Football opinion

[Tavrobel]

You have to qualify into the tall/strong category to even have a chance in [American Football].

Kicker/Punter
Free/Strong Safety (yeah you need it, but not to a great degree)
Wideout (it can't hurt to be)
Running Back (it can't hurt to be)
Kick/Punt Receiver
Tight End (by a technicality, but this does require strength)

None of these positions need you to be strong or huge.
You need to be fast, agile, and have excellent hand control/grip.

Kicker/Punter needs great leg strength and accuracy. David Akers and Adam Vinateri are tiny, miniscule, strings of bone compared to the other positions.

And really for any of the other offensive line positions, as long as you can keep the opponent's defensive players away from the QB, you'll be fine. For Defense, if you can GET to the QB, you'll be fine. This just happens to require strength in most cases.

[DeathKnight]

soccer(football) is an OK sport............it's pathetic in a lot of ways too, scoring once every 500 billion hours is pathetic to me, and not only that but the referees are the worst I've seen in ANY sport.

football(american) is even WORSE than soccer, bunch of guys HOPELESSLY running and punching each other to the ground (LOTS OF INJURIES). It's like a sport fo animals, I also hate:

-strong(fat guys) have a crappy role in this sport
-short(skinny guys) can't really enjoy this sport either

You have to qualify into the tall/strong category to even have a chance in this sport.

Kid at my school is pretty short and he's great at football.

there are ALWAYS exceptions.

You really don't, I played football and I'm no where huge and strong. And I was one of the bigger kids.

you mean bigger as in chubby??? or bigger as in taller?

Anyway, you're chubby or tall, you have a chance in that sport. But if you're a short skinny guy, you have NO CHANCE.

I'm talking more in a semi-professional/professional environment.

[Tavrobel]

Semi-Professional?
Umm, there's professional, and non-professional.

The only difference is whether you get paid or not.
Not skill. (although it does play a role in who gets paid; you DO need the best, but you won't always get it)

[Levian]

Kicking a ball > Watching people kicking a ball.

[Tavrobel]

Kicking a ball > Watching people kicking a ball.

QFT

[Strider]

DeathKnight fails.

The only sport better than American football is baseball.

[DeathKnight]

DeathKnight fails.

The only sport better than American football is baseball.

American football sucks (IMHO).

But I agree 100% with you, baseball beats football in EVERY way(well except the replays thingy).

[Tavrobel]

DeathKnight fails.
The only sport better than American football is baseball.

True. But people can have opinions. It's what makes people kill each other because the Redskins suck and the Eagles don't. Well, except the whole T.O. fiasco. Let us not talk about it.

Ohh God, don't get get me started on Baseball. It may be one of the best sports to play (and hugely fun), but its SO PAINFUL TO WATCH. Ohh, the things I could count wrong with Baseball's publicity system.

[Mo-Nercy]

Rugby > Whatever the hell you guys have been talking about in this thread

[Kirobaito]

If every other country in the world had as many other options as the US does in sport-watching, they wouldn't care about soccer, either.

[Leeza]

*moves to The Lounge*

[Psychotic]

Well of course there are plenty of people that don't like football. 1.1 billion people watched the last World Cup final, which means that there are roughly 5 billion who didn't. I don't understand why you care if he enjoys it anyway, does he complain about everything you like, and try to say that it sucks? If so, then I suppose you're justified.

It's funny. There's so many adverts amking use of the whole thing. Saying they support England, and always going on about it. England England England. And, just near me, there's one little Mars Bar sign with a Scottish flag, and '2010' written on it. Pssh.

In the one or two World Cups where Scotland qualified and England didn't, it was exactly the same in favour of Scotland, so there you go.

[Shoeberto]

Ohh God, don't get get me started on Baseball. It may be one of the best sports to play (and hugely fun), but its SO PAINFUL TO WATCH. Ohh, the things I could count wrong with Baseball's publicity system.

No kidding. Baseball has got to be the most boring sport to watch yet the easiest and most fun to pick up and play.

I dunno that much about soccerfootball, but despite what people may say about it, I can't forsee it being more painfully boring to watch than baseball is.

[DeathKnight]

Ohh God, don't get get me started on Baseball. It may be one of the best sports to play (and hugely fun), but its SO PAINFUL TO WATCH. Ohh, the things I could count wrong with Baseball's publicity system.

No kidding. Baseball has got to be the most boring sport to watch yet the easiest and most fun to pick up and play.

I dunno that much about soccerfootball, but despite what people may say about it, I can't forsee it being more painfully boring to watch than baseball is.

When you have wack teams like the A's/Angels/Giants/Dodgers/and the Padres, IT IS BORING AS HELL.

When you live in the east coast with teams like the Braves/Yankees/Red Sox/Mets/Marlins, IT IS FUN AS HELL.

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

I cannot stand watching baseball. Going to a game live is no better.

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And as I've recently discovered, Basketball rocks the <img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"><img src="/xxx.gif"> out of everything live.