Why don't American footballers play a real game?
472533
i agree with you "dogbreath".\nAll those who follow NFL think the players are awesome , but in reality , they are pussys.\nIf they didn't have all that padding they would cry when tackled.\nRugby is a very tough sport and Rugby players would walk all over the "Yankee Footballers" easily.\n\n" GO KIWI'S"  The All Blacks ROCK!!!!
1019857
No, even if they did, they would be butchering every player's name and be clueless on everything that is going on. Americans shouldn't be announcers for any football match. But, if you have XM satellite radio, I think you'll be good.
1069527
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!
1104148
Haha...good question.  They're just amazed that Americans don't go crazy over soccer so they try to make fun of American football...however, American football is simply a much, much more exciting game.  I'm not a soccer hater, it's alright, but not nearly as exciting as football.
369273
Because it's football really, not soccer like some keep on calling it.  I don't know why the other sport is called football in the first place.  Well anyways since its real name is "football," like the name suggests you play with your feet not your hands.
1108357
American Football Players. They wear pads because 300 pound guys are coming at them full speed and they are aloud to have contact.  There are no yellow cards.  Just look at them most Football (soccer) players are petite that is why the best players tend to come from countries with little people.  Very rarely do you see a person 5'8 on the football field.  Women do not play american football in grade school.
1098200
It started out as a great way to score points...with ones foot.\n\nAmerican football was created by an Army General that thought rugby just didn't have enough excitement, regimentation or strategy ... so he adapted rugby...kept some of the features, like drop kicking for a score.\n\nIt's evolution has simply made it too dangerous and too difficult to attempt scoring in that manner...with the feet on the ball...\n\nWhile you're watching FIFA (Fédération Internationale de Football Association) - what - three languages in one title...\n\nlook at all the 21 year olds that play...now watch pro American football....a 21 year old would be slaughtered ... it takes years to make a man smart enough and tough enough for this sport.\n\nvisit me at a dot com called american-football-frankfurt
998975
The main reason why Football is not as popular in the US is because of money.\nThere is no $$$ in football. All the games aired on TV, get a ton of sponsors/marketing/advertising because there are many intervals during the game, like basketball, american football and baseball. But in football there is only one interval of 15 minutes during more than 90 minutes of game time.\nAlso, America already has 3 Major sports, i.e, American Football, Baseball and Basketball. \n\nThe game will only catch on once more money comes into the sport, so more colleges can offer scholarships and the soccer leagues can offer more pay, and this is all possible only if there is more sponsorship/marketing.
328622
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.
817534
I am from England and i love to watch nfl. I play all the Madden Games and my favourite team is the Chicago Bears. I think there are a lot more Europeans that like NFL than there are U.S people who like soccer. But that is understandable with so many huge national sports anyway, unlike in England where football (soccer) is king and only a few other sports, like rugby, circket and tennis are followed. America has a lot of tradtional sports; baseball, basketball, amercian football, ice hockey, whereas soccer is a new sport in the states.
342546
the main reason is, get ready..........\n\nthey need instant gratification.  not enough scoring, the most commonly used excuse.  look at all the other sports.  i am american and love the sport.  i played it all my life.  one day, americans will get it.  it's the best sport in the world.  you need to be athletic, passionate, hard-working, and most of all, smart.
761526
It aggatates me that americans call NFL Football because most of the game is based pn using upper part opf there body such as thier arms, they accasionally use there feet when they do a drop kick or whatever its called.\n\nWhereas in what they call Soccer truly should be callled Football beacuse the game is evolved around kicking a "FOOTBALL" and they use there foot to pass, shoot and cross the ball.\n\nWas this America's way of making a better sport then england?\n\nWhich England invented (football) - Soccer.\n\nwas they trying to make a alternate version with using no feet and keep the name??
952095
yes american football , not none of that SPlC soccer (fut bol)!
434452
I think most Americans have a very short attention span, and soccer is simply too low scoring for them.  They like the high scores of American football, or even the seemingly random Hungry Hungry Hippos action of professional basketball.\n\nMaybe if you took the goalies away Americans would watch more soccer.
335498
I play soccer myself, and to Americans, football is more important (American football). Therefore, they are unwilling to change their name. This forced true football (Soccer) to be called soccer, in order to differentiate between the two. It's been a tradition and I doubt it will change anytime soon.
388791
The thing about the good ole U.S. of A. is that they have a sh*t load of money.  Because of this, they have the means of financing world class facilities and programs to train youths in the beautiful game.\n\nFortunately for the rest of the world, interest in football still isn't what it could be, considering the amount of investment it recieves.  Granted, the money that goes into football is a fraction of what goes into, say, American football, but had other football mad (put very poor) nations had the money the U.S. has, you would see them in the World Cup more often.\n\nAnother thing is that the development of youth football is very different in the U.S. than it is everywhere else.  Youth sport is organized either in the school system or youth sport organizations (such as AYSO or US Youth Soccer)  .  In the US, school sports (especially in high school and college) is used to develop players, and as such has the greatest prestige (take a look at the basketball players who enter the NBA straight from high school).  Youth sport programs, on the other hand, has less prestige when it comes to development and generally tends to focus on pre-high school participants.  As high school football has little following and interest, investment in it pales in comparison especially to sports such as American football (visit a small town in Texas one autumn Friday night and you will see)\n\nSo you see, the U.S. football youth program, as great as it may be, only reaches a small pool of players, usually those from more affluent areas, since it takes a bit of money to be able to fully be involved in it.  Until more players are able to attend such a program, the amount of world class players that pop out of it will be small in number.\n\nThis is parallel to the MLS, who remains a second-class league.  If you don't agree, just look at their poor international record in a weak CONCACAF.\n\nBecause of all this, I don't think the USA will win the World Cup in at least 20 years or so...
1076406
its not bcos they are black or white.. its bcos they live in USA and everyone knows americans suck at real football \n\nthats why the have these little games like american football ( which is not even football) , baseball ( YAWN) etc.. in their own country and have have make believe competitions where they can crown themselves world chamions without having to play agianst any team from the world... what a bunch of losers..\n\nlook at how they were sent home .. they are still whining about it ... check ESPN and listen to the commentators for 7 mins.. u will know what i mean ..