looks tougher cuz of the speed

I can guarantee that isn't true.

I can also prove it.

i'm sure they are, you just need international channels or a sports package with them

Rugby sucks major donkey dick tbh but everything about American Football is just corny to me...how commercialized it is, the names, the commentators, the majority of the fans...it just makes me cringe.

Here's the thing tho, it is far more entertaining for the average guy as an experience to watch American Football than almost any other sport, not specifically because of the sport itself but because of the packaging it comes in, because it is DESIGNED not just to be a sport programme but also to be a visual spectacle...Americans do visual spectacles better than anyone, and this is just another example....it is a sport but also an entertainment programme, there are other aspects to it than just the sport....we don't really do that, we just get the sport.

cool

NBC Universal is the only channel in america that televises rugby. and you have to buy it separate

you stop the game to go to a commercial break, that says it all.

Pretty sure fox show rugby too.

Btw imo basketball is by farrr the best American sport, I could watch it all day, I have huge respect for the game.

Which is the most popular sport in america?

I hope it isn't baseball, that is a zzzz fest, it belongs in the same category as cricket and golf...boring shit.

fox does not
espn doesnt either LOL
Quidditch>rugby

world series of poker>rugby lol

I just looked it up and found an entire schedule of rugby that is shown on fox.

Will post once I get home.

Also, I love how you base it off what is shown in America...majority rules, rugby easily wins in that regard. Rugby is huge in a number of countries worldwide...American football is huge in America. Just because your country prefers it does not mean you are right, cuz pretty much every other country disagrees with you. If we put this to a worldwide vote, which is unrealistic but would be the only way to settle it, rugby would win by quite a large margin.

I just looked it up and found an entire schedule of rugby that is shown on fox.

Will post once I get home.

Also, I love how you base it off what is shown in America...majority rules, rugby easily wins in that regard. Rugby is huge in a number of countries worldwide...American football is huge in America. Just because your country prefers it does not mean you are right, cuz pretty much every other country disagrees with you. If we put this to a worldwide vote, which is unrealistic but would be the only way to settle it, rugby would win by quite a large margin.

post it up

its probably fox sports 34592

because there are a million sports channels you can BUY. no rugby is on regular tv, or basic cable, or even with a bottom level sports package

i think its funny you like BASKETBALL, when basketball is the sport that is pure hollywood nonsense

football only goes to commercial after change of possessions, and timeouts

they don't stop the game to go to commercial, the game is stopped.

football is entertainment, because it is ENTERTAINING. it isnt like soccer. where they just run around for forever and maybe score once or twice.

you are really saying football sucks because its entertaining lmao

but yo, football is the biggest sport in america. not sure which is next, either basketball or baseball

I just said it was possible to watch rugby in america, because he clearly stated it was not, that was untrue...I don't care what you people watch.

And I like the sport of basketball more, the game itself, I'm not a fan of the commercial side either, I just find it more entertaining as a sport. I never said the game of football sucks, I could watch it cuz I could watch any sport, I have seen games and enjoyed them, but there are some things about it that I don't like, I'm just arguing the opposite side because I don't think it's as good as most of you do, if you look I haven't criticized it at all, I prefer it to rugby as a sport, it is everything that comes with it I find corny, the commercial breaks every few minutes, the commentators, the names, the fans...maybe we are just used to seeing different things from sports.

And if you think a game that stops every few minutes or whatever is more entertaining than a freeflowing basically uninterrupted, end to end game then goodluck to ya, you are wrong tho.

the game isnt interrupted ever

the game goes to commercial when the game itself is stopped. its never stopped just for commercials.

you said a couple posts ago that the nfl is more entertaining to the average guy than any other sport

he said there are no televised rugby matches

there aren't. you need to buy special packages to have it televised

So, it is televised?

I don't understand how that means it isn't televised, just cuz u have to pay for it, if course you do it's a minority sport.

Also i never said it stopped to go to commercial break, i know it is part of the game, its just part of the game i dont like, there are parts of every sport i dont like. And when I said entertaining I meant the programme, the packaging of an american football game is probably entertaining to most people, the sport is what they don't like, and I've had this conversation with people here, cuz I'm the opposite...the game is cool, I can watch it, but the way it is presented and everything that comes with it as part of the experience of a game is really corny to me. Difference in what sport you enjoy is just taste and culture, and that is dumb to argue about, I enjoy sport mainly for the competition anyway, I will watch most sports just cuz I'm curious about who will win, even if I know nothing about it, but arguing about which is better as a sport is beyond stupid, mainly cuz nobody has ever won that argument and it will never end while there are still sports in the world, and also cuz they are different things, it's like arguing about which is better between a banana and an orange, they're just different fucking things that you either like or you don't...apart from golfers, golfers are not athletes, golf is not a sport it is hitting things with a stick and walking, that is not entertainment, these faggots should not be on tv.

Btw 'soccer' is crazily commercialized too, and I don't like that either, it just doesn't seem as persistent and blatant and it doesn't interrupt my enjoyment of the game.

not on american FOX, there isn't. Like I said...you need to buy a package

and american football is played in canada as well as mexico and used to have its own league in europe which they want to bring back within a couple years due to the overwhelming success of the two very shitty games played there this year

Lol @ huge demand for euro NFL.

And Canada and Mexico are on americas boarder. thats like wales and scotland to us and soccer is still bigger in mexico than American hand egg.

Btw Basketball > NFZzzzzzz

you have to pay to watch nfl in this country also.

football, is played professionally in over 200 countries.. hahaha @ canada and mexico (where football is the #1 sport) and used to have another league somewhere.

what's your point?

They may have played here but it was not something that was popular, I didn't know, I dont know anybody who knows...of course there will be some people who like it, I have said I think it's ok, but it has not reached anywhere close to the level of popularity and participation it has in america, whereas soccer has done that in most countries worldwide.

Fuck soccer.

mma & hockey > both

something i noticed 2/3 british are in here with no bias only facts, yet all of the americans are commenting with opinions, bias and almost complete ignorance. it says a lot.

I noticed you being contradictory in almost every post or just trying too hard? idk
everything i've said is based on facts tho lol my only opinion was that football is better, supported by facts

quote and explain my contradictions or retract.

lol. it;s k
there is no such thing as unbiased, tho

pussy, can't back it up.. just more opinions and still no facts.

I was just scanning this thread.....dont really care about thos.topic at all its just europe vs america....which i mean....who cares...?

But

America is the entertainment capital of the world....so wouldnt it be fair to say that our vote in a worldwide vote would weigh quite a bit more heavily then others?

No one is unbiased. it's a fact
you sound dumb

if i'm the richest man in the country does my vote weigh more than someone on welfare?

no.

and i have been very unbias in this thread, i came in calling it a dumb thread for a start. if you believe that you cannot see things without bias then you are not very intelligent and find disconnecting opinion from fact impossible.

But i think we both know whos vote wouod be more credible....regardless....

ok lets start with this first sentence of your post.

you answered wrong. a rich persons vote means more than a poor persons. not on paper. but the rich person can help fund the campaign of the dude/thing he is voting for

thats how democracy works in the world. rich people push there money around to get richer

but thats besides the point.

a few posts ago, you stated the NFL stops games to play commercials. that is a blatant lie. the game never stops for commercials. the game is stopped when it goes to commercials.

if it is a change of possession, it will go to a commercial. if there is a timeout. it will go to commercial. if a play is being challenged and reviewed, it goes to a commercial. if someone is injured. it goes to commercial

in all of those instances, play is stopped already. you are wrong.

admit it.

now witty, good sir. you claim something is televised, when it isnt. i can go to bangbros.com. but that doesnt mean im a member. i have to pay to watch that pornography.

in order to watch rugby, you have to pay for special channels.

therefore it isnt televised.

we have been saying that the super bowl is televised in your country. you don't need to purchase a special channel for it. therefore a game of american football IS televised in your country.

you claimed football isnt entertaining to you, after saying it is probably the most entertaining sport to the average person. which doesnt make sense to me, but you are entitled to your opinion.

i'm not saying american football is the best sport. i am simply defending the sport from all of your guys ignorant statements.

these are all facts.

just read the thread.

Read a book Sey. Europeans are biased towards soccer and/or rugby because they most likely grew up on it. Americans are biased towards football. It's science, it's fact.
Your homework for tonight is to pm me the definition of bias. I expect it by 8 35 am sharp on tuesday.

Id also like to point out that i was comparing wealth of knowledge and experience based sucess in relation to the topic at hand vs lack there of

So the rich guy vs poor guy comparison wouldnt be an accurate comparison.

@Bags Payne...the majority of people would vote that they prefer rugby, is what i meant.


@uh oh...if something is shown on television it is fuckung televised son lmao wtf. I said I enjoy the sport but not what comes with it, not gonna explain it again, i explained it fully with my last few posts, i am not attacking ur sport... did you read all of what i said?

It hurts the Americans more to say you hate their sport(s), because they try insurmountably harder to impress others than any other nation.

^ That hit in your sig ain't shit homie.

Then try and imagine how it would feel without padding.

They are very different. Tough in their own ways. Most players would play through pretty crazy injuries... Rugby takes a lot more fuckin endurance - but football players can put it all into a huge ass hit.

I can say this though:
When I started a Rugby team as a senior in HS, about 60% of our players were football players coming off winnings states...and about 25% were soccer players.

the football players had a REAL hard time tackling... combo of form and lack of pads, the soccer players were far superior out the gate.

i had the most reckless abandon since i was a goalie and already comfortable getting kneed and kicked in the face :D

BUT -- i can also say by the end of the season, while 'on average', our soccer players were still the better tacklers, our two best tacklers were both football players.... one was a LB and the other DB/safety.... probably not surprisingly.

There are a lot worse tackles out there. I posted a whole video of them.

I know it's hard to compare since football players have helmets

but i had to add that while i've seen people play both sports with fingers going the opposite direction


Rugby is the only sport i've seen a dude go back in with HALF OF HIS EAR ripped down, literally, we taped the shit around his head so it wouldn't flap downward like a damn puppy.


from that day forward, we all taped our ears lol.