Oh, have they started playing the ball with the foot? About time!
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I don't know, but I wonder are football games more popular with console players?
You beat me to it, OP didn't say, but it felt like he was talking about what we here in the states call soccer.
Well, the name may not be as apropos regarding our American Football, especially since most NFL teams now rely heavily on a more passing prone offense, but we feel it's just a more rounded game. You often see great passing plays and great running plays in the same game, and while they do wear pads, there's higher speed impacts than Rugby has, which necessitates them. Rugby is slightly better than Soccer because there's usually more scoring going on, but neither can compare to a really good American Football game, like the AFC championship game last year between the Chiefs and the Bills. It doesn't get much better than that!Oh, have they started playing the ball with the foot? About time!
As a rugby fan, it's been embarrassing watching the kid taking so long to figure it out.
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Of course you're permitted
Start a new thread about it and see who bites.
I don't know, but I wonder are football games more popular with console players?
We're RPG-heavy here at the moment, but the forum is still young and growing, so I expect some sanity to appear over time which will hopefully up the tone of the place.
Perhaps you'll be the catalyst, we'll be building a statue to you in Future (plc)
That's cool DX. Which disorganized sports interest you?
It's called "football" because the ball is shaped like a foot.
That's some weird anatomy you guys have.
It can also be punted and kicked various ways due to the shape, momentum sapping backspin punts, great for pinning it near the goal line, spiral punt, great for preventing run backs, dribble punt, great for running down time while assuring a skilled runner doesn't get it, the goofy punt, which is akin to the knuckleball, and can be hard to catch, great for trying to force turnovers deep in opponent territory, and lastly, the downward kickoff to produce unpredictable bounce, great for onside kicks.
In fairness, that wouldn't be difficult
Most of what you describe can be done in most ball games, heck even in snooker
Hmm, I would say the opposite, ie that it's a whole lot less. A while back I researched the actual amount of play time v TV watching time for 3 sports:
That's another reason I stopped watching, the gamesmanship and time-wasting tactics employed—it's just my thing that such has no place in sport. I played a few different sports as a kid, and such as you describe just wouldn't fly in any of them, not would the whole final 2-minute shenanigans be tolerated.
I remember him with Spurs & Borussia! He was indeed very good.
Yeah, American Football is way more strategic than soccer. But I'll admit that even though soccer is an inferior sport
, they have to exert a lot more energy than American Football players.
I think we need to introduce you to something we call "baseball." You spend at least 90% of the time between pitches with nothing going on. The vast majority of pitches aren't put in play, either.
And that would be completely false. Plus I'll take intermittent exciting action over mostly watching players just run up and down a field, rarely making goals. In fact one of the things that makes the least sense to me and I hate most about soccer is their insistence on having no time outs to the point of running themselves into a leg cramped state. It's just idiotic when you consider it's largely a game of kicking a ball back and forth until someone FINALLY scores a goal. I mean jeez they don't even let them hydrate during a match as far as I know, it's like a sweat shop sport. Another thing I find incredibly strange is it's such a simple sport for fans to get so worked up about that they actually get into mass fights sometimes over it. Clearly these fans have nothing better to do than act like crazed politicians in some Asian countries that do the exact same thing when arguing politics. To each their own, but if you can't handle deep strategy sports, and the aloofness and deceit that goes with, I would imagine life itself would be hard to take.
I guess I should have made clear I was talking for myself—ie 3 hours is too much time for me to invest for 12 minutes of action, so for me it's completely true.
First off, it was false because there are 60 minutes of actual gameplay. So it's more like 3 hours for 60 minutes of action.I guess I should have made clear I was talking for myself—ie 3 hours is too much time for me to invest for 12 minutes of action, so for me it's completely true.
Good to see you have a passion for the game and obviously get a lot out of it—long may that last for you and the many millions who share your enthusiasm
So are we talking about fishing, now?I told you the reason football isn't discussed a lot on most international forums OP, you should have seen this coming. You opened up a can of nasty worms.
Those are not the same thing.
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