Football (American) vs Soccer

[RascalJones]

[quote=""HuggyPierre""]Let me post one Video and you will see why being in a football stadium (Highlander is right ) is better than being in an american football stadium:

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Can't watch the video since I'm at work, but yeah, I would have to agree that the LIVE atmosphere of a Futbol game is far above that of an NFL game. College football is a better atmosphere than pro in my opinion.

[Roger_The_Rogue]

[quote=""Tubruk""]yeah, in some cases the injuries sustained are extreme to say the least, and the amount of fights that break out

Youtube Rugby Tackle's[/quote]

That is a bloody great video. I have watched it over and over and also the videos in the related list. Lol.

[hallchr]

Ok...I'm not going to lie, that seemed more violent but I like the really fast BOOM hits that american football has. Especially UK. Go UK wildcats!!!

[Kaiser_von_Nuben]

[quote=""Highlander999""]Lets get this straight. It isn't soccer, it is football. We invented it first. Americans just copied it because it is British and everything out of Britain rules and Americans just want to be like us (New England, New Hampshire etc etc) :p

Rule Brittania!!!!

(I joke )[/quote]

Right, isn't football just armored rugby? If that's the case, then we have to take our hats off for the Brits. I always thought rugby was "realer" and "rawer" than football. But football can be dangerous, too. My uncle lost his kidney after a particularly crushing tackle.

And yes, we Americans have to thank you Brits for everything. I went to school in a town called New London on the "Thames" (pronounced as it's spelled... not "Tems") River in Connecticut. Does it get any lamer than that? There are also towns called New Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester. On the other hand, we had immigrants from other countries, too. For example, just north of New Bristol you find yourself in Hamburg. And just west of there you're in New Berlin. I can't foget about Versailles (pronounced "Ver-sails"), either. Ah, the melting pot. There's even a Lisbon, Connecticut, just in case Lazy or Sporting felt left out

On the soccer debate, I've never been very passionate about either football or soccer. I just know that I completely concur with Soccer's analysis: (1) How passionate are the fans; and (2) How much beer is consumed at an average match. Under these criteria, soccer wins. After all, soccer is played all over the world in massive 150,000-person stadiums. Football is only played in the U.S., generally in smaller buildings that seat fewer fans. Obviously more beer can be consumed in such large venues than can be consumed in small American football stadiums. And on the passion side of the equation, countries go to war over soccer matches and execute poor performers. While Americans may hate each other because they are not Bears, Vikings or Cowboys fans, there has not been a second War Between the States over a Super Bowl score, nor has the State of Texas lethally injected a Dallas QB who didn't complete enough passes Well, not yet :roll:

[Soccerman771]

[quote=""Kaiser_von_Nuben""]nor has the State of Texas lethally injected a Dallas QB who didn't complete enough passes Well, not yet :roll:[/quote]

Give it time my friend.

[cleeduz]

[quote=""Highlander999""]Lets get this straight. It isn't soccer, it is football. We invented it first. Americans just copied it because it is British and everything out of Britain rules and Americans just want to be like us (New England, New Hampshire etc etc) :p

Rule Brittania!!!!

(I joke )[/quote]

lol, I live in Manchester, New Hampshire! :-P

[StrokeyBlofeld]

Right. I'm not going to get into deep arguments here, so I'm going to say my piece and that will be that.

Why do you guys over the other side of the water insist on calling football soccer? You call your own national sport football (which really baffles me) and then call our sport of football soccer.
Lets break the word down.... FOOT - BALL. The first word, foot, the second word ball, this suggests that the sport would envolve a foot and a ball, in american soccer, (yes... you call ours soccer so I'm calling yours soccer ) you carry and throw the ball everywhere. You only kick the thing about 20 times in a whole game do you not?

Ok, next, here are a couple of definitions of the word ball:

round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
a spherical object used as a plaything


Ok, there are a lot of other definitions, and a lot of them state that a ball can be ovoid also, but the first meaning is round/spherical.
So, lets look at the facts here:

In the game of American Soccer, the foot is not really used to play the ball, and the ball is not round/spherical. This is what makes me laugh.

In the game of Football (a global sport reffered to by most as football NOT soccer) the foot is main component of the body used in the game, and the ball is round/spherical.

So... here's my question..... where the hell did you get the word soccer from?????



Oh, and football is far better than American Soccer, no contest.

[djdan]

Hockey FTW!
End of.

[blayzer13]

Strokey your my hero for the day, ty

[Sporting_Lisbon]

Of course it is no contest, even the kids on the streets can play football and beat others by pure skill. In football you always hear names of players that are nearly football gods and known in the whole world, even by those who don't like football.

And guys, even rugby is better than american football! True tough guys have no need for armor :p Plus, it doesn't have all that circus around, stopping for every reason.

[danno527]

I think football(soccer) is better for all the reasons stated above. My only problem with it is all the diving that goes on.

but....Hockey> all
-hockey is the fastest team sport in the world
-hockey has the hard contact of american football
-hockey has the quick spur of the moment playmaking of football(soccer)
-hockey has wild and loyal fans(at least in Canada, tell me why we can fill every seat in the ACC and still have the fans chanting when the Toronto Maple Leafs are in 12 place in the eastern conference. And what kind of fans start lighting police cars on fire to celebrate the Montreal Canadiens advancing to round 2 of the playoffs)
-hockey has the fights of Rugby

what more can you want from a sport, honestly

[scoop10]

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So... here's my question..... where the hell did you get the word soccer from?????



Oh, and football is far better than American Soccer, no contest. [/quote"]


+1

[Nighthawk22]

completely understood about the "soccer" thing, but i only wrote it as soccer because.. Football vs Football wouldnt sound right..

[GeneralMichael]

I'm going to have to vote American Football. I used to play soccer as a little kid, though as i became older(around 6th grade) I started to like Football. Now like Golf I can't stand to watch Soccer games(too boring for me). Anyway I also never played football because I'm not in shape enough, unlike in Soccer where I can just use my height and good reflexes to be an OK goalie.

[quote=""Soccerman771""]Well, you know which way I'm going to vote

And just so you know nighthawk the common average score in American football is around 21-14. That's the same as a 3-2 soccer score (not far from average there, either).

I think the real question here and the one that will really answer this "debate" is two fold. Which fans are more passionate, and during which event is more beer consumed? Euro football wins hands-down IMO in both those categories.[/quote]

Have you ever heard of Philly fans? When one of our teams wins garunteed riots(still don't know why they do it, all they are doing is breaking thier stuff because they won, what are they thinking, "Yes I won now I'm gonna wreck my car ").

Ohh and StrokeyBlofeld I have thought the same thing many times. My answer is probably when Football was first though of people started calling it that to make the Europeans angy, or to annoy them. :twisted:

[Nighthawk22]

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