football vs yank handball

Violence unheard of in the UK heh right. Take your description of America then kind of put it into context by saying that stuff happens in the UK every time someone plays a game. Even in a work day you will get murdered in places for wearing the wrong shirt. Talk about a Man U shirt in Liverpool even when the season is off.
Its not that you don't have hooligans its just that you talk *beep*
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YOU ARE GIRLIE FOR MAKING THIS THREAD, SO GO BRUSH YOUR YELLOW,CROOKED/MISSING TEETH. YOU BRITISH P.O.S.,

NFL > "SOCCER".

Soccer is boring, NFL is not.

and what grinds my gears is when egotistic Brits, try to slam AMERICAN sports-it back fires back to them, yea i know this post is old, and you probably wont see it--but all i can say the only thing good to ever come out your country is.....well nothing really, thats why you see ALOT of people from the UK come to the US. I have nothing against the UK, but damn people like you UK or not is the kinda thing that would make me beat the holy hell out of you, Goddamn!.

Now go drink your ALE mate, F.A.N.

Coming from the buckle of the Bible Belt, Oklahoma, I can give some insight into the football mindset. Kids here grow up on it; if there is no other sport offered, which is the case in the small towns, there will be a football team and in places like Dallas there are huge high-school stadiums right across the street from hugh high-school stadiums. In this way it is much like soccer (football, futbol)in that it is part of our cultural identity. However, I think that soccer and rugby require an overall fitness that makes them more attractive to me because the player aren't just tall like in basketball, old guys with big biceps in baseball, or big piles of muscle like in football. It is also funny that sports like rugby and futbol have rules, like offsides and no passing forward, that avoid the easy points like in football where you can just pass to one guy standing at the end of the field and get a touchdown with no effort or cunning, or just smacking a ball and getting a home run like in baseball. This to me is not as exciting as the continuous play of the Brit sports and not as fair. It's also funny if you watch The Longest Yard (Sandler version, I haven't seen the Burt Reynolds one)Crewe actually uses rugby to get a touchdown when he has the players pass backwards and to the side to move the ball down the field.

To me futbol and rugby make more sense because of there tactical flexibility and call for finesse. However, Americans are not known for placing value in these sorts of things. I also enjoy the greater sense of rivalry between countries in the international games; nothing beats watching France v Italy or England v Scotland,Wales, France, basically everone. Unfortunately, Americans miss this because our history is kept so separate from everyone. I mean, we hate the French and Enlgish, but we love Italians (I guess it's because we love olive garden so much); we are separate from the changing world (I mean what if we played East AND West Germany in the World Series or Russia as the USSR, etc). We don't care about things we didn't invent or adopt as our own, we think soccer is for sissies although most of the country probably couldn't run a mile if their lives depended on it, and we think a game is about points rather than the playing of the game itself. If you look at it, we don't let our players PLAY the game, we actually inhibit them and this is what I don't like. Imagine the play in a football game if the clock wasn't stopped after every move, or a basketball game not divided into quarters, etc. You culd say that sports are a reflection of the country and ours is accurate; we have BIG people therefore we have BIG players, we value bulk over cardiovascular health and look more like Babe Ruth than Pele(this is a generalization but noone can deny the obesity problem here).
It would be nice to see futbol and rugby taught in world history, along with our own family tree, then we could connect to the game as descendents of the English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, French, Italians, Germans, etc. that we are. Americans are too shut off and we cannot afford to be so closed minded especially now.

I dunno

1. It's totally retarded to argue about sports. It's just like art, you can't fight over taste. Nobody forces you to watch the Superbowl if you hate AF and nobody forces you to watch a football game if you think it's gay. Just shut it you imbecile freaks!

2. Talking about hooligans, have you watched coverage about the last FIFA World Cups (major riots between Germans, Brits, Polish, Italian, Turkish, Dutch and of course the police) There are always loads of casualties and arrests. I never heard about anything like that in the US and i regularly watch US News.

you should understand that these fights in Europe where groups of 20 people gather at a deserted place are due to the law- and police-persecution.
In Europe (except in GB maybe) the Hooligan culture has nothing to do with (local) patriotsm or ones close connection to a football team.
It's just some freaks who want to beat the §hit out of each other and found the environment of a ball game as the perfect source for §hitfaced violent people.

Some drunk rednecks starting a brawl after the Superbowl or whipping the a$$ of some random dude wearing the wrong jersey has nothing to do with Hooliganism, there is no such thing in the states, period...

I'd like to see NFL players try playing Rugby.

Bit late to the party, but I have a couple of points:

1/ American footballers wear pads and helmets because back in around the 1920s a few dozen college players got killed each year without them.

2/ Any American football fan who thinks that American footballers would inevitably succeed at Rugby or Soccer is an idiot. The average NFL match has around 11-13 minutes of actual action. Divide that up between the offense and the defense, and each NFL player spends at most around six minutes playing the game. Over the course of three hours. Yes, they're big and they're strong, but the idea that they would have the endurance to play Rugby or Soccer is simply laughable. That's like claiming that Usain Bolt would win a marathon or steeplechase because he can run really fast for ten or twenty seconds. Maybe Usain Bolt could succeed at steeplechase, but to do so he'd have to train completely differently and become an entirely different type of athlete, with less explosive power and more stamina.

3/ In soccer you have to have technical ability. ie Skill. In American football the only player who is even required to be able to pass the ball is the quarterback. All that any of the other 40 guys on the team need to be able to do is run really fast and catch a ball. Or just be able to push other guys over like sumo wrestlers do. Sorry, but I don't think that sumo wrestlers are that skilled, and I'd learned to run fast and catch a ball by the time I turned ten years old.

In short, they're completely different sports, even if Rugby and American football share some similarities.

There's a reason why one sport dominates the world's sporting landscape and the other is a niche sport played only in a couple of countries.

I enjoy playing soccer more but would rather watch football