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Originally Posted by Shasown

Oh dear god, here we go again.

Which is best American football or soccer.

Typical American mentality. Take a game of rugby, pad up your men so they dont get hurt, stick helmets on them and ponsify the rules so that TV companies can fit in ad breaks, then compare it to proper football. Yes I am calling it proper football not soccer, we invented the game oh and the language we are allowed to call it what we want.

Next you will be talking about World series rounders, oops baseball, thats where you took what was essentially a girls school game, changed a couple of rules and called it Baseball. World series though, nah I dont think so, how many countries have ever played in it, no more than a handful I bet?


And then we have basketball. Again derived from a girls game called Netball but because the yanks couldnt actually cope with standing still and passing and shooting you have to bring in the run and bounce garbage.

When you colonial chappies actually develop a game of your own instead of bastardising other peoples games come back and we can have a discussion like grown ups.

"Pad up your men so they dont get hurt", you're clearly ignorant of the dangers of American Football if you think that. There's a reason for the pads you know, it's because the way players are tackled they are not aware of the imminent hit a lot of the time thus having no time for the body to brace itself. There's also the fact that you are being hit above the waist with most tackles, and players are not restricted to just wrapping the players legs like in rugby. You know, before they had pads, way back in 1905, in one single season 18 people died and 159 suffered crippling injuries. Even with the pads serious injuries are still common, with players being paralysed all too regularly. I remember back to the first season I started follwing seriously, back in 2007, the first game I watch, Broncos vs Bills, the Bills TE Kevin Everett suffered a career ending injury, and it was thought he would never walk again. Also, if you knew anything about the game you would know that there afre massive differences between rugby and American football.

And as for basketball, netball actually orginated from basketball, which was developed a few years earlier. So no the "Yanks" did not "bastardise" it.

It's also pretty ironic if you ask me, how you state your desire to have a discussion like grown ups, when you are being so petty as to whinge about how American Football is referred to as "football" over there, or that, in baseball, teams compete in the "World Series". I think you are the one who should grow up, stop being guided by your anti-American xenophobia and recognise that American football, baseball, and basketball are sports in their own right, and you should start to actually gain some understanding of them.