mattie
missing in inaction
I did hear women play it in the US.
England vs USA
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I did hear women play it in the US.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Yup. EVERYONE in the world apart from the former colonies love it. It's a bit weird that it works like that.
ska invita
back on the other side
1-0 can be a huge win - the tension on that one scoring moment is where all footballs drama comes in. Sposedly at one point the US wanted to make the goals bigger and the ball faster to get more 'points' in the game - which completely misses the beauty of the game i think. I can live without goals - then again i have been supporting spurs all my life...
ska invita
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Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
It's a game that little girls play to give them a Title IX equivalent to the boys sports.
US leads womens football by a mile...
I was under the impression that the Deutsch do rather well in womens footie.
Also, we have a reasonably good team. Eniola Aluko's a quality striker.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
I know you're trolling, but it's comments like that that make the world roll their eyes at the US.
Imagine how much more exciting a goal is than points in basketball or a touch down in American Football. So much more tension and excitement.
TrippyLondoner
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I know you're trolling, but it's comments like that that make the world roll their eyes at the US.
yup.
Nah, there's no more innate excitement in a goal than there is in a touchdown or home run. Perhaps baskets are devalued too much mind.
If anything sometimes football suffers from too many clumsy or 'unexpected' goals that have little tension or build up. I can't say that Robert Green's goalside muff was exciting for example, unless you're Jeremy Beadle plotting a sporting bloopers video from beyond the grave.
At their best US sports easily rival football for tension and drama. Sometimes there's even a sense of attrition and dominance that soccer can rarely rival
If anything sometimes football suffers from too many clumsy or 'unexpected' goals that have little tension or build up. I can't say that Robert Green's goalside muff was exciting for example, unless you're Jeremy Beadle plotting a sporting bloopers video from beyond the grave.
At their best US sports easily rival football for tension and drama. Sometimes there's even a sense of attrition and dominance that soccer can rarely rival
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nah, US sports are shit
TrippyLondoner
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Only american sport i can get into is hockey, basketball/baseball and now nfl all bore me.
The latter three are much more tactical and harder to 'get' quickly to be fair.
Although the subtleties of basketball are usually lost in the flood of points at the end.
I don't know, they all have their pros and cons. But the idea that a goal in football has more innate tension or drama is innately false. A lot of football games are just terrible.
I've no wish to ever see a minute more of Uruguay vs France for example.
Although the subtleties of basketball are usually lost in the flood of points at the end.
I don't know, they all have their pros and cons. But the idea that a goal in football has more innate tension or drama is innately false. A lot of football games are just terrible.
I've no wish to ever see a minute more of Uruguay vs France for example.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
No. It isn't.
Tho if you wanted to try and follow that erroneous analogy through, you'd realise you liked 'sex where one person has an orgasm, and the other leaves very disappointed, and possibly used and dirty.'
Tho perhaps that is what sex means to you.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
There are bad and good games in any sport.
And you're biased because a) you played American Football at uni and b) you're a contrarian
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
C) an idiot
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
That's not biased. It's fully informed.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Not when you know how tarannau rolls.
Nah, I like them all tbh. I watch more soccer than any other sport, although I'm far better at running in straight lines and hitting things in reality - hence the rugby and American football past.
But a lot of football can be dull too you're waiting all too often for that special game. You can bellow at the screen in frustration and watch happily whilst distracted in a big room of people.
The US sports tend to need more attention, more specialised knowledhge to enjoy. There's the sense of attrition, the stats, the telephone book sized selection of plays and so on
Football's a great, passive sport to graze and consume. It's also something you can pick up and explain in minutes - it has the immediacy and simplicity the others often lack. It also sometimes lacks the variety and tactical subtlety
But a lot of football can be dull too you're waiting all too often for that special game. You can bellow at the screen in frustration and watch happily whilst distracted in a big room of people.
The US sports tend to need more attention, more specialised knowledhge to enjoy. There's the sense of attrition, the stats, the telephone book sized selection of plays and so on
Football's a great, passive sport to graze and consume. It's also something you can pick up and explain in minutes - it has the immediacy and simplicity the others often lack. It also sometimes lacks the variety and tactical subtlety
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nothing wrong with proper hockey
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Tsk.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I don't think it is tbh. You still get, for example, the feeling of watching the same England, despite multiple managers, playing much the same football with a few frills.
There is far more variety and tactical planning in US football or basketball, more a range of styles of play.
That's partly because plays are more a succession of set plays than a fluid thing a lot of the time. But you can't deny that those set plays are planned and executed in varities that football can't, and perhaps really shouldn't try and match.
Different things really. I like seeing spontaneous skills light up a football game. But there's also something glorious about watching a beautifully executed draw play; the deliberate misleads, the fat guys carving a channel and the blocks going in as arranged.
Different strokes really. Neither better or worse; just different.
There is far more variety and tactical planning in US football or basketball, more a range of styles of play.
That's partly because plays are more a succession of set plays than a fluid thing a lot of the time. But you can't deny that those set plays are planned and executed in varities that football can't, and perhaps really shouldn't try and match.
Different things really. I like seeing spontaneous skills light up a football game. But there's also something glorious about watching a beautifully executed draw play; the deliberate misleads, the fat guys carving a channel and the blocks going in as arranged.
Different strokes really. Neither better or worse; just different.
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if american rugby was better, i'm sure it would have caught on in a lot of other countries too though
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Uh? You want glory and beauty, watch Lionel Messi on the ball. Nothing, nothing, nothing like that in American Football. Footballers don't just carry out plans, that's the point.
TrippyLondoner
Well-Known Member
thats what im gonna start calling nfl just to piss americans off now.
editor
hiraethified
Totally disagree. How's football 'passive'? It elicits more of a passionate crowd reaction than just about any sport.
And most Americans haven't the slightest clue what offside is, even when it's explained. Many. times. over. Believe me, I've tried.
