Post #193,600
2/8/05 12:17:18 PM
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You might know football by another name.
Soccer. The clock doesn't stop. The players move "for the entire game". No huddles, no tv time-outs, no "reviews", delays for "penalty calls", no "play clock", none of that crap. Hell, even if an American football game was played "without stoppage" play would still be interrupted damned near continuously. It's not football if you only have to "play the game" every 45 seconds or whatever (i.e. play before the "play clock" runs out).
American football is a dull, seemingly endless child's game almost incessantly stalled by the fucked up rules it is played by in comparison to real football.
bcnu,
Mikem
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Post #193,608
2/8/05 12:28:00 PM
2/8/05 12:36:09 PM
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I thought it was called Rugby elsewhere
But I see we're talking about two different sports, so sorry for the confusion.
Brenda
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Edited by Nightowl
Feb. 8, 2005, 12:36:09 PM EST
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Post #193,613
2/8/05 12:34:46 PM
2/8/05 12:37:36 PM
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No, that's Rugby (Union or League, pick your poison).
Which is a fast, dynamic game with an offside rule designed to bamboozle you, again in stark contrast to the odd pace of an American football game.
Again, a truly global sport.
Here's a tip; get a decent sport channel and watch non-US sports for a change - you'll like it.
Also, note that there's no popular or serious take-up of American Football outside the USA.
There's a league here in the UK, but I think 3000 people on a Saturday afternoon is a good turn out. If they're getting serious gates, they're keeping it well hidden.
Peter
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Edited by pwhysall
Feb. 8, 2005, 12:37:36 PM EST
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Post #193,616
2/8/05 12:36:38 PM
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Offside in curling - now that'll bamboozle you!
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Post #193,617
2/8/05 12:36:54 PM
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Sorry can't do that
No cable TV, just network.
Brenda
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Post #193,618
2/8/05 12:38:01 PM
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OK
Start here:
[link|http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/default.stm|http://news.bbc.co.u...t1/hi/default.stm]
Peter
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Post #193,620
2/8/05 12:43:57 PM
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That's a good start
I just need somewhere that explains the differences between American Football and European Football. And it would help to know what Rugby is also
Any suggestions for a good site to give descriptions of each sport, Peter?
Brenda
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Post #193,621
2/8/05 12:51:00 PM
2/8/05 12:54:11 PM
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Look harder :-)
[link|http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/football/rules/default.stm|http://news.bbc.co.u...rules/default.stm]
Also, The Laws:
[link|http://www.fifa.com/en/regulations/regulation/0,1584,3,00.html#|http://www.fifa.com/...0,1584,3,00.html#]
(pick it off the nav on the left)
Peter
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Edited by pwhysall
Feb. 8, 2005, 12:54:11 PM EST
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Post #193,656
2/8/05 1:28:06 PM
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It's not "European" Football fer Chrissakes!
IT IS GLOBALLY KNOWN AS FOOTBALL. It is only us fucked up Muricans that call that crap we watch football.
bcnu,
Mikem
Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
(Just trying to be accepted in the New America)
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