Real Football - what some here call 'Soccer' but no-one else in the world does - is about speed, power and coordination.
Football at the professional level is amazing and exhilarating to watch. You guys just need to watch some, not regard the Olympic games as the apogee of the sport.
Although I have to say: Football could use cheerleaders.
Roight! I’ll admit, in the past, I’ve referred to soccer as football for, ah, cigarettes.
“’American Football’ is a bit-like Rugby, except that the players wear body armor. It’s the gayest game ever, beating even that lane-swimming event called Basketball.”
I killed a fellow player (a friend) in high school football, he collapsed on the field and died either immediately or shortly after.
Four years earlier during a scrimmage in which I was on the offense another friend of mine on the defensive side suffered an injury that he died of within a day or two.
I don’t know what the death rate is in soccer but without the pads football would be unplayable, as we learned generations ago.
soccer evolved into rugby, which evolved into football.
I worship the lad who first picked up a soccer ball and ran with it, only to be tackled by his mates. There should be shrine to him somewhere.