Though I'm not really interested in any sport, I was curious enough to find a short article on the differences between American football and rugby. I figured it would help keep down the inevitable flame war.
International Opinion of American Football
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Except for the Japanese, some Chinese, and most of the Caribbean. Also Toronto. We shed a tear for Montreal.Evil the White said:British!The_root_of_all_evil said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie
And keep your baseball. We don't want it anyways. Neither does anyone else
Except for the Japanese, some Chinese, and most of the Caribbean. Also Toronto. We shed a tear for Montreal.[/quote]ygetoff said:And keep your baseball. We don't want it anyways. Neither does anyone else
Edited in. Just looked it up, and found it out. As well as the French/English origins.
I sort of like the tactics of plays but I'm not that interested in it. Uhm, I played a bit of 4th & Inches on the C64 and have watched a few games on the telly.
I'll go in the opposite direction to people who are saying that the pads make it more wimpy than rugby. The pads are like boxing gloves. Boxing gloves are there to protect the hands so the fighters can hit each other harder. There is a lot more high impact aggression and roid raging in yankee doodle dandy eggball than in rugby.
I'll go in the opposite direction to people who are saying that the pads make it more wimpy than rugby. The pads are like boxing gloves. Boxing gloves are there to protect the hands so the fighters can hit each other harder. There is a lot more high impact aggression and roid raging in yankee doodle dandy eggball than in rugby.
It is probably the least boring, yet still extremely boring team sport on TV out there. Only sports on TV I can manager to watch are the X-Games.
I am pretty sure baseball is big in Japan.Evil the White said:British!The_root_of_all_evil said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie
And keep your baseball. We don't want it anyways. Neither does anyone else
OT: I love (american) football, especially college football, since I am at a University right now. It is just fun to watch, now I understand many people think (american) football players are pansies for wearing pads, but I disagree. The pads protect you just as much as they can be used to hurt your opponent.
The word, "debatable" springs to mind.Skullkid4187 said:But we invented the Television but you guys call it a tellyEvil the White said:We invented it. Therefore our way is rightSkullkid4187 said:The brits use their way. And we'll use ours.Evil the White said:
That is all.
OT: I just see it as Rugby for pussies. And I don't even care about Rugby. Or football. Or American football. Or sport.
Amused at how rugby is the real "man's" game when 99% of them wouldn't be physically able to make a NFL practice squad.
Eh? Since when are you not allowed to kick the ball in rugby? The biggest differences to me look like this: forward passes are allowed, play stops after every pass and players scrum down again, and players wear full combat body armour.GamesB2 said:
OT: I kinda like American football. And I'm British. I first got to know it through an NFL game on the XBox; it was fun trying to come up with clever plays. Although that game was so tough, I think I only ever managed one touchdown in several days of playing.
American Football is like war, another of America's favorite past times. The Coach is the general of his army, while the Commander on the field is the Quarterback. One team is on the attack while the other defends. Attacks can come from land or air. A front line must be maintained in order to avoid counterattacks.
I'm a big fan of both American football and Rugby. I think it's quite hard to accurately compare them since they both require completely different skills to play. With Rugby stamina is one of the more important things being able to run more or less constantly for 40 minutes where as American football is more about explosive strength and less about stamina, going all out for 10/20 seconds at a time.
They're both immensely physical and calling american football players "wimps" because they wear all of the protective equipment they do doesn't really make sense. In rugby generally you know where you're going to be tackled from and can prepare for it since you don't have to turn your back on the opposition for any real reason, whereas with American Football, players going up to catch a ball will more often than not have their backs facing the opposition and may even be a few feet up in the air, which makes bracing for the impact of a tackle that much harder which can result in more injuries.
Just for good measure, something from wiki about the word "Football"
They're both immensely physical and calling american football players "wimps" because they wear all of the protective equipment they do doesn't really make sense. In rugby generally you know where you're going to be tackled from and can prepare for it since you don't have to turn your back on the opposition for any real reason, whereas with American Football, players going up to catch a ball will more often than not have their backs facing the opposition and may even be a few feet up in the air, which makes bracing for the impact of a tackle that much harder which can result in more injuries.
Just for good measure, something from wiki about the word "Football"
While it is widely assumed that the word "football" (or "foot ball") references the action of the foot kicking a ball, there is a historical explanation, which is that football originally referred to a variety of games in medieval Europe, which were played on foot.[2] These games were usually played by peasants, as opposed to the horse-riding sports (such as polo) often played by aristocrats. There is no conclusive evidence for either explanation, and the word football has always implied a variety of games played on foot, not just those that involved kicking a ball. In some cases, the word football has even been applied to games which have specifically outlawed kicking the ball.
Don't want to add fuel to the flames here as I am a big NFL fan. Proper football (what you yanks call soccer) is my one true love though (lifelong Chelsea fan), it's a better game and most of the world apart from America and Australia and Nz would agree I think. Have been a fan of the NFL since the first Super Bowl I can remember beeing screaned in the UK (Belive it was Redskins/Dolphins in 1983). I love the tactics/mind games. I love huge Touchdown passes. I love HB's breaking through the line. But as far as international opinion gos. If it was going to set the rest of the world on fire it would have done so a long time ago. Everybody has there own personal fave sport but I belive there is room for all of them. Had to laugh a lot at that eggball picture though Also, Baseball is based on an English/Irish game called Rounders which is mostly played by English schoolgirls at primary level......This makes me laugh whenever I watch Baseball.
Also, Baseball is based on an English/Irish game called Rounders which is mostly played by English schoolgirls at primary level......This makes me laugh whenever I watch Baseball.