American Football is WAY more exciting than Soccer
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EricaRene-Price — 11 years ago(December 04, 2014 09:20 PM)
Soccer is fun to watch until players start diving left and right. I hate that aspect of the game. Unlike most Americans I like a good 1-0 or 2-1 match because the anticipation a goal late in the match is great. Where I disagree with your point is when you say Rugby is better than our football. Our players wear pads and helmets because the hits are 10x more vicious than anything you will see in rugby. American football players are much faster, bigger and tougher than Europeans seem to think. The equipment is necessary to avoid brain damage.
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gsfsu — 10 years ago(May 27, 2015 11:16 AM)
There's also the patriotic competition angle, with each team representing their nation in the World Cup, something you just don't get with American football.
The USA is a big country and rife with geographic competition which more than makes up for the inter-country rivalries for the rest of the world. There it is countries. Here it is cities.
As for skill..I've played both games and can tell you there is a ton more to learn in American football than in soccer. The only edge soccer has is the players are generally not substituted during the game but then they are generally much smaller people and not carrying all that "armor" around nor are they being hit and tackled near as often.
Plus, American football has both an offensive and defensive game within a game. Soccer is predominately a defensive game with very little lasting offense. -
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Hippo9 — 11 years ago(December 17, 2014 04:35 PM)
American football is watered down. Pretty soon they will be playing in ballet tutus and outlaw all tackling. Of the big sports it's most in jeopardy of being extinct in 20 years.
It's also really not that high scoring as you just basically multiply 6,7,8 to each score. In reality there are only a couple scores a game just like soccer.
Soccer could just multiply each goal by 100 and then magically it would be a high scoring game for those American football fanboi simpletons. -
nephihaha — 11 years ago(March 10, 2015 08:30 AM)
It's never really taken off outside the USA either. There are teams in Europe, but considering the time, energy and money put into promoting it here, it's still a tiny sport.
I blame this partly on the large amount of kit you have to buy. Rugby's also responsible.
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gsfsu — 10 years ago(May 27, 2015 11:20 AM)
I blame this partly on the large amount of kit you have to buy.
Agreed. This is primarily why soccer is so popular around the world and particularly the "poor" world - all you need is a ball. (Also why basketball is most popular with the poorer neighborhoods in the USA.) -
longbond — 10 years ago(May 26, 2015 04:25 PM)
I agree that American football isn't the game it used to be. Also, the NFL's recent foray into politics and activist causes is going to be a long-term problem for their brand's fan loyalty long after they've scored their short-term Eddie Haskell suck-up points.
On the matter of scoring, the extremely low-scoring in soccer is not good because outcomes lack statistical significance, mathematically. The American motto goes, "may the best man/team win", but you can make scoring so ridiculously infrequent that a team of klutzes like me would tie a team of seasoned pros. With higher-scoring, there's a reduced likelihood of a fluky outcome. -
jamotide — 9 years ago(May 05, 2016 03:09 PM)
On the matter of scoring, the extremely low-scoring in soccer is not good because outcomes lack statistical significance, mathematically. The American motto goes, "may the best man/team win", but you can make scoring so ridiculously infrequent that a team of klutzes like me would tie a team of seasoned pros. With higher-scoring, there's a reduced likelihood of a fluky outcome.
That is what makes it exciting. Anyway, this only works in the top leagues, there is no way a team of klutzes like us could tie seasoned pros, not even seasoned amateurs. But I do not blame you, even die hard football fans cannot appreciate just how good these pros are until they have tried to play properly on a real pitch themselves. Even basic stuff like just passing the ball around is really difficult. Biggest problem in our klutz league actually.
Also there is mostly no low scoring in the klutz leagues, most games have 5 to 10 goals or more. Goalkeeping is also unbelievably much harder than it looks. -
gsfsu — 10 years ago(May 27, 2015 11:22 AM)
I am a long-time viewer of televised (American) football and have played the game since junior high school. I too agree that the pro game is too slow and predictable. That is why I gave it up a decade ago and watch only the college game now. Much more exciting on the field and in the stands as well.
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joelgibbo7 — 9 years ago(May 26, 2016 03:34 PM)
Football is a global sport, all children need is something to kick and you can play. Even in the poorest corner of the planet, children can play barefoot, and become global superstars. The beautiful game, beautiful in its purity and simplicity.
Nfl is boring, stop and start, stop and start. More talk about what the half time entertainment will be at the Super Bowl.
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the only thing I will concede is that NFL transfers well to the big screen. But it will with a slow sport that stops and starts.