I'm a fan of both football games, and I grew up in a rugby/soccer culture - I'm not an American. I think American football is a game of power and strategy. The players don't need the endurance of rugger players. Rugger players have the edge there, and they're tougher in that respect. The rests the American players get give them more power and they hit all the more harder for having those breaks. The game is designed around the pads and this permits a higher impact physicality. In the rugby versus A.football debate however, there is a crucial difference that sets the American game apart from rugby/soccer and almost every other game: total exclusivity of positions and players. In no other game do you swap the entire team over depending on which way the game goes - offence/defence. Rugger players, like soccer, play both roles, as and when. A. football is totally different. Hence, you get humongous giants for linemen, they're enormous and they just have one mission - destroy. This makes the game more dangerous than any other. They're not wussies. The japanese A.football game that I watch (my apartment is next to the field) has a lot of spirit but not much power (the players are too small to block and tackle in an economic manner). When this element of the game is absent - A.football looks pretty bad, whereas rugby still looks half decent. Just my opinion though.

By the way a ticket for the Kawasaki games costs only 500 yen and you get to see four or five scaled down games in the day. Not many fans though, but a lot of ganbarou. Come down there on a Sunday or national holidays.

Alan if anyone cared about soccer or rugby (at least anyone in a country with money) then those players should be rich and famous. They are not.

Football is for real sports fans, and soccer is for wine-sipping European faggots who like to watch grown men fall down and pretend to be hurt at the smallest incling of physical contact.

You should be ashamed of yourself watching those sissy queers pretend to be athletes. EURO TRASH!

> > Football (please don't call soccer football) > LOL > Please don't call American Football football. > Dude, American Football is such an inappropriate name. How many times out of the whole bloody match does the special team come out to actually use thier foot to kick the ball? I'll call it American Handball or American Tackleball or American Runball.LOL > > I'm guessing that the game (thus the name) originated from Rugby Football which originates from Football. Soccer = Association Football. aSSOCiation -> SOCcer. It's a nick name to distinguish between Rugby Football and regular Football. The Official name for soccer IS football. > FA=Football Association > FIFA Federation Internationale de Football Association > JFA=Japan Football Association > > Learn your history.

Rugby developed from soccer when while playing soccer, a frustrated Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran it down the field into the opposing team's goal.

American Football (a name which I think very inappropriate, but I live with it) is a broken down version of rugby. The Scurm was replaced with the "Line of Scrimmage", with the tight five (Props, Hookers, and 2nd Row) as the Linemen, and the Scrum Half as the Quarter Back. Flankers became Tight Ends etc, etc.

One other main difference is that in Rugby, you hav eto wrap (or at least attempt to)when tackling. In American Football, wrapping your arms around the ball carrier is not required. The same is true in Rugby League, which is much more brutal.

Canadian football is a lot like Canada...Invisible

Fact one : american football is only popular in america. In every other country that is played it is a novelty sport, on a par with something like formation swimming.

Fact 2 : Real Football is popular throughout the world.

This points to two things

a/ american football is shit

b/ Only fat, mulleted, inbred, gun polishing Yanks can bear to watch this slow moving, commercials every 2.5 minute fuckin bullshit.