People Who Like American Football Are Boring

Unknown Soldier · 10-26-2013, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

American football by comparison is a niche, insular sport, cared about only by Americans and probably a small percentage of people outside the US, mostly those who watch every sport --- darts, F1, tennis, badminton, rugby, soccer, GAA, boxing etc. Few people outside the US care specifically about AF: it's just another to add to the lists of the sports they watch.

American football was pushed big time in the UK back in the 1990s and a lot of marketing went into it and it was a popular sport on TV here for a while. Also all kinds of pro teams popped up here and in Europe, but luckily everybody soon came to their senses and its popularity went down the toilet.

Burning Down · 10-26-2013, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Christian Benteke

Hockey

People only care about that because of the fighting.

I like boxing & snooker also.

That's the NHL for you. The fighting is ****ing stupid and it draws the wrong kinds of fans. I hardly ever watch NHL hockey anymore because of it. The real game has become a joke to them. I much prefer watching the junior leagues, European leagues, and the women's leagues where no fighting rules are strictly enforced.

Unknown Soldier · 10-26-2013, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

That's the NHL for you. The fighting is ****ing stupid and it draws the wrong kinds of fans. I hardly ever watch NHL hockey anymore because of it. The real game has become a joke to them. I much prefer watching the junior leagues, European leagues, and the women's leagues where no fighting rules are strictly enforced.

.............and NHL is the only bearable American sport to watch as well.

Burning Down · 10-26-2013, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

.............and NHL is the only bearable Canadian sport to watch as well.

Fixed that for ya.

djchameleon · 10-26-2013, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

There's really no need to hand me a wiki entry as I know all this anyway, for example some of Argentina's best know teams have English names.

The question I asked was to challenge the 'cultural ties' that you stated earlier. For example the USA and especially Canada have far greater cultural ties to the UK than Argentina ever could. So based on the logic that you've applied with the wiki example, football should be far more popular in North America than it actually is, that would also be further enforced by the huge amount of immigration into the USA from countries where football is the biggest sport, because immigrants by and large dictate the future development of a society.

It's not that I disagree about the cultural link to the popularity of sports in a country, but in this aspect I think that USA and Canada are an anomaly in regards of this.

They immigrated away from those countries for a reason so they wouldn't exactly like taking everything their mother countries and bringing them here. It just so happens that football got lost in the transition.

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

Fixed that for ya.

he was right. Canada is part of America whether you like it or not :P

North America

Ninetales · 10-26-2013, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

That's the NHL for you. The fighting is ****ing stupid and it draws the wrong kinds of fans. I hardly ever watch NHL hockey anymore because of it. The real game has become a joke to them.

Oh my god thank you. Fighting is the worst thing i cant believe how dumb it makes fans. I went to the oilers game on thursday and everytime our "fighters" were out doing nothing productive people would cheer and then boo Hemsky when he didnt score. **** hockey fans i seriously hate them so much

Ppl still think don cherry is relevant and not absolutely insane and thats scary to me.

djchameleon · 10-26-2013, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Ninetales

Oh my god thank you. Fighting is the worst thing i cant believe how dumb it makes fans. I went to the oilers game on thursday and everytime our "fighters" were out doing nothing productive people would cheer and then boo Hemsky when he didnt score. **** hockey fans i seriously hate them so much

Ppl still think don cherry is relevant and not absolutely insane and thats scary to me.

Those are the kind of fans that Goofle loves the bat shit mental ones that love to see fights and what makes the sport he loves so great.

This same logic should therefore apply to Hockey then according to him.

The rioters tend to come out in full force for championship games though and If the local team wins they riot. If they lose they riot!

It applies to mostly with Hockey fans but has been known to happen with Basketball and American Football fans as well.

Burning Down · 10-26-2013, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Goofle11

Sorry, but when do you see fans of those sorts screaming for minutes, hugging the person next to them and going absolutely bat-shit mental after every single point?

That doesn't mean the passion doesn't exist. It's just expressed differently. Hockey fans are incredibly passionate about the sport. People go to great lengths expressing support for their favourite teams. I'm sure the same can be said for association football.

Unknown Soldier · 10-26-2013, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

They immigrated away from those countries for a reason so they wouldn't exactly like taking everything their mother countries and bringing them here. It just so happens that football got lost in the transition.

I hardly think sport comes into that concept. In fact the hotbed of American soccer stems from the Latin Americans immigrants there and I would say they are largely responsible for the growing popularity of the sport there.

In fact the only other countries that are comparable to the USA and Canada in terms of football (soccer) are Australia and NZ and the link between the two is that both USA/Canada and Australia/NZ were originally isolated from the old world, rather than actually forgetting their roots. But then again, football never actually took off in Australia and NZ, but rugby and cricket did.

Trollheart · 10-26-2013, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Those are the kind of fans that Goofle loves the bat shit mental ones that love to see fights and what makes the sport he loves so great.

Again you're talking absolute crap DJ. True football fans HATE any sort of fighting, bad behaviour or hooliganism. It's what gives the sport a bad name and it most certainly is NOT what makes football great. Just shows that as little as I admittedly know about American Football, you know eff-all about "proper", real football.

And when did Goofle ever claim that fightng in the game was good? He was talking about cheering, laughing, applauding, the odd pitch invasion, all in good taste and with all fans bonded together. Nothing like riots or any sort of trouble, which we all hate to see.