~:cheers: I say American Football NC baby The athletes are strong fast tough rabid fans and my state has made it into an instution getting out at 2:30 to play...Excllent ~:cheers:
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~:cheers: I say American Football NC baby The athletes are strong fast tough rabid fans and my state has made it into an instution getting out at 2:30 to play...Excllent ~:cheers:
Baseball!
Nothing like the tension mounting watching pitch counts, balls and strikes, substitutions, lefty vs lefty match ups, steals, double steals, bases loaded with two out 3-2 counts, shut outs, leaping catches, drunken fans, bitter rivalries, and statistics, statistics, statistics etc.
I see American Football as Rugby for whimps with all that padding they wear, The other football or soccer beats American football by miles IMO.
Rugby is best. Then what you Americans would called soccer. Then cricket.
American football is quite cool. Baseball is awful!
Cricket, seeing as its the ashes at the moment and also it has the decency to go away for half the year unlike football (ie soccer)
American football would be quite a good game if you had never seen rugby (union or league). After rugby its way too stop start. But whatever floats your boat.
I would have voted Cricket, but i hate the fact you americans have stolen our word football, which is a word for a sport involving kicking a ball with your feet and plastered it onto your wussy sport, which is a rip off of rugby, but with all those pads, because your wimps. So i voted for good old British Football, which is the only good football.
Btw, why do you call your sport football when you don't use your feet? That is a complete Oxymoron...
"The other" Football ~D
I Object to you calling it "The other football" seeing as Football/soccer was invented WAY before American football, like 300 years beforeQuote:
Originally Posted by strike for the south
Still i do have to agree, your version is better....soccer sucks! Go BENGALS
Rugby is good stuff. Soccer is good stuff (love that one announcer ~:) ). Football is good stuff for the 50 minutes they're actually playing out of the 180. Love to watch hurling on the rare occasions its on TV.
For me, however, THE sport is Baseball.
BTW, I define baseball as:
played on a grass and dirt field
wooden bats and leather gloves
no designated hitter
perferably no games before 15 april and none after 15 october
SF
The Phils are only 5 games back...DOOM on the Braves.
"Real" football, a.k.a. soccer, is the best of the bunch, but if you want the greatest sport on earth, it's definitely ice hockey.
I'll always prefer the tactics of football over the duels of baseball. Cricket... I just don't understand. And rugby is like football... just without the whole organization thing weighing it down.
Azi
*cough* Canadian Football *cough*
*whine* *squeak* helmets, protective equipment and blah blah blah
Besides, association football is the chosen sport of God.
Nuf said.Quote:
Gah jocks suck
Nothing comes even close to American football. Its like watching a war for 2 or 3 hours. No other sport has the tactics and strategy of american football . Rugy cant compete with it eother in speed or hard hitting. If american football players didnt wear pads they would kill eachother.
Cant argue with that. NFL also have, in my opinion, the best athetle worldwide. But i enjoy watching the CFL a lot more.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
Its a shame Rugby wasnt on the list, I would certainly have voted for it. But out of those, I would say Soccer. American football is way over-hyped! Its like Rugby with all the brilliance sucked out of it, replacing it with stop/start hinderences that remove all fun and tension.
I suppose it just depends what sports youve always been watching though. One thing to note though is that the rest of the world seems to hold football (as in soccer) in the highest importance, while the US doesnt. The World Cup is THE sporting occasion, probably bigger than the Olympics for a lot of people. But not in the US.
I dout you apprecciate the intricacies of American football or if you even realise whats really going on. Every play is a battle in a war. It has ground attack and air attack and the same on defense. It has everything real war has other than the deaths. Its no wonder many of these guys meet at the end of the game and thank the good lord they didnt get hurt with a prayer.Quote:
Its like Rugby with all the brilliance sucked out of it, replacing it with stop/start hinderences that remove all fun and tension.
I'm trying to think of a war that was like American football.... oh I've got it, the Hundred Years War. Long.
So after each game all the player get on there knees and thank god for not dying, lol, and how can it have air attacks?
The real football of course.
Really? I didn't know he was the father of our saviour ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Louis IV the Fat
For watching I prefer Football and American Football - I like to play Baseball (at least I used to) but for watching I find it to be a tad boring (unless you have something else to do while watching it, like a barbecue ~:) ).
I don't like to watch Cricket but obviously that's mainly because I have no clue about it.
To really appreciate a sport (and to actually be able to judge whether you like it or not) you usually have to be familiar with the rules and its nuances
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Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
Yes entirely, as I said, people will obviously be more fond of sports that they have had more exposure to.
I still fail to see your point though, Rugby has all the things you mentioned (well except for air attack, im not totally sure I follow what you meant with that) and more, and it doesnt have the totally infuriating stop/start thing. Its dynamic, fast, relentless and intelligent.
Gotta go with baseball. In the immortal words of Susan Sarandon (as Annie Savoy):
"I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions, and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I heard that, I gave Jesus a chance. But it just didn't work out between us. The Lord laid too much guilt on me. I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see, there's no guilt in baseball, and it's never boring... which makes it like sex."
rugby, then softball.
Here you go the sport of real men
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But Rugby is also like an hour and a half long battle. Each man working together. The vanguard -- the scrum -- is battling for the ball, and is the first defence. If the enemy breaks through, then it is up to the rear guard -- everybody else playing -- to stop them getting through to HQ -- a try.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
Rugby is also very violent. I did First Aid with St Andrews Ambulance Service for the High School of Dundee (not my school, but the city's only public school) rugby club. I treated things like a mere concussion, to a broken hand, and a couple of times a broken arm. The commandant told me of once quite recently when someone had an open leg fracture -- the bone was sticking out of the skin.
I think I have quite a good grasp of the game - while I enjoy watching it, in most cases I would probably still prefer a good Football matchQuote:
Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
We do grasp the game because we invented the foundations of it, american football has just had the padding and long breaks added on top of rugby.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Actually I did have this experience and I used to cheer for our Highschool team (all the way to the Washington State finals in the Kingdome - which they unfortunately lost :cry:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
In addition we have the most popular professional American Football team in Europe located here in Frankfurt.
So I think my connection goes a bit beyond "understanding the rules" - and I'd like to repeat that I tremendously enjoy watching American Football, but in the end it's the traditional Football games I really can get excited about...
I'm European, and i love American Football...it rocks, do you actually play? cos i play with some friends and i play Tight End (usually defensive but can catch if i want). Its a Great sport and love to watch it...BTW when does season start?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
EDIT: i do object to you saying rugby is a mess, have you actually played it? cos in a scrum you need ALOT of teamwork
it's all a bunch of guys in short shorts or tight pants who like touching each other on their bums... ;)
all sports are good.. hell, i'll even watch golf if nothing else is on. my favorites, atm, are american football, soccer, tennis, and mixed martial arts.
edit: as far as playing (as opposed to watching), nothing beats soccer.. though baskteball comes close.
Ice Hockey.
Hey i forgot one Sport UFC, now there is a mans sport.
I have been a Phils fan since the early 70's :embarassed: and hope theyQuote:
Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh
return to playoff contenders asap.
I played HS baseball and football and went on to play baseball in college ~:cool: . I prefer watching football and playing baseball. Soccer involves
too much running and not enough scoring for me. :dizzy2:
Saying we're going to settle this when nothing will be settled due to the nature of the .org is quite the paradox.
I enjoy American football, but it's not my favourite sport. Favourite sport is European football, followed by rugby, then cricket.
We are all God's children. :book:Quote:
Originally Posted by Brutus
I think the best sport to watch would be an amalgam of Australian rules football, rugby, hang-gliding, water polo, golf, orienteering, target shooting and the Afghan equestrian sport of buzkashi.
Here's how it would work.
The competition begins in two parts. First there's a scrim where a bunch of aggressive individuals with only parts of their ears remaining attempt to keep each other from gaining control of a little white dimpled ball. At the same time, nearby, a bunch of aggressive and water-logged individuals battle each other trying to toss a long thin club with a wedge-shaped terminus into one or the other team's goal. On a successful goal, a team member oddly clad in mismatched but expensive casual wear grabs the club and runs off to chase the little white dimpled ball which has just shot out of the scrim along with miscellaneous pieces of ear. Now, the oddly clad athlete with the club attempts to strike the ball in such a manner as to make it fly down the field toward another goal. In the air, hang-gliding players battle each other, with the opposing side trying to deflect the ball in flight and the supporting flyers attempting to distract the defending flyers by shooting them with rubber bullets.
Now comes the fun part. The course/field stretches through a mine field, a marsh, some woods, and dangerous cliffs and water traps. The orienteering squad attempts to steer their team member in the expensive casual wear toward the final goal, all the while dodging rubber bullets from the air. As they near the goal, battling groups of horse-riding nomads attempt to gain the advantage. The equestrian team which succeeds in getting closest to the player in the expensive and mismatched casual wear smack him upside the head with a lead-filled blackjack and drag him on the ground while hanging sideways off their saddles toward the other team's goal while the opposing team attempts to steal their casual wear guy back. A successful score entails tossing the limp guy in the casual wear over a goal for points. Then we return to the scrim and water portion of the contest for the next round.
Soccer aka 'real football'.
USA football is boring, with all the small breaks. Baseball is really boring.
Really? That happened to my former HS somewhat recently. Might I inquire as to where you went?Quote:
all the way to the Washington State finals in the Kingdome - which they unfortunately lost
Crazed Rabbit
Played Football (Soccer) wing, back and goalie for my school. Plenty of blood noses. Even played a version of Football on ashphalt courts using a tennis ball... plenty of skinned knees.
Played Rugby League at lunch breaks at school and cricket too. Chipped my teeth down to the point that they are level with the rest despite starting at least 3mms longer.
Played Union on the weekends. Wing. Starting playing after a mate got his arm broken by the rest of my mates and said 'This is the game for me.'
Played American Football, Corner Back and Special Teams. Broke my collar bone in two places... but denied the running back his touch down. ~D
I have played both Baseball and Softball (mainly softball as we played mixed teams). Pitcher and fielder... not so good at batting, for some reason I could only really hit balls with a lot of spin on them. :dizzy2:
Played a tiny amount of Aussie Rules. Watched a lot more, great spectator sport.
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Cricket people do die... check out the amount of padding in Cricket, the hardness of the ball (it is like a field hockey ball (played that too) with a hard ridge) and the speed at which it is bowled.
Rugby Union... the forwards (the stocky, big guys... Orcs) tend to get their necks broken in the scrums.
I'm a Prop!!! i'm gonna get my neck broken!!!!
Yeah i dont understand why people say Cricket is boring, if you watched the last day of the test at Old trafford a couple of days ago, you'd understand why people are nterested in it
Rugby IS pretty badass. The uniforms suck and look like clowns, but who cares when you can punch somebody in the head while running full speed!Quote:
Originally Posted by King Ragnar
For me it is a real close call between American Football and "the other" Football. But in the end I choose American Football baby! :bow:
Baseball. Now that there's a proper thread, I shall unleash and reiterate.
Soccer and football are more popular than baseball because they are easy to understand. Baseball is the alternative (and maybe Cricket, but I don't live where it's played so I'll never end up giving it a chance).
(All you naughty Americans who are acting as if only you understand this sport need to get over yourselves. Anyone who has the attention span to last a 15 minute quarter can figure the game out. The strategy basically consists of the skill an amateur poker player needs. [They're gonna run? Load the box. They're gonna pass? Dime coverage. Oh, we guessed wrong? Touchdown.])
Football coaches don't even know how to get kicked out of a game properly.
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1. Parity — Baseball has it. Football doesn't. Baseball has had five champions the last five years. The New England Patriots have won something like 20 straight Super Bowls.
2. Cheerleaders — Football has them. Baseball doesn't. Never has. Never will. Baseball doesn't need sex to sell its game.
3. Major League Players Association — Unlike football, baseball has a union that's strong and vibrant and watches out for the best interests of its players. There'll never be a salary cap in baseball.
4. Fenway Park — There's a magic there unlike any other place in sports. There's a stateliness that transcends even the special things that have happened there.
5. The Rocket — Every time he walks to the mound, it's an event. At 42, Roger Clemens has 328 victories, 4,317 strikeouts and seven Cy Young Awards. There has never been one like him.
6. Cooperstown, N.Y. — Baseball's Hall of Fame is so splendidly done, it would be special anyplace they put it. But having it in this lovely village enhances what's special. Football can't even come up with a legitimate selection process.
7. Instant replay — Let's stop a perfectly good game for 15 minutes while a guy looks at a television screen to find out what happened. Baseball understands the human element is part of the game.
8. Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell — They're beginning their 15th season together. They define professional and performance.
9. Quarterback ratings — Leave it to football to make one of its most important statistics one that almost no one understands.
10. All-Star Game — It's one of the showcase events in sports. It even counts for something. Does football still play the Pro Bowl?
11. Slogans — Football coaches paste them all over their locker rooms as if players have to be constantly reminded that playing hard and being unselfish is important. Most baseball players get it.
12. SBC Park — Stand on the walkway behind the right-field wall and take in the bay, emerald green field, San Francisco skyline and smell of garlic fries. There might not be a better place on earth.
13. Box scores — One of the most important inventions of the last 100 or so years.
14. Overtime games — You mean a coin flip could decide it?
15. Bud Selig — He's the guy in your neighborhood who almost everyone likes. He's revered by players and owners alike for his integrity and toughness. His legacy will include labor peace, wild-card berths, interleague play and record-setting attendance. He'll be the commissioner all future ones will be measured against.
16. Paul Tagliabue — If we admired smugness, we'd make him king of the world.
17. Janet Jackson — You don't have to ask, do you?
18. Dodger Dogs — Research shows they're as close to the perfect food as now exists. And the setting at Dodger Stadium ain't too bad, either.
19. Quarterback school — Is it where you go to finish your degree? Why does the NFL have so many of them? There must be some really dumb quarterbacks.
20. 56 — Every baseball fan knows Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak is the single most unbreakable record in sports. Or maybe it's Ted Williams' .406 batting average in 1941. Or Nolan Ryan's 5,714 career strikeouts. Baseball's numbers are more than just numbers. They shake memories, provide reference points and are unlike those in any other sport.
21. Ticket prices — Take out a second mortgage if you want to see your favorite NFL team. Better yet, come to the ballpark, where there are still good seats for under $20.
22. Milo Hamilton — He's not the radio voice of the Astros as much as he's the background music of our summers. It's the same with Vin Scully in Los Angeles, Marty Brennaman in Cincinnati, Eric Nadel in Texas, Jon Miller in San Francisco and others. They're constant reminders why we love it.
23. Autograph — Baseball players sign 'em almost every day. Football players don't get close enough to the fans.
24. Bull Durham/Field of Dreams — Baseball has inspired wonderful movies. Football has North Dallas Forty.
25. Ballpark nachos — They remain Arlington Stadium's lasting contribution to the game. They have all the basic food groups. Napkins required.
26. Terrell Owens — Baseball would consider him a bore. Football sees him as a cult hero.
27. Billy Wagner — He's 5-9 and throws 100 mph. Next.
28. September — There's nothing like the grinding, relentless pressure of a pennant race. The season rides on almost every pitch. The players are physically spent and mentally exhausted, and yet, they remember forever how great it was.
29. Coaches who sleep in their offices — Does it really help? What exactly are you trying to prove? Baseball managers go to dinner, not to the office, after games.
30. The World Series — Nine days. Seven games. Curt Schilling's stitched ankle. Priceless.
Well now i know from where does that military tradition of USA ~;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
Of the list i would say fútbol (yes this is how we call it here), but i like Basketball avobe all (why is cricket on the list and not basketball or rugby?).
And i've a question for yankees: Why is that you call your champions "World Champions" when you only play beetween your own people? I mean we breaked your asses on basketball on the Olympics.
Also i see that USA is isolated of the rest of the world respecting sports, you will always find your own sports to be the best because you loose at the rest... ~;)
Because we are thats just how the wrold works and if hate us you are one of these 4 thingsQuote:
Originally Posted by Soulforged
1. A terrorist
2. An America hater because we kick as*
3. You just hate freedom
4. A Commie
I love sarcasm yes I do ~D
Just as i thought. ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by strike for the south
But from now own we here will start to say that we are the champions of the world in fútbol and in pato (you don't know this one).
Btw i'm not commie but an anarquist, still come and get me, i will use your M16 to make you a bunch of holes. :charge:
Always found that interesting. In US it's considered a sport to FALL of a hourse. In Europe you make them jump or compete on a track. Must be a cultural difference...... ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Redleg
Soul you wanna throw down son :charge:
P.S Sorry I thought it was Bmolsson Same avatars :furious3:
Well here we combine the two... ~D :duel:Quote:
Originally Posted by bmolsson
Oh really. Another for my silliest things ever said in the tavernQuote:
Also i see that USA is isolated of the rest of the world respecting sports, you will always find your own sports to be the best because you loose at the rest...
All-Time Medal Standings, Summer Games, 1896-2000
G S B Total
1 United States 872 658 586 2116
2 USSR (1952-88) 395 319 296 1010
3 Great Britain 180 233 225 638
4 France 188 193 217 598
5 Italy 179 143 157 479
6 Sweden 136 156 177 469
7 East Germany (1968-88) 159 150 136 445
8 Hungary 150 135 158 443
9 Germany (1896-64,92–) 137 138 160 435
10 Australia 102 110 138 350
Lose at the rest indeed. No other nation comes close.
Well i knew that man, you think i didn't? ~D ...But USA still loses at soccer, rugby, polo...
My My They do?Quote:
..But USA still loses at soccer, rugby, polo...
Also i see that Britain is isolated of the rest of the world respecting sports, you will always find your own sports to be the best because you loose at the rest... ~D
We have too many sports here and of course ares are the best. Again nothing comes close to NFL football. Have any of you actually gone 2 a game and gotten close 2 the field during a game? The sounds are unreal.
That's not true, i said that basketball was the best.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
Have you been in a stadium of soccer here and seing everybody sing and scream an getting up on the fences until throwing it down. And then rob (yes rob) the players, it's quite a savage show, at least more savage that any NFL game ~D . You have to come here and go to the stadium of Boca Juniors (specially when it's vs. River Plate), you will notice the stadium vibrate, and i'm talking literally, with all the people screaming, jumping and sometimes fighting the edification vibrates. Advertence: You may be robbed during your visit ~;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
If we take the population in to consideration. US has about 35 times large population than Sweden, which makes it more interesting. Also to note that today parts of 2, plus 3,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 are all in EU......Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
Just for the record..... ~:cheers:
Well you are suppose to stay on the damn thing - except the horse doesn't want you to be on its back.Quote:
Originally Posted by bmolsson
Jumping horses is okay to - my aunt and mom both were accomplished 3-day eventers.
Ouch that hurts!! :duel:Quote:
Originally Posted by Redleg
I am no slouch in ridding and jumping horses myself - but no where near the class of my mother or her sister. Back in the 1960's my aunt made the final round for the US Olympic Team - unfortunely her horse took a spill and they had to put it down.Quote:
Originally Posted by Soulforged
Im sure a Football game(proper football) would beat an NFL game by miles, the sound would be far better, also Gawain i still dont know how you can describe a NFL game like a war ~:confused:. Also the Premiership in England is the best league in the world, it has fans from everywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
I know the game very well. Been watching it for more than 3 years now - occasionally play it (or a lighter version of it) with my friends and I've got Madden NFL on the pc too.
But still, football beats american rugby ~;)
Y'know this is just turning into another "We're better than you!" threadThe Americans Say the USA kicks everyone but all the other countries are saying the same thing about THEIR country, this isn't about sport, this is about politics.
Yet another innocent thread hacked into by politics :stop: ~:doh:
Lol American Rugby ~DQuote:
Originally Posted by Sjakihata
So do you. American and Australian football and rugby are all just bastardised versions of football, invented in the town of rugby in England.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gawain of Orkeny
I went to Juanita High in Kirkland - quite some time ago (1986).Quote:
Originally Posted by Crazed Rabbit
IIRC we lost the final to Gonzaga Prep that year.
All suck....
Basketball rulzzz.....
Again check the olympic stats. We rule all of sports while you are only good at the ones you invented. ~;)Quote:
So do you. American and Australian football and rugby are all just bastardised versions of football, invented in the town of rugby in England.
Yes the crowd is but not the players. Bye the way I played on a championship soccer team in HS. We came in second in the state. I know all about soccer. Its a great game and takes much more stamina than football as you never get a break espically playing a forward like it did. But football is far more physical a game.Quote:
Have you been in a stadium of soccer here and seing everybody sing and scream an getting up on the fences until throwing it down. And then rob (yes rob) the players, it's quite a savage show, at least more savage that any NFL game
What sound? Soccer is silent compared to football.Quote:
Im sure a Football game(proper football) would beat an NFL game by miles, the sound would be far better
Then again I suggest you have no grasp of football. The coaches maje up a war plan. They study the enemies forces and how they use them and come up with both a defense and an offense to take advantage of this. Every play is drawn out and practiced just like we practiced for d day. There is the ground attack of the half backs and fullbacks and sometimes the quarterback. Theres the aerial attack of the OB and the recivers. Then theres the real war in the trenches and thats exactly what its called. In every way football can be compared to war.Quote:
also Gawain i still dont know how you can describe a NFL game like a war
WE ALL know IDPA is the most fun and hardest sport......(I suck at it though....I lose....every time)
But sense most here do not know what it is(and it is illegal in many countries :embarassed: ) and those that do probably do not think it is a sport :dizzy2: I will have to say that basket ball is the best ~:cheers: No normal sport can beat basket ball.
(here is idpa)
http://www.idpa.com/
PS please don't start debating wether this sport should be allowed or not.
You know what else is a good sport? Shinty. And can be damned violent, too.
Shinty? ~:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by King Malcolm
Is that something naughty?
"The REAL" football.
Cricket is good for the lazy ones (like me) who field miles out on the side the ball never gets hit to. It's ideal for games lessons. Until you are actually expected to wake up and catch it...
shintyQuote:
Originally Posted by Ser Clegane
Fantastic! You're even better at bringing up guns no matter what the subject than I am in mentioning France or Navaros mentioning God. :beam:Quote:
Originally Posted by ceasar010
The way I look at is alot of people always bring up their favorite computer game or what ever is their favorite thing to do.(for example when talking about iraq on here, I have seen people bring total war into it some how!)
With me that is target shooting....if I had to choose between it and total war, total war is gone ~:cheers:
Target shooting is the most addicting thing you will ever try (if you do try it, and I suggest you do!)
American Football all the way.
Far more phyiscal than soccer.
I played soccer, and its fun I admit. However, to me it seemed repeditive, and not as thrilling as football.
Football, man, talk about big.
(And the New England Patriots have not won twenty, only five)
The greatest thing about AFootball is that almost every state has a team, and made couple more. Its electrifying here in Tallahassee (FSU!) every game we play. Especailly so when we play Florida and Miami.
Football is great, cause it is all about your strategy.
You got a buncha fast guys, go for a running play.
Good QB, with an eye for a reciever, good senses for pocket, you got a throwing play.
If you got both, then your really good. There is an element of randomness to it, along with strategy.
For example, FSU sometimes plays like this.
Running play, running play, airborne!
Its the perfect center between baseball (real long, with no defined end) and basketball (very fast paced)
Another thing is at the endzone. Especailly third down, on the fifth. You gonna throw? Are you going to run it through the center.
But this is all a waste of cyberspace, because no one will care.
If alot of European (namely British) people log on, then they will no doubt vote EFootball. If alot of Americans log on, then it would be AFootball.
(Also, my money is on Frankfurt this year, but my heritage wants me to root for Claymores)
Why do you NFL lovers seem to think that American Football is the only sport with strategy and extremely complicated set pieces? Believe me, Rugby has a hell of a lot of this too. Look at a line-out, a scrum, a back line manouver... pretty much every part of the game relies on calls and plans from either the scrum half, the hooker, the no 8, or whoever.
The REAL Football rules over all! The Premiere League is the best thing in the world of sports IMO. Even though those poor English can't beat the Italians in their own games ~;)
NFL got little interest from outside US, probably only in America (cont.) and Japan, while Football - i.e. REAL football, not American version of rugby - has fans all over the world. A glaring proof to its superiority. ~D
Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's worthwhile. (cigarettes, fast food, television, soccer, etc)
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Originally Posted by King Malcolm
Had a quick glance at that website, it looks kind of like Hurling.
If you want a great game, check out Hurling by the way. Its Europe's oldest field game (the Celts brought it to Ireland at least 2000 yeasr ago), and also the fastest in the world. Its basically two teams of 15 crazy Celts armed with large weapon-like devices known as Hurleys and a hard hockey-like ball known as a sliothar, running around a large field beating the living hell out of each other. Your not meant to hit the other guy with your Hurl, only tackle him, but its pretty common, and these guys often dont even wear helmets, hard as nails. There are two goals at either end. A ball over the cross-bar gets one point, under the cross btsar is a goal and that counts as three poin. A player can not carry the ball more than 4 paces, having then to balance it on the stick or pass it. You should give it a watch, its really great. As is Gaelic football! ~:)