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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    Quote Originally Posted by 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.
    LMAOO so many ignorant statements in one post

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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    Quote Originally Posted by sommervilleCdn
    tl;dr , nice troll
    So these fat guys are your typical NFL player?

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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    Quote Originally Posted by deja vu
    So these fat guys are your typical NFL player?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyB5f5QBd5k


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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    Quote Originally Posted by Vragrant
    ESPN ranked the toughest sports in the world today based on metrics such as

    power
    speed
    agility
    endurance
    flexibility
    nerve(ability to overcome fear)
    durability
    hand/eye coordination
    analytic aptitude

    NFL is ranked #3 (boxing ranked #1).

    Soccer ranked #10 and Rugby ranked #13.

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    http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...otal_rank#grid
    When we rank the "toughest" sports, there's no way we should apply the same value to all categories. We know damn well that sports like bull riding or canoe/kayak or cheerleading are way tougher than volleyball or baseball. It's not just the all-around athleticism required. Just consider the possibility of getting seriously injured due to playing some of the former and compare to the latter...

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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    Quote Originally Posted by Psileas
    When we rank the "toughest" sports, there's no way we should apply the same value to all categories. We know damn well that sports like bull riding or canoe/kayak or cheerleading are way tougher than volleyball or baseball. It's not just the all-around athleticism required. Just consider the possibility of getting seriously injured due to playing some of the former and compare to the latter...
    Forget bull riding, bareback is even more violent during the ride. The biggest danger in bull riding come on the dismount, as a horse won't try to maul you, but bulls are a different story.
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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    Quote Originally Posted by Psileas
    It's not just the all-around athleticism required.
    Well, that's what they meant.

    There are obviously dozens of ways "toughness" of a sport can be interpreted.

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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    Quote Originally Posted by lefthook00
    That was closer to 6 flat than 4.6.

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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    Quote Originally Posted by Nick Young
    ALSO, the game just gets boring in low stakes regular season matches.
    If you understand it (including the strategies) and enjoy it, then it's very far from boring. Low stakes? Teams only have 16 regular season games, so every game is important unlike baseball, hockey and basketball where every team plays a million games.

    Who wants to waste time watching the Cleveland Browns vs the Miami dolphins go 3 and out 3 and out 3 and out every drive with a 3 minute commercial break in between and a 5 minute break between each quarter? It is boring as shit.
    Unless you're a Browns or Dolphins fan you'd probably be watching a different game at that time.

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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    Quote Originally Posted by DonD13
    I think one reason is because you can play basketball pretty easy yourself while you need a lot of equipment, knowledge, people for AF. I think that's the main reason why soccer is so popular all over the world.
    Good point. I feel this has been a big hindrance to cricket as well.

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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    It will still be overweight jackasses touching each other's asses whatever it was called. Oh, and also extremely boring.

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    Default Re: If American Football wasn't called "football", would it be more popular...

    Professional wrestling is a tougher sport than either football or rugby. All of those dudes are torn apart physically, let alone the constant travel, no off season, etc etc.

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