Let's discuss how boring American Football is

[Haole Girl]

[Haole Girl]

1. Did I forget Track and Field?

[HuckleB]

2. Well, the NFL is boring, anyway.

Unless you like watching ads.

[mac56]

3. You're right. Terribly, terribly boring.

Feel better now? Hope so...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. A bunch of assholes ambling along the field in pads is not fun...

The NFL is just boring, puting these idiots who are paid way too much up on pedestals. Those idiots don't even love the game anymore. If they got paid a cent less, they'd quit. I just think the lot of them are infuriating and untalented. But that is just my opinion.
Duckie

[Endangered Specie]

5. I think this definition from urbandictionary sums it up best...

3. football
316 up, 196 down


Sport played by kicking a BALL (a round spherical object) with one's FEET (not one's hands).

I point this out because yanks are too stupid to realise it, and continue to think that "football" refers to men in riot armour carrying a funny oval thing in their HANDS and throwing it to one another, while giving out heavy body tackles which look rough except they're wearing so much armour it must feel like a fucking feather poked them.

This alleged game involves about five minutes of game play plus interminable amounts of time spent waiting for free kicks and other set pieces, while commentators drone on about percentages (what is this, the fucking stock exchange?)

One of four American national sports, the others being rounders (renamed "baseball" to make it sound tough), basketball (which white people are crap at) and ice hockey (in which America lose to Canada, i.e. the only other country that plays it).

Probably invented as practice for that other great American passtime, going around dressed in huge quantities of armour or hiding in armoured tanks and planes while taking pot shots at surrendering troops, local civilians and/or allied troops, with the object of the game being to grab as much oil as possible.

Why don't Americans play REAL sports? Is it just because if they played anything anyone else played, they might get beaten sometimes?

[rockymountaindem]

8. That's just wrong on so many levels.

Most notably, about basketball. Somehow that's bad because "white people are crap at it"? Ummm... like black athletes are somehow less American? I don't think so. And what's with the parallels between sports and foreign policy all the time. Sometimes a game is just a game. Did playing cricket make the Brits a bunch of yellow-bellied cowards afraid to take on the world? Hardly.

This post is a crock.

[Bill McBlueState]

10. it's not like Americans invented our own brand of football

It evolved from rugby, named after the Rugby School in England, where it was invented. Canadians and Australians play similar versions of the game. Worldwide, rugby football and its spinoffs may not be as popular as association football, but they're fairly widespread.

[Archae]

6. You want boring?

Try baseball!

Hours and hours of tedium and crotch-scratching punctuated with a few moments of high drama, and if there is a bench-clearing "brawl," actual excitement.

[Redstone]

7. Nah, let's not. Some people like it.

Redstone

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. I can't because I love it!

:hi: Go Packers!!!

[JVS]

11. It kicks ass. Soccer is the boring game

[Ava]

12. Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer... Give 'em Hell Alabama!

ROOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL TIDE! :headbang: