They take pauses every 5 minutes and wear a load of protective clothing as you say. Do you realise that GIRLS in england play rugby for 80minutes with no protective clothing (short of sports bras and mouthguards), doing all the legal tackles that men use? American football is a fucking pathetic excuse for a sport played by weak, stupid, juiced up morons to simply get through college easier. This is why no one gives a shit about the sport outside North America.Football is a contact sport. The players are required to wear protective gear or else they would only be able to play twice a year, as they would need to be treated for head injuries, fractures, and other wounds every 6 months between games. If this game were to be played in the UK, and without protective gear (Since you make fun of the sport for having so much), they would make it a mockery. You would put even more regulations on the sport and make it illegal to for instance tackle someone.
Soccer truly brings the fantasy of Peter Pan to life, where dozens of Twinklebell fairies and children are running up and down a field kicking a ball. The only maiming you see is the occasional kick to the balls or tripping over someone. If you want to make fun of an American sport, make fun of Hockey or Field Hockey. Even then, there's still more action in the Girls' sport Field Hockey than there is in Soccer.[/b]
Football on the other hand is the biggest sport in nearly every country around the world. The World Cup consistently gets the largest sporting TV audience in the world and statistically there are more injuries related to football than almost any other contact sport, including rugby and american football. The main reason being that tackles are directly at the feet/ankles which have small fragile bones which easily break, as opposed to chest barges and thigh squeezes.
But it's ok if you retarded americans want to pretend that your sports are worth a shit. You have your world series don't you!
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