or if Americans knew the meaning of words, they’d realise that in FOOTball, the ball should be hit with the FOOT, and not carried or thrown by 95% of the players :-P
I’m a girl. I don’t play EITHER version of football. I like both versions (college football and FIFA/Olympic soccer). This just wouldn’t happen–that forward can outrun the lineman any day and a midfielder could run circles around the whole team–all day long. However, IF the American football player could catch the soccer star–he’d get creamed.
Hmmm, why are Americans so keen to boast that their parochial national game is in any way comparable to Association Football, the worlds biggest sport. full stop (or period for my American friends). Played and loved by almost every nation in the world versus a sport with more breaks than action? I enjoy watching American football, but it’s not a patch on the beautiful game.
American football comes from rugby breeding with Association Football. It is a completely different sport with far more complex plays, strategies and rules. You might as well be comparing hockey to baseball. The better sport is the one that you enjoy to play or watch.
matey just got a red card!
Oh as my college football coach once said after a hard week of 2-a-days, “If football was easy, there wouldn’t be any soccer.”
Or if Americans weren’t wusses they’d play rugby and take the helmets & padding off :)
Or, if British folks wore helmets, there wouldn’t be so many road signs that read, “Nearest Dentist: 240 miles.” :)
or if Americans knew the meaning of words, they’d realise that in FOOTball, the ball should be hit with the FOOT, and not carried or thrown by 95% of the players :-P
Or if Brits knew how to spell the words they could sharpen up skills on rules they don’t know how to read
or if Americans could speak ENGLISH the way ENGLISH is spoken and spelt, then they would be speaking ENGLISH and not a bastardised version
I’m a girl. I don’t play EITHER version of football. I like both versions (college football and FIFA/Olympic soccer). This just wouldn’t happen–that forward can outrun the lineman any day and a midfielder could run circles around the whole team–all day long. However, IF the American football player could catch the soccer star–he’d get creamed.
Hmmm, why are Americans so keen to boast that their parochial national game is in any way comparable to Association Football, the worlds biggest sport. full stop (or period for my American friends). Played and loved by almost every nation in the world versus a sport with more breaks than action? I enjoy watching American football, but it’s not a patch on the beautiful game.
American football comes from rugby breeding with Association Football. It is a completely different sport with far more complex plays, strategies and rules. You might as well be comparing hockey to baseball. The better sport is the one that you enjoy to play or watch.