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Originally Posted by LubeMaster77
Sounds like Kalifornia talk to me! Dem words would go over like a check book at a yard sale in these parts. Soccer players are in some great aerobic shape yet me thinks you haven't played ball. Even scrimagging with my Sons team took something out of me. It is truely a battle - each down. It doesn't last long but it doesn't stop. World class soccer players wouldn't last 4 downs in a div 1 college football game - they would cry after the first hit or block in a pro game.
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Hit or block? Yawn!
You take a pro linebacker and pair him up against a top-level midfielder, and I guarantee you after one scrimmage, the linebacker will be coughing up lunch, breakfast and internals if he doesn't have a stroke first.
It's a different sport. You best understand that.
F-ball doesn't and never will compare to real
football. It is only the same in name and nothing more, which is a disservice in its own right to true football.
But even with that, it's ridiculous to think a game about 4 downs with a 30 second break between each, timeouts, 2-minute warnings and commercial breaks to sell fried chicken, burgers, beer and antifreeze is somehow more physical than a 90+minute competition where for each half of 90 minutes (45), there is no true rules-oriented stoppage.
Soccer is a sport of endurance. Football, hardly. It's day camp with designer drugs, pads and helmets. I don't care what anyone says. Hell, tennis is more grueling than American football when true physical agility and endurance are called into play.
"Hittin'" means nothing, IMO. I can hit a door with my hand. So what! But I can't dribble like Messi or fire off a goal like Cacau. That's real skill.