On December 11 2008 17:23 Klive5ive wrote: It's easy to make fun of American "RARELY GETS TOUCHED BY THE" foot ball, because the sport IS a joke.
How can you have the "best" American football player.
Every role in the team is like another different game. It's not really a team sport more a business venture with different departments specialising in a range of unique things. The "Defense" department specialising in outgoing finances for example.
Then you need 500 pounds worth of padding just to start. Then it's only played by a very very select group of individuals who are streamlined from a young age to be football players and nothing else.
Every tried playing a game of American football in your back yard? I bet that's a joke.
The reason real football is the most popular sport in the world is because it's so awesomely simple to play yet so incredibly hard to master. It's the energetic equivalent of starcraft.
All you need is a ball and a few friends and you can have a great time for hours and hours, in fact there is hardly anything I would rather do than play football. I could play it for days.
Americans have done a brilliant job of making a national sport that is only fun to watch on TV, it's the end product of years of ridiculous over ruling and American's special brand of capatalism. The people that win are the businessman that own the clubs and the TV stations. Whilst your average fan at the game gets to see 10 minutes of decent action spread over an entire day, which is then further ruined by ridiculous refereeing.
On December 11 2008 04:09 Liquid`Drone wrote: as the other thread was trolled and you also used the term "real football" in the post body I certainly wont stop anyone else. :p
On December 11 2008 10:19 SpiralArchitect wrote: LOL All the people that bitched about their football thread getting trolled are doing the exact same thing... nice.
I will just remind your posts in the other thread.
On November 29 2008 05:14 SpiralArchitect wrote: Marshall Faulk :D (American Football ftw!)
On December 06 2008 06:22 SpiralArchitect wrote: I played soccer for a long time and I really love it but football is the ultimate mother fucking sport gentleman. Theres nothing like sitting in the stands with 60k people and watching my favorite college team (BYU) trash on their opponents. I am sure you all get the same feeling for soccer, to each his own :D
On December 06 2008 06:34 SpiralArchitect wrote: ^ Well I am talking about amateur teams here. I sat in Mile High Stadium and watched the Broncos with over 100k people... Like I said to each his own, this argument is not one that can be won by either side. Personally I like my football and I am sure you like yours :D
On December 06 2008 07:25 SpiralArchitect wrote: Because America is the manliest nation in the world, one time I was digging a hole and steak sauce came oozing out. True story. Thats how fucking manly America is. FOOTBALL (not sissy soccer) is the greatest sport in the world, one time I was watching it from home on my HUGE MOTHER FUCKING AMERICAN TV and I got knocked out by the sheer intensity of Marshal "The Manly Man" Faulks running abilities. In contrast one time I was watching soccer and I think I felt my penis go back inside of me. Luckily I was able to change the station before my manhood was taken from me by you sissy ass Europeans and your shitty ass game. FUCK YOUR FOOTBALL.
The only way to solve this is to get the manly men from our American leagues and your sissy men from your Euro leagues and have them duke it out to the death. Who do you think will win? HINT: AMERICA!
On December 06 2008 07:36 SpiralArchitect wrote: This guy lives in America, do you really want to mess with us?
On December 06 2008 20:38 SpiralArchitect wrote: AmERICA OWNZ
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On December 11 2008 10:25 SpiralArchitect wrote: I guess I shouldnt really be talking though since I set off the whole troll in the other thread. Sorry
Agreed.
Lol that is obviously a fucking joke, i never ragged on your game or anything. Besides Marshall Faulk is the best football player ever.
There was a guy I knew who was completely backward fucking in love with American Football. And whenever I would jokingly make fun of it being called football, he would get very angry and explode into a tirade about why it was named football.
He claimed that it was named football because it was played on foot, as opposed to horse (aka Polo) which was supposedly big around the time of the sports invention. I always thought it was weird though, it's not like Polo was called Horseball or anything...
On December 11 2008 20:35 TheTyranid wrote: I never understood the US "soccer is boring" stereotype.
They watch BORING ASS BASEBALL. It makes no sense. :S
By the way American Football is a good sport. Much better than it's Rugby counterpart. It wouldn't be a bad idea to add it to the Olympics.
lol don't get me wrong, American Football may be great, but there is NO use in adding it to the Olympics, simply because there is only one country in which it is played. it would be one more instant gold medall for the US
I am from austria, and it's supposed to be big here, austrian teams won 4 out of the last 8 EFAF-Cups....but lol it has no publicity (nearly no tv time, nearly no articles in the newspapers) nobody cares about it, I mean really nobody is interested in it
and I don't think rugby is boring, the WC 2007 was really awesome (nearly as awesome as the real football WC)
PS: and I really wanted to FUCKING TROLL your thread, like destroying our thread, which I really liked -.-
That would be a technical KO in boxing or something. But here they don't even check if he's ok and the coach tells him to stand in front again with the hands in front of his face? Does he want that guy to die or something?
He can't even stand up straight.
Doesn't he know how fucking dangerous that is? If you get two heavy knocks to the head and then suffer brain damage and die in his sleep. Not the first time that would happen.
Over here they have made special instructions in the case two players hit their heads against each other or if they are hit by the ball against the head. If he sees double or feels dizzy, forced sub to protect his brain. Yeah, you always see people play on at the pro level and suffer concussions and be out for a while. Like that goalkeeper from AZ. He was out for like 14 months and then still suffered from that blow to the head.
Not to mention it's a yellow card to stand in front and a red card to throw the ball in someone's face.
I can see the yellow for obstructing, but why would it be a red for throwing it at him? You can't prove that was malicious--he clearly can launch the ball lol. Even if it was malicious, it's just the same as ripping your first freekick at the wall as hard as you can to scare them into moving the next time.
On December 11 2008 17:23 Klive5ive wrote: How can you have the "best" American football player.
Every role in the team is like another different game. It's not really a team sport more a business venture with different departments specialising in a range of unique things. The "Defense" department specialising in outgoing finances for example.
Yeah, it certainly is harder to define a "best" player with multiple positions; that's why they generally make pro-bowl teams and All-American teams for this instead of best player. However, you should not really be surprised when a running back or quarter back wins it for this type of award which is why the question is being raised.
Then you need 500 pounds worth of padding just to start. Then it's only played by a very very select group of individuals who are streamlined from a young age to be football players and nothing else.
What the fuck? Are you serious. I can play with no pads with my friends in my back yard if I truly wanted to. You don't need to be a member of some special elite "football playing" caste in order to be capable of playing the game. And nice over extension on the hyperbole, as I'm sure you'd like to play high-level competitive American football without pads (you realize how many fucking injuries happen with them anyway). Oh, and I'm sure you need to be a "streamlined from a young age" football player to be good at the highest-level of football as well.
Every tried playing a game of American football in your back yard? I bet that's a joke.
Not really. I used to do it a lot with my friends. It's not that fucking difficult.
The reason real football is the most popular sport in the world is because it's so awesomely simple to play yet so incredibly hard to master. It's the energetic equivalent of starcraft.
American football isn't that much horrifically different. It's easy to lob a ball to one of your buddy receivers. It's much more difficult being capable of reading zone coverages, dissecting a defense while a 300 pound mammoth is running a 4.7 40-yard dash speed ready to pound your ass into the ground.
All you need is a ball and a few friends and you can have a great time for hours and hours, in fact there is hardly anything I would rather do than play football. I could play it for days.
As could I with American football.
Americans have done a brilliant job of making a national sport that is only fun to watch on TV, it's the end product of years of ridiculous over ruling and American's special brand of capatalism. The people that win are the businessman that own the clubs and the TV stations. Whilst your average fan at the game gets to see 10 minutes of decent action spread over an entire day, which is then further ruined by ridiculous refereeing.
What the fuck? I'm not even going to respond to the first half of this paragraph since it's so overwhelming with stupidity. Your second half is completely flawed as well, due to the fact that there generally is enough action that the ten minutes more than make up for it (and let's not forget that football also has its massive downtimes [especially when players flop...]) and there can be some pretty ludicrous refereeing in football as well.
If you want to continue to argue semantics, you will not receive any more word from me because this isn't the topic of discussion of this thread. If you really want to make a discussion over the "OMG MAI SP0RT R BETUH THAN URS!" conversation that you're attempting to hold here, make a new thread for it and watch it be closed near-instantly since no good argument will ever come from it. Until you do that, get the fuck out of the thread or list the best American football player you've ever seen. And judging by your lack of understanding of the sport, I guess that would be a question you would be incapable of answering.
Anyways, to the OP:
Barry Sanders is definitely a sexy pick with his special pizazz. But Seneca Wallace, really?
EPT
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