shsonline:

Actually, I meant the other guy who was saying american football is dumb and reminds him of fat americans and cheeseburgers.

The post wasn't meant for you. the person (sharetroll) it was directed at knows what i'm talking about.
I was mimicking his post in another thread.

I'm not a guy and i'm really offended. j/k

Iyke-D:

May be you need to re-read/re-write this as I am not sure what you were implying in the end.
There are lots of rich kids all over the world that love football (soccer) to death still - its just a
beautiful game!

From what the troll said you'll think every person in the NFL was born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Many of them grew up in the ghetto, broke as hell. So there was really no point made and what a reason to love a game; A game made for the rich (does that remind you of anything?)

mr me too:

From what the troll said you'll think every person in the NFL was born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Many of them grew up in the ghetto, broke as hell. So there was really no point made and what a reason to love a game; A game made for the rich (does that remind you of anything?)

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=42904.msg928196#msg928196

someone clearly has a complex!!

Troll by name, Troll by nature.

Soccer stars sprint while simultaneously controlling and tracking a ball on the ground. NFL stars sprint full tilt without having to worry about controlling any ball. Can any of the trolls show us a method to accurately and fairly compare their speed?

i think itz more of endurance VS strength.

The fact that YOUR sport is called american football says a lot about it. we never liked it and we'll never do.
The sheer artistry you see on a football(yes football not soccer) field is enough to make up for any emotions you see from the fans.

For those who aren't quite clear on why I hate the sport.

Soccer participants act like they've been shot - what whimps. Perhaps the number one reason why I can't stand the sport. Meanwhile, real athletes like Donovan McNabb or Bobby Baun play on broken legs. I even get goosebumps when I see my favorite player (Dwyane Wade) flopping on occasions.

Soccer is boring. Soccer is absurdly slow. I've had soccer apologists say with false pride how the average soccer participant "runs" 4 miles in a game. Newsflash: that means they are jogging less than 3 miles per hour. Translation: they are mostly standing around. BORING.

Soccer is too simple an activity.

Penalty kicks. You are determining a winner by a random event that has no relevance to the rest of the game. It would be as stupid as replacing extra innings with batting practice.

Psychotic fans. BIG ONE I addressed this one in many of my posts. The South Korean loser who set himself on fire is one example. The mental stability of the murderer who killed that one player because he sucked (free clue: all soccer participants suck) is another.

Ties: 55% of games are ties. Ties suck.

Soccer hilites concentrate on what almost happens. When ESPN has the poor sense to show soccer hilites, they show missed shots, missed passes, etc. Any real sport shows things that actually contribute to the result. Soccer participants do not care about the result.

Soccer fans justify the activity based entirely on its popularity. Not only are the reasons why soccer is popular an argument against soccer, but it really shows how pathetic said activity is when that is the only argument soccer fans come up with.

Soccer is not objective. There is no play clock. The game doesn't end after the clock has run down. This adds bias, subjectivism and appeals to lower intellects, and it destroys the drama from last second victories. Contrast such clumsy timekeeping (shame on the Swiss, who should know better) and the lack of any discernable strategy with the strategic precision of the two-minute drill in football.

Soccer is not objective, part two. The lack of offensive chances leads to ties, which, as we know, suck. Soccer's "solution?" Let's randomize the result (in those cases where a tie suddenly becomes an affront, the "World" Cup) by having penalty kicks.

Soccer participants on the same team have different jerseys. The obviously higher intelligence of hockey (goaltender) or football (offensive linemen) fans and referees is evident, since we don't need a different uniform to indicate a different privilege in the rule book.

Soccer is Third World inexpensive. Ordinarily, this would not be a problem. Most people don't consider buying hockey or football equipment expensive in civilized countries, but in the context of the rest of the world, it is expensive. On the other hand, soccer is dirt cheap - and by dirt cheap, I mean slum kids in Brazil rolling up balls of dirt to kick around.

Soccer apologists steal terms from real sports. Hint: a pitch is something an option QB does. A draw is a running play designed to counter a strong pass rush. Football is a real sport that involves athletes in pads and helmets, not sissies playing kickball.

Soccer has no honor. There are codes of behavior in sports like hockey, baseball, football and basketball. There is no code of behavior in the activity of soccer: the peni5 biting should make this fairly obvious.

Soccer idiots overexaggerate everything. Yeah, soccer deserves a Nobel Prize. Better load up on the security for that award presentation, because soccer deserves it less than terrorists like Arafat. Yeah, a soccer game is a wondrous event in your nation's history. Granted, these nations still have to master indoor plumbing, but please - stop the hallucinogenics, now.

Soccer cheering has no point. Football fans successfully cause opposing teams' offenses to call timeouts, use up the play clock, screw up audibles or cause procedure penalties. Ask Burt Hooton whether baseball fans affect an opponent's performance. Soccer? They sing songs - which all sound the same - regardless of outcome. It doesn't
celebrate performance. It doesn't serve to intimidate. It has no purpose.

Soccer counts time up. Soccer games count the time that has elapsed, rather than the time remaining. This is stupid for a number of reasons. First, soccer games don't refer to time anyway, so why even keep it? Second, why the concern on the past? The score already reflects all important information of what has already happened in the game. In soccer, this is most likely irrelevant anyway, since the score is most likely 0-0, er, nil, nil. The focus should be on the result - which depends on the future. Thus, time should count down. Can you imagine NASA counting up (from, say, when JFK made his speech about landing on the moon in a decade)? How stupid would that be?

I'd also like to add that the game can be played be elephants. Yes elephants folks. An animal with intelligence much lower than that of a human, can kick around a ball into soccer nets. Amazing sport!

The Soccer homers can bury me now.

I'm bored so I'm going to indulge you and respond to the ones I can

1. I believe it was Beckham, who had the side of his head open and bleeding in World Cup 98 and he still wanted to run in a play. Infact I remember they did like a 8 second bandaging on his head and he ran back in to finish up the game.

2. If that's what you want to believe, that's fine. millions disagree with you *shrugs*

3. so is hockey

4. LOVE watching penalty kicks myself, infact I always wish for ties 

5.  Not gonan deny that. They do have psycho fans but that's better than barbaric parents at Little League Games and again soccer isnt the only one with crazy fans. I remember a few years back, a dude was killed for holding a baseball instead of throwing it back into the field and a fan killed the dude at a bar after the game

6. Ties usually lead to penalty kicks! 

7. we do care about results but watching missed passes and what ifs are fun too

8. dude ever occured to you that it is INDEED popular for a reason? Basketball is more popular around the world then american football, why?

9. if you say so although sometimes I wonder about the varaition of added time as well

10. different jerseys, does that really bother you? 

11, inexpensive, so what? the fact that anyone can play, so? Is that really a point worth making? for basketball all you need a net and a ball, what is your point? The fact that "soccer" isnt just for a certain class seriously annoys you? really? arent you one-quarter nigerian? you're from a third world country yourself

12. stealing terms, yea ok, didnt know "soccer" which was around BEFORE american football stole "draw" from you guys, forgive us?

13.  There's no code of behavior. I assume you know what a yellow and red card means?

as for everything else, don't really care to bother with them but an elephant can play football too consider most american football players are the size of an elephant, they can go around crushing people unncessarily as well 

@sharetroll

If you think soccer is too easy an activity, why not play it?. . .Dumbass. It's more difficult to run with the ball at your feet than the fall in your freaking hands.

@sharetroll

You won't give up the fact that your sorry ass "football" (American) is just a local sport? You have
no idea how arrogant you sound - you want people to appreciate your local sport which has
[b]zero appeal [/b]elsewhere, but at the same time you are going on and on about what is wrong
with our football (your soccer).

Having read your last piece of junk, I have come to realize a couple of things. Its Either you are so
starved of attention or deep down you really wish the world loved and cared about your sorry ass
sport called American football. Your sport is non existent to the world even with all the expensive
gear that comes with it. We are still not impressed. You seem to get a lot of kicks from the body
slamming action that goes on - we are still un-impressed. We care more about a brilliant footwork,
some excellent crosses/passes, and then of course the magical flair on the field than an overweight
individual slamming into another.

Hello, ever asked yourself why this sport of yours is not a hit in Canada your next door neighbor.
Are people in Canada too poor to afford your sport too? If you can not even sell the sport to your
neighbors why worry about other continents - most of who are too poor anyway? You have tried
almost everything including bringing barely dressed women called cheer leaders into the game, the
world still don't give a shit. Poor thing. Its FIFA for LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!

he suffers from a complex. ignore him

poor thing indeed.

To those who bothered to reply him,

Thank you so much for your time, but this dumbrayo doesn't appreciate honest criticism. you have had your says but he still won't reason and it's incredible he plays neither. You can't be an authority in what you don't do. This ass here plays NFL or whatever on Playstation 1 only. No physical experience.

IGNore HIm!

rubbish

american football looks like fun, bite me

I'm amazed that so many of you can be so stupid. American football is clearly the superior sport in every single way. first of all saying that 70% of all american football players are obese is just retarded. those tests dont take into account muscle mass so a guy thats 6' 2'' and 250 with like 10% body fat is considered obese. Football also requires people to be much more athletic. you have to be stronger and faster than you do for soccer. I watch games and just see people standing around a lot. soccer sucks.

lol 250. I think you forgot an extra 100lbs there, son.

"If you think soccer is too easy an activity, why not play it?. . .Dumbass. It's more difficult to run with the ball at your feet than the ball in your freaking hands. "

Yeah and its also harder to run with a 11 200+ pound guys trying to tackle you

schmack013:


Yeah and its also harder to run with a 11 200+ pound guys trying to tackle you

not if you by yourself are also 11 300+ pounds. then, it's not that hard

Beans?Which kain American football?Soccer is d game.

Well, why don't we ask David Beckham?

Direct your browsers to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfpm7FrdQyI and report back with your opinions

Funny clip

Looks like football still tops though

nah. soccer it is.


american football is what it is. . . American.
unless you want to argue that America is better than the rest of the world.

soccer

Two sissy sports in my opinion

The way in which the quaterback gets the ball from the centre patting his bum leaves a lot to be desired.

As a matter of fact there is simply too much bum smacking in American sports period

I guess its soccer then if i had to choose

Typical idiotic American statment about how they are better than the others

1. American Football is a girl's version of rugby (not being sexist), if you are scared of breaking bones or want to shield yourself then go play football not rugby

2.you talk about emotion, players and fans get emotional because there is a bond between the club and them, something you wont see in american sports, and you are taking 1/2 incidents where a player was killed and making it as if its happening everyday

3. we've had goalkeepers play with broken hands, players with broken toes playing full 90 minutes

4.we are not a steroid infested sport

5.we are the most exciting sport in the world, the manutd-tottenham match had more action than that superbowl and guess what more viewers watched that game than the superbowl

6.more than a billion watch the english premier league, if american football is better than why dont they watch tht?

7.dont give bullshit about high scoring, if we multiplied a goal to 6 points and then give a penalty to the player who scored than we would get as much scoring as you, again i bring the last superbowl, 17-14, divide by 7 and you get 3-2, not high scoring isnt it

8. we work as a team, we dont have 1 team for offensive and another for defensive.

9. if you think soccer is pansy than look compare rugby to football and tell which is more "pansier"

10. we are the fittest sport compared to yours, i dont see your players running 10000m in 1 game alone

11. we are the only sport in the world that gives people from poor backgrounds a chance of becoming successful, the world cup even helped the cease fire in some african countries, hell iraq didnt have 1 suicide attack in the week iraq won the asian cup

12. we play this game, we worship this game, its just the best game in the world the beautiful game

you can't compare both, its like comparing apples and oranges.

AF. . . i'll take time to reply you.

1) call it a gurls version, i'll rather have a helmet on ma head cos i still leed ma thots in good shape to make guud decisions later in life, pads reduce unnecessary injuries but dont eliminate. u get lit up, ur head will still rattle and u'll se the blue stars and yellow birds\

2) that made me kno u dont kno SHYT about football. u said ther is no emotion in AMerican sports? of course not, thats why fans still come out in temperatures under zero to support, and thats why pple tattoo they team logo on em.

3)we also had running backs play with fractured arms. . but does it make sense? playing a game with a broken arm when u're still gonn get hit with about 2000 pounds of force?

4)if u're talkin about steroids, ask baseball players and track runners. . . steroids cant take u nowhere in football !

5) more pple will watch soccer cos soccer is more world wider period! thats a no-brainer

6)same thing as ma answer for number 5

7)dats wat makes it a different sport, like basketball, 2 points and 3 points. . .and freethrows, 1 each, so WTF?

"we work as one team. . . " well we wont have a 5'11, 202 pounds running back, blocking a 6'5 315 pounds defensive tackle so we have different pple doin different positions as ONE TEAM, division of labor. . . specialization (dumbass learn about the game)

9)see, u had to shift it from soccer, to rugby and then use rugby as a measuring unit. . .u dont even make sense

10)dont EVER EVER compare a soccer player to a football player. watch the NFL scouting combine on TV, or beter yet, go to an AMerican High school, and watch conditioning and try out for the football team. . . come back and tell me u're fit enoff

11) every sport gives poor people a chance to shine ! so dat is another senseless point, pple rise from poverty, fron the ghetto to making millions in the NFL, so does soccer, and track and any gifted athlete in any sport

12) we play this game, give it our all on the field, leave everything on the field, we shed blood and sweat and tears of joy/pain on that field, and after that, its no offseason. we p[ush the thin line between hardwork and insanity. thats EMOTION in MOTION,

i grew up in Abeokuta, ogun state Nigeria and i played soccer all my life, i love soccer but i've always looked forward to strappin up and playiin football, i got the chance, and i love every minute of it, comapring American football and soccer just does not make sense ! ! ! the only weird thang is just the name footbal, cos there's very minimal foot contact. anything else is just bullshytiin

and if u talk smack am gonn get ma little bro on u ! ! ! 
he laid dat lil boy OUT ! ! ! dats how we do, representing for WEST AFRICA

*lol chek the fat a$s refree in the back ! lmao

Sharetroll, since you have turned fully American, just stay over there with your Yankee brothers - don't bother using Nairaland again.

You are not even talking basketball - at least some Nigerians play basketball. But NO Nigerian plays American football or whatever you call it.

Stupid Yankee!

Just saw this topic .

Very interesting, though if you were to interview sports followers WORLDWIDE the answer would be pretty obvious.

Always wondered why a game where the only contact with the foot is when you take a 'penalty'(I think that's what it's called )is called football. Sounds as stupid as calling THE REAL FOOTBALL(ok soccer) handball because you use the hands for throw-ins.

England exported(not invented) modern football(the real one that is) to the World and it has become the most popular sport . Outside of the US in how many countries is American  Football the No 1 sport. Typical Yankee reasoning would probably be that everyone's too blind to see what they see.

Those that are exclusively passionate about both sports would probably see nothing good in the other but a good judge might just be worldwide interest which American football ? has not, does not and probably can never command. I cannot say the same for their basketball(yes it was invented in the US by Naismith?) which is a lot more fun to watch and  the name makes a lot more sense (they aim for the basket  )

WAN UNITED

Each to their own, I say. It's not that I don't like American Football, I just don't get it. I don't really find it all that exciting. Stop-start. Stop-start for a whole game. Yes, in soccer, there are breaks for fouls, but not so many to the point where every match would become boring to me.

American Football was not even invented by the Americans. The sport originated in Canada. American football is played in North America, and in parts of Europe, as far as I can tell. Last time I checked, Soccer was the most popular sport on the planet, is played in most countries on the planet, and is the number one sport in many countries.

Nuff Said, really.