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American football, Aussie Rules or Soccer? why? - Veritaserum Forums

Which do you like: American Football? Soccer (football)? or Austrailia Football?

I like soccer/football i cannot understand anything about american football.

All i get from it is that there is a ball and then a guy throws it while some other guys try to knock eachother down and then they run? oh, and sometimes they kick it. i just don't see the point of american football. and to be honest, i don't know what austrailian football is,

I will never understand the point behind American football.

My mate plays it, and still I have no interest. Real football is over hyped for what it is.

But I rank it higher than American football. Never heard of Australian football. Tell you a better game to play: Rugby Similar to American football, just no pads and none of that stopping and back tracking rubbish.

Well i love american football best.

Soccer isnt my thing and i dunno what you mean by austrailen football, do you mean rugby?

Anyway i never played that so it doesbnt count for me.

American Football all the way!

I have to like American football better, don't I?

I'm from America!

I don't like football/soccer as much, but it's still fun.

I've never played rugby but I hear it is very fun as well.

BTW, what is Australia football?

By Australian football do you mean Australian rules (football)? If so its very similar to Gaelic Football here in Ireland (which by the way is also known as football It all gets very confusing with all these different sports being known by the same name). Any way as i was saying Gaelic and Australian rules are pretty much the same (apart from a few alterations to the rules), in fact a kinda all star team from the 32 Irish Gaelic teams goes over to play the best of the Australian teams and vica-verca, in a two match tournament. The just of Gaelic, is as follows, 15 players to a team The nets are a H shape and you get 3 points for scoring a 'goal' in the bottom section and a point for hitting it between the top two posts.

The field is a good bit bigger than a football (soccer) pitch, (mainly wider) and there are two umpires at either side of the posts who call the points. The ball is Spherical You are allowed to handle, and kick the ball but you can only take four paces (with the ball with out bouncing the ball, or ‘toe tapping’ the ball (letting the ball drop to your feet and kicking it back up to your hand). And finally it’s basically a full contact sport although you cant hit an opposition player or anything, you can block them, or try to get the ball off them when it’s in their hand and so on. The main differences between Aussie rules and Gaelic are as follows: you get two points for getting the ball over top part of the 'H' part of the nets. There are two post either side of the H posts Kind of like this;

I H I and you get a point for hitting it between the I and the H (either side) Once a player kicks the ball forward and another player successfully catches the ball (with out it touching the ground) play momentarily stops and nobody is aloud to tackle said player, until the ball is passed forward. And the ball is shaped like a rugby or American Football. I personally am not too found of Aussie rules football, but I’d watch the mach between Australia and Ireland if it was on.

I’m a (I suppose) lapse Aston Villa supporter, I use to be really into the premiership when I was in school but to be honest I wouldn’t be too interested in how they where doing at the moment.

However I absolutely love International football (soccer) and would always try to watch the Irish Internationals whenever I can. American football is a bit to ‘broken up’ for my liking (it appears to bad all about plays) and to be honest (not to offend any on or any thing) it looks like a poorer version of rugby.

Although this is probably a rash judgement of American football, as to be honest I haven’t seen enough it to be critical about it.

Erm easy English football usa football is weak all that padding

Thanks Souljacker for explaining Austrailian Rules Football. I live in the US and the only time I saw the game was on TV. It was so cool!

I wanted to learn more leading to this topic. I prefer American Football to Soccer/football, specifically the Terps (Maryland Terrapins). The National Football League has too much commercialism.

I love American football.

Between the NFL and HP i basically have no life.

All my guy friends think it's great that i know just as much football as them.

We used to play almost every week, rain or shine.

Tackle football, no pads.

Other guys who didnt know me used to totally underestimate me so i'd score all the time. I think alot of other courties think American football is silly.

With all their pads and other reasons.

It's actually alot harder than it looks.

Especially for the Quarterback, Receivers, the backs, and the secondary defense.

They have to remeber all these routes and plays.

But don't get me wrong either, the line works hard to.

The have to know when to pass block, run block, they need to open the running route, and the perfect tie to release.

You try trying to stop a 250 lb.

Man from getting past you, quite a task... I played soccer my whole life though so i have alot of respect for that too.

I just wish i was a boy sometimes and could play football...

Hmm... I guessing that had you lot grown up with Aussie Rules like I have, you'd change your answers here quick smart!! Aussie rule, well...

RULES!! It's the greatest sport ever and the only one I follow with any real regularity.

It is similar to what Shane said, (and it's nice to know he knows a bit about it ) but a bit different: * It is played with a similar shaped ball to rugby. * The goals are like this i I I i rather than an H though * You get six points for scoring a goal (between the middle posts and 1 point for hitting a post or going either side of the middle two. * You can tackle your opponents (not above the shoulder, that is called 'high tackle' and you get a penalty and the other team gets the ball. * If you 'mark' a ball (that means catch it without it having hit the ground after an opponent kicks it) you can either 'play on' or you can stop and chose where you want to put the ball next. * You cant run with the ball for more than three steps before bouncing it (which takes loads of skill when you consider the shape it is) and there's loads more, but you get the picture. It's a very physical sport so the guys out there have to be extremely fit and not afraid of physical contact.

Loads of injuries every year, in fact they've recently introduced the 'blood rule' where if a player is bleeding profusely (happens way more than you would think) then they have to leave the ground to be patched up before they are allowed back on to play. The Aussie Rules players are warriors!

They have guts and stamina beyond any needed to play either Soccer or Grid Iron(?) I feel a bit sorry for people who haven't had the opportunity to see a game and I highly recommend when one comes up that you do!

Americans are starting to play Aussie Rules so if you look it up on the net you'd probably find out where you could catch a match. Oh and btw COLLINGWOOD ROCK!!

(even though they're not doing too well at the moment lol

American Football.

I have seen games of Australian football on TV, and I have a friend who lives over in Ireland so I also know of Gaelic football, although he just shortened it and would just call it "Gaelic".

Soccer is good too, but I just prefer American Football.

I used to play it until I developed Juvenile Rhematoid Arthritis(JRA), and I watch it a lot.

Am I the only one who gets extremely annoyed when people complain about American football all the time?

If you don't live in America, then you don't have a fair chance to see what it really is so don't complain about something you don't know enough about.

I seriously know some people who live in Europe who constantly complain about it by saying "You don't even use your feet very much", well it's just a name, you should have better things to talk about.

Lol apologies Razz!

(and all other Aussies out there!

I completely forgot about there being no cross bar hmm and the points In my defence though Ireland play Australia in Aussie rules but twice a year and I must of watched the last two down the pub, from my memory of the points system and invisible cross bars Maybe they alter the rules for the tournament?

Or it probably was the pub I’m surprised it's taken this long for some one to correct me though!

We must be low on Aussie members! Physical?

What about all that stopping you's do?

(only found out today it's called marking) It reminds me of netball, you wouldn't get that in Gaelic!

On joking there btw, from the little I've seen it's an extremely demanding game, how they manage to bounce that ball (or kick it) and avoid getting clobbered is beyond me.

I have to agree it really is a great game to watch it requires loads of skill and accuracy, as well being very physical and requiring superhuman stamina it’s extremely technical. I know this thread is only asking about the three game's but since this seems to be the thread for ball sports has any one ever seen a Hurly match?

There is the exact same rules as Gaelic (see my last post) but instead of being played with a football they use a bat called hurly and a cricket sized ball.

It's the fastest ball sport in the world and is near impossible to play (or at least from my experience ) It's also very dangerous as run the risk of being hit over the head with a hurly as you can't carry the ball on the bat which has a wide flat base) more than five steps with out bouncing it ,also people use their hurly to get the ball back (so generally there’s loads of hurlys flying about the place).

Also getting hit with a ball is no joke as its about as hard as a cricket bat and when its whacked by a hurly it travels at some speed, but anyway, consider that just an aside. Back to the topic at hand, sorry Razz but it still has to be football or its less popular name, soccer.

There's an Ireland game tonight and international football, remains the only sport I have any interest is following these days, mainly because of happy memories from Italia 90 incidentally where we beat Italy (the team were playing tonight) 1:0 in the group stages, (Hope its a good omen!

) Where we reached the quarter finals (Thanks to an outstanding save from Packie Bonner) of the world cup and then got knocked out by Italy in the semis 1:0.

Memories!

Honestly, American Football should be re-named to...tackleball?

Because they rarely kick it at all.

I am from Canada but my dad is from Britan so i have grown up to call soccer football and cheer on some teams in the Premier League...Go Liverpool!

I also play soccer, though very violent so i had to learn to knee the girls in the back of the knee when the ref isnt looking.

Though not proud of it...thats soccer for yea.

Football. thats the REAL football.

The ones the americans call sawker




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