Dallas Cowboys get slaughtered by the New Orleans Saints

[SlavikSvensk]

i didn't even know it played over there much...is it tough to follow? i don't mean that as a dig but it's an endlessly complicated game and i wonder how easy it is to pick up if you didn't grow up with it...

[Esox Lucius]

i've watched a bit of nfl in the early hours of the morning when i am still awake, it's looks an interesting game but dont understand it a lot.

[Will]

I remember watching a bit of the superbowl a couple of years back and thought it was deathly boring, the build up was more interesting and in football the build up to big games seems interminable. I remember Samuel L Jackson saying there was something wrong with a game where they don't score after watching a Liverpool game (back in the days of Houllier, so I can understand him not being that impressed!), but they didn't score for ages in that superbowl either.

I mean I'm used to end to end football, a sport where they move a few yards forward at a time just doesn't do it for me. And I heard they made the game less defensive too to make it more interesting, I can't imagine what it must have been like before...

Hollywood films gave me the impression american sports were interesting, but then when I actually watched them I didn't really like any of them and American football seems the worst of the bunch.

We did come up with the word soccer, but we don't use it though! Idiots aside.

[snooch]

That's the way Americans feel about cricket. Baffling. I will start posting more NFL stuff up here since a few of you have expressed interest. Football is really the only sport I get into. I'll watch any game live, but the NFL is the only one I like on tv. I can't follow soccer well. It seems boring to me in the same sense that the NFL is boring to people who aren't exposed to it regularly. If it was shown here more(besides the spanish channels) I would watch it. I do watch the world cup and the rest of the championship cups when they are on at a decent hour though.

[Esox Lucius]

pool is an american sport isnt it?

defo the best one if so, any sport that can be played in a pub is a good sport in my books. cant beat snooker, pool or darts!

[LittleMinx]

Ive watched American footy on Sky few times, altho i dont understand the rules, but its good to watch!!

[Richierush]

ive played it on the ps2 but i couldnt understand the game plays :cheese:

[SlavikSvensk]

I remember watching a bit of the superbowl a couple of years back and thought it was deathly boring, the build up was more interesting and in football the build up to big games seems interminable. I remember Samuel L Jackson saying there was something wrong with a game where they don't score after watching a Liverpool game (back in the days of Houllier, so I can understand him not being that impressed!), but they didn't score for ages in that superbowl either.

I mean I'm used to end to end football, a sport where they move a few yards forward at a time just doesn't do it for me. And I heard they made the game less defensive too to make it more interesting, I can't imagine what it must have been like before...

Hollywood films gave me the impression american sports were interesting, but then when I actually watched them I didn't really like any of them and American football seems the worst of the bunch.

We did come up with the word soccer, but we don't use it though! Idiots aside.

well, it's insanely complicated. the story is funny though. football, american football and rugby were all the same sport up until the mid 19th century, when they started differentiation from each other. when you look at old american football film (i mean black and white from the early part of 10th century), it's MUCH more like rugby. then it slowly changes, bit by bit, into the game it is today.

a typical game might have 6 scores in total, and action moves in one-direction at a time, though it can switch on a dime. the basics are simple, move the ball down the field and score. you have 4 chances to go 10 yards, and if you don't, you lose the ball. every 10 yards you get a fresh set of 4 chances (or downs). the defense tries to stop you, or get the ball away from you, so their team can take over. positions are highly specialized in a way they are not in football. the game is super violent, but not in a bloody, ears-come-off way like rugby, in a more car collision, broken bone sort of way.

[Will]

well, it's insanely complicated. the story is funny though. football, american football and rugby were all the same sport up until the mid 19th century, when they started differentiation from each other. when you look at old american football film (i mean black and white from the early part of 10th century), it's MUCH more like rugby. then it slowly changes, bit by bit, into the game it is today.

a typical game might have 6 scores in total, and action moves in one-direction at a time, though it can switch on a dime. the basics are simple, move the ball down the field and score. you have 4 chances to go 10 yards, and if you don't, you lose the ball. every 10 yards you get a fresh set of 4 chances (or downs). the defense tries to stop you, or get the ball away from you, so their team can take over. positions are highly specialized in a way they are not in football. the game is super violent, but not in a bloody, ears-come-off way like rugby, in a more car collision, broken bone sort of way.

Wow, they make it seem much more interesting in films and stuff, like someone makes a run, the QB picks him out and he hopefully scores a touchdown, none of this slowly shuffle up the field nonsense and having to stop the opposition moving a mere 10 yards 4 times to get to 'attack'... Surely it's pure patriotism americans actually enjoying that!

[SlavikSvensk]

Wow, they make it seem much more interesting in films and stuff, like someone makes a run, the QB picks him out and he hopefully scores a touchdown, none of this slowly shuffle up the field nonsense and having to stop the opposition moving a mere 10 yards 4 times to get to 'attack'... Surely it's pure patriotism americans actually enjoying that!

nah mate, it IS exciting. any play can get a TD, it's just that you NEED 10 yards (at least). the start-stop thing = tension and release. it's like with football...people who can't see the excitement just fundamentally don't understand the game.

[Will]

nah mate, it IS exciting. any play can get a TD, it's just that you NEED 10 yards (at least). the start-stop thing = tension and release. it's like with football...people who can't see the excitement just fundamentally don't understand the game.

But there's no chance of the defending team scoring 'til they've stopped the opposition moving 10 yards 4 times? Or 'til after the attacking team has scored presumably, which ever happens first?

[dan the acid man]

used to watch it alot when i was a kid, even bought a book so i could understand the rules better.

I don't watch it as much these days though, think i might start catching the odd game when i can.