Quote Originally Posted by dml1954 View Post
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.