Auger13 wrote:betiko wrote:We re talking about the world's most popular watched and played sport, not some regional rugby!
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How on earth is it called american football, when less than 5% of the time they use their foot rather than their arm? Call it what it is; american rugby. It s not an uninteresting sport though, I d rather watch that than baseball, which is probably the lamest sport ever (i d prefer to watch curling! Lol).
I Heard that american football players have a life expectancy bellow 60yo, a bit like wrestlers. Too many head traumas, painkillers and dopping products!
Rugby is not played on a rug is it? The name of the sport doesn't neccessarily have to tie directly into the sport. I do agree baseball is painful to watch, but it's fun to play - I would say the same thing about soccer to though, not really exciting to watch unless it's the world cup, for me anyways (I know I'm going to recieve some hate mail over this
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we do have Rugby here in the US, I played it in college, and it's the same as rugby everywhere else (we're just not as good as other countries
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About the life expectancy - I don't know exactly, but it's very common for players to have a lot of health issues later in life unfortunately..
Rugby is the name of the school in england where it was invented. The original name is rugby football. During a football match, some dude got crazy, picked the ball up and started running towards the goal. American football, canadian football, australian footie ect are all derivates from rugby, their mother s sport.. Which mother sport is football lol
And yes, tons of sports have a name related; football, handball, basketball, baseball, volleyball, humm dodgeball! Lol
Regarding football, yeah, it can often be boring, but that just makes you apreciate even more when you have a really good match. You ll never get tired by the endless scenarios you never thought could be possible in a football game, but I guess it s true about any sports.
I personally never managed to watch a full american football match, it s ridiculously too long and they are always stopped. Not to mention all the commercials... I think it could be interesting but the format is unbearable to watch on TV. The american sport I ve always enjoyed watching is the NBA. It was hugely popular in the 90s in europe, but since the retirement of Jordan it seems like it s less followed by the medias. I think football got more popular than ever. Here in france the second most important sport is rugby.
I think freakns once told me that OTP are actually a bunch of friends who know each other from a serbian american football forum, so they must like it pretty much.
Anyways, looks like this matchup between you guys is still pretty tight even if OSA has the advantage!