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Ok, so I’m from Ireland and have a bias in favor of soccer. To fans of “football?
Why is it called football when only 2 players at most kick a ball with their foot on a team?
I don’t care much for American Football. Some of my reasons:

- I don’t like a game you know you have players who can go through a whole pro career without ever touching the ball
- Its a 60 minute game that takes over 3 hours to
- A key matchup between stars such as Marino V Aikman is considered huge. But these players are never on the field as the same time.
- A team is rewarded a field goal for failing to advance the ball! (Yes I do think this is pretty stupid!)
- If these guys who play football are considered so tough, do they really need to wear so much equipment?
- 6 teams are needed to play one game (offense, defense, special *2).
- When a team finished their work, they come off for a rest and let the other team take over..
- As for baseball, don’t get me started about the whole “World” series thing. Including two teams from Canada doesn’t add up to the rest of the world. In Ireland, they play hurling, a team game that is not played anywhere else. The championship is called the All-Ireland Championship, not the World Championship!

I could go on and on. I do respect the athleticism and skill of football players, pitchers etc but a lot of the anti-soccer crowd in the US really doesn’t get it…

My congratulations for the great play of your team against Spain. I watched the match at the stadium where the Columbus Crew played and there were at least 75 native Irish in attendance. I was expecially impressed by the right wing/ attacker Duff, who showed perhaps the very best balance I have ever seen; over and over again, he advanced the ball, leaped over the onrushing tackle of the opponent, and kept moving forward. Amazing. Had he been Italian, he would still be writhing on the ground . . .

Could have an answer to most of your points but will settle for only one. Do you really doubt that the opponents in the World Series are not the world's best baseball teams? Some would say cuba's team's are better, but I doubt if they would win a seven game series against the champion NA/AL teams.