Why is real football better than American?

[pikeboy412]

the nfl is way bettttttteeeerrrrr than kickball
not hatin..

i love all sports but come one.. nfl is amazing

[Rcktwrangler]

Simple, it's not. It's stupid that they took the name from Soccer but it is better.

[Rellik419]

Americans want to see points scored. Not a 1-0 game. Booooorrrrrriiiiiinnnnnggggg!

[paycash]

soccer is great!!!

[tta91690]

Americans want to see points scored. Not a 1-0 game. Booooorrrrrriiiiiinnnnnggggg!

This is just plain ignorant. Most soccer games do NOT end 1-0, maybe you should try watching something other than the World Cup. Teams play the group stage of the WC conservatively because of the format, try watching Champions League or EPL. The excitement in a soccer game comes from the build-up play to create a scoring chance. Professional soccer players are so good that if the final pass into them is on point they will usually score.

[Zab]

I'm not absolutely positive, but I think that soccer is the worst sport on the planet.

I tend to agree.. Not enough scoring, fields are to large and some of the rules are crazy..

Extra Time - We're not going to tell you how much, just that there is extra time!! (What?)
Penalty - There was a penalty called on a US player in the world cup awhile back, what was it for? (Oh they don't have to tell you)

Any sport where there is a "power play" and you can't even tell... OH MY its 18 against 17, THEY ARE ON A POWER PLAY.

And last but not least, 1/2 the players are WALKING 90% of the time.


Go ahead, flame away

[tta91690]

The 4th official holds up a board telling you how many minutes are added. The ref can extend that time if a team has a scoring chance or if he feels a team was excessively wasting time while the ball was out of play. The ref doesn't need to say what the penalty is for (like in football) because the fouls only happen around the ball and are obvious to most spectators. And, hyperbole aside, there are only 11 players per side, let's not get carried away. People who complain about soccer being boring should watch the last day of last year's EPL season, it was the most epic comeback in sports history.

[MrDignified]

Kinda crazy to compare the 2 sports as the only thing in common is the name. Compare the NFL to a rugby league and you have a more realistic comparison, but even there, the differences are huge. NFL is size and speed on an immediate play by play basis with a large squad of specialists being rotated in and out. Rugby is a small squad of all around players in for every down, offense and defense and is supremely a stamina sport, with power and speed occasionally. And just for fun...as a Scot....when we play football, we mostly use our feet.....when we hold world championships, we usually invite some other countries, and when you meet the head of our country you only have to drop to one knee instead of two!! Luv ya Zab!!!

[tta91690]

And also one of the most depressing days of my life (life-long United fan)

[Prawney]

Sort by viewers Superbowl gets watched worldwide by like 150-200 million

Champions league final 300+ million.

The way i look at it people in america dont like football because they suck at it. I know they only suck because its like the 10th most popular sport here but that is the truth.

Look at womens football, Its terrible to watch but football was like the most popular sport in USA when the womens team were on their way to the world cup final.

WRT Zab. If ur talking about extra time its 15 minute a half if the game ends a tie after 90mins. If ur talking about injury time that is added on at the end of every half, then they dont tell u until the very end of the half because the time doesnt stop so the injury time is calculated by how much time was lost for injuries,substitutions and other stoppages. So its impossible to tell u the injury times before that.

Penalties- If u watched the sport and knew the rules then u know why something is a foul. All fouls result in the same thing, a free kick from the spot of the foul or a penalty kick when it happens inside the box. There isnt that many ways to foul so if the ref blows the whistle hes basically telling you the foul is because it was a bad tackle.

Power play - lol, its saying things like that, that give americans a bad name.