dont even use your feet, its boring to watch the game stops every time one guy jumps on the floor. they wear elbow/knee/shoulder pads and a helmet scared to get hurt?
2007-07-12 23:03:55 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
See FOOTBALL implies using your feet continually in contact with the ball.(not running). and you have to be 350lbs to be defence hardly atheltic. jus eat everything in site and your in.and why cant the smaller guys in offence out run the big defender. guess not that fast. Only played in america coz its crap. And as for tough wait untill you have half the worlds refugees turning up on your door step. you will no tough then.
2007-07-13 03:16:05 · update #1
Any form of rugby sucks.
Football (Soccer) is the best sport.
2007-07-12 23:06:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋
First of all, football is one the greatest sports. Second, they would not be playing football in the first place if they were scared to get hurt. To me, American football is one of the most exciting sports right now. Don't dis the sport just because you think its boring. You sure know a lot about protection for someone who talks trash about other people being scared. Otherwise stop bumpin' yo gums and put some pads on.
2007-07-13 00:38:39 · answer #2 · answered by Redskin30 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
American football is sacred. That's why the games are on Sunday. Players do use their feet. They run with the ball. They kick the ball: kick-offs, punts, field goals, extra points. Obviously players are not scared. Many do get injured. What do you think would happen to you if a 325 pound man, wearing 50 pounds of gear, hits you while running at 10 mph? My guess is the paramedics would scrape you off the field with a spatula.
2007-07-12 23:15:59 · answer #3 · answered by regerugged 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
American football is a collision sport. To stop the offense from advancing the ball, the defense must tackle the player with the ball by knocking him down. As such, defensive players must use some form of physical contact to bring the ball-carrier to the ground, within certain rules and guidelines. Tacklers cannot kick, punch or trip the runner. They also cannot grab the face mask of the runner's helmet or lead into a tackle with their own helmet. Despite these and other rules regarding unnecessary roughness, most other forms of tackling are legal. Blockers and defenders trying to evade them also have wide leeway in trying to force their opponents out of the way. Quarterbacks are regularly hit by defenders coming on full speed from outside the quarterback's field of vision.
To compensate for this, players must wear special protective equipment, such as a padded plastic helmet, shoulder pads, hip pads and knee pads. These protective pads were introduced decades ago and have improved ever since to help minimize lasting injury to players. An unintended consequence of all the safety equipment has resulted in increasing levels of violence in the game. Players may now hurl themselves at one another at high speeds without a significant chance of injury. Unfortunately, the injuries that do result tend to be severe and often season or career-ending and sometimes fatal. In previous years with less padding, tackling more closely resembled tackles in Rugby football, with less severe impacts and fewer injuries. Better helmets have allowed players to use their helmets as weapons. All this has caused the various leagues, especially the NFL, to implement a complicated series of penalties for various types of contact. Most recently, virtually any contact with the helmet of a defensive player on the quarterback, or any contact to the quarterback's head, is now a foul.
Despite protective equipment and rule changes to emphasize safety, injuries remain very common in football. It is increasingly rare, for example, for NFL quarterbacks or running backs (who take the most direct hits) to make it through an entire season without missing some time to injury. Additionally, twenty-eight football players, mostly high schoolers, died from injuries directly related to football from 2000-05
Concussions are common, with about 41,000 suffered every year among high school players according to the Brain Injury Association of Arizona
And it fun first play a real game then ask
2007-07-13 03:07:20 · answer #4 · answered by HULKZILLA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it is the best sport, what do you mean not use their feet? they run all the time, and anyone in Britain/South America that is any good at kicking tries to come over and kick for college or pros because they know its better. They Wear Pads because the hits are harder and the Players rougher than wannabes in Rugby.
Imagine this: Black people in America that are descended from slaves were bred to be bigger and stronger for 400 years, and after that are raised in ghettos where gang violence is prevalent, and have little regard for human life. Yeah, they could easily kick your *** in whatever sport with a ball you wanted to play.
2007-07-12 23:56:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ummm we like it! Whats the big deal with soccer throughout the world? talk about watching paint dry figures though because the US is allot more fast paced and progressive than the rest of the world.By the way why are you even posting in here you troll.
2007-07-12 23:29:45 · answer #6 · answered by JOHN D 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
we sure as **** use our feet. to run, to kick game winning field goals. "jumps on the ground"? lets rephrase that to say, "when a 350 man drives him into the ground". we wear pads because our players can hit harder that any1 in rugby. we get hurt even with pads on. people have suffered career ending injuries with pads on. soccer (or as you people call is football) is extremely wimpy. you guys try to draw a red flag by flopping.
oh yeah, thanks for beckam, but you can have him back.
2007-07-13 00:25:11 · answer #7 · answered by Screw Monetarism 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know, in American football, they don't use their feet at all... They just roll around in wheelchairs, and throw the football through the uprights for field goals. Then on the kickoffs, they have a carrier pidgeon fly it down the field... O, and on punts, they actually grab a semi retarded soccer fan, and let him/her run it down to the guy waiting to receive it... WTF? Don't criticize the game if you don't even know anything about it...
2007-07-13 02:50:29 · answer #8 · answered by John in PA 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Soccer is boring. They stub their toe on the field and they act like they are going to die. While in football people are getting knocked over by 380 pound men with nothing more but the intent to hurt you. Soccer is sooooo boring and so unmanly.
2007-07-12 23:12:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Hey jimmy why don't you grab some pads and play a series? Then we will see who is scared. Bet you wouldn't be bored either.
2007-07-13 00:46:56 · answer #10 · answered by tidebackernpi 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Football is the most popular sport in the US, bigger than America's so-called national pasttime, baseball...
2007-07-12 23:48:05 · answer #11 · answered by Terry C. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋