nurtured into your love of the sport because of the location you live.  It is as simple as that.



    If you had been watching real football from the same age you would have the same passion for it.



    American networks prefer showing sports where they can air a lot of commercials because they are greedy.  Makes me want to move somewhere where they air sports where the sport is actually displayed more than the commercials.  Compare your time spent watching commercials during any american sporting event to the amount of time actually watching the players play the game.



    If it were only about network greed then people would be watching soccer here when it was actually on TV...check the ratings, nobody watches it regardless of how many commercials are played.

    We already have a boring sport, it's called baseball.. <mod edit>

     

    And ps. the reason why it's so popular in the rest of the world?  Because it requires so little equipment to play...a ball and anything resembling a goal and you are good to go.

    Your argument is like a two legged dog with an eating disorder...weak and unbalanced.

  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182
    Trust me, things like that are very common in football. Its very hard to keep your balance when running at full speed with a ball between your legs and people are constantly hitting your legs. Its not so much the fall that hurts you, its the position you fall in.
  • InfernalSoulInfernalSoul Member Posts: 35
    Originally posted by lolatswgvets

    Originally posted by Draenor

    Originally posted by lolatswgvets

    Originally posted by Draenor

    Originally posted by lolatswgvets

    I never did understand the comparing of US football to the real Football, Soccer or Football as it is known to the other 6 billion people on the planet, is exactly that Football, the foot is used to control and play the ball hence the name Football. US football has very little to do with the title behind the meaning of football, there is very little foot to ball action in the game. Plus US football has nothing at all in common with the real football, what US football does have more common with is Rugby. Anyone who has ever played both US style football and Rugby knows the difference between the two mostly that US style football is for girls compared to Rugby, although that may be a little prejudice so I apologize to all those Rugby playing girls out there, they are actually tougher then men who play US style football. I guess the old saying is true, “One Girls sport is another mans game”.

     

    You have never played football...I've played both and I can say beyond all doubt that you have no idea what you're talking about.


    It is not my fault you have very little experience.



    Just as it's not my fault that you have no clue what the hell you are talking about.

    The hits aren't any harder in Rugby...the only difference is that the guys in American football are wearing a bunch of hard plastic...you think wearing a helmet makes getting hit in the head feel good?  I've given multiple people concussions, I've gotten a concussion, I've permanently injured my wrist (repeated trauama) I've knocked people out cold, I've even seen a dude DIE on the field...yes, he literally died at one of our games...you want to tell me that football is a girl's game?  You have no clue what you're talking about.

    As I said American football compared to Rugby is a girl sport, you even supported it yourself in your statement. American football players wear lots of protection, compared to Rugby players that wear only a shirt. Between the two games, the game of rugby is a far tougher game then American football; you have to be tougher to play the game of Rugby then the game of American football. I appreciate that you have injuries from your time playing football; Golfers get injuries as well LOL. You have seen a football player die playing football, that is unfortunate that such things happen in sports I have personally seen several players die in Rugby matches. Does the fact that I have seen more players die in the game of rugby make it a tougher sport then American football, not at all, what makes rugby a tougher sport then American football is the fact that not one single American football player would dare play the game without their protection, they think its insane to do so. That and the game itself is what makes rugby a far tougher sport then American Football, and for yourself to sit there and state that you have played Rugby I find that highly unlikely because if your truly have played the game, you would know this.

    So you have played American Football than? You know exactly what the football players do in their free time? Yea, thats why half of my American Football team played rugby in a league in the off season? You are telling me that Rugby players are tougher because they wear no pads? and what? Does it make you stronger to go paintballing without any protection on? I guess, but it also doesnt say much about your intelligence, because when you, as an American Football player, have to play game after game you cant just let your body go to the shits, you have to preserve yourself for numerous season.
  • xpowderxxpowderx Member UncommonPosts: 2,078
    ok, to settle the argument!



    Heres a American football injury. Wait for the end of the video to get the full extent of it.www.youtube.com/watch



    And heres a soccer injury.



     

    www.youtube.com/watch





      Still trying to figure out where this guy broke a bone?



    Nuff said!! No comparision!
  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182
    Originally posted by xpowderx

    ok, to settle the argument!



    Heres a American football injury. Wait for the end of the video to get the full extent of it.www.youtube.com/watch



    And heres a soccer injury.



     

    www.youtube.com/watch





      Still trying to figure out where this guy broke a bone?



    Nuff said!! No comparision!
    Now compare that first video to the injury I posted, you'll notice that isn't pretty.


  • TamalanTamalan Member Posts: 1,117
    Originally posted by xpowderx

    ok, to settle the argument!



    Heres a American football injury. Wait for the end of the video to get the full extent of it.www.youtube.com/watch



    And heres a soccer injury.



     

    www.youtube.com/watch





      Still trying to figure out where this guy broke a bone?



    Nuff said!! No comparision!



    Lol, so this argument has broken down into which is the more violent and therefore 'better'?

    Fine, then If we are going to sink to this level I had better remind you that Football (real football that is) has its roots in war. Way in the past that football field was the aftermath of a battle and the ball one of the losing sides head.

    Hardcore enough for you? :)

  • xpowderxxpowderx Member UncommonPosts: 2,078
    Now I will say I do see more Fan deaths occur in a European soccer game than a American Football game. But those are fans, not the game itself.
  • gnomexxxgnomexxx Member Posts: 2,920
    Originally posted by xpowderx

    ok, to settle the argument!



    Heres a American football injury. Wait for the end of the video to get the full extent of it.www.youtube.com/watch



    And heres a soccer injury.



     

    www.youtube.com/watch





      Still trying to figure out where this guy broke a bone?



    Nuff said!! No comparision!
    What?  You're basing the merits of sport on which one produces the worst injuries? 

    This whole conversation has gone downhill from the start and that makes it over the edge.



    If I were figuring out which sport is "better" (which is an individual preference anyways), I would figure out which sport requires the most athletic ability (both aerobic and anaerobic), which one requires the most skill and agility, which one provides the most excitement for both players and non-players, and which one puts the most emphasis on teamwork and comradere. 



    But most of all, I would determine which sport is able to be enjoyed by the most number of people.  To me, that is the best sport.  One that everyone can enjoy and take part in.

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  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182
    www.youtube.com/watch



    I think we can all agree this is the most exciting sport in the world ;)
  • xpowderxxpowderx Member UncommonPosts: 2,078
    I have played rugby? your point? more than 50% of American football players play rugby. As someone here posted. Have you played  either, or any of the above? Rugby is a great way to condition yourself for football. In my college years we would join a rugby league just for that purpose. The thing I liked about rugby was not getting injured as much except perhaps a busted nose. Why? Less players. A few men pouncing on you sure feels alot better than 8 or more pouncing on you.
  • lolatswgvetslolatswgvets Member Posts: 18
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    At least you support that fact that yes Rugby is a tougher sport then American football, but it does not make Rugby better then American football, it only makes it tougher that is all, which is better is up to the people themselves to decide. But I would not go about the route of calling into question the intelligence of a Rugby player just because they play with no protection. Seriously have not seen any interviews with and American football player on ESPN LMAO. I am afraid in the intelligence category of both Rugby and American Football we would both loose LMAO.
  • xpowderxxpowderx Member UncommonPosts: 2,078
    Originally posted by Gameloading

    www.youtube.com/watch



    I think we can all agree this is the most exciting sport in the world ;)
    That was awesome Gameloading. I agree.. Definitely the most exciting sport. Just wish it was Ryu instead of Ken
  • xpowderxxpowderx Member UncommonPosts: 2,078
    The problem I see with American football is there are too many pads. When I played rugby we had injury. But the difference is it was not detrimental and was usually short lived. In football,pads while beneficial from keeping your face broken up or getting a sprain. Will do more serious injury if the pinch points were pressured. Due to the constraints of padding and no where for your limb/body part to go but break. Thats really the only difference between rugby and football. Rugby, you are injured more often(less detrimental). Football, not injured as often but very detrimental.
  • baffbaff Member Posts: 9,457
    Originally posted by lolatswgvets



    At least you support that fact that yes Rugby is a tougher sport then American football, but it does not make Rugby better then American football, it only makes it tougher that is all, which is better is up to the people themselves to decide. But I would not go about the route of calling into question the intelligence of a Rugby player just because they play with no protection. Seriously have not seen any interviews with and American football player on ESPN LMAO. I am afraid in the intelligence category of both Rugby and American Football we would both loose LMAO.

     

    You'd be surprised.

    Rugby isn't a well paid sport. Before 1995 there was no such thing as a professional Rugby player. World class International players, amateurs all, frequently manage companies and achieve commercial success in their other careers. Rugby is only played by people educated at private schools and universities. It's an "Ivy League" game. The thickos play football. Johnny Wilkinson can speak joined up. Beckham can't.

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