<p>^Same thing with golf…</p>
<p>^ No, you’re wrong.</p>
<p>I enjoy soccer (aka FOOTBALL) far more than American football, partially because American football has so many rules and it tends to get hard to follow for someone who is just starting to watch, like me.</p>
<p>You have to stand/walk with your feet, and you have to hit the ball using your hands.</p>
<p>^ facepalm.jpg </p>
<p>Just stop. </p>
<p>Next thing’s probably going to be, “You swing your arms in soccer…”</p>
<p>yeah… basically every sport involves feet so they could all be called football according to franticpizza’s explaination</p>
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Well, this makes as much sense as “You use your feet while running in American football”, so yeah.</p>
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Wrong. That wasn’t my explanation.</p>
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I loved how you used quotations when I never said that that vaguely.</p>
<p>A pro debater you are, HarryJones.</p>
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<p>lol, @franticpizza, I know this is an old comment, but SERIOUSLY? Football requires more athleticism??? I’m not sure if you noticed, but in football, you stop playing every couple minutes. Soccer is continuous. It’s like comparing a marathon runner to a sprinter. Obviously they are both good at their respective sport, but in terms of sheer endurance and athleticism, the marathon runner is obviously of a higher caliber.</p>
<p>Just my thoughts.</p>
<p>In terms of endurance, okay, soccer players have the upper-hand. In terms of athleticism? Definitely football.</p>
<p>Most of soccer is comprised of passing the ball back and forth until a team loses it. There’s really no excitement until, as another user pointed out, the one minute where everyone tries to score. Sure, the players may be able to run across a pitch for 90 minutes (including a break at 45 min), but they aren’t running at their full speed. They’re keeping pace with the play of the ball, which can often be slow. </p>
<p>Football players have to go 100% all the time. You can’t have a runningback who goes 50%. He’d be absolutely demolished by the defensive line. He has to go 100%, at a full sprint, to help out his team. You also can’t have a wide receiver who doesn’t explode off of the line of scrimmage. His coverman would easily cream him, and he would find it difficult to get the ball.</p>
<p>Endurance is only one part of someone’s athleticism. Soccer players have better endurance than football players but football players still have better overall athleticism than them.</p>
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Thank you very much.</p>
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No, you just said the same thing in a paragraph.
=You use your feet while running in American football</p>
<p>“Football players have to go 100% all the time”</p>
<p>nope. they take breaks like every couple minutes. The runningback will be going all out, just like the soccer player who has possession of the ball.</p>
<p>What do you consider to be athleticism?</p>
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Yeah… they do use their feet. My explanation was about how they use their feet. You don’t even know what you’re talking about. That’s pathetic. A page ago you said that since golfers use their feet (as well as their arms), that they are comparable to football players. However, that’s wrong because I said before how football players utilize their hands and feet… Golfers don’t use them in the same way.</p>
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You didn’t even understand what I meant. When I said that they go 100% all the time, I meant on the field, when the ball is in play. They go 100% so that they don’t get eaten by the defense. I’ve played soccer before and I’ve watched games, and I know that players don’t run at 100%. They go with the pace of how the ball is being played.</p>
<p>Just what is your point? In EVERY sport you use your legs.</p>
<p>Alright, speaking as someone who played football until this year, I gotta say football is the more intense sport. Sure, soccer players run all game, but do they do it at the same intensity and speed that football players do?</p>
<p>As a rover, I was responsible for both stopping the run and defending against the pass. This means a) making the read from the backfield and line as soon as the ball is snapped, b) reacting to that read, and c) either sprint my @ss back into my zone or getting to the hole before the back did, all within seconds. And should the offense start moving the ball, then I have to pursue the ballcarrier from behind, running as fast as I can, while taking the correct angle to cut him off before he makes me pay. Half a second late and next thing I know, I would be watching the offense go for six. </p>
<p>That’s not including tackling at all, either. A good tackle uses all of your major core muscles, starting with driving your legs, all the way to using your core and shooting your chest through the other player. Without a doubt, a well executed tackle is one of the most physically demanding things to do in sports, although it feels damn good afterwards.</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s any contest. Football is more demanding than soccer, any day.</p>
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Post #16 and Post #20. Before you go off making an argument, try READING first. I was answering someone’s question about how gridiron is different from soccer.</p>
<p>I don’t even know why you’re even posting. Your first post was, “Wow, in American football you have to run? Amazing.” That was a completely uncalled for post, as I was only explaining how football utilized the foot more often than thought of.</p>
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My point exactly. You get 1 bro point.</p>
<p>I’d already read them and I still don’t see your point. Of course you use your feet in American Football. In Football (soccer), you use your feet to tackle, pass, shoot, dribble IN ADDITION to moving. In American Football, you use your hands when doing most of these things. Your feet are just used to get you from A to B.</p>
<p>Don’t underestimate the importance of feet in football. Ask Kyle Brotzman.</p>
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<p>In EVERY sport you have to get from A to B.</p>
<p>It’s just that in American football, you use your hands, as well as your feet, in order to do so. This is why I said in post #16, I believe, that American football is a mixture between hand and feet. You can get from point A to point B by either rushing the ball or passing the ball.</p>
<p>I said that in soccer, the game revolves only around the feet (w/ the exception of the keeper). The only way to get from A to B is by using your feet and dribbling the ball.</p>
<p>You’re seriously making an argument out of nothing.</p>