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THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN US FOOTBALL AND WORLD FOOTBALL

 
 
Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 07:25 am
1World football players are ususally thin and wiry dudes who often look malnourished (and, for some countries, apparently are)


2US Football players are genetically selected and fed like Kobe Beef in order to bulk up like Sumo Rasslers. (I realize that this is a generaliation and that there are all body types within the specialty teams , but its my thread)
 
Dutchy
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 07:39 am
@farmerman,
World football is known as the 'beautiful game', what is US football known as?
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 07:50 am
To me, comparisons are irrelevant. One is futball, the other football. It's like preferring Little Willie John's version of Fever and hating Peggy Lee. Or loving her and hating Litlle Willie. I don't see why one cannot accept and appreciate both. I have learned in recent times to do so.
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 09:04 am
@edgarblythe,
humor mme
Region Philbis
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 09:07 am
@farmerman,

football has way less action than futbol, yet is more compelling when it does...
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 09:16 am
@Region Philbis,
Futball is played before tens of millions of drunken fans, while football is played before millions of drunken fans
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 09:17 am
Rosie Grier would have crushed any one of the futball players. Razz
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 09:18 am
@edgarblythe,
and probably snacked on their still beating hearts.
panzade
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 09:18 am
@edgarblythe,
Rosy Grier would've been puking his guts out by the 23rd minute. Wink
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 09:19 am
@farmerman,
futbal players are dressed in minimal garb and have high speed shows

Football players are encased in high tech armor which seems to cause more trauma than if they were playing naked
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 09:38 am
@panzade,
panzade wrote:

Rosy Grier would've been puking his guts out by the 23rd minute. Wink


When one of the skinny ones tried to slide his foot past Rosie to take away the ball, it would have been the end of his career.
panzade
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 10:03 am
@edgarblythe,
Rosy could've played goalie...by just standin' still.
farmerman
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 12:01 pm
@panzade,
I think we have the Mass X Velocity** concept down. Futbal is one of two games, (cricket being the other) where a game can go on for days and not have a score, AND the fans would be all enthused about it. With that announcer who yels "SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORERRREREERERRE, Geico feels that he could make a quilting bee sound exciting.

Football, is truly like a game of chess played with semi trailers
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roger
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 02:10 pm
Real football is played with a real football.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 02:29 pm
@Dutchy,
Slaughter on 10th Avenue

(kidding, kidding)
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 02:33 pm
@farmerman,
I like both too.. though just learning futbol.


anyway, the players in futbol run much much more, and there are no timeouts to give them a break (well, maybe when someone is injured, but I'm not clear on that, and I think if there is a break, it's added on to the game time at the end); they seem to run all over the place for at least ninety minutes.
ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 02:34 pm
@panzade,
Futbol players probably don't knit.
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roger
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 03:08 pm
@ossobuco,
I've kind of deduced that futball injuries are technically called "flops".
ossobuco
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 03:15 pm
@roger,
Seems like a big percentage are floppy. Interesting, it also seems the US team doesn't do that.
roger
 
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Reply Mon 5 Jul, 2010 03:33 pm
@ossobuco,
I have to say, I haven't followed the sport closely enough to notice.
 

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