CFL vs NFL vs NCAA

[valo403]

The funny thing is I'm probably more of a rugby guy now than I am a football guy. Anyone who has any familiarity with both sports can tell you that there are mass differences in the way tackling occurs and the results on your body.

It's hilarious to watch some moron pretend that he knows anything about either sport.

[Chump]

Originally Posted by _Q_

Whatever league you follow, it is a stupid sport either way. It's not like I haven't ever watched a football game before, but I can't really get excited over it. Whether it is the vastly more talented NFL, the passion of the NCAA or the local heros in the CFL, it is still lame. Here's a list I came up with a few months ago:

1) First and foremost. Why the hell is it called football? They use their feet only to run. Who came up with the idea to name this sport the exact same thing as one of the most beautiful sports played in the world? I realize that they both come from a common root, but so does rugby, and nobody calls rugby football. Football as the rest of the world knows it, is simple, beautiful, poetic, intense and free flowing. "Football" as Americans know it is ugly, slow and overly complicated. This brings me to my next point,

2) Way too complicated. Why is there so many rules? Why is there so many different ways to score? Have any of you ever tried to explain this sport to someone who doesn't understand it? Its nearly impossible. "Yeah its really simple, all you gotta do is get the ball to the other end after that line and then you get 7 points, but if you don't you still have a chance at getting 3, but wait if you do get it to the other end you don't really get 7 points, you actually get 6, but most of the time they kick it in to get another point, which always works, but if you really want you can get 2 points if you run it in instead... oh and there's these things called downs, you want to get a first down as much as possible....." AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! why?? explain hockey to someone and it just goes like this "you have to get that round rubber thing called a puck in the other teams net which gives you a point. The team with the most points wins". Same thing goes for the real football as well.

3) Football players are big gaping vaginas! Yes I said it. Anyone that can call himself an athlete and get away with playing only 16 games in a year is a pu**y. On top of that, they wear enough equipment that if they got ran over by a train they would still survive. You think that you need all that equipment to play a tough sport like football? NOPE! Look at rugby, which is a lot tougher than American Football, but yet they wear only a jock strap. Those are real men.

4) Finally. It's too slow. I would rather not watch a 12 second play every minute of the game. This sort of thing takes the sport out of any activity and turns it more into a giant chess match. Plus you can get really excited over a play and then half the time there is a flag on the play and they call some obscure penalty which slows down the game significantly..... "oh yes... I think they got a touchdown!!! oh no wait.... oh the ref called a penalty on my team damn it!... what? oh yeah... the quarterback can't throw the ball on a monday night that has a full moon with the receiver more than 16 yards away if it's the 3rd down... idiots what were they thinking?"

In my mind, any sport that is worth watching is everything that "football" isn't.

You are talking about soccer players here, are you not. You know the guys that fall down like a bag of bricks at the slightest contact.

Not liking football because you find it too slow or it is too complicated for you is a valid reason to not enjoy a sport. But not liking a game because of what it is called is just silly and not liking it because you think the players are vaginas is laughable especially coming from an obvious soccer fan.

[calgaryrocks]

hehe trolls

anyways just a thought on what Rube was saying about the regular season, maybe they should have a trophy for the best team in the league? might not be as important as the Grey Cup, but an additional trophy that could gain importance over time. the NHL has the presidents trophy, i believe they have a trophy for the best team in soccer in europe, along with the playoff trophy (fa cup)
its hard to put in perspective the divisional imbalance in that though, as MOntreal has gotten to play weak ottawa, hamilton then toronto teams over the last decade. but maybe when they do eventually get 10 teams (like 5-10 years from now) there will be a balanced schedule 2 games vs each other team.
so yea i think they should create a trophy for first, with some kind of monetary bonus to the team that wins it