Originally by: Bart Starr

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If one breaks away from the emotional and the subjective,
its pretty clear that American football is the far superior sport.

I will concede that there are more soccer fans worldwide, currently. However, soccer's fanbase is inflated primarily due to widespread participation in the third world.

Soccer's simplistic strategy and low overhead has strong appeal in such places. Europeans are reduced to whining about hands and feet and semantics, while the inescapable fact remains: That soccer is an incredibly homogenous, shallow experience.

Seriously, there is a much better 'version' of soccer already out there. Its called ice hockey. Same simple strategy, but faster and fights too. Again, never caught on in the third world due to high barrier of entry and lack of ice.

The NFL takes full advantage of a wide variety of racial body types and athletic skills. Players with widely divergent roles must work together seamlessly. Strategy is complex. Coaches play an active role in the strategy and end result of the game, rather than merely being glorified cheerleaders and scapegoats. Most neophytes who complain about American football 'not making sense' do so only from a position of ignorance - as they have no idea what is occurring on the field.

Finally, Europeans primarily are interested in soccer, because it gives them an outlet for their senseless nationalistic, violent tendencies. Most are so busy floating their livers and shouting racial epithets at opposing players, they hardly have time to notice how dull soccer is. I mean, witness: Serbia and Italy didn't even get 3 minutes into the game because the fans were too busy rioting, burning flags and throwing flares on the field. Americans, on the other hand, have a bit more class.

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Originally by: Umega

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What a pointless arguement.

Rugby and American Football have different contact rules. And different players...

Sorry, rugby does not have 90% of their players in the 230-350lb weight range, that has stupidly quick acceleration and top speed to delivery all that solid, unsquishy like mass to an object that is also moving very fast.

Anyone that really believes they would take an unpadded hit from a 250lb solid mass linebacker moving at athletic quick speed is a biased, nonsense moron that deserves to take the shot so they get the sense knocked into them.. get some rl experince instead of talking out of ass. Seriously.

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