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Dazkarieh on 18 June 2010
ZenfoldorVGI said:

...and I wonder, if American football was an olympic sport, how well the foriegn teams would do against us, lol?

I'm pretty sure we're competitive in most sports, including soccer, basketball, baseball, hockey, and all of the other sports worldwide. I'm not sure if the entire rest of the world combined could form one team that could beat the Colts of the Saints.

That's not a dig on soccer, or any other sport, but we do have American football, and I'd love to see someone say they could do THAT better.

You know, I'm prety sure if Kalambala was an olympic sport, no one in the USA could beat me. What's that? Just a sport I invented now.

Basicaly you invented a sport that no one else care about and you want other people to compete? To compete you need to creat interest first... and that doesn't happen.

Football is a "casual" application of a true sport: rugby.

Americans don't like footbal because it's not in their roots. They never get on the train, and why should them, if they prefer other things? The important is that we all live hapy like this :)



     

 

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MontanaHatchet on 18 June 2010

It's always amazing to see the same ignorant statements from non-Americans over and over and over.



 

 

PSaiki on 18 June 2010

Doesn't make sense americans calling their sport "football". At least they should call it american football".

Most of the time in american football they have the ball in their hands, but in football, the sport known and played world wide, you can only play it with your feet.

The world calls football what they call soccer



Funtime on 18 June 2010

Not enough scoring.

Too many ties.

Too much diving.

95% of the game takes place around mid-field so there's not even really any hope of seeing a goal

Too many last names that contain 8 or more syllables!



sguy78 on 18 June 2010
pizzahut451 said:
sguy78 said:
pizzahut451 said:

who cares why dont they like it? its their loss. they are in minority. we (football fans) are in huge majority. so our opinnion is more important .no one would really give a crap if there was a rugby world cup (i dont think anyone else plays it besides americans), but the entire world is interested in football world cup. again, its their loss, i hope they have fun watching their favourite sport...

Sorry to break it to you, but being in the majority doesn't mean that your opinion is more important.

Again, that doesn't make your opinion more inportant.
on the internet, it does.

And thats the way we choose our presidents today, (in most countries) with the voice of majority





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pizzahut451 on 18 June 2010
Funtime said:

Not enough scoring.bullshit, there were plenty goals in the last couple of days, and like i said the last time, if your watching football only because of scores, youre doing it wrong.

Too many ties.so? if youre neutral fan, why does the result matter as long as the game is good?

Too much diving.

95% of the game takes place around mid-field so there's not even really any hope of seeing a goal thats just incredibly stupid statement.

Too many last names that contain 8 or more syllables! seriously now?





Soonerman on 18 June 2010
mr_capello said:

I like american football and basketball

but I gotta say there is probably no sport where  the crowd is as crazy as in soccer

the fans at a football and baseball game are only eating and chatting

 

(rugby is too sick , it's like american football soccer and ultimate fighting combined)

Hmm, is that so? Let's see...

Football fans - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQGHpsFLms8

Soccer fans - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2vpVKsAqIA

Basketball fans -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egAUb6dIh6Q&feature=related

I think this proves otherwise



pizzahut451 on 18 June 2010
Soonerman said:
mr_capello said:

I like american football and basketball

but I gotta say there is probably no sport where  the crowd is as crazy as in soccer

the fans at a football and baseball game are only eating and chatting

 

(rugby is too sick , it's like american football soccer and ultimate fighting combined)

Hmm, is that so? Let's see...

Football fans - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQGHpsFLms8

Soccer fans - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2vpVKsAqIA

Basketball fans -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egAUb6dIh6Q&feature=related

I think this proves otherwise

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX8acRTW76U



pizzahut451 on 18 June 2010

also

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQZj6GiPag



mike_intellivision on 18 June 2010

Or how about American's don't like games where the referees believe they are demigods and make erroneous decisions that cannot be reviewed that change the outcome of matches.

Mike from Morgantown



      


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