Superbowl

[G rangetown Blue]

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I met a guy early last year, who worked on the Buccs owners yacht.
He told me Brady was going to sign for TB, so I bet them to win the Super Bowl at 25/1 .
I think I’ll lay part of it off tho...Mahome is a real talent, and could win the game on his own !

[dml1954]

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I loved american football many years ago. My team were the Dolphins, always wanted them to beat the Packers and the 49ers in particular. But they're not the team they used to be.
They used to say that the noise was so intense in the Orange bowl when the dolphins were in defense that the opposition QB couldn't make himself heard by his own players 6 feet away .
I remember them playing Chicago in Chicago in a blizzard. The game still went ahead. Any ball sport in this country would have been called off before they even started. It's a great game if you understand it. And if the rules in soccer put the ball in play as much as it is n ithat game all these players would be creamed after a match.

A one hour American football game takes about two and a half hours to complete. They are standing around half the time with thirty five second breaks between each play, breaks between each quarter, a fifteen to thirty minute half time, three time outs each team each half, advert breaks every few minutes, injury time outs, review and challenge time outs etc etc. Their players wouldn't last five minutes in a soccer game. Most of them are bulked up and overweight.

[Croesy Blue]

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A one hour American football game takes about two and a half hours to complete. They are standing around half the time with thirty five second breaks between each play, breaks between each quarter, a fifteen to thirty minute half time, three time outs each team each half, advert breaks every few minutes, injury time outs, review and challenge time outs etc etc. Their players wouldn't last five minutes in a soccer game. Most of them are bulked up and overweight.

I'm not sure them being less fit than "soccer players" is correct but even if they are so what?

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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I'm not sure them being less fit than "soccer players" is correct but even if they are so what?

I am not a fan of American football and find all the breaks pathetic

But they are huge , athletic blokes with power , strength , speed and agility

[blue lewj]

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A one hour American football game takes about two and a half hours to complete. They are standing around half the time with thirty five second breaks between each play, breaks between each quarter, a fifteen to thirty minute half time, three time outs each team each half, advert breaks every few minutes, injury time outs, review and challenge time outs etc etc. Their players wouldn't last five minutes in a soccer game. Most of them are bulked up and overweight.

They have the specific fitness to play their game/position as football players have to play theirs.

Like saying your footballer wouldn't have the skills to win a high diving contest (Neymar aside). Two different worlds and bodies engineered for those different worlds.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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I am not a fan of American football and find all the breaks pathetic

But they are huge , athletic blokes with power , strength , speed and agility

Are you swooning, Sludge?

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

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They have the specific fitness to play their game/position as football players have to play theirs.

Like saying your footballer wouldn't have the skills to win a high diving contest (Neymar aside). Two different worlds and bodies engineered for those different worlds.

Rugby Union, league and aussie football is a collision contact sport , as is American football , they have to be very powerful

Centre backs are more muscular and taller than box to box midfielders in football

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Rugby Union, league and aussie football is a collision contact sport , as is American football , they have to be very powerful

Centre backs are more muscular and taller than box to box midfielders in football

A little ditty for you, Sludge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbI7...A4%85%E5%AD%90

[blue lewj]

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Rugby Union, league and aussie football is a collision contact sport , as is American football , they have to be very powerful

Centre backs are more muscular and taller than box to box midfielders in football

Yeah.

It is very much horses for courses.

You could literally rubbish most sportsmen by comparing them to a completely different sport. I've heard Keiffer Moore is crap at darts.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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Yeah.

It is very much horses for courses.

You could literally rubbish most sportsmen by comparing them to a completely different sport. I've heard Keiffer Moore is crap at darts.

Geoff Capes would have been a useless jockey over the sticks.

[blue lewj]

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Geoff Capes would have been a useless jockey over the sticks.

He would have.

Lester Piggott would have been absolutely terrible at the luge.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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He would have.

Lester Piggott would have been absolutely terrible at the luge.

Not huge on the luge then.

[NYCBlue]

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A one hour American football game takes about two and a half hours to complete. They are standing around half the time with thirty five second breaks between each play, breaks between each quarter, a fifteen to thirty minute half time, three time outs each team each half, advert breaks every few minutes, injury time outs, review and challenge time outs etc etc. Their players wouldn't last five minutes in a soccer game. Most of them are bulked up and overweight.

They get paid millions because anyone could do it? Some offensive linemen are over 300lbs but can run 40 yards in under 5 seconds. I bet there's not one player in the PL that could run across the middle, catch a pass and hold on to the ball as they get hit by a 250lb linebacker at full speed.

[blue lewj]

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They get paid millions because anyone could do it? Some offensive linemen are over 300lbs but can run 40 yards in under 5 seconds. I bet there's not one player in the PL that could run across the middle, catch a pass and hold on to the ball as they get hit by a 250lb linebacker at full speed.

Mehmet off again.

He's probably got the same attitude to running a football club.

'How hard can it be?'

[StraightOuttaCanton]

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A one hour American football game takes about two and a half hours to complete. They are standing around half the time with thirty five second breaks between each play, breaks between each quarter, a fifteen to thirty minute half time, three time outs each team each half, advert breaks every few minutes, injury time outs, review and challenge time outs etc etc. Their players wouldn't last five minutes in a soccer game. Most of them are bulked up and overweight.

Looks like many others have had their say, but this is an obviously ignorant perspective.