Yanks, why are your women so good and your men so bad at football?

[Hawker]

Yeah right.

Don't see why that wouldn't be hard to believe. He's a ridiculous athlete and if he had similar soccer skills to basketball skills he'd be a top player.

[pinhead]

There's also a lot of finesse and nuance in bball and football dude

There is no finesse in NFL. Just a bunch of overweight women beaters in shoulder pads.

[christian1923]

There is no finesse in NFL. Just a bunch of overweight women beaters in shoulder pads.

It may seem that way to the uneducated

[HitandRun Reggie]

Cus soccer is seen mostly as a sport for Children and Women.

This.
I played soccer as a child, then I started to grow up and played football in high school. Besides in high school all the girls want to get with the football players. The soccer team? Not so much....

[CavaliersFTW]

Cus soccer is seen mostly as a sport for Children and Women.

Got em.

[pinhead]

It may seem that way to the uneducated

American Football is not even considered a Sport to people outside America. It is like panto. More people talk about adverts than the actual game during the Superbowl.

Terrible invention.

[Akrazotile]

Why only compared to basketball players where if you're 6-2, you're short? Average height for a db is about 5-11. WR is 6-1. RB is 5-10.

The thing is, having big glutes or long arms or being really fast in a straight line doesn't really have much direct correlation with how coordinated your feet are with a soccer ball. Very similar to throwing a baseball pitch. We've seen how poorly world class athletes from other sports fair in that regard.

If you watch athletes in other sports try to play soccer, it's usually extremely cringeworthy. However, if you watch soccer players dribble a basketball, shoot a hockey puck, catch a football pass etc. they're generally pretty good at it for their size/experience level.

Manipulating an object with your feet is not natural and it's not easy to do. Usually people who can do it are extremely coordinated. Other sports rely more on a balance of strength and coordination.

[christian1923]

American Football is not even considered a Sport to people outside America. It is like panto. More people talk about adverts than the actual game during the Superbowl.

Terrible invention.

that's the great part about America, we don't care

Your people would die to live here and make 8 bucks an hour washing the compression shorts of our football players.

[DonDadda59]

Don't see why that wouldn't be hard to believe. He's a ridiculous athlete and if he had similar soccer skills to basketball skills he'd be a top player.

Yup. Iverson was also a football star who played QB, DB, KR and was named Virginia's top football player while leading his squad to the State title as a Junior. He had a scholarship to Notre Dame waiting for him before he got into legal trouble.

He has proven he can be elite at 2 different sports... but for some unknown reason he wouldn't be in a third had he devoted his life to it? Because...

[christian1923]

The thing is, having big glutes or long arms or being really fast in a straight line doesn't really have much direct correlation with how coordinated your feet are with a soccer ball. Very similar to throwing a baseball pitch. We've seen how poorly world class athletes from other sports fair in that regard.

If you watch athletes in other sports try to play soccer, it's usually extremely cringeworthy. However, if you watch soccer players dribble a basketball, shoot a hockey puck, catch a football pass etc. they're generally pretty good at it for their size/experience level.

Manipulating an object with your feet is not natural and it's not easy to do. Usually people who can do it are extremely coordinated. Other sports rely more on a balance of strength and coordination.

Then You would just train differently

[DonDadda59]

There is no finesse in NFL. Just a bunch of overweight women beaters in shoulder pads.

Guys like Barry Sanders, Deion Sanders, and Megatron would run circles around some of the Euro midgets you consider top tier athletes.

[pinhead]

that's the great part about America, we don't care

Your people would die to live here and make 8 bucks an hour washing the compression shorts of our football players.

I probably would if it meant I would be free.

[Akrazotile]

Yup. Iverson was also a football star who played QB, DB, KR and was named Virginia's top football player while leading his squad to the State title as a Junior. He had a scholarship to Notre Dame waiting for him before he got into legal trouble.

He has proven he can be elite at 2 different sports... but for some unknown reason he wouldn't be in a third had he devoted his life to it? Because...

Iverson probably would have been a very good soccer player if he'd gotten involved with it at a young age, judging by his coordinative skills. Same with Michael Vick. Same with Steve Nash who is known as a pretty good soccer player. But that doesn't mean Amir Johnson or Darelle Revis would be. Most elite athletes in football and basketball are built for their specific sports. But of course there are some guys in each sport that are just fantastic all around athletes.

[sweggeh]

Guys like Barry Sanders, Deion Sanders, and Megatron would run circles around some of the Euro midgets you consider top tier athletes.

You dont know shit about football.

Look at this dude thinking all you have to be is big muscular and black and you excel at every sport

[DonDadda59]

You dont know shit about football.

Look at this dude thinking all you have to be is big muscular and black and you excel at every sport

Who said they had to be muscular?

Obviously they would train differently if they were playing a different sport. They'd still have all of their natural abilities though.

The hypothetical is that they've been playing/training for soccer since their youth, not just taking off their pads and running with the midgets.

But even if they did, they'd still do better at soccer than Messi or Neymar would at football. That'd be hilarious to see though, can't lie