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| quote: | Originally posted by Chuck Norris
I have no problem with American Rules, but, what i don't understand is why they actually call it football when about 85% of the game is based on carrying/throwing the ball. Oh, and the dickheads on 'The Man Show' have the nerve to call football/soccer -- Fagball. DIE! |
Simple history...back when it evolved back before our grand parents it was mostly a game played by kicking and lateraling (more similar to rugby). Forward Passing was not allowed until sometime after 1925-1930. The game has evolved, the name hasn't. I believe the Canadian league still carries some of the old school rules a bit today...to me it makes it more "exciting"...i.e. more than one in motion, rouges (sp)/singles, goal posts in the front of the end zone, and being able to kick the ball forward of scrimage and retriving it. (yes, calgary should have won the game they tried that move in, it totally caught, BC, the refs, and the 382 people watching off guard, and they said no major...haha).
No matter the name, in a country that depends on "contact sports" for excitement, it's just hard to tell some of us that "soccer" is a quality sport. Watching a player get tripped, then proceed to whine and roll around on the ground like a little girl...just doesn't cut it round these parts. No matter how skilled the game is, or in some circumstances, actually exciting.
Personally, I don't care for American Football on a pro level. I enjoy Rugby the most...but I will be cheering for my Montana Grizzlies in the I-AA college finals on Saturday 
And Spec (tobias)...you tried this argument before...might as well let sleeping dogs lie and go back to watching your footy, or Tri-Nations or whatever is on these days...you just can't look at the last 10 years and think that's how the game has always been played...or where it is played, cuz it is in fact played in (at least) 2 countries...not one  ...do your research But being called World Champs...yeah I buy that argument...tho in American Football I think they call themselves "SuperBowl Champs"...but yeah we have sports that we basically only play and call it "world" this and that...but not so much in American Football.
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Last edited by PhloTron on Dec-17-2004 at 09:30
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