obiter wrote:Probably the most accurate football rankings are calculated using the Elo system (similar to that used in chess)
obiter wrote:3 England 1966
Mars wrote:Xaxaxe wrote:^^^^ Ka-CHING! 1,000 posts! LOL, LOL, LOL +++++No argument here on the American football angle. It is a sport played by ... well, Americans. Some Canadians, too, but that's it.It requires too much equipment, is very expensive, and has too many arcane rules to ever go much beyond the colonies.Can you imagine what American football would be like if it was a worldwide phenomenon? Picture a team from Japan with a front line of Sumo wrestlers. They may choose not to wear the full equipment and keep it simple with the diapers.
Xaxaxe wrote:^^^^ Ka-CHING! 1,000 posts! LOL, LOL, LOL +++++No argument here on the American football angle. It is a sport played by ... well, Americans. Some Canadians, too, but that's it.It requires too much equipment, is very expensive, and has too many arcane rules to ever go much beyond the colonies.
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El Diablo Robotico wrote:Where's SWITERZERLAND though?
killjoy32 wrote:El Diablo Robotico wrote:Where's SWITERZERLAND though?
MShipley88 wrote:Mars wrote:Can you imagine what American football would be like if it was a worldwide phenomenon? Picture a team from Japan with a front line of Sumo wrestlers. They may choose not to wear the full equipment and keep it simple with the diapers.Never happen...never. World already hates Americans. Imagine if we also kicked their asses in the Sport of Kings.Football is too American...tough, violent and expensive. Lord! think of the casualties if they ever tried! Better stick to soccer.Mark
Mars wrote:Can you imagine what American football would be like if it was a worldwide phenomenon? Picture a team from Japan with a front line of Sumo wrestlers. They may choose not to wear the full equipment and keep it simple with the diapers.
Xaxaxe wrote:Overall fitness? No question about it — American football is played in seven- to 10-second bursts, with long pauses in between. The NFL guys' tongues would be hanging out after the first three minutes of a rugby game.A more interesting matchup would be with our NBA players, who are expected to run up and down the court all night for about 115 nights per year (including exhibitions and playoffs). The NBA guys would still lose a rugby game, of course, but at least they would be standing at the end.
MShipley88 wrote:I don't know about the battering one gets in rugby...does it have the sheer number of collisions that American football features? Rough, yes, but do they batter each other down?