Originally posted by: Warbler
I do believe in the early days there alot more kicking in football than there is today. Also, I believe that ball used to be rounder in shape. But, just because a ball is not perfectly circular, does that mean that is is not a ball?
What is wrong with preplanned plays? As meantioned before, football requires one thing soccer does not: strategy. It is a game that requires intelligence, not just brute stength. It shares some qualities with chess.
Football imho, is much more exciting to watch. Atleast there is alot more scoring. To me nothing is sports compares with watching a team that is behind trying to move the ball down field to score with less than two minutes to play and no time outs.
Ric, football and baseball became popular in America long before tv was around.
Originally posted by: HotRod
It was called football , way, way, way before you yanks decided to call it soccer, just so you could call your handball game football. Why not call your game soccer and leave football to the game that uses 1) feet and 2) a bloody ball!!
It was called football , way, way, way before you yanks decided to call it soccer, just so you could call your handball game football. Why not call your game soccer and leave football to the game that uses 1) feet and 2) a bloody ball!!
I do believe in the early days there alot more kicking in football than there is today. Also, I believe that ball used to be rounder in shape. But, just because a ball is not perfectly circular, does that mean that is is not a ball?
What is wrong with preplanned plays? As meantioned before, football requires one thing soccer does not: strategy. It is a game that requires intelligence, not just brute stength. It shares some qualities with chess.
Football imho, is much more exciting to watch. Atleast there is alot more scoring. To me nothing is sports compares with watching a team that is behind trying to move the ball down field to score with less than two minutes to play and no time outs.
Ric, football and baseball became popular in America long before tv was around.
Ric was making an observation of football as it is today, not the way it was before the TV was popular. To me American football is painful to watch with all those stupid outs. Like every ten seconds the timer stops. Anyway, you prefer American football and you think it is better. That is fine. The rest of the world has little or no interest in it, but I can't think of anywhere other than America that lacks an interest in real football/futbol/"soccer" There is nothing wrong with you liking American football better than what the rest of us like. Yanks have always decided to float their own direction.
I didn't read the part where somebody said there was a problem with preplanned plays, and I don't believe there is a problem with it myself, but I fail to see any simularities between American football and chess.
The only thing that bothers me about American football is that they stole the name of a game that had been around longer. It is just really confusing. I like football better than baseball or basketball, but I don't have a problem with them because I am not forced to call (our) football by a different name for clairifications sake we refering to them. I always feel bad for imigrants that live in America who are forced to call it "soccer"