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Soccer is a Gentleman's game played by Thugs, Rugby is a Thug's game played by Gentlemen
American football is...?

Boring.

...an elegantly brutal dance in worship of Nuffle. All glory to Nuffle!

American Football is something that wishes it was as great as Hockey, as do all of the other mentioned sports.

 MWHistorian wrote:
Boring.

No it's actually a pretty smart game with skill and determination. It suffers from way to many commercials making me bored as hell watching it.

Soccer is a babysitting option for parents.

Rugby is soccer for psychopathic men.

American football is a toddler's game played by overgrown mutants.

Just saying...

 jasper76 wrote:
Soccer is a babysitting option for parents.

Rugby is soccer for psychopathic men.

American football is a toddler's game played by overgrown mutants.

Just saying...

Blood Bowl anyone?

I find it interesting when people say grid iron is a very sophisticated or complex sport. Don't get me wrong, it is a smart sport, but no more than say rugby union or soccer or aussie rules. The difference, it seems to me, is that those other sports require the players to figure as they go on the field, while grid iron stops the play every few moments to allow the coach to decide the best approach.

Not saying one is better than the other, just saying it likely gives armchair coaches a false impression of how smart grid iron is compared to other similar sports. In fact, the arm chair strategist in me quite likes that part of grid iron, though the armchair player in me gets quite frustrated, as I keep wanting to take up the initiative myself as events unfold on the field.

<enough soccer bashing from me lol>

Any sport that takes 30 minutes or longer for 5 minutes of actual play can to to hell...

Excellent. Golf course in Hell then

 44Ronin wrote:
Soccer is a Gentleman's game played by Thugs, Rugby is a Thug's game played by Gentlemen
American football is...?

GOD's GAME.
Remember Texas Stadium has an open top so God can watch his team play...

 Frazzled wrote:

 44Ronin wrote:
Soccer is a Gentleman's game played by Thugs, Rugby is a Thug's game played by Gentlemen
American football is...?

GOD's GAME.
Remember Texas Stadium has an open top so God can watch his team play...

Win

Better than soccer and more popular than rugby.

American football is a smart game obsessed about by idiots, baseball is an idiotic game obsessed about by the smart

For the record, I love both.

DCMs spend every summer drooling for the fantasy league to begin.

Footbll is a game of brutal chess...a war waged upon a field by generals on the sidelines (unless you are Manning or Brady...who have a lot of leeway to call their own plays).

I don't have much experience with Soccer or Rugby....but it seems from what I have seen, that it comes down to a far greater amount of lucky placement of the scoring person than the more calculated and route-driven scoring of NFL receivers.

That is just the feeling I get when I catch a soccer game....perhaps there are actual plays and formations and such...but I don't have enough experience to see them.

With football...I suspect that most people watching could see how the receivers go downfield amd the qb throws to them. Some qb's can really do a great job of throwing at a space where they know the receiver will be. Kurt Warner and the greatest show on turf were a finely honed machine when it came to that.

Baseball....baseball is boring on tv, but put me in the park with a beer and a dawg in hand...and it is far more enjoyable.

Hockey is just weird. The saying "I went to a fight, but a hockey game broke out." describes just how strangely violent the game is (and how the fans seem to want it to be).

 WarOne wrote:
DCMs spend every summer drooling for the fantasy league to begin.

You guys have a fantasy football league in the DCM forum? Seriously?

And my answer would be that football is one of the last remaining venues where we can watch people slowly kill themselves for egregious amounts of money.

Fantasy Football, Fantasy Baseball, Brackets for the World Cup.

And hot chicks, so many hot chicks.

 TheMeanDM wrote:
Footbll is a game of brutal chess...a war waged upon a field by generals on the sidelines (unless you are Manning or Brady...who have a lot of leeway to call their own plays).

I don't have much experience with Soccer or Rugby....but it seems from what I have seen, that it comes down to a far greater amount of lucky placement of the scoring person than the more calculated and route-driven scoring of NFL receivers.

That is just the feeling I get when I catch a soccer game....perhaps there are actual plays and formations and such...but I don't have enough experience to see them.

Did you read my post earlier? Because once explained the difference in how it works should be fairly apparent.

Consider grid iron, where the play stops and the coach can step in and explain the next play in detail, everyone starting from a defined point, everyone on board with how each player is going to move in the next play.

Then consider soccer, rugby, AFL or any other sport like that, where the players themselves have to decide on what they're going to try in real time, without being able to stop and tell the other players exactly what they're about to try.

Obviously the former is going to allow for a greater deal of precision and a higher overall level of co-ordination between players, while the latter relies more on rapid decision making, intuition and understanding between players.



And no, it isn't 'luck' when players link up, or at least the smartest players somehow get 'lucky' a lot more than the others. It's often noted that lots of players come in to soccer, rugby and AFL with great athletic credentials - great speed and endurance, but they don't read the play well, know when to make their leads, or when to open space up for other players. Meanwhile other players without that raw athletic ability go on to star and win games for their team because they know how to read the play, are 'lucky'.

Looking at Australian Football makes The american players look like padded wimps

Sorry, Rugby wins hands down. You see the All Blacks on form and in full flow and it's amazing. Awesome tackling, accurate place kicking and perfect passing. What more could you want from a game. Oh and as an added bonus, no game stoppage for adverts, we had a 4th official way before football got goal line tech, the time on the clock is the time left, not some random stoppage time added on at the end and if time runs out and the bal is still in play, the game is still live

 Wolfstan wrote:
if time runs out and the bal is still in play, the game is still live

That's probably my favourite part of the game. When a game is tight, the frantic scramble in either attack or defence to try and stop them grinding up the field/to grind 50 metres and score. And it's doable. With good drills and determination, it's doable. Just love it.

 Wolfstan wrote:
Sorry, Rugby wins hands down. You see the All Blacks on form and in full flow and it's amazing. Awesome tackling, accurate place kicking and perfect passing. What more could you want from a game. Oh and as an added bonus, no game stoppage for adverts, we had a 4th official way before football got goal line tech, the time on the clock is the time left, not some random stoppage time added on at the end and if time runs out and the bal is still in play, the game is still live

I agree with this. In most cases, I'd far rather watch a good Rugby match on TV than any other sporting event. Two good teams going head-to-head (like the recent England/New Zealand series- well, the first two games at any rate) is very entertaining, the contest of both individual skills and team strength and unity is very fun to watch.

The only other sport I enjoy watching as much is test match Cricket, for entirely different reasons.

Football (soccer) I don't mind if there's stuff happening, like in the other day's Germany/Algeria game that was a good contest even though it was low-scoring for most of the game, but then you get 0-0 draws where neither team shows any flare and I find that boring, like what I saw of the Switzerland/Argentina game, were the Swiss played so defensively (or it looked like it, I'm not expert) the game just descended into a back-and-forth of passing with very little progress from either side.

Tennis and Golf I just find mind-numbing to watch, American Football I've never seen but I can't see it being more interesting than Rugby, and Basketball I'm not too much of a fan of either.

All ball sports are equally boring.

I should go to a kickboxing match again...

I always assumed that american football was a means by which morons and douchebags could get into prestige universities by bypassing the usual selection process...

 Leigen_Zero wrote:
I always assumed that american football was a means by which morons and douchebags could get into prestige universities by bypassing the usual selection process...

You mean like your royals?

 Leigen_Zero wrote:
I always assumed that american football was a means by which morons and douchebags could get into prestige universities by bypassing the usual selection process...

Awe. Someone got picked on.

But seriously, nice absurd generalization there.

 44Ronin wrote:
Soccer is a Gentleman's game played by Thugs, Rugby is a Thug's game played by Gentlemen
American football is...?

the classic response is "a thug's game played by thugs," I believe.

...the second most entertaining activity I can enjoy with my lady.