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America's Favorite Football Team
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A buddy and I were having a debate about who is America's Football Team. Please help me settle this dispute.
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There is no "favorite" team. I grew up in Minnesota with a mother who grew up in Wisonsin. I grew up with the mindset that Packers and anybody playing the Vickings were the best team. Now I live in Illinois where the Packer and the Bears are the two rival teams... nobody cares about the Vikings. Don't be silly to think there is one "American" team. There are 32 teams and 32 "American teams" depding on who you speak to.
My silly brother says he won't cheer for the Packers until they change management. He lives in Ohio now... what... is he going to cheer for the Browns until then? Blah
There is something amusing about watching a team get tarred and feathered every match :hyper:
Nothing happens for 90% of the game.
'BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEFCAAAAAAAAAKE'
This level of awesomeness and floods of statistics and americanisms really add to the atmosphere of it all - when compared to the amount of time the ball gets passed from end to end in an average football match its about the same amount of 'nothing'
Plays like this are also worth waiting for!
I would recommend drinking and then getting a snack that would kill a vegan in one sitting and trying it out again!
In American football it's the oposite. Bores me to death.
Having said that, I like the New England Patriots because Peter Griffin played for them.
:eek2: I can't believe my eyes!
If this were true, everyone in America would prefer to watch soccer (your football).
I'd have to say that the two teams with the largest fan base are probably the Patriots and the Colts.
No Americans like the NFL because with all the stops it allows them to go and get supplies from the firdge.
In seriousness though, I respect the fact it takes skill and athleticism to play but for me the play stops too much, and I find the fact there seems to be as many managers as there are players a bit too much.
The lions were not the first winless team the bucs did that 0-14 the lions were first for an 0-16 record though.
Americas team is whoever is the best team. The 80's was the 49ers The 90's was the Cowboys and Packers and 00 is the patriots. Me myself been a dolphins fan since I can remember and win or loose thats my team. Most americans only like winners.
Must be a lot of non american postings here because they seen football and thought you meant soccor. lol
The sport I watch the least is hockey and thats only because it is slightly more entertaining then soccer. Soccer is like nascar boring as hell but at least in nascar you might see a hell of a crash.
At least our sports don't involve full kevlar body armour and stopping for a rest every 10 seconds.
Most of the people on here are British as it's a British site.
does that mean we cant like NFL? there are plenty of Brits who love and enjoy it, me being one of them.
My 2nd fave sport after footy.
and people who say its "rugby with armour" are clowns of the highest order
You're right. Rugby's a far better game.
In fact, why do you call it football? The real Football is played with the ball to the feet (hence Foot-Ball)...yours in mainly throwed and caught.
Apart from being able to throw the ball forwards, and not having to actually touch the ball down to score a 'touchdown', there's very little difference between rugby and American Football. Rugby league, in particular, is very very similar.
American football is quite enjoyable once you get used to the constant timeouts, but it's almost a carbon copy of rugby with all the action bits taken out.
Rugby is called 'rugby football' technically, just as football is technically called 'association football'. Both rugby and American football have a lot of kicking involved, probably to a higher degree of skill than many association football matches.
Absolute rubbish
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higher skill? Why?
To say that top rugby players are moe skillfull than top football players is a nonsense statement.
It's unfair to compare the sports too much, they're totally different, and you need different skill sets. But I think it's harder to kick a rugby ball than it is to kick a football.
I think you'll find that rugy player are going to be better at kicking a rugby ball. And footballers are goign to be better at kicking a football. It's nonsense argument abiuyt skill because as you say they're two different skill sets.
I also played american football for 2 years and that was much more difficult. I cannot throw for shit
Anybody can call any other countries passtime stupid and easy and pointless... so how big and cool are you for saying it? American football is in my family. My brother got a full uni scholarship and my dad played professionally. I grew up watching it at every level... as I said I even played it for a couple years, as said, in my mid-teens. That is why I enjoy it. I know plenty of people who could care less but they dont' get into such an assfunk about it. It is a sport... you can like it or you don't. You can say any sport is dumb and easy or boring but it is what you grow up with, what you find entertaining, what inspires you. There is no need to be such an outright dick regarding such things. I find golf to be boring, basketball to be stupid, bowling to be just downright retarded... but I don't knock those who like it because it is what they enjoy. An activity is an activity. Just another bashing... grow the fuck up.
although I am a week late in noticing this thread. I want to point out how miss understood that arguement is.
You cant say rugby players have more skill with their feet than footballers.
Firstly, generally only one player in a team on 15 will drop-kick abilities (at least 8 would be absoultely clueless), where as you could argue that 10 or even all 11 footballers in a team are more than competant at passing, controlling, shooting and crossing a ball
A drop kick is not a harder skill than pretty much anything that happens in football.
Beckham could easily drop kick a rugby ball 35yards (in fact I can do it from 22 without practice), couldnt imagine Wilkinson whipping in any free kicks to the top corner.
I don't find it entertaining because it stops all the fucking time.
You like it. I don't. There you go.
I find it quite funny the british attitude to American Football. Especially people that don't really know much about it.
I have played American football since 1996. Before that I played rugby and football for my school and other local teams.
I love playing American football because I have never played such a hard hitting sport. Nor have I played anything that requires both brains and brawn to be a good player. I know that American football is not for everyone but do not understand why people slag off a sport they have never played or don't fully understand.
It is another sport that gives kids in the UK a chance of doing healthy exercise.
But hey, we all have our own opinions on things
Hard hitting with armour, more like! Try playing against a Springbok or All Black. Then you'll know what 'hard hitting' was REALLY all about.