Why our football is better than their football

The World Cup is over, and NFL training camps open in less than three weeks.

Which got the FOX Funhouse staff thinking about why we like our football better than the world's football ...

Much better looking trophy given to the champions.

Overtime is sudden death ... first to score, wins.

Championships not decided by the random guessing game that is a penalty kick.

Though it has yet to happen, a Super Bowl champion would be decided in sudden-death overtime.

We won't have to wait another four years for a new Super Bowl champion.

No third-place game played before the Super Bowl.

The French aren't any good at our football.

Football has cheerleaders.

Football has cheerleaders who wear revealing clothing.

No need to make apologies when you tell friends you're a football fan.

Players only carried off field on stretchers for real, serious injuries.

There's no "magic spray" in football.

Our football players can use their hands, and feet, and whatever else they feel like using.

Prevent defense only played in final couple minutes, rather than 90 minutes.

Games not decided by penalty kicks, only kicks that are made by an undersized kicker being pursued by hulking 300-pound behemoths.

Kickers in football are viewed as small and weak, and everybody makes fun of them.

Roughing the kicker penalty doesn't give a team a free shot at a touchdown.

There's no pretending to be fouled.

There's no pretending to be hurt.

A blowout isn't 2-0.

Ties rarely ever happen.

Offsides rule in football easier to understand than offsides rule in soccer.

The U.S. would never lose to Ghana in a game of football.

Fat guys can play.

Unlimited substitutions in football make for a faster, and therefore, better game.

Breaks in play allow for much-needed bathroom breaks.

Bone-crushing hits in our football are considered highlights and applauded. Bone-crushing hits in soccer get players reprimanded, red cards and immediate ejections.

With obvious exception of Philly and Oakland, very few hooligans.

As amazing as this is to admit in light of the 2006 Super Bowl, referees are more competent in our football.

We know exactly how much time is remaining in the game at all times

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5774072?FSO1&ATT=HCP&GT1=8393

OK ... you are not another world, this is not something between two worlds, you are just one more country who plays a different game, and have a yearly Cup to win, so does every other country in the world with its own championship, and at the end of the year there is a champion (like your Super Bowl), but then you have the South American Cup, the European Cup, the Asian Cup, the African Cup, that are played every two years among the countries of each Football Confederation, and then finally you have a World Cup for Football every four years. There are championships held between countries as there are championships between all the Football Clubs by areas of the World, the latter finals are usually held in Tokyo. Your Rugby Football does not have regional or a World Rugby Football Cup to win, because no one else cares to play it.

All the other reasons mentioned as to why you like your game better than ours are just pure bullshit. There is no point of comparison, and would be just a waste of time to argue about it. Those guys at Fox, are just jealous of how everyone else in the world has something that unites them, but you had to play something that leaves you, as always, "isolated". But, go on, be happy in your own little world.

Soccer is one of those sports that is more exciting to play than to watch, IMO.

Crom, this article was a joke...I guess it hit to close to home.

Crom, this article was a joke...I guess it hit to close to home.

Alright!, I forgive ya .....

soccer is for sissy boys who writhe around on the ground for ten minutes and need to be carted off the field for a scratch

oh please Trav, i hope you're joking....

Soccer is a tougher game to play because you have to run for 80 minutes straight with no break.. football players get breaks after 3 seconds.

Also, you have to worry about controlling a ball with your feet, most football players just plow into each other... which takes alot of strength but no skill or finesse.... the only position in football that takes any skill besides being strong is Quarterback, Wide Reciever, and kicker/punter

Hey, i like watching american football ALOT... but i'll admit a better and more sophisticated sport when i see one.

oh.. and you want to talk about sissy boys? i'd take two hard-asses from the german soccer team over T.O and chad johnson any day of the week...

Football is no better nor is it any worse than Euro Futbol, it's just different.
It's all a question of how you were brought up, and what culture produced you.

I personally LOVE the NFL, and have been a rabid fan for nearly all my life. I can clearly recall watching the NFL games (on our family black and white TV) with my dad and older brother, back when I was in kindergarten. The very first color TV broadcast I ever saw (at some wealthier neighbor's house back then) was a Packers-Lions match-up, in the early winter of 1964. I can still see the vivid yellow and green of those Packers uniforms and helmets on that big console TV screen just like it was yesterday.

I lived in Germany on and off for years, and witnessed the European mania for their fusball. Those guys ate it up, and you've never seen more dedicated (and inebriated) fans in your whole life. The sheer cardio-vascular athleticism required for soccer is indeed staggering compared to that required for American football, but then again, in our game you have to be able to sustain and incredible amount of impacts and abuse that soccer players need never worry about. (Head-butts from angry Frenchmen aside.)

And just to clarify, I have played both games myself. I played football in junior high (not high school, I wasn’t big enough I guess), and I played pick-up games of football with the soldiers on weekends in Germany as an adult Army aviator. We also played a fair amount of soccer over there, usually with our German partnership units. Those guys always kicked our asses, of course. And they could drink us under the table afterwards.

To this day, I will set aside entire weekends just to watch college and NFL games on TV, but I won’t give a soccer match more than a two second glance. I’ll travel to the local schools and ball fields to watch high school and junior high football games, but I have no interest whatsoever in watching kids play soccer. I admire the athleticism required to play the game, but as a fan there’s just no draw for me. I find it strangely boring.

Does that mean that American football is better than soccer?
No, it just means that it is different, and it therefore all comes down to a matter of preference. You like yellow mustard, I like golden spicy mustard. You are attracted to tall blonde women with big tits, and I am attracted to small-breasted, dark haired women.
Who’s wrong, and who’s right? Neither, I suspect.
We just like what we like.


Long suffering Miami Dolphins fan since 1971.
:cool:

Well said, Sparky. I agree.


"Long-suffering " Dolphins fan?
You don't know what suffering is.
Signed,
Browns fan

Oh, I don't know about that.

But
I
Love
Losing
Superbowls

One of the few fans with sense enough not to live in Buffalo ...

Oh my gosh.
I feel your pain.

(Wait. I'm a Dolphins fan. I am your pain.)

And what the heck is up with Marv Levy?
Is he the general manager now, or the consulting assistant head coach?
And he's what, now. 85 years old? Give it up already, Marv.
(And I say that with all due respect. Just like I said the same words to Dan Marino his last two seasons. Give it up. And he did. In interceptions.)

I think this is the Browns breakout season.
I see them as the scrappy, out-of-left-field wildcard darkhorse entrants into the AFC Championship this year.
They will lose of course.
To the Fish.
:rolleyes:

I'll think it'll be an achievement if we go 6-10 this year myself--our new starting center has already been injured.

The Curse of Art Modell strikes again...........

Naw, they'll do better than .500, I predict that here and now.

(And I was just kidding before. If the Fish make it to the playoffs, let alone past the first round, I think there'll be frost warnings in Hell.)
;)

The Packers are rebuilding this year. I hope they are better than they looked yesterday against San Diego. I think their main problem is that they are still learning the new offense and defense installed by their new coach. The other problem is that while they upgraded their defense signifigantly, they did little to improve the offensive line. It is unfortunate, with Favre getting old, but he can look forward to being rushed a lot this season. I hope they will achieve a .500 season this year, but hold out no hopes for much more than that.

Football is no better nor is it any worse than Euro Futbol, it's just different. It's all a question of how you were brought up, and what culture produced you. :cool:
I agree with you, World Football and the Football (kinda Rugby) played in the US, are just different, and to fully like one over the other is just a matter of in which environment you were born. By far I prefer the World Football, and don't really care about the other Football, which I have probably seen once for just a few minutes, and couldn't get what those around me felt. But usuallly these happens both ways. So I really feel that it is better to let it be. Just have fun and be happy with what we like.
We are all different!

Should the Bills win, hell will not only have frozen over, it will have thawed.

i just started an indoor soccer league, have played two games.. and holy crap is it tough to run up and down playing 30 minute periods.... i mean, i can only go for like 10 minutes and then i need a sub. Of course, its been 5 freakin years since ive played soccer, but man its a workout, far much so than american football.

See what happens when you begin to age?