[Shasown]

Originally Posted by MTVN

"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.

Its called taking the piss, I am sorry you lack either the wit or intelligence to see that, you will note the OP did it in his own posts about the intelligence levels required to understand American Football as opposed to Football, then the relative wealths of the various countries playing either type of football.

Sorry if my post went right over your head. Would you prefer in future that I add sub titles for those people who suffer from a sense of humour bypass, such as yourself?