So called 'football' where they don't use their feet and score a 'touchdown' where they don't touch the ball down. and the players wear padding so they don't get hurt. Poor things! and the games take 3 hours with no passage of play greater than about 5 seconds. Boring!\nBaseball - fat men playing glorified 'rounders'.\nBasketball - human freaks playing glorified netball.\nIce Hockey - basically boxing on ice.
210051
Because we don't like rioting in the stands.
499004
A better question: why is golf considered a sport? After all, all they do is hitting a ball with a club! Oh wait another one: is NASCAR really a sport? I can't believe some people enjoy watching 20+ cars making LEFT TURNS ONLY for 4 hours! How about football? First there are at most two kickers in each team; next, most of them don't seem to come in contact with ball (kinda frustrating for a BALL game). \n\nThe truth is when you don't know about something, try to understand it instead of bashing it because every existing sport is subject to criticism. \n\nTwo last words: GO BEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
183028
Its not violence. Really you think that???? Thats silly. They are trying to get the puck if that means to slam your oppenent into the wall then so be it.  Just like football when you tackel. There is alot more violence out on the streets we should worry about b4 hockey.\n\nHockey is the coolest sport, it goes to show how much a team really cares about their team mates, when someone gets checked then a fight breaks out its cuz that persons teammates are like H*ll no you ain't taking a cheap shot on our guy.\n\nGuess you gotta love it to get it.
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Baseball = Butt-scratching, butt-slapping, tabaco-chewing whiney little momma's boys in tight pants boring the living hell out of anyone that has the time to sit and watch a pitcher decide on what pitch to throw.........Althewhile demanding 16 zillion dollars a year to stand there looking pathetic.........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz\n\nTry Hockey!
356030
If you're talking about gridiron, I don't like it because 90 minutes of footy takes about 5 hours, the players wear too much protective gear, and it's incomprehensible. But it's still better than soccer. At least there is some scoring.
137794
Soccer is the ultimate physical chess match. To move the ball around and in a way to be able to score is much harder than even hockey. that is why the low score. Also the point that there is not scoring of multiple points as basketball or football and such. Plus the defense is ever present. Not like other sports. And the ball, being much larger than a puck, is harder to sneak pass the goal tender.
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It is what you are used to. There are Americans who find rugby boring. However, in response to the gentleman above, rugby can organise a legitimate World Cup whereas American football isn't played at a high level outside the US and Canada (given that Canadian football is a variation.\n\nThey wear the padding and helmets as protection. However, that allows them to make harder hits. There are legitimate injury concerns as 25 people died playing gridiron between 2000-2004.
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Unlike many sports you need very little to play.  All you need is a ball and a few jackets for posts.  For many games you cannot play a proper game without extra equipment etc.\nAlso it is rely simple.  The basic rules are very easy to grasp.  It is also easy to play.  By that I mean that with a basic grasp of the rules you can pick up a ball and have a game.  That's not to say it doesn't involve skill.  What I mean is that you don't have to start early and can still enjoy a kick about.\nIt also is accessible to all.  Sports like basketball favour a certain type of person.  It would be incredibly difficult to play basketball well if your short.  Football is different in that anyone who is fit and puts in the effort has a chance.\n\nSo by all that I mean that football in accessible to all.  That makes it very appealing.
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Both sports move fast, but lacrosse uses a hard rubber ball and you throw and catch with a stick that has a small basket at the top. Similar to hockey, the goal is to score more goals than your opponent. \n\nLacrosse also uses 10 players (nine position players and a goalie) where hockey uses six (five position players and a goalie). \n\nA final score of a lacrosse game is usually much higher than a hockey score, typically running into double digits (e.g. 14-11).\n\nHope this helps!
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Simply because they do not understand the game. I mean they have basketball... Basebore  - What sort of athlete has a beer belly? All they do is swing a stick... boring as watching paint dry. \n\nA goal represents an achievement. The more achievements there are in a game (good passing excluded) the more they like to celebrate it. Lets face it, it is fun! They do not seem to understand that soccer is a game of finesse, not a sport like basebore where a person who connects with a ball less than 30% of the time is revered. \n\nDon't forget that people wanted hockey to be higher scoring, thus all the changes they made in the NHL this year... to encourage higher scores, and better statistics... I'll tell you what. I would prefer a 1-0 game over a 7-5 game in Hockey... Much more exciting.\n\nThe root of the issue, is that the sport and the intricacies are not known, therefor it is not as popular.
586217
There isn't a difference. We would usually just refer to it as football, and only use soccer when differentiating it from American Football when talking to dumb Canadians \n\nJust kidding ;)
355858
ahahah. theres no fouls in football btw, thats basketball. I'd say football. You have to learn plays, technique, and study game tapes of the opponent. Rugby is pretty much all-out running around and hitting people. As you can see, much smaller learning curve.
40495
What other sports do you have concussions, broken bones, teeth yanked out, and little pieces of rubber flying around everywhere at 94.6 miles per hour?  This is the sole reason why hockey should be more popular than it really is in America.
562012
football is a mans sport.... LOL\n\nyo! stfu u r a typical american talking crap as per usual!!\n\nYou wanna see a mans sport watch rugby or Aussie rules, similar to your "football" except that there is NO padding and NO helmets worn and the umpires dont stop the game the moment things get rough!!\n\nFootball (the real football) is a game of skill and stamina not about who can kill the other.\n\nSoccer is what americans call football because you call that other game football the one we (the rest of the WORLD) call American Football, which LouisLondon rightly pointed out has NO ball and no talented way of using your feet except to run.
668564
Because soccer is boring you accidentally touch someone its a foul we already have a sport like that also more entertaining than soccer called basketball.  Americans just know how to play sports to entertain the europeans are a bunch of a s s grabing queers
605438
Football... Its more active and its a long game and american football is has shorter games i'm from england, I build muscule by playing football european ppl r fit cause they play football. American ppl play american football but they r still fat!
189421
Having Englishmen and Scotsmen as blokes, I would have to say that in general they know a lot about football (soccer)... or at least a hell of a lot more than North Americans. I am Canadian and even I would rather refer to the game as football. It makes sense doesn't it?... I mean you kick the ball with your foot, yet in football (American) you throw the damb thing and rarely kick it.