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this is more of a bashing on the game of soccer rather than saying why you like american football better... and to be frank i think that some of the statements are no less than idiotic... in the first sentence my jaw almost hit the floor... you say, "Soccer (and yes,I have played) is for the AVERAGE athlete (or below average...whatever). You don't have to be big or coordinated or smart. Actually, you simply have to be alive in order to play effectively."

are you kidding me??? you dont have a single clue about the game if you think you do not have to be strong, coordinated, or smart...

The reason why football players wear protective gear is because they are BIGGER, STRONGER, and FASTER than Rugby and Soccer players. If you know anything about physics, you'd realize that if someone like Ray Lewis hit anyone in Rugby or Soccer at full speed without protective gear, he'd most likely KILL them

i will say this... yes the average NFL player is bigger in stature and they do were more padding (not because they are bigger), but because it is a full contact sport... and i think you better look at some rugby players like oh lets say the BEAST... im sure if he was brought up in the states he would have no problem running over a linebacker and or saftey.... and for speed... um there are very fast players in the NFL as well as soccer...

3. The co-ordination and endurance in Football players is light years beyond the co-ordination in soccer players. Soccer is stop and go, and to say that it requires superior endurance is akin to using stupidity as a defense. Anyone who knows Soccer knows that the 11 players are divided into strikers/forwards, mid-fielders, and defenders. All units are never engaged in the play at the same time at any point.

to this you obviously have no clue about soccer dude... and to say that NFL players are light years ahead in coordination is just appaling to read

at 98mph wouldn't have the ability to do much more than SEVERELY STING if it makes contact with someone's head

let roberto carlos strike a ball even at his old age straight at your head... its more than possible to knock a person out with a strike of the ball, i should know it has happened to me. as for this, I'd rather have Roberto Carlos fire a penalty kick at my head than have Randy Johnson fire a fastball at my head ANY DAY!!... duh and im sure you are going to get zero arguments from any soccer fan dude... thats like saying id rather be hit in the face with a plastic bat rather than a metal one... its a no brainer dude

5. All pro sports have groupies....female fans etc. The ones linked to soccer just happen to be ugly. Example? Chris Webber of the NBA dates Tyra Banks, Sergei Federov of the NHL was once married to Anna Kournikova, Derek Jeter of MLB once dated Mariah Carey.........David Beckham? He married one of the freakin' Spice Girls.

this has anything to do with the actual sport?? NO and this is really stupid... im sure if you looked at more than just one soccer players wife you would find some smoking hot women... oh yeah im sure most men agree that some of the best looking women come from brazil... oh and soccer just happens to be the number one sport there as well as the world....

6. I love the inference that pro football players (or any American pro athlete for that matter) is illiterate, uneducated, and involved in drug abuse. I have 2 words for all of you: Diego Marradona, who, coincidentally, had to CHEAT in order to win the World Cup

lol there is cheating in all sports and um marradona used his hand one time and got away with it... he didnt pump juices into his self for years so that he could hit a ball further... another idiotic comment by you...

7. Soccer is the "Most popular sport(?) in the world simply because it's the LEAST expensive to play. All one has to do is look at the economic status of most countries worldwide to understand that. Hell, if you have 5 rocks or 5 cans(4 to make each goal and one to kick) then you've got a game! Soccer isn't popular because it gained acceptance, Soccer is popular because most countries, underdeveloped or otherwise, HAD NO CHOICE but to accept it.

im just getting more and more humor out of reading this pathetic rant.... so i could say for american football (wich i love to watch and respect) could be played with only a ball and some grass... do you really think soccer is cheap to play? please do some resurch before you just absolutly make your self look like an idiot

8. The violent influences of soccer: Saddam Hussein torturing the Iraqi World Cup team after their loss to the U.S., fans killing fans in England and Ireland during and after games, fans killing referees after their team loses.....and you say football is violent?

i never said that football is violent... where are you comming off? lol as far as the killings and tourture, i think that it is horrid and if iraq had an american football team that lost to the americans or someone else they would have the same dire consiquences

9. To all of you IDIOTS who talk about the commercial aspect of American football, you must be too damn drunk and high to have noticed the sideline banners and the players jersey's during a premiership game.

all sports have huge commercial aspects to them dude... this is another IDIOTIC statement that should not even be in your *gulp* dare i even call it an article?

10. I'm gonna finish this off by defending basketball. A basketball is bigger than a soccer ball, yet the net/goal is smaller(18 inches in diameter). A soccer goal is 8 feet tall and eight yards wide. Now, somebody explain to me how a Pro basketball player can shoot a basketball from up to 25 feet out through an 18 inch-wide hole, yet the best of soccer players have trouble consistently kicking a ball into a 192 square foot net? 192 SQUARE FEET!!!!!!! Who's un-coordinated????? When you soccer lovers can find me a soccer player faster than Terrell Owens, stronger than Ray Lewis, bigger than Michael Strahan, with more coordination than Marshall Faulk and more heart than Brett Favre, then you can compare the sport and the athletes to the NFL.

because you dont goal tend a basket and you use your arms wich are your natural limbs that a person would use... a goal keeper is on the ground wile a basket is ten feet in the air... there is no offsides in basketball.... WAIT i thought you were arguing football and soccer... why would you even talk about basketball...??

GOD i want to continue with the rest of your article but i feel if i do you will look more and more like a tool than you already look like....

and just for the record i love basketball soccer and football(american)

get better facts and rather than make a hate statement write something with resurch and meaning

I have played both and prefer American Football. I like to hurt people as opposed to running my butt off. I am also fat, so you may call this biased. Gooooooooooooooooooooooo Lions!

I have played both and prefer American Football. I like to hurt people as opposed to running my butt off. I am also fat, so you may call this biased. Gooooooooooooooooooooooo Lions!

Gooooooooooooooooooooooo Lions!

well im for football cos its kind of the exclusive sport here in Glasgow
and the violence here is some of the worst, Rangers/Celtic fans are often very violent
a good example is when the Rangers fans went to Manchester, it was chaos, believe me I was their as a Rangers fan

well im for football cos its kind of the exclusive sport here in Glasgow

American Football sucks compared to soccer.
That's why soccer is played in every country, and in most of them, is the main sport.

Glasgow Kentucky. Don't know if there's more than one.

American Football sucks compared to soccer.

Who cares?
Just play the game that suits you...

Who cares?
Just play the game that suits you...

i've never played american football so i'll stick to football (soccer)