[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by dd74

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.

Hey, when I'm watching my TV, I'll watch what I like...and when you watch your TV, you watch what you like, fair enuf?