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[Rakonas]

I agree that armored rugby is pretty weaksauce compared to normal rugby, but in normal rugby there's that whole thing with everyone pushing against one another in a line that simply looks pretty stupid.
European football is where it's at unless you have teams who treat it like entirely serious business and make the game boring as fuck with 2 hours of passing the ball and occasionally shooting just to miss. American football is good when it's shown in 3 minutes of alternating tactics and humorous commercials, with a half time in the middle where you walk away to go to the bathroom/check the internet/eat food. 

[Krelian]

European football is where it's at unless you have teams who treat it like entirely serious business and make the game boring as fuck with 2 hours of passing the ball and occasionally shooting just to miss. American football is good when it's shown in 3 minutes of alternating tactics and humorous commercials, with a half time in the middle where you walk away to go to the bathroom/check the internet/eat food.

Thats just a problem of taste and undestanding the sport.
Just as you dont like/understand the tactics in the middle of a football match, I dont like/understand (and get pretty bored with) the games of USA's football, there the reffere stops the game every 30 seconds.
And the guys use the hands for everything! When they renamed the rugby they really pick a wrong name!

[Remalle]

Actually the name "football" has to do with the game's played on foot, not that it's played using the feet.

[lordcooper]

Actually the name "football" has to do with the game's played on foot, not that it's played using the feet.

Like foothockey, footbowling and footjudo?

[Krelian]

Actually the name "football" has to do with the game's played on foot, not that it's played using the feet.

Like foothockey, footbowling and footjudo?

dont forget footennis, footbox and footgolf (except when on the minicart of course)

[MasterFancyPants]

*Puts lighter under thread*
Hey, Delta Force would whip the SAS!
*Sits back and opens a bag of popcorn*

[freeformschooler]

footbox

Now my bucket list includes "invent footbox". Gee thanks.

[MonkeyHead]

foot100msprinting.

[Muz]

Oh, so this is another "treat something real as a video game" thread?  How many times does this have to be done before people realize it stopped being funny years ago?

Heh, seconded. But I'll bite.

European Spanish football is where it's at unless you have teams who treat it like entirely serious business and make the game boring as fuck with 2 hours of passing the ball and occasionally shooting just to miss.

Fixed that for you. I love football and all, but honestly, these days, it's more about winning than actually having a good game. Too many of the 'best' teams that win the trophies are about defensive playing.

Watch a good team, it's fun. South American and English teams are great, though South American football has had a bit less wacky instinctive moves and more strict tactical formations in the past few years. The English teams have a great flow, and despite Manchester United being overrated, they play some beautiful football and goals.

The rules are all very simple, but the beauty is in watching a creative midfield combine with an accurate forward. There's a lot of emergent gameplay, and all the great games are unique.

And yeah, pretty much anyone who thinks it's safe hasn't played it. I've avoided playing it since a friend of mine broke his arm playing shortly before a major exam. Injuries are very common and few players go through a season without being injured. The reason you see so many people rolling around after a tackle is because if they stiffened their body, they'd most likely break something.

[Neyvn]

Did anyone actually stop and think for a moment,
"Wait, which Football is he talking about, is it the Football with the Elongated ball where you have the H/Y/illi goalposts or the one with the n goal posts???

[Muz]

Did anyone actually stop and think for a moment,
"Wait, which Football is he talking about, is it the Football with the Elongated ball where you have the H/Y/illi goalposts or the one with the n goal posts???

He's obviously talking about football, and not football, which is another game entirely. It's odd that these football threads always degenerate into arguments supporting football instead.

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Heh, he mentioned it...

It would be simpler to boot up the European version, but I'm willing to try imports.

[Rakonas]

European Spanish football is where it's at unless you have teams who treat it like entirely serious business and make the game boring as fuck with 2 hours of passing the ball and occasionally shooting just to miss.

Fixed that for you. I love football and all, but honestly, these days, it's more about winning than actually having a good game. Too many of the 'best' teams that win the trophies are about defensive playing.

Watch a good team, it's fun. South American and English teams are great, though South American football has had a bit less wacky instinctive moves and more strict tactical formations in the past few years. The English teams have a great flow, and despite Manchester United being overrated, they play some beautiful football and goals.

Personally I tend to usually watch sports only when something big is happening, and I was never more excited for football than seeing the german team play in the cup last summer. Then spain's team came in and played it and won fairly, but it just felt extremely boring to watch.
 I'll watch some english or south american football when I get the chance, though I don't know when that'll be, to be honest.

[Krelian]

Proof that playing football is totally injury safe. Its a soft sport... yeah.Maybe they should start using armor like in USA's American rubgy football

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo96cFitUFU

[Vherid]

Proof that playing football is totally injury safe. Its a soft sport... yeah.Maybe they should start using armor like in USA's American rubgy football

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo96cFitUFU

But see the thing is they don't need to wear armor like American football, because even with pads, stepping on someone like that is still going to break that leg, and injuries in places other then the leg is a lot more rare. In european football people aren't tanking up and trying to shoulder their way through 12 people who are trying to tackle them. In american football where its a lot more likely for you to be hitting someone with or get hit in the head, shoulder, chest, back, etc thats why they pad it up.

Think of hockey, where your chance of taking a puck to the face is pretty low, and thats why a lot of people in the NHL don't wear cages, and a good chunk of them don't even wear the new eye shields still. It's really all about high chances of injury in a certain area, and if it's preventable.

And furthermore you could say, be a man and suck it up like a street game, but when players have million dollar contracts, that's pretty damn risky.

[Virtz]

Proof that playing football is totally injury safe. Its a soft sport... yeah.Maybe they should start using armor like in USA's American rubgy football

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo96cFitUFU

But see the thing is they don't need to wear armor like American football, because even with pads, stepping on someone like that is still going to break that leg, and injuries in places other then the leg is a lot more rare. In european football people aren't tanking up and trying to shoulder their way through 12 people who are trying to tackle them. In american football where its a lot more likely for you to be hitting someone with or get hit in the head, shoulder, chest, back, etc thats why they pad it up.

And then there's rugby, the European (/rest of the world?) equivalent of American football without kilograms of padding.