I like football alot, i can also watch rugby, however american football looks really boring to me

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i know fifa has a mini soccer league in England, but only 4-12 years olds play soccer, its different then football i think, in mini soccer theres only 8 players in each team instead of 11 in football, also in mini soccer has a smaller field and met then football.

I was reading this on the uefa.com

i love american football its great gotta love the NFL

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nobody cares about soccer...err i mean football in america professional wise cuz its so fucking boring to watch? although 14 year old phenom freddy adu may spark my interest personally...anyway american football all the way...and i agree it is sort of a pussy version of rugby but i still find it extremely entertaining

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Something that most americans don't seem to know: Football is called "soccer" only in the USA, the rest of the world knows it as football. And, american football is just a version of rugby, which is the way this sport should be played. No helmets and stuff!

Actually us Canadians call it soccer also.

I've always been a huge fan of soccer, and love watching the games. People say its boring but thats bullshit IMO. Soccer games have no commercial breaks and like a 5 minute half time, I wish all pro sports were like that. Just because there aren't a lot high scoring games doesnt mean there isnt' a ton of awesome action. To me just the dekes/moves/traps/passes/curving free kicks are entertaining on their own. I think you have to have played soccer to appreciate the difficulty though.

NFL is pretty boring IMO, too much emphasis on defense. I'd rather watch CFL, even though the players aren't as skilled the game is much more exciting. I guess some people love watching a tough defensive battle, but I'd rather see some offense. This goes for soccer too - thats why Italian soccer sucks :P

Football™ is the worlds most popular sport with over a bilion watching the final in the world cup. Everyone else calls it football. In american football you hardly ever kick the ball, why is it even called football?

American football is okay, I used to play it when I was younger. But I can't see how anyone can call football™ boring when compared to american football. Not much happens in AF. Win some yards, lose some. Comercial break(!!). Its a lot slower. In football™, you can really see players technical ability, beautiful goals, an opening pass, a well timed tackle. A goal in football™ is ten times worth a goal in most sports. Because they are rare, they count for more and are a lot more emotionally exciting. A miss can be great too! For example a hard longshot in the post. I guess you have to be a fan to see what I mean.

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Originally posted by Z1D Actually us Canadians call it soccer also. I've always been a huge fan of soccer, and love watching the games. People say its boring but thats bullshit IMO. Soccer games have no commercial breaks and like a 5 minute half time, I wish all pro sports were like that. Just because there aren't a lot high scoring games doesnt mean there isnt' a ton of awesome action. To me just the dekes/moves/traps/passes/curving free kicks are entertaining on their own. I think you have to have played soccer to appreciate the difficulty though. NFL is pretty boring IMO, too much emphasis on defense. I'd rather watch CFL, even though the players aren't as skilled the game is much more exciting. I guess some people love watching a tough defensive battle, but I'd rather see some offense. This goes for soccer too - thats why Italian soccer sucks :P

Half time is 15 minutes, not 5.

Freddy Adu is going to be fucking ace, but USA will still never win anything unless the country takes a grip of the game and begin to stop being so defensive to football...oh i mean soccer.

Always remember New York during 2002 when USA were playing in last 16, and they went around asking ppl if they knew who were playing, and nobody knew! i think that is shit. I hate cricket, never watch it coz i just dont enjoy it, but if there is a world cup, i would know it was bloody happening!

USA need a national sport, what else they compete in on a national level, apart from in the Olympics, which eventually is still a individual sport.

NFL mang!! patriots are gonna stomp out the panthers for sho.. I can't say that soccer is boring, its just that I don't understand the game. I have an idea, but most people just say soccer sucks because they don't understand how it works (similar to most people who say the same about american football). if you take the time to try to understand it, you might find it more interesting. i hate that about people that say hockey sucks because their is not enough scoring. well, like soccer, there isn't much scoring because there happens to be a player whose sole job is to defend the goal, and hence if there was a lot of scoring, that guy isn't doing his job. games like basketball obviously have lots of scoring because there isn't someone standing there whose job is to stop the ball from going in the net. but to each his own, i love all sports... well most anyway.

I perfer American football all because it is much more faster paced, more intensity, violence etc....

I find it funny how people *cough europeans* think that American football players are pussies because they wear pads, unlike rugby players.

Gotta be football. Soccer's okay to watch, except it gets kinda boring unless it's a team like Arsenal, or Real Madrid on TV
Watching college football has grown on me a lot recently - I'd rather watch a college Bowl game then an NFL game With 90,000 people packing a stadium, you can feel the energy through the television!

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Originally posted by TiestoFanMatt USA need a national sport, what else they compete in on a national level, apart from in the Olympics, which eventually is still a individual sport.

You have to be joking right?

USA invented baseball, the national sport probably for the last 100 years or so. Now its not as much as its used to but that is because we have many sports that are popular, not only soccer like the rest of the world. No one watches soccer here because we are busy watching football, baseball, basketball, hockey, not to mention college sports, etc. This leaves less airtime for soccer which has less airtime than even golf. Hell even poker and iceskating get more airtime than soccer.