Does anyone from UK like American football?

Question

I do.

Its not rugby with padding, Rugby and American footbal are similar but they are not the same.

Answer 1

Yes, I photograph Gateshead International Senators games, I agree it,snot rugby with pads to someone who understands the game it's chess with pads.

Answer 2

As a travelled American and been over the pond several times here is my take. It seems to me that American's prefer the sports with lots of strategies as opposed to the really simple ones.

The popular sports across the pond are soccer, rugby, golf, and cricket. For the most part they are simple games without too many strategies involved in the game. But when you look at American sports it's all about matchups and strategies.

In baseball they want a left handed pitcher to go up against a left handed batter, they have different defensive positions (double play depth, shifts, guarding the lines, etc), they have hit and runs, stealing bases, and several things you can do with the personel you have.

In the NBA it's all about matchups and how a team takes advantage of that matchup. For example, Steve Nash will run the pick and roll on a defense untill he gets a mismatch that will ruin a defense. Or putting Dirk Nowitzki on the upper block where it's dangerous to send a double-team and Dirk is good enough to destroy any defender one-on-one.

And in football there are SOOOOOOOO many intricities envolved that it's almost as complicated as a chess game. And I believe that's why it's the #1 sport in America. It's like a real life chess game with the pieces trying to literally take each other out.

So when we see a game like soccer there's not much to think about. It's basically...look at this guy kick the ball to this other guy, oh and now it's going the other way, ohh and look at this guy fall down when he wasn't even touched. The only strategy that comes into a 90+ minute game of soccer is the set pieces.

I'm not saying one is better than the other. I'm just saying that different people have different preferences.

Answer 3

Sorry guy about the stupid answers yeah I am a football fan a quarterback delivering a 30/40 mt pass to a sprinter at speed for a touchdown surrounded by the big guys of the defence no histrionics when they take hits no Rooney type stamping yeah you really have a great sport and any idiot who can't appreciate the game is very sad not so good at baseball though I am into Athletics at our Crystal Palace recently you had 2 guys under 20 secs in the 200 awesome pity about the Gat though See Ya

Answer 4

no because it should not be called football in the first place it is rugby for winps with all the padding on

Answer 5

Its not football, its rugby with padding!

Answer 6

No, have seen loads of games in the USA on tv but can't get into a game that should last 1 hour but takes forever. Have been in Boston loads of times on business and have always tried to see the Red Sox....now baseball that is a really great game!

Answer 7

Yes you bet I do, Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers, New York Jets, Washington Redskins are teams I have/do support.

Answer 8

Some strange people do. Rugby is better though.

Answer 9

no, it goes on for faaaar too long, its silly that you change your players depending on whether you are attacking or defending...
its just boring, and the atmosphere is fake, made by your cheerleaders and singers

Answer 10

yeh i do, i personaly think its a better game than rugby.
its not on tv enough though