Well, ever since I saw someone on some team give a fantastic shoulder hit on some player from another team and the ref gave the hitter a card (not sure if it was hallmark) for the hit, which I thought was a great hit I have never watched another “sissy ball game” as I have affectionately come to refer to soccer — Just isn’t violent enough for me. Soccer = Hitting is penalized.
Sorry, give me lots of violent hitting, trash talking, and fighting otherwise known as the National Football League and I’m happy. Football = Hitting is cheered!
If you watch highlights of the games in the 70s, a lot of stuff that would get a straight red today went on without so much as a foul being given, it was a pretty rough game back then.
If Roger Goodell gets his way hitting will be outlawed in the NFL too.