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elprincipe on 29 December 2008
Comrade Tovya said:
Actually I think it is for two reason.

Relatively low scoring compared to other sports, and in the lack of true stats tracking. American sports fans are numbers people, and euro-football is not stats-centric.

If you counted one goal as 7 points, football would be higher scoring than American football.  Shocking, isn't it?

The stats one is true for some people, but those are the kind of people who really prefer baseball I would think.

 



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Comrade Tovya on 29 December 2008
elprincipe said:
Comrade Tovya said:
Actually I think it is for two reason.

Relatively low scoring compared to other sports, and in the lack of true stats tracking. American sports fans are numbers people, and euro-football is not stats-centric.

If you counted one goal as 7 points, football would be higher scoring than American football.  Shocking, isn't it?

The stats one is true for some people, but those are the kind of people who really prefer baseball I would think.

 

 

You're preaching to choir bro.  My family is from Germany, so I'm no euro-football hater... I actually like it.



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geometrymath on 29 December 2008

cus they



Gnizmo on 29 December 2008

Onyxmeth said:

I had a good feeling, but I couldn't find any articles to back my claim up and didn't want to talk out of my ass. People that don't follow the sport have no idea that pads became a necessity over time to keep the players alive. I guarantee if football players didn't wear pads like Rugby players do then there would be severe casualties every single game. Shoot, there would probably be over a dozen deaths a season.

 

 That is probably true. The sport was almost (or briefly was I forget) outlawed on college campuses because of the number of deaths associated with the sport. That is when the pads became a part of the game. Football is way way harder on the body than Rugby is. Rugby players are just too proud to admit they couldn't handle a rougher game.

 OT: It is because there is no way to work in a commercial break. If you can't sell the sport to advertisers, then you can't sell the sport to the American audience (as it will never be on).



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coolestguyever on 29 December 2008

Okay an unbiased answer:

1. Theres no Hitting

2. Less scoring than most traditional American sports (American football, hockey, baseball, etc)

3. Game is too long

4. They suck at it! Have americans ever won a world cup or whatever its called