Football easy. basketball is way to reptitive to me, and I am rarely impressed by the highlights. and i can't stand the last two minutes of the game that take over a 1/2 hour to play.
Can somebody plz expalin the simple rules of american football. To me it looks like a very stop start complicated version of rugby and living where american football isn't played i have extremly limited knowledge.
Football easy. basketball is way to reptitive to me, and I am rarely impressed by the highlights. and i can't stand the last two minutes of the game that take over a 1/2 hour to play.
No need for me to say much since you pretty much took the words out of my mouth. Watching highlights, the best thing you see is a dunk. And then you say "Whoa, a jam. Haven't seen that before."
No surprise that Europeans don't vote for American football.
I don't blame them either, if I were to choose between rugby and basketball I'd take basketball.
I'm european and i prefer basketball. American football just looks like the most complicated version of rugby i've ever seen. They even wear helmets and padding. One word - Wosses. Rugby is more physical and more violent.
If you didn't live in Europe you would think differently. Just like if I didn't live in North America.
Not really, I get to watch both sports if I wanted to, my nationallity has nothing to do with it. Rugby just attracts me more because they don't have any protection and the play just keeps on going. With AF you constantly have to wait 2 minutes before you get to see 10 seconds (tops) of play, waaaaay too many stoppages for me. Completely ruins the entertainment..
Rugby is more about just plain tackling. You don't see the bone-crunching hits you see in the NFL.
Do you watch Rugby much. Rugby has so many more tackles and is a lot rougher. I still have to play it as a core subject and it is dangerous. Try being in a scrum. It kills your back, neck, you get kicked, stood on, jumped on etc.
In my opinion football is the best sport to watch after hockey. It's even better a lot of the time. You want to talk boring let's bring soccer (football to you) into the mix. Watching a chess match or spelling bee might be a better option then sitting through a soccer game for me.
No surprise that Europeans don't vote for American football.
Wrong. I'm European and I LOVE football.
Fo me it took 8 Panthers games on TV, 3-6 games of College Football & 6 games of HS Football (Go Bisons!!!*g*) to get used to Football and to understand it, not completely though.
If didn't know that I was a Football fan, until Chad Cota interceped a TD pass after a goal-line stand in the season final vs. the Steelers.
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Watching a chess match or spelling bee might be a better option then sitting through a *soccer* game for me.
Do you watch Rugby much. Rugby has so many more tackles and is a lot rougher. I still have to play it as a core subject and it is dangerous. Try being in a scrum. It kills your back, neck, you get kicked, stood on, jumped on etc.
You don't have nearly the caliber of athletes playing it though. Plus, I would highly question the validity of the 'a lot rougher' statement. Have NFL players play rugby, your back wouldn't be killed. You would be killed.
