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Couldn't agree more. I'm agreeing with a Scouser. What is the world coming to?
It's because you know who the bigger force is after sunday.
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Based on what people over here say, people don't like/watch Football because it's "too slow" or "because they wear too much padding" etc, and that's what the NFL will have to get round to make the sport a big player in the UK sports scene.
Well, considering football was almost banned in the US (back in the early 1900's) because of all the injuries and deaths that were happening pre-pads, I doubt the NFL or players union would sanction a padless NFL game.
I wonder how many guys would like to encounter Big Vince on the pitch with zero pads?
Perhaps a few years back- Beckham vs Rodney?
My guess is it all comes down to the two fanbases having no clue what they are actually watching.
I wonder how many guys would like to encounter Big Vince on the pitch with zero pads?
Perhaps a few years back- Beckham vs Rodney?
My guess is it all comes down to the two fanbases having no clue what they are actually watching.
Now I'm a football fan, but you should watch some high-level rugby union sometime. Those guys tackle as hard as football players and with much better form. The big guys aren't as big (300 pounds, tops), but top-level locks, loose forwards and three-quarters have all the physical attributes to make *evil* football players. Incidentally, many of the best rugby players are, like Seau, able to trace their heritage back to Pacific Islanders...
But there are guys everywhere in top rugby who'd have made decent NFL prospects. Someone like Martin Johnson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Johnson_(rugby_union)) - 6'6", 260lbs, can handle the ball at least as well as any NFL player, fiercely smart, and hits like a maniac. He'd be a world-class linebacker/FB/TE if he'd played football from an early age.
That's something which gets lost in the NFL-team-in-Europe discussion. If there's a team based here, and there's serious effort to mine the talent pool, there'll be more Vollmers and there'll be guys like Martin Johnson (or Jason White, 6'5"/240lb of hitting venom and former Scotland captain) who wind up playing NFL ball. It has a real chance to grow the talent pool.
Wilfork would be absolutely useless in a 'soccer' game.
Being a fan of both sports, i really hate the ignorant trash spouted by idiots like this guy on either side of the 'argument'. They're different sports, they require a different set of skills and body type. Get over it and stop being so childish.
Tampon on too tight?
Get a grip Maurice Ronald.
My point is that wearing "pads" doesn't make American football wussy.
Also, note the fanbase comments. Watching the "finer points" of soccer is as brain dead as reading your comments.
What could possibly be the point of chastising UK American Football fans -- who are even NE Pats fans -- for not renouncing soccer? Are you practicing for a later go at Red Sox fans, perhaps?
Football American style happens to be the only professional sport I care to follow these days. I don't like soccer, but I don't much care for baseball or hockey either. Still, I don't feel a need to attack fans of other sports to justify my focus on football. I understand that some fans manage to care about more than one sport at a time.
Why are you picking such a pointless fight with fellow Patriot fans?
Theres confusion here. The Rugby players have always said NFL players are girls because they wear pads, end of the day it's just banter and quite a few Rugby players follow the NFL. It's not serious. It's not the case for "Britain" as a whole, Britain has bigger problems than who's got the bigger muscles or who would win in a fight between Beckham and Harrison or other macho bull sh!t.
For the majority in Britain it's soccer and the fans of that don't give a sh!t what other sports have or do. It's the biggest sport in the world so why should they...
We seem to be a lil testy across the pond.
We seem to be a lil testy across the pond.
I couldn't give a rat's rear what soccer fans do or think.
If they don't like "American football" because they don't understand, fine.
If they don't like the pace, fine.
However, if "fans" (not players) think pads are wuzzy; that's rather absurd. They are also not the type of "fans" to target for wider appeal. The IQ isn't there for things like "Cover 2", "Spread Offenses", or "Zone Bltzes".
Football does have an advantage over Soccer with it being physical and no players rolling around on the floor pretending to be injured, or acting like they've been shot, but Rugby has the same advantages in that respect.
Based on what people over here say, people don't like/watch Football because it's "too slow" or "because they wear too much padding" etc, and that's what the NFL will have to get round to make the sport a big player in the UK sports scene.
This is my experience living abroad and hanging out with a lot of Brits, Aussies, South Africans, as well as other Europeans who like rugby. It's more the long stoppages in between play, especially the awful sequence after a touchdown with all the TV time outs. Can't say as I am a big fan of that either.
In respect of the "too much padding" complaint, many rugby fans don't understand that the contact is very different. NFL players hit with a lot of more speed and launch their bodies into other guys - you can't do that in rugby, you get penalized as well as badly injured because they don't have the helmets and padding (and yes, rugby players do wear light body armor and head protection now). It's just a different game. I love them both, the Six Nations, Tri-Nations and World Cup are amazing and I think any NFL fan would get into it in a very short time if they lived abroad.