Dose anyone think that american football is actually any good?

[desperat-romeo]

i mean come on. they all were helmits sholderpads cups shin gards and god knows what else, and there is no tackeling stile in it, just go for the knee with a sholder, I mean you don't even have to have the ball to get hit. and they have a break every time someone breaks a nail. now over hear we play rugby leage and union. there reall mans football. none of this padding shit, just a shurt shorts socks and boots. that's all we play in. and we hit damn hard! 80mins and no time outs no change a whole team for offence and defence 13men on each team slugging it out hurting and swetting it out, those gridironérs wouldn't last a second in our world.

[Cool-Relax]

Football came around because rugby was considered too violent for American colleges, so they added pads and constant pauses (that's why I can't watch football--it's too stop and go), and it spread from there. They eventually lifted the ban on rugby, but football will never die out.

As much as football irritates me because of the constant stopping, a lot of the guys in my family played football, so I'm obligated to defend it. And I have to agree with Tatiahna--rugby is just about the gayest thing I've ever seen. I actually learned about rugby from the Yale rugby team (which is the school where football started, by the way), and it just looked like a big man-on-man orgy.

Not to put down the sport at all. I have a lot of respect for guys who play rugby; it's definitely not for everyone.

[Tatiahna]

I'm sorry but rugby is the gayest sport ever created.

I'm an American girl but I've lived in England for 4 years.

I enjoy watching American Football on tv WAY more than I do rugby

I mean with rugby it's just a bunch of gay men grabbing each other's @sses and it's not very nice

But with American football yeah it isn't as tough but at least they aren't touching each other everywhere.

I mean watching rugby is like watching the free gay prn channel. I don't see how so many men play it and don't find it gay

[AJtogo]

I'm neither a football nor a rugby fan (although I did play some rugby years ago) and I do agree with you. Rugby is a much more rugged game.

I do watch the superbowl (American) and the grey cup (Canadian) and all these time outs and stoppages and changing defensive and offensive lines slows the game up. I'm there for the beer and food.

[lanky1]

I concur. What's the fun in watching a sport where the point is to hurt people but they are wearing a bunch of pads. Australian football is way more entertaining.

Oh yeah. I'm a "Yank".

And motorsports guys are exempt from being babies with pads and helmets. haha

[tex151]

In America football dominates all other sports next in line would be basketball then prob baseball, we have rugby and soccer but in America we don't pay attention to that. It's a cultural thing man, just like soccer is huge in other countries but not in America.

[Anonymous]

I believe rugby and football comes from a same tree of the family. I guess the differences is the rules and pads. like what you've said. but both very exciting. Especially if you ever watched 4th quarter 1:00 minute hurrdles. man. it could make your palm sweat sometimes. God Bless.

[Tatiahna]

no wait rugby isn't the gayest sport ever created I take that back. curling is the gayest sport ever created but that's another story.

[Cool-Relax]

Lmao I have to agree

[larsfriday13]

i am probably one of the only people at my school who doesn't like football or any other sports

[WeaponZero]

Aside from motorsports I can't stand sports at all.

[larsfriday13]

Ya I like bmx and stuff but football and baseball just bore me to death