How to make soccer (football) catch on in America (funny)...

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Posted by BeatFreak on Jul-03-2006 04:27:

How to make soccer (football) catch on in America (funny)...

LMAO

...here come the American bashers... can you hear them coming? i can hear the clicking from here.

Posted by Orbax on Jul-03-2006 04:29:

Posted by shaw on Jul-03-2006 04:36:

Posted by LiveTheDream on Jul-03-2006 10:31:

And there's me thinking, making football watchable in the US, would be to,

change the shape of the ball,
change rule so you can pick it up,
and let them run into each other like mindless animals, but with loads of padding (wimps ruby 4tw).

Posted by Plump Funk on Jul-03-2006 11:58:

Posted by optik on Jul-03-2006 12:27:

I remeber reading around the time of the word cup in the US that they wanted to make it four quarters - may have been media bullshit, or I may have been stoned.

say what you like about north american sport, but in the case of ice hockey they got it spot on.

Posted by philliez on Jul-03-2006 17:08:

in rugby do they have any plays or strategies like american football? I'm just wonderng because it doesnt look like they do.

Posted by Masonious on Jul-03-2006 17:14:

i've played rugby and football, you get more cuts / broken fingers / bloody noses from cheap, lowclass pieces of shit in Rugby but you get hit a LOT harder in football. Football was much more challenging and painful than rugby.

masonious says so, no more discussion on the matter

Posted by Orbax on Jul-03-2006 17:19:

no shit. Look at the all time hardest hits in football and then compare it to rugby. You dont see the injuries rolling off the field in rugby from some 300 lb semi truck smashing in to you.

I hate the sport, but from when I played when I was younger, and from my friends who played for the Huskies....you feel like a train with cleats ran over you....while jumping up and down.

Posted by jonze on Jul-03-2006 17:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Orbax
no shit. Look at the all time hardest hits in football and then compare it to rugby. You dont see the injuries rolling off the field in rugby from some 300 lb semi truck smashing in to you.

I hate the sport, but from when I played when I was younger, and from my friends who played for the Huskies....you feel like a train with cleats ran over you....while jumping up and down.

there are several things wrong with your statement.

1. trains have wheels not cleats
2. trains can't jump because they don't have legs and stuff.

Posted by capricorn15 on Jul-03-2006 18:54:

quote:
Originally posted by LiveTheDream
And there's me thinking, making football watchable in the US, would be to,

change the shape of the ball,
change rule so you can pick it up,
and let them run into each other like mindless animals, but with loads of padding (wimps ruby 4tw).

why dont you play american football first and see how it is, unless you've already played rugby, then its ok, but i dont watch much rugby, do they dish out hard hits or what? ive seen some rugby, but i have never seen them run full speed and hit the other guy with his head. in football i see plenty of full speed hits with the helmet and it hurts, cuz i played for 4 years in high school

Posted by capricorn15 on Jul-03-2006 18:58:

quote:
Originally posted by Orbax
no shit. Look at the all time hardest hits in football and then compare it to rugby. You dont see the injuries rolling off the field in rugby from some 300 lb semi truck smashing in to you.

I hate the sport, but from when I played when I was younger, and from my friends who played for the Huskies....you feel like a train with cleats ran over you....while jumping up and down.

haha i have never seen a hardest all time hits in rugby, but i have seen some big ones in football over the years. i like when they hit them so hard their helmets fly off, haha.

Posted by capricorn15 on Jul-03-2006 18:59:

quote:
Originally posted by jonze234
there are several things wrong with your statement.

1. trains have wheels not cleats
2. trains can't jump because they don't have legs and stuff.

in terms of pro football, just imagine some linemen who is 300 lbs and can run 40 yards in under 5 seconds running into you at fullspeed, then stepping on you with his cleats. that is what he means be a train with cleats running you over

Posted by all-nite-freak on Jul-03-2006 19:00:

make terry bradshaw wear a euro scarf and do play by play with john madden.Every time a player gets tackled on the floor he could yell now that guy needs some tough actin tinactin.It would be the most watched sport on tv.

Posted by venomX on Jul-03-2006 20:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Orbax
no shit. Look at the all time hardest hits in football and then compare it to rugby. You dont see the injuries rolling off the field in rugby from some 300 lb semi truck smashing in to you.

I hate the sport, but from when I played when I was younger, and from my friends who played for the Huskies....you feel like a train with cleats ran over you....while jumping up and down.

but then again they only hit each other so hard because they have the comfort of 20 pounds of padding, take the padding off and see who has the balls to hit/get hit that hard