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I read this this morning:

>THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF TIME THE BALL IS IN PLAY ON THE FIELD DURING AN NFL GAME IS ONLY ABOUT 11 MINUTES
People watch three hours of football to witness 11 minutes of actual play. This is why American football is boring and why basketball and soccer are the greatest sports in the world.

11 minutes of actual play
12 minutes of shots of the head coaches and referees
17 minutes of replays
60 minutes of commercials
75 minutes of shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps
Exciting!
>

Sounds awful.

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first off basketball sucks dirty ball sacks, soccer is ok, but i think your missing the point of American football. Sure theres not a lot of play time but we drink a ton of beer, eat shit that will give us heart attacks, but thats the fun part to socialize and have fun with friends. that my point of view on it.
 
wezcountry said:
I read this this morning:

>THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF TIME THE BALL IS IN PLAY ON THE FIELD DURING AN NFL GAME IS ONLY ABOUT 11 MINUTES
People watch three hours of football to witness 11 minutes of actual play. This is why American football is boring and why basketball and soccer are the greatest sports in the world.

11 minutes of actual play
12 minutes of shots of the head coaches and referees
17 minutes of replays
60 minutes of commercials
75 minutes of shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps
Exciting!
>

Sounds awful.

:party-smiley-004:
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Versus 90 minutes of people kicking a ball around and only one team scoring a goal after 80 minutes has passed? Nah.

Still though ,I'd say rugby has to be better than both.
 
Fat Tom said:
first off basketball sucks dirty ball sacks, soccer is ok, but i think your missing the point of American football. Sure theres not a lot of play time but we drink a ton of beer, eat shit that will give us heart attacks, but thats the fun part to socialize and have fun with friends. that my point of view on it.
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Not actually that different from football (soccer).

You get pissed in a pub, you go to the match, you stand with your mates for fourty five minutes singing songs and swearing at the opposing fans, you go under the stand at half time for a top-up beer and a pie, you spend another fourty five minutes singing and swearing and hopefully see your team score a few goals to win the game. At the end you go back to the pub.

I actually love American Football, it's a much deeper sport than soccer in terms of strategy and I think a lot of non-Americans simply don't like it because they don't understand it.

But you can't beat watching a good football match live at an away ground with a tense atmosphere where your team snatches a win. Americans don't seem to understand that football is only 50% what's going on on the pitch, the rest is the invested emotion and passion.
 
Mikesev said:
Not actually that different from football (soccer).

You get pissed in a pub, you go to the match, you stand with your mates for fourty five minutes singing songs and swearing at the opposing fans, you go under the stand at half time for a top-up beer and a pie, you spend another fourty five minutes singing and swearing and hopefully see your team score a few goals to win the game. At the end you go back to the pub.
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Hells yeah
 
Soccer wins.

Never been to a football game, and from the few minutes Ive seen on tv its this

wezcountry said:
11 minutes of actual play
12 minutes of shots of the head coaches and referees
17 minutes of replays
60 minutes of commercials
75 minutes of shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps
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Same goes for baseball.
 
i'm a fan of nfl, soccer and rugby. all great games. anyone european who thinks nfl is shit, download the colts v patriots game from november, a great advertisement for gridiron.
 
wezcountry said:
I read this this morning:

>THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF TIME THE BALL IS IN PLAY ON THE FIELD DURING AN NFL GAME IS ONLY ABOUT 11 MINUTES
People watch three hours of football to witness 11 minutes of actual play. This is why American football is boring and why basketball and soccer are the greatest sports in the world.

11 minutes of actual play
12 minutes of shots of the head coaches and referees
17 minutes of replays
60 minutes of commercials
75 minutes of shots of players huddling, standing at the line of scrimmage or just generally milling about between snaps
Exciting!
>

Sounds awful.

:party-smiley-004:
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You've obviously never watched a NFL game. Football is exciting, Soccer is boring.
 
Webwonder said:
You've obviously never watched a NFL game. Football is exciting, Soccer is boring.
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That would depend on the interests of the person watching the game. Some people find golf exciting while others find it incredibly boring. Some people find NASCAR exciting while others can't stand to watch cars drive hundreds of miles in a small circle.
 
There's nothing like an English Premier League match! Atmosphere at the grounds is amazing most of the time, get very drunk then hurl abuse at the other fans, it's great!

Also a good way to make money if you not a fool ;)
 
NFL Football is a game for warriors and titans...a real Goliath sport.

You got 6 foot 6 inch/ 300 pound mammoths of men runnning full speed and knocking the f#*k out of each other. That is what the Roman Gods would be proud of.

Also the fastest NFL players are faster then the fastest rugby or soccer players, over half the players on an NFL roster run a 4.4 forty.

I played soccer when i was a kid but it is exactly that...a kids sports. I moved on to the mans sport in High school and played football, wasnt good enough to play in college but thats what made it even more spectacular seeing these incredible athletes do things that I couldnt even do.
 
Mikesev said:
Americans don't seem to understand that football is only 50% what's going on on the pitch, the rest is the invested emotion and passion.
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Ignorant fucks don't seem to understand that football (the real football) is 5% play and 95% strategy. Every second that isn't spent running a play is spent analyzing the perfect play. When you watch a game and see head shots of coaches or watch advertisements, in that same time there's at least ten guys in a sky box breaking down every possible play, running every possible statistic, considering every opposing team's options, basically strategizing a war.

Yeah, it may not be like other sports where you send eleven prancing faggots onto the field and expect them to do something impressive - instead it's the most mental and physical team sport ever created, even if that means that there's three hours of pause.
 
If you've never experienced a Premier League or international football match live than you simply don't know what you are talking about. I've been to Baseball, Basketball and NA Football games, and the only North American sport that comes close in terms of excitement, action and atmosphere IMO is NHL Hockey.


As someone else said, depends on what you are into. I know people here who get their jollies watching Cricket test matches that last days. They absolutely love it. I think it's one of the most boring sports on the planet.

To each their own.
 
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