Football

[Butcher11]

I love American football, and I think soccer is slow and boring lol, but Standford, don't be a jerk about it, and we all know the name makes no sense.
Go Patriots

[Kirsty]

yea its well kool .... who do ya support? i support man u :Sign10:

[G-flow]

Football originated from England, it's usually accossiated with us.

its associated with most of the world.

[-Soro-]

Wow, you really like hanging on to this don't you? I made a comment that most people associate football with england, it doesn't mean I said 'Football is England! Everyone knows it! Football is pure england!...

I think you misunderstood what I meant?

[G-flow]

I just said that most of the world was associated with most of the world. clearly stating the obvious. i am not hanging onto anything

[-Soro-]

Ok then maybe I better EXPLAIN what I meant, then.

England, is the first country (you understand so far?) to spring into the mind (still with me?) of most people (still there?) who learn or discuss national football. Which ofcourse is understandably, when we invented the damn game.

[G-flow]

Please , i'm not stupid. What i thought you were saying was that If someone thought of England they would immediatly think of football. similar to someone saying that a scot will wear a kilt and eat haggis etc.

[stanfordstud2]

unless your talking to real sports fans...

[SSC7]

I don't liek american football either. It stops every 5 seconds and take hours because they have time outs an all that. Plus footie isnt boring or unentertaining. Footie can be fast and scoring great goals in big matches is very entertaining. Plus, no disrespect to american footballer players, but footie takes much more skill to play I think. Except for maybe the guy quarter thrower or whatever because he has to have good timing.

[stanfordstud2]

lol are you kidding me??? timing?? youve obviously never looked at a football pkaybook because timing is everything in every pos.
the defense has to be in a certain place at a certain time and this is with offensive linemen trying to block you so you dont get to where you want to go.
on offense. timing is the most important thing. to get around a player, anouther offensive player has to block just at the right moment or the other O player is going to get tackled. the reason they stop so much, is because it takes SO much skill and thought process to play this game that they set up plays everytime, that tells them what to do. not only that, the QB has to ajust accordingly at the drop of a dime depending on where the defense sets up.
and thats just one play! these guys have to do that succesfully (to win) every single posession because one INT or sack could change the whole game around.

skill? yeah, im pretty sure you need alot more then you do to play soccer