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[QUOTE=B-Easy8]I watch a lot of NFL, but I can only watch the condensed games on game pass.
I see the way they tackle and its really not that big of a difference. Have you ever watched rugby?[/QUOTE]
I don't even have to be american to give an answer to this, if you watched the video you know rugby players don't roam around to tackle a player in their blindside with the momentum they gathered from sprints.
If that answer doesn't explain it for you then this will : Newtons second law (F= M*S)
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NFL players are launched at each other like missiles. They are destroying their bodies in the process. There's a lot of action and plenty of strategy.
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You have 6'4" 250 lb line backers who run 4.5 or 4.6 40's launching themselves at players. The game is incredibly dangerous.
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Why isn't Russian midget fighting popular around the world? Why isn't Sumo popular around the world?
American Football just doesn't have universal appeal. It's a bunch of marginal athletes on steroids running into each other in between commercials.
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[QUOTE=LJJ]Why isn't Russian midget fighting popular around the world? Why isn't Sumo popular around the world?
American Football just doesn't have universal appeal. It's a bunch of[B] marginal athletes[/B] on steroids running into each other in between commercials.[/QUOTE]
The NFL has many amazing athletes. Marginal? That's a joke and wrong.
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[QUOTE=AngelEyes]The NFL has many amazing athletes. Marginal? That's a joke and wrong.[/QUOTE]
The NFL is a tiny professional sport. Tiny.
How many professional American Football players are there compared to other sports?
If there is any term to properly describe the NFL as a sport, marginal would be it. Marginal athletes, marginal talents, marginal entertainment value, marginal everything.
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:roll: at the NFL having marginal athletes. NFL has some of the absolute best athletes on the planet. The combination of speed, agility, and strength is incredible.
You're clueless.
Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...
[QUOTE=LJJ]The NFL is a tiny professional sport. Tiny.
How many professional American Football players are there compared to other sports?
If there is any term to properly describe the NFL as a sport, marginal would be it. Marginal athletes, marginal talents, marginal entertainment value, marginal everything.[/QUOTE]
rofl
Football is only the largest sport in America, pulls in the most revenue, gets the highest ratings, has the most peewee/junior leagues in the country, etc etc.
But yeah it's only marginal. lol give me a break
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[QUOTE=LJJ]The NFL is a tiny professional sport. Tiny.
How many professional American Football players are there compared to other sports?
If there is any term to properly describe the NFL as a sport, marginal would be it. Marginal athletes, marginal talents, marginal entertainment value, marginal everything.[/QUOTE]
It's BY FAR the biggest sport in the United States, which happens to be one of the largest countries in the world. The best athletes in the NFL compare favorably to the best athletes in the NBA. Guys like Calvin Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Julius Peppers, etc. compare to any athletes.
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It's so easy to draw out people's inner racist.
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The #1 reason is that its too complicated and has too many players, you really have to invest a lot of time into it to know what's [U]really[/U] going on, the formations, the strategy, the details, the execution. You could say the same about other sports, but football goes deep. For the people who are really into it, I can see how they think that no sport is comparable. It is a re-enactment of war.
Personally, I love it. Best genetics in the world, no other sport can compete, not nba, baseball, soccer, rugby, boxing, mma, australian rules fb, hockey, etc.
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[QUOTE=LJJ]It's so easy to draw out people's inner racist.[/QUOTE]
:biggums:
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LOL @ baseball and football being slow and boring while acting like soccer is action-packed. Priceless. No bias there.:oldlol:
[quote]PPS. American Football is not tougher than Rugby or Australian Football. You guys were pads on every single part of your body LOL.[/quote]
That's because if they played American football without pads there would be fatalities every game.
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I think the reason the sport isn't more famous is because most of the fat people in the world live in America and its the fat people that like the sport anyways...
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