Any Americans now become football fans after this world cup?

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Im not dis*****g its(American football) tougher, but maybe its not as! tough as you lot like to make out, and soccer is not as sissified as many American's seem to think.

Like i said, if! it was as brutal as its supposed to be then how come most the players are not side lined year in year out?

I never said soccer is a sissy sport, I'm just telling you what the avg American thinks because of what they see.

It's hard for the avg American to accept the culture that happens in soccer when a player get's "hurt".

A player writhing on the ground for 5 minutes and when you look at the replay, he wasn't even touched. Landon Donovan even talked about it in an interview a few years back saying how he had to get adjusted to the "culture" of soccer because in the U.S you are taught to play even through injury.

Your preaching to the choir though, I love soccer.

[omarinbox]

Your preaching to the choir though, I love soccer.

You gonna go see Guadlajara?

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

You gonna go see Guadlajara?

Aguilas del America all the way man, I hate Guadalajara. I live in Miami now though, where are they playing?

[Walt Liquor]

You have to go and sample the lifestyle. Go to a game find out the nearest Copa Libertadores game to you and go. Its not that far and its cheap when it come to money.




Semi finals are on July 27/28 and August 3/5 in chile, brazil and guadlajara, mexico!

August 3rd in Guadalajara for you Yanks!

Go and lap it up!

I don't like it enough to go out of my way. It might interfere with my posting time on boxingscene.

[Dynamite Kid]

I never said soccer is a sissy sport, I'm just telling you what the avg American thinks because of what they see.

It's hard for the avg American to accept the culture that happens in soccer when a player get's "hurt".

A player writhing on the ground for 5 minutes and when you look at the replay, he wasn't even touched. Landon Donovan even talked about it in an interview a few years back saying how he had to get adjusted to the "culture" of soccer because in the U.S you are taught to play even through injury.

Your preaching to the choir though, I love soccer.

English players used to have the same philosophy but that started to change with the influx of more and more foreign players, English players used to get up and dust themselves down to prove they were not hurt, that culture died in the mid 90's, now you see English players diving, i suspect they must think to themselves if the foreign players are going to cheat and get away with it, im going to do it.

I didn't mean to say you specifically.


It used to be a the psyche for English players to get up after being fouled to show that they have not hurt, to show the opponent they are not getting to them.

Answer me this though, am i correct to assume that there should! be more injuries in American football ifs it so aggressive?

[omarinbox]

Aguilas del America all the way man, I hate Guadalajara. I live in Miami now though, where are they playing?

They're in the Libretadores semi-final versus La Xniversidad de Chile.

I don't like La X.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

English players used to have the same philosophy but that started to change with the influx of more and more foreign players, English players used to get up and dust themselves down to prove they were not hurt, that culture died in the mid 90's, now you see English players diving, i suspect they must think to themselves if the foreign players are going to cheat and get away with it, im going to do it.

I didn't mean to say you specifically.


It used to be a the psyche for English players to get up after being fouled to show that they have not hurt, to show the opponent they are not getting to them.

Answer me this though, am i correct to assume that there should! be more injuries in American football ifs it so aggressive?

It's happening with U.S soccer as well, even in basketball with the influx of European players you see guys "flopping" all the time.

There are TONS of injuries in American football every year. They used to be the superficial type like you see in Rugby, cauliflower ears, broken bones (even though you see lots of that) busted heads, busted mouths etc.

Now with the advent of the pads you see broken necks, backs, paralization, torn knees, elbows, much more serious injuries. If you look at a 16 game schedule of the avg NFL team, the roster isn't the same at the end of the year there are so many injures in American football.

They're in the Libretadores semi-final versus La Xniversidad de Chile.

I don't like La X.

Nice, I will check it out, thanks.

[omarinbox]

I don't like it enough to go out of my way. It might interfere with my posting time on boxingscene.

Suit yourself but you should just head down there for the weekend and get a ticket.

You'd understand it so much more. The drinking, the atmosphere, the food...

If I lived in the USA I'd book my ticket for that city and get myself a ticket off a tout. It will be immense. Looke dup the stadium is 56, 000 capacity. That will be packed and no vuvuzelas but plenty of fireworks i bet.

[Walt Liquor]

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Answer me this though, am i correct to assume that there should! be more injuries in American football ifs it so aggressive?

more people are probably killed each year playing american football than boxing. either that or its real close. I know there were 4 deaths from football in 2009, mostly at the high school level.

[omarinbox]

My chilean team vs chivas guadalajara...this is the atmosphere befpre a ball is kicked: