I personally think the only sport that has room to stand with embellishing penalties and taking dives is hockey.
If the refs feel you didn’t do everything you could to stay on your feet and avoid going down, you get called for diving. Even if it was a penalty on the other guy too. That is the best rule in sports.
Football and Hockey > *
[quote]Professor X wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
Gabby,
Do you like baseball? Because I find it just as mind numbing as you find soccer.
Serious question.
Baseball is worse. I can’t watch that shit no matter what.
I will immediately change the channel if there is
-Baseball
-Golf
-Men’s figure skating
…on the tv.[/quote]
Amen!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
PonceDeLeon wrote:
Gabby,
Do you like baseball? Because I find it just as mind numbing as you find soccer.
Serious question.
Baseball is worse. I can’t watch that shit no matter what.
I will immediately change the channel if there is
-Baseball
-Golf
-Men’s figure skating
…on the tv.[/quote]
Ditto.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I will immediately change the channel if there is
-Baseball
-Golf
-Men’s figure skating
…on the tv.[/quote]
Men’s gymnastics
Men’s bowling
On the other hand, small women that look like mice jumping around in tights and beer guzzling, marlboro puffing fatties rolling balls down an oiled lane are both okay by me.
I would feel the same at a certain extent about the monotonous nature of soccer, BUT, watching the champions league final manchester united versus chelsea down to penalties…it is just the ultimate suspense! with Christiano ronaldo pulling of tricks that shouldn’t be possible. American soccer is extremely disappointing though to be honest! Watch the english premiership or ‘la liga’ and you might just change your mind.
I urge you to check out ‘australian rules’ on youtube or something as it is highly entertaining and intense which might be more of the style for most of the men here! even just watch the ‘big hits’
As I’m 100% irish and a devout follower of the gaa I am going to have to advertise it a bit!lol Its 60 minutes long and is just my life to be honest! To those who are ignorant about gaelic football it can be described as a mixture of soccer and rugby!
sorry for the long winded comment which is slighley off topic!
check out these links though…it may unleash a new world of sport for some!
[quote]josh86 wrote:
Football and Hockey > *[/quote]
What? Hockey is just soccer on ice. It’s basically the same game.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Rugby favors the thinking, well rounded athlete more than the other sports… [/quote]
Partly because American Football has become so specialized. Linbackers, and to a lesser extent Tight Ends, are still pretty well rounded, but that’s about it.
Why do rugby players always act like their tougher than Football players?
I gurantee that if you took the 10 best linebackers in the NFL, splash in the 5 best running backs…they could crush any rugby team in the world.
How are you going to get past urlacher, merriman, ray lewis, or possibly expect to catch L Tomlinson in an open field…
Face it:
Soccer is fun to play indoors when your a kid, baseball is fun to play if your extremely bored, rugby is for losers to small to play football, so they over compinsate by bragging that they dont wear pads…even though 99% of all rugby players are to small and slow to play in the NFL
NFL is king because you have the chance to see a 300lb defensive lineman crush a 200 lb running back…or somebody running full speed with their arms outstretched, ribs exposed, and get cold clocked by a 230lb defender with a solid helmet cracking some ribs or dishing out a concussion.
Rugby rules.
Soccer is boring to watch, except when its like a really big championship match with the underdogs versus some “super-team”.
Watch the Liverpool matches in the Champions league in 2001…good shit. You can feel the tension, emotions and energy even watching it off a DVD.
[quote]bluebear wrote:
Soccer is gentleman’s game played by hooligans.
Rugby is of course a hooligan’s game played by gentlemen.
As someone who played a season at linebacker for a team in the UK and continues to play serious rugby at 31 I feel qualified to comment.
…[/quote]
The London Silly Nannies?
[quote]Shire wrote:
except when its like a really big championship match with the underdogs versus some “super-team”.
[/quote]
Isn’t this true for every sport. The highest level of competition should be the most exciting.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
Shire wrote:
except when its like a really big championship match with the underdogs versus some “super-team”.
Isn’t this true for every sport. The highest level of competition should be the most exciting.[/quote]
Yea you have a point, but i never enjoy watching Cricket or Baseball.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
Isn’t this true for every sport. The highest level of competition should be the most exciting.[/quote]
Yeah…U8 soccer isn’t very exciting…after 10 weeks of playing one of the dipshits on my team still didn’t understand which direction to kick the fooking ball…and I’m not talking like getting mixed up in the heat of the game…the ref called a handball on the other team and the silly bastard on my team kicks it the wrong way…I cannot suck that bad as a coach…honest…
[quote]malonetd wrote:
josh86 wrote:
Football and Hockey > *
What? Hockey is just soccer on ice. It’s basically the same game.[/quote]
No fucking way, in hockey there is hard board checking and fist fights break out all the time.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
bushidobadboy wrote:
Zap Branigan wrote:
American football is much harder hitting and more physically aggressive than rugby.
Sure, but since they are padded up, does it count?
BBB
The pads are more like weapons. Football hits are much harder and more frequent. It is a brutal game.
Those that haven’t played it really have no clue.
The force, i.e., mass x acceleration, generated is exceeded by no other sport on earth and that includes rugby. It’s basic physics, folks. The pads worn don’t protect as much as they enable.[/quote]
They actually did this on sports science. They determined it more likely to break bones in a rugby hit than an American football one.
However, oddly enough soccer still has a higher injury rate than american football too.
I find that people that talk bad about soccer have never played it either.
[quote]josh86 wrote:
malonetd wrote:
josh86 wrote:
Football and Hockey > *
What? Hockey is just soccer on ice. It’s basically the same game.
No fucking way, in hockey there is hard board checking and fist fights break out all the time. [/quote]
I can see the argument that indoor soccer and hockey are similar, but really they are nothing alike.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
josh86 wrote:
malonetd wrote:
josh86 wrote:
Football and Hockey > *
What? Hockey is just soccer on ice. It’s basically the same game.
No fucking way, in hockey there is hard board checking and fist fights break out all the time.
I can see the argument that indoor soccer and hockey are similar, but really they are nothing alike.[/quote]
The basics of the game are the same. Scoring scheme and concepts are the same – non-stop offensive movement to bring the ball/puck into the opposing goal.
Yes, there are different skill sets, different strategies, and different number of players, but the base concept is still the same.
It’s like comparing American Football and 7-on7 touch. Many differences, but it’s still the same root game.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
DoubleDuce wrote:
josh86 wrote:
malonetd wrote:
josh86 wrote:
Football and Hockey > *
What? Hockey is just soccer on ice. It’s basically the same game.
No fucking way, in hockey there is hard board checking and fist fights break out all the time.
I can see the argument that indoor soccer and hockey are similar, but really they are nothing alike.
The basics of the game are the same. Scoring scheme and concepts are the same – non-stop offensive movement to bring the ball/puck into the opposing goal.
Yes, there are different skill sets, different strategies, and different number of players, but the base concept is still the same.
It’s like comparing American Football and 7-on7 touch. Many differences, but it’s still the same root game.[/quote]
Polo, water polo, and even basketball are all the same root in that case.
Equipment, contact allowed and size and form of the surface make huge differences though.
Heck, you take equipment out of the equation and that makes american football and rugby a lot more alike.