Why do we love football so much?

It's art

deep touchdown passes. running backs breaking through the d-line and running 40 yards for a td. 60 yard field goals. 4th quarter comeback drives.

poetry in motion

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>>78116943
You spelled football wrong anon.

You mean soccer. Football is what real men play.

>>78116968
You've betrayed your people. Ad hominems won't change the truth.

Greatest game design out of all goal sports. The 4 down structure very much creates a game within a game and creates a dramatic build via the accumulation of these "mini-goals" to a primary score (touchdown or FG).

No other goal sport has this dynamic. They're built around simplistic throwing/passing the ball around the field/court until an open scoring chance is created. Very monotonous.

Football is also the only goal sport that makes turnovers really matter. Yeah, a big TO at the end of the 4th quarter "matters" in basketball, but for the most part, TOs don't change the game like they do in football. And in soccer, a TO is committed about every minute.

And aesthetically, there's nothing like a 60 yard spiral floating 30 feet in the air that seems to softly land in the hands of a sprinting receiver.

>>78116950
what are you on about tyrese, we're talking football

>>78116943
Emotional attachment to my club and NT. I don't really enjoy watching as a neutral. At least I feel there are better things to do

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>>78116968

t. Balding Numale

>>78117037
>we're talking football

Soccer is the correct name. Easily proven by examining the history of "football codes."

>>78116943
Because American football is the greatest sport in the world. It's too bad the rest of the world is too poor to afford football gears.

>>78117050
>Europe is too poor to afford football gears
Even we have people who can afford it.

>>78117043
The Football Association was formed in 1863. Handegg was first played in 1869

>>78116950
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>>78117056
How can you poorfags have money when you're cutting down all your trees?

>>78117068

>how can you have any money when you have an extensive logging/farming industry

Do you think they're just cutting them down for a giggle, daft lad?

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>>78117086
the more they cut down the less air we have to giggle with m8

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>>78117058

Rugby "football" is the mother code, first codified in 1845. This was a "handegg game."

Aussie Rules, first official match: 1858. Also a "handegg game."

Before that, the popular football folk games in England involved dragging a pig's bladder across a boundary by any means necessary, including use of the hands. In fact, the colonists brought those mob football games over the US in the 17th century.

See where I'm going with this? All other football codes involved carrying the ball. Soccer is the step-child, and was called such to differentiate itself from Rugby.

Never had anything to do with "hurr durr, football is called that because you kick the ball."

>>78116943
"We" Who else is there with you?

American travelling through Europe here. I will explain this ONE LAST TIME. Us Americans prefer football over soccer because it is in our genetics. We all have mixed genes, 100% european americans are extremely rare. Our mandingo blood is what makes us love seeing big black men grappling and touching each other. Truly the pinnacle of athleticism.

>>78117122
You've been trying all night, have a pity (You).

>>78117108
I'm not specialist but I think the very first football code was very very liberal, nearly no rules besides putting the ball in the goal zone
So according to this, Aussie rules would be the closest to the original football

>>78117068
>it costs the University of Nebraska approximately $1,000 on average to fully equip each football player for a game.
$1000 = 3099.00 Brazilian Real

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-18/pricey-ps4-the-most-expensive-countries-to-buy-a-playstation-4.html

>1. Brazil — 3,999 real ($1,702)

Of course my point is there are SOME people who could pay for it even here. Imagine in Europe. And if the government could help if they wanted it. Of course football would need to be popular in here.

>>78117138
Realistically it's that most people don't understand it, it's much more complicated than soccer. If you don't grow up with it, you have to really want to learn how all the penalties and scoring work.

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>>78117131

Many regions and schools in England had their own codes as kind of a source of regional and school pride, with no sides wanting to give into another for the sake of a uniform football code.

Out that mess, Rugby first established itself in the 1840s as the first "codified" football game. But anarchy still reigned and schools and regions still played their own brands. The FA got together in 1863 and tried once again to come up with a unifying game. From this, soccer was born. Over time, soccer and rugby obviously established themselves as the main football codes in England.

I would agree that Aussie rules most resembles those ancient games. A kind of chaotic free-for-all.

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Cringe

>>78116950
2 hours of advertising

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>>78116956
ha ha

Football is WW2 - fight all over the field - masterful skill and strategy required for victory.

Rugby codes is WW1 - two forces in a line run at each other until someone breaks through. Can get a bit boring seeing muscle repeatedly bash into each other - not very imaginative imho.

American gridiron - tabletop game.

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What the fuck are these guys on about?

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>>78116943
Friendly reminder that this was literally the moment when Neymar decided to leave Barcelona

>>78120623
Friendly reminder that I posted this fact here first and everybody went in denial

>>78116950
I only like kickoff returns

>>78120537
Gridiron is the Civil war

Cause Football is the only relevant sport world wide.

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This thread is smelling like shart, who could it be?

>not liking both

anyway, i was on that "saddest NFL pics" thread and it got me thinking about how soul crushingly depressive it is to lose
it's not even worth it

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>>78117172
You're clearly overthinking it. Handegg is just a glorified "set pieces: the game"

>>78116943
because of games like these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Oo9mIyG10

>>78121312
holy kek i hadn't thought of this comparison before

stoke city should get pulis back in and do pre-season tours in the US every summer

reffball
bad guy wins
dives
That's all i can think of looking at op pic

>>78116943
>mierdalona still got raped the very next game vs Juventus

that pic will always be funny because of how much they celebrated a refball victory, yet that ammounted to nothing in the end