Real Football is played with the foot.
The. Clue. Is. In. The. Name. “Football”
American Football is like Rugby - except that the oh-so-butch players wear kilograms of padding in case they break a nail.
American Football is static, tedious and repetitive. It’s better than basketball though (only because basketball is a variant of lane swimming).
Cheerleaders however - they’re kind of fun.
At least there is scoring involved.
And you'd probably want as much padding as possible when a 300 pound linebacker clocks you at full gallop.
Wow, football on an astronomy thread.
Footballs are properly kicked at the change of possession. Soccer balls are randomly kicked throughout a chaotic mash-up that bears no actual resemblance to an athletic event.
Football (American, as I pointed out, is redundant because there is no other kind) is nothing like Rugby. The Englishman's claim that Football is "like" Rugby -- like the even more ridiculous fallacy that Baseball is "like" Cricket -- simply cements the inarguable fact that the British know nothing about sports. I have played all four games. There are no actual similarities, except that Cricket is played with something vaguely resembling a bat. Cricket (not surprisingly) bears a much stronger resemblance to Soccer, in that "players" (I am being extraordinarily charitable here) run about purposelessly until they tire themselves out. There is no actual "scoring" that could be recognized by a sentient being.
A Rugby player would survive about nine minutes in a Football game; an NFL cornerback -- the lightest man on the field -- would knock him out cold several times during that period, and probably would not break a nail. A soccer "player" (again, I'm stipulating to a hypothetical to advance the discussion) would wet himself shortly after entering the stadium.
Football is "static," "tedious" and "repetitive" to people who don't understand it. To those of us who do, it is actually (by far) the most mentally challenging game in the world. European sports consist of nothing more than a series of cognitive grunts by comparison. In soccer, there is no strategy, except that one must pretend to have no arms or hands for nine hours. That is why soccer is so popular with American school children under the age of eight. Once they develop physically and psychologically, they quickly outgrow it.
Cheerleaders are idiots. The serious Football teams (for example: the Pittsburgh Steelers) do not have them. Real American men don't watch women on the sidelines, they take them to games.