Why our football is better than their football

Dakstang

WC's Resident Redneck

This comes from foxsports.com.




Why our football is better than their football

The World Cup is over, and NFL training camps open in less than three weeks.
Which got the FOX Funhouse staff thinking about why we like our football better than the world's football ...

Much better looking trophy given to the champions.

Overtime is sudden death ... first to score, wins.

Championships not decided by the random guessing game that is a penalty kick.

Though it has yet to happen, a Super Bowl champion would be decided in sudden-death overtime.

We won't have to wait another four years for a new Super Bowl champion.

No third-place game played before the Super Bowl.

The French aren't any good at our football.

Football has cheerleaders.

Football has cheerleaders who wear revealing clothing.

No need to make apologies when you tell friends you're a football fan.

Players only carried off field on stretchers for real, serious injuries.

There's no "magic spray" in football.

Our football players can use their hands, and feet, and whatever else they feel like using.

Prevent defense only played in final couple minutes, rather than 90 minutes.

Games not decided by penalty kicks, only kicks that are made by an
undersized kicker being pursued by hulking 300-pound behemoths.

In our football, kickers get poked fun of. (Jamie Squire / Getty Images)

Kickers in football are viewed as small and weak, and everybody makes fun of them.

Roughing the kicker penalty doesn't give a team a free shot at a touchdown.

There's no pretending to be fouled.

There's no pretending to be hurt.

A blowout isn't 2-0.

Ties rarely ever happen.

Offsides rule in football easier to understand than offsides rule in soccer.

The U.S. would never lose to Ghana in a game of football.

Fat guys can play.

Unlimited substitutions in football make for a faster, and therefore, better game.

Breaks in play allow for much-needed bathroom breaks.

Bone-crushing hits in our football are considered highlights and applauded.

Bone-crushing hits in soccer get players reprimanded, red cards and immediate ejections.

With obvious exception of Philly and Oakland, very few hooligans.

As amazing as this is to admit in light of the 2006 Super Bowl, referees are more competent in our football.

We know exactly how much time is remaining in the game at all times.

Mikk

WC's Sexy Beast

Fox sports are idiots, their football is just a rip off of Rugby but with pads. They should try it sometime, would toughen them up.

Dr. Giganto

These ones are legitimate reasons

The Phantom

Play rugby dudes... no pads in that game. I'll try and find some vids on YouTube during the week on the great game that is rugby.

Dr. Giganto

I like rugby actually...a lot more than soccer.

I think it's funny when people say football players are pussies because they wear padding. The reason why they wear pads is because people were literally getting killed on the field early on in football's history.

I've spoken with a couple of people who've played both rugby and football competitively and this is what they've told me:

Most of the big hits that you see in a football game would be illegal in rugby. The contact in rugby hurts (a lot), but the contact in football is more "jarring'.

Also, the non-stop nature of rugby makes you more fatigued, but after a game of football you feel like a big ball of pain

I've only played a few pick-up games of football (never played rugby) so I can't compare the two, but I do know that one time that I played football (sans pads), I felt like I had been run over by a truck

The Phantom

I'm the other way round, I've played tons of Rugby, and to a fairly good standard too, but never American Football. It's probably a sportsmans thing as to say mine is better than yours because of blah blah blah...

Dr. Giganto

I tried watching rugby a bit in college with a friend of mine who played for my school's team, but he was TERRIBLE at explaining the nuances of the game to me.

I would have enjoyed it a lot better if I could really know what was going on, because I liked it even when I didn't know what was happening

Blitzkrieg

Administrator

I agree.. I don't understand a lot of the rules in Rugby and I can;t really be bothered because I've grown up with my own sports I have to follow. Maybe someday..

Anyway, American Football players suffer as many serious injuries as anyone in any sport, so the pads aren't a huge factor.

The Phantom

Come to Wales, you can meet Gemma and get to know her ;) and then I'll take you to a few rugby games and explain them to you, lol.

Dr. Giganto

hahaha...sounds like a plan