It's funny because it's true. Soccer fans like to take shots at Football players because they "need breaks" in between plays but if you actually watch a Soccer player, like focus on one person throughout the course of a game? I'd say probably 75% of that guy's time is spent lazily jogging back and forth or on the ground.
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I've seen so many videos of players throwing down their sticks and then beating each other with their fists. The referees stand by and watch it for a few seconds before they stop them. Can you explain that to me? The first part looks like it's part of it, the second part looks like endorsement to me.
Maybe i'm wrong, but the majority of americans and canadians think that hockey should be played with agression and violence. I realize that when i see the Olympic Games and there is a huge difference between NA teams and european teams.
Some refs allow players to punch each other a couple times to let out frustration rather than causing a serious injury via a check later on. It would be like if someone made like a really brutal slide tackle and then the players put on boxing gloves and punched each other a couple times instead of someone getting angry and ending another player's career with retaliation.
The difference here being aggression and violence are a part of the game, checks, fighting for the puck, etc. Not punching each other in the face.Maybe i'm wrong, but the majority of americans and canadians think that hockey should be played with agression and violence. I realize that when i see the Olympic Games and there is a huge difference between NA teams and european teams.
Plus those punchouts between 2 players, in NA, the referee only break up when someone goes down and i think in Europe, that shit never happens. I know it's to entertain but ffs -.-'
You can correct me if i am wrong ( most probably lol) . I only know hockey through EA NHL games, some NHL games, some european league games and the olympic games
Fighting is prohibited in international hockey, which is why you don't see it at the olympics.
Hockey players are penalized for fighting. Also those faggot floppers almost never get carded even when it's painfully obvious.
Well as standard with most Soccer matches, which ever mafia/drug lord that has bribed the officials for that game will have the faggot floppers of the other team carded and not the one they're supporting.
That was my point. I see fighting in NHL but not in Europe, WC or Olympic Games
That's just a cheap shot. A typical player may easily run over 10 miles every 90 minutes soccer on average, whereas in NFL you barely scratch 1 mile over your 3 hours match. How the hell is it a negative that a guy has to jog around his positional areas instead of sprinting? What Abefroman references is that in the intense heat of some parts of Brazil, they actually do take a couple of water breaks during parts of the match. Extremely rare cases because of the extreme weather.
That has nothing to do with the lack of popularity of Football outside the U.S. It has everything to do with economics. Any broke ass mulignan can kick a ball around and play soccer to some degree. You need a fuck ton of money to pick up Football.
Rugby is indeed an excellent sport. Probably the best, hence my name. A violent game played by large gentlemen.
The typical player does not EASILY run over 10 miles every 90 minutes. The average player doesn't even come close to 10 miles every 90 minutes. In-fact the average that is found in most studies is half that. It's hard to exaggerate that kind of metric when we're talking on the internet and someone can just google the response in <1 minute. Either way, it was meant in a response that try to claim one sport's more physically demanding than the other based on their interest. I know it takes a lot of endurance to run around in Soccer, I've played with friends before and I get winded from it. I'm not a push over when it comes to distance running as my normal exercise 3 times a week is running a little over a 5k.
Who cares where it's played? It's popular in our country and we're segregated from the rest of the world due to oceans. Just because Soccer's played in some broke ass African country doesn't mean it somehow gets more credibility as a sport. As far as Football not being recognized other places in the world? Don't look now but they might be adding an NFL team to England soon.Chris_sl said:
The only people that watch the Superbowl are students and people that don't have work the next day.
This has nothing to do with a judgement of the sport and everything to do with equipment costs and the British bringing soccer with them everywhere they went in the colonial days.
What does that have to do with the Superbowl and who watches it in the UK? Why are you arguing with a UK resident about the status of NFL here?