<p>Not really but, how many of you soccer fans out there think that soccer is a better sport than american football athletic wise, skill wise, and just everything wise.</p>
<p>If anyone thinks that american football is better than the beautiful game of soccer, i'd love to jump into a sparing match with them and let you, the viewers, decide what sport is really better. Whoever wants to support me in my valiant fight may jump in and help me defend against the legion of auburn (Everyone loves the tigers this year) fans ascending on me. </p>
<p>No. You’re wrong. American football requires more athleticism especially at running back and wide receiver. As a running back, you’re running full-speed at a defense that wants to maraud you, and you make quick, flashy turns to get past your opponent. Wide receivers have to run full-speed as well to beat out their coverman, and use their athleticism to make sometimes near-impossible catches.</p>
<p>Alright frantic. You’re right about the wide receiver but, let’s switch over to the mid fielders in soccer whom in my opinion have a degree of athleticism compared only to that of track runners. Mid fielders run an average of 6-7 miles each game and each game is 90 minutes. It requires a high degree of athleticism to achieve this and not get tired. The ball is only in play for 11 minutes in a football game and it doesn’t take that much power to play for this short amount of time and don’t even get me started on the linebackers. These chunky walls of meat do nothing more than flail around and dry hump the other team’s line backers. </p>
<p>Only a couple players on a football field actually run/get action while in soccer, everybody gets some action.</p>
<p>Okay, but midfielders don’t run at full-speed like running backs or wide receivers do. They can get away with running at 50% or even less when play is slowing down, as most of the game is comprised of passing the ball. The only time they “really” go full-speed is when an opposing player is making a swift counterattack or breakaway.</p>
<p>As a running back, you’re going full-speed all the way. You’re involved in every single play of the game. You either run the ball, and the only way to have success running the ball is to go as humanly fast as you can while making quick, flashy moves to avoid oncoming defenders. You can block, meaning that you will have to use your strength to protect the passer; I guarantee you that a running back has more strength than a soccer player. You can also be part of the pass attack, in which case you go at full-speed to beat out whatever coverage the defense throws at you. Wide receivers, obviously, have to go full-speed on pass attacks as well.</p>
<p>OP is on crack. I honestly can’t stand watching soccer nor playing it. WAY too damn slow for me.</p>
<p>Football takes legitimate skill in that you need to be BOTH fast and strong. Soccer players pretty much pass the ball up and down the field for 89 minutes and there’s that 1 minute where everyone’s goin ape**** and tryna score.</p>
<p>Honestly though, basketball and golf are the two sports that take the most skill. You need to be well-rounded at EVERYTHING in basketball (no specialized assignments like football and soccer) and golf is just plain hard as hellllll (try carrying a 30 pound bag of metal on your back and walk 18 holes in 90 degree weather wearing a polo and khakis and have to hit every shot perfectly). </p>
<p>Lol well apart from that, coming from a country where soccer (we actually call it football) is like the number 1 sport and we rarely even play football (as in the American Football) , our form of the American football in a sense is rugby (yes i know they are different). From what I’ve observed American football is better athletic wise , and I don’t really know about skill wise but they can’t be compared that easily, I mean one is all about the foot movement and the other is about the hand (right?).</p>
<p>Speaking of which, can anyone explain to me why American football is called FOOTball when from what I see you only use your foot, basically at the kickoff and but use your hands every other time, like 90% of the time.</p>
No. Football is a mixture of both. There is the quarterback who has to use his arm to cannon a pass down the field, but he also has to use his feet to evade oncoming pressure. The wide receiver and tight end use their hands to catch the ball, but they also use their feet to run around the field to get open as well as to jump up in the air. The guards and the defense use their arms, but some defensive positions such as a linebacker and safety have to use their feet to move around the field and cover opponents. Then there is the kicker and punter, who solely use their kicking foot.</p>
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Gridiron stems from rugby. Rugby’s origin comes from a player who played soccer football but decided to use their hands to move the ball. The sport of rugby was originally called rugby football.</p>
<p>Thanks for responding but of course you have to use your feet to move around lol You have to do that in almost every sport if not every sport. I meant as a part of actual play (apart from movement) such as kicking.</p>
The hand movement is just as important as the foot movement in gridiron, whereas in soccer the game is dominated solely by the foot (with the exception of the keeper)</p>