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Why American Football is a good sport... Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
Im going to try something different and rather than argue the points of american football vs soccer let's post various clips and moments and pictures from both sports that were great....

I'll start
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ8V2OiVy3c
>> Anonymous
ur a fag!
>> Anonymous
Why do Americans call it football when they barely touch the ball with their feet? Fucking redneck retards.
>> Anonymous
>>260232
durrrr how original
>> Anonymous
10. CANNOT accept a draw. Need overtime, Double OT, Triple OT.

9. There are no Cheerleaders

8. Average Yank: “What? I LOVE football. Every year I tune in to watch the Super Bowl!”

7. Not enough goals. Yep, unlike baseball where there is a home run every TWO minutes.

6. Football is a dirty, filthy sport played by the commies.

5. Cannot understand how a WORLD cup has teams from all over the world participating. (Unlike this)
4. They didn’t invent it.

3. The offside rule is just too damn hard to understand.

2. Football is boring. They rather watch Golf.

1. They suck at it.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260229
expect much worse but I kinda hope that /sp/ can get some semblance of reasonable conversation going.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyTvYupNxOI
>> Anonymous
>>260242
>10. CANNOT accept a draw. Need overtime, Double OT, Triple OT.
wat? in the regular season, there can be draws if there is no winner found in overtime
>> Anonymous
>>260242

> 10. CANNOT accept a draw. Need overtime, Double OT, Triple OT.

Actually, regular-season games can end in ties if nobody scores in the first overtime. It just doesn't happen often. Now in the playoffs, of course we can't accept a fucking draw. We can't very well have two champions, can we?

> 9. There are no Cheerleaders

Baldfaced lie. Next.

> 8. Average Yank: “What? I LOVE football. Every year I tune in to watch the Super Bowl!”

The average American who claims to love football will watch a few games of his favorite team, but yeah I agree with this point

> 7. Not enough goals. Yep, unlike baseball where there is a home run every TWO minutes.

A 4-1 baseball game is considered low-scoring. In soccer that's a fucking shootout.

> 6. Football is a dirty, filthy sport played by the commies.

Technically it is played by commies, as well as fascists, terrorists, and perfectly civilized countries.

> 5. Cannot understand how a WORLD cup has teams from all over the world participating. (Unlike this)

We understand, we just don't give a rat's ass

> 4. They didn’t invent it.

> 3. The offside rule is just too damn hard to understand.

Not like American football is the easiest game to understand either.

> 2. Football is boring. They rather watch Golf.

Fuck golf seriously

> 1. They suck at it.

Fair enough
>> Anonymous
>>260232
At the beginning of football, all points were only scored from field goals by the kickers; as a result, it was called football. It eventually added touchdowns, and the game's scoring because less and less based on feet. However, it's name of football stuck with it, for that is what it was originally called.

It's kind of how basketball used to be guys trying to get the ball into an actual basket, but because it was annoying to get the ball out of the basket after every score, they cut the bottom out, so it was a basket without a bottom. Soon after that, the re did the basket with just the rim of the basket remaining, and the shell of the basket being replaced with a net. However, despite it not using an actual basket anymore, it is still called basketball, for that's what it has always been called.
>> Anonymous
>>260249
>>260257
He's talking about soccer, not football.
>> Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5XpXU8TBoo

physics breakan games
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TYYKxp5bWs&feature=related

Not one single video of Ronaldinho, Ronaldo or the other names I can't remember to butcher?
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260267

that was pretty good
>> Anonymous
>>260258

This is one of the best explanations regarding the history of American football.
>> Anonymous
> 3. The offside rule is just too damn hard to understand.

Not like American football is the easiest game to understand either.

Reinventing the rules every year those not make football complicated...
>> Anonymous
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Manchester is futbol's New England Patriots.

...and this faggot is Tom Brady
>> Anonymous
>>260276
Multiple formations, situational substitutions, going for it vs. kicking it away, etc.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbG-tVw5P0o

why we need pads
>> Anonymous
>>260266

>>260257here, I realized this about halfway through >_>
>> Anonymous
Multiple formations, situational substitutions, going for it vs. kicking it away.

Great? That makes it complicated?
>> Anonymous
>>260278

Errrr...except United are both the English and European champions and Ronaldo scored 42 goals in a season getting them there.

Other than that - very full of incite!
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260292
then he would be moss.
>> Anonymous
>>260274
Thanks :>
>> Anonymous
>>260281
1:40
Steve Atwater vs. Christian Okoye. I marked out HARD!
>> Anonymous
MANLINESS:
Gaelic Football > Aussie Rules > Rugby League > American Football > Rugby Union > Football

ACTION:
Gaelic Football > Aussie Rules > Rugby League > Rugby Union > American Football > Football

SKILL, TECHNIQUE:
Football > Rugby League > Rugby Union > American Football > Aussie Rules > Gaelic Football

PHYSICAL FITNESS:
Aussie Rules > Rugby League > Football > American Football > Gaelic Football > Rugby Union

SIMPLICITY AND SHEER UNADULTERATED BEAUTY:
Football > All

This concludes your daily assbang.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260330
aren't even trying
>> Anonymous
>>SKILL, TECHNIQUE:
Football > Rugby League > Rugby Union > American Football > Aussie Rules > Gaelic Football


lol...
>> Anonymous
>>260278

Did he fail epically in the championship game, spoiling a perfect season?
>> Anonymous
>>260337

Prove me wrong
>> Anonymous
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I had to google Gaelic Football, lol.
Pictures look fuckin exciting.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260357
see thats how it should be played.
>> Armed Britfag !b5FvhC5rVk
>>260337
first 3 in the wrong order.

Rugby Union > football > Rugby League
>> Anonymous
Thank you for making this thread, seriously.

One thing that pisses me off in the Soccer vs NFL argument is the stuff about NFL being tougher. No one who likes soccer likes it because they think it's a tough game, so trying to use that as an argument makes no sense to me (yes, I'm aware some of it is trolling).
>> Anonymous
>>A 4-1 baseball game is considered low-scoring. In soccer that's a fucking shootout.

find the result for Middlesbrough's last game last season. srsly. 9 goals!
>> Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mhNRyt628&feature=related
>> Anonymous
>>260368
From the football side, what makes me rage is when soccer fans say that football players are fat. Well, linemen are supposed to be, it's how they do their job, and there are no outrageously fat QBs, running backs, or receivers.
>> Anonymous
>>260367
No, he had it right.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260398

a picture or a short description of the video would help it get viewed
Interesting...
>> Anonymous
>>260400
I can safely say that's mainly trolling. I dunno, maybe some people actually think that though.
>> Anonymous
I like Soccer. Some like American Football. We like different things. Stop acting like children with the "my toy is better than yours", and face the fact that people have different opinions. You can't change someones lifelong relation (and opinion) a of a sport by showing some youtube videos and lists of pros and cons. Stop it.
>> Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJmLZLTaMjQ
>> Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exlBHTyB1R0&feature=related
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260433
was that during an important game?

>>260441
DENNIS BERGKAMP
>> Anonymous
>>260438
you should read the posts so far in you thread. What do you see?

You knew where this was going, this is 4chan...
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260450
A couple of trolls but some progress. are you saying instead of trying to get a reasonable discussion I should be trolling and saging threads like most of 4chan?
>> Anonymous
>>260448
Just a regular league game I think, he's batshit insane.
>> Anonymous
>>260431
I like this guy
>> Anonymous
>>260469
And I like you. HUGS FOR EVERYONE!!!
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCu8n4eo63I

/sp/'s current hero. mandatory video for all /sp/ortsfags american or european
>> Anonymous
>>260500
Despite the 3rd and 57, I was expecting the video to end with Grossman throwing it deep for either a first down or an interception.
>> Anonymous
>>260500
>or european
ugh, you made me watch it that... it was just a bunch of obese men running around in padding.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260511
This video was in his pre-sexy days
>> Anonymous
>>260500

I don't see it.
Whats so special about this (genuine question)?
>> Anonymous
>>260458
It's confusing that you keep deleting your posts, but that's not important, it's good that someone uses that function anyway. The important thing here is that you tried to make an interesting thread, but seeing as soccer vs football is a one of the most heated subjects on /sp/, it's more than likely that it would end up in a "mine is better" shitfest, and then likely change into some obscure euro vs america thread like a lot of threads do now. Looks like things have calmed down now though. That was all.

Oh, not sure if this has been posted yet, but it's one of the best achievement I've seen on a field. Done by two different people...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYet49BToLw
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260526
it was delicious post of irony where I misread what was said.

And see that I can appreciate. If you can enjoy that then I can't see why

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM2sfuV_WLM

plays like that aren't acknowledged as well.
>> Anonymous
>>260400no outrageously fat QBs,

Jared Lorenzen excepted (but he's a meaningless backup)
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260524
Wasn't great. Was horribly, horribly bad.
>> Anonymous
>>260500

There's only one Rexy video that everyone needs to see

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTcmoDbj3aM
>> Armed Britfag !b5FvhC5rVk
>>260526
its calmed down because we are mostly asleep.
>> Anonymous
>>260500
I don't understand why he didn't just try and throw the ball away when he picked it up
>> Alakazam !!OEP6m59Bksc
>>260546

Barry was lucky that the offensive linemen in front of him were FAT
>> Anonymous
>>260595
Also it seemed more like the centers fault that Sexy Rexy's
>> Anonymous
>>260546
that was awesome, and I believe most sports fans (soccer/football anyway) will appreciate it. I've tried to get into american football since they started to show nfl matches on tv here in Norway, but what "gets to me" is that it's a "stop-and-go" sport in a much bigger sense than soccer. For me, soccer is all about speed (most of the time), passes, turnovers, dribbling, shots, freekicks, and everything repeatedly throughout the match. Matches are rarely stopped for more than 10-20 seconds when someone is injured (or "injured" *cough*italians*cough*"), and that happens only a few times in a match. Then again, another thing that makes the sport so great are the one-man achievements such as seen in the video I posted, and that's why I can enjoy american football too, because the two sports share them. So yeah. I should probably get some sleep now.
>> Anonymous
Why play American Football when you have rugby?
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
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>>260606
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y321NmjoQGg

great video to watch if you like those type of plays.

the only reason the bears could have a qb as sexy as Rax Grissman and still do good.
>> Anonymous
football>all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qK5u0NcNYA
>> Anonymous
>>260610
Why play rugby when you could play football?
>> OP !!l+bA5F1/wqx
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http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=d-PFRrJQtew

This is why AFL has the highest level of skill / technique.

This isn't all there is to the game, but it's damn impressive.

AFL is the perfect combination of everything that makes a sport.

Hard hits, lots of endurance, spectacular marks (catches), goals are common and not far in between, and sometimes brilliant goals are scored.

Prove me wrong.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>260647

I see your catches and raise you

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Wrm36FbMFeI
>> OP !!l+bA5F1/wqx
>>260663
The music alone made we want to close it within 15 seconds.

From what I saw, it was simply running back with courage and catching the ball. While that's courageous and to be commended, that's common practice in AFL.
>> Anonymous
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMVHF5hWFn8

This is skill.
>> Anonymous
>>260676
nice short shorts lol
>> Anonymous
>>260647

>Hard hits

>AFL

lol wut
>> OP !!l+bA5F1/wqx
>>260689

You try running 25km in a match with longer shorts on.

>>260699
You didn't even watch the video.
>> Anonymous
>>260647
The USA has the KKK and Australia has the AFL. Both are minority organisations that make the rest of the country look like shit.
>> Anonymous
It's not at all surprising that AFL is only popular in the states with the lowest IQ averages.
>> Anonymous
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>>260721

ITT: Eurofags pretend that Football hooligans arent racist.
>> Anonymous
>>260710running 25km in a match
lol. You tards are all the same. Never let facts get in the way of a good story.
>> Anonymous
>>260732

Those are communists from eastern europe.
>> Anonymous
>>260732
The AFL isn't just full of racists, it's home to violent criminals aswell. If you've been stabbed in Australia then the statistics say that you were probably at an AFL game.
>> Anonymous
>>260744
Eh, same thing.
>> Anonymous
>>260761
sure
>> OP !!l+bA5F1/wqx
>>260750
Statistics show that 78% of all statistics are made up.
>> OP !!l+bA5F1/wqx
>>260726
Victoria? That's the highest, dumbass.

Collingwood, Carlton and Essendon supporters are the scum of the Earth, however.
>> SSG Posted Here
>>260744
Then you didn't see the shit that went down in Spain and Italy.
I could pull up the Wiki page and the YouTube/ESPN video on soccer racism, but the Eurofags will lie and deny they are like that, and then promptly call us racists for accusing them of being racist.
>> Anonymous
>>260790
Victardia is the 8th ranked state/territory by IQ (out of 8) and Melbourne is the 8th ranked capital city by IQ (also out of 8). How do you think it earned the nickname?
>> OP !!l+bA5F1/wqx
>>260834
Where's your proof of this accurate scientific data.