I find NFL games to be much the same as proper football games in that most of them are not that entertaining. But then every now and then you watch an absolute blinder that reminds you why you put up with the dullness the rest of the time. They're still both more exciting than Kick n Clap though.

My mate was building it up all yesterday, and he was like it's starting it's starting...!!!

After 5 seconds of starting, the game had stopped, I turned it over then, I hate how the game has no flow to it, there's so much build up and excitement, yet the game doesn't do it for me.

In answer to the thread title,yes.It's people making threads on this messageboard every year the superbowl has been played saying how boring American Football is.

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I enjoy watching a game of AF, its sort of like the Americans version of cricket...where you go for the p1ss up as much as anything else.

I'd say that's more Baseball.

Glorified Rounders.

Surprisingly, they're World Champions at that as well.

Well I was going to put it in the same thing in the main thread but decided that might be childish and annoying so I opened a thread for the detractors.

I just can't understand the hype hype hype. It has the basis for a half decent game and then they stop and start it every two seconds to show an advert.

And they have the gall to call the winners the world champions of football.

South Korea won Olympic baseball

and Japan won the World Baseball Classic

Yeah, but what about the World Series?



Forget it. I'm not interested.

Blue Jays compete don't they?

[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7864733.stmLooks like it might have got interesting after all[/url

Only baseball can compete with this sport in the sheer boredom stakes.

I think the last few minutes of a close basketball game can get pretty exciting though, well more exciting than NFL anyway.

i just dont know the rules its a whole lot of rubbish to me.

i suppose fishing may be a little more boring.

"Is there anything more boring than American Football?"

Yeah, the town of Widnes.

Which is why they might as well just play a 5 minute match and scrap the rest of it. At least netball has something going for it....

I was rather hoping you'd say Italian football, for old times' sake



I've tried with American Football, really I have, but I can't cope with the constant stoppages, the adverts and the jargon. Whenever a commentator starts going through a play I just seem to lose track of what he's saying, like he's speaking Arabic or something.

But its still not as bad as Bowls or Equestrian.

What gets me is when some people complain about the stoppages, yet they'll happily sit for 5 days and watch pretty much every ball of a cricket match.

I agree about the World Champions thing but then again it's only a bit more of a joke than when we call the winners of the World Club Challenge - "World Champions", when essentially a team from one of two countries is going to win it.

It's a difficult sport to learn the ins and outs of, but once you know it's intricacies and nuances it's a great watch.

How many countries are eligable for the superbowl?

The 32 teams that are in the league - at the moment they're American but that will be possibly extended to Canada, Mexico and the UK. Like I said, I agree it's a bit stupid, but surely it's a minor hangup. I mean, some people would probably take issue with the whole 'Greatest Game' label that's so often bandied around to describe rugby league.

Goal Attack.

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_American_football_and_rugby_leagueComparing American Football to Rugby League!?[/url

Baseball is fantastic. Anyone who thinks otherwise can ballacks.





Seriously though, you do need to understand a bit about the sport before you can really appreciate it. There's a lot of srategy to it. Plus when a baseball game gets tense, it's agonising because an at bat can last for quite some time. It's like the last minute of injury time when you're screaming for the ref to blow the whistle only for the 4th official to add another minute and another minute and another minute..... you get the picture. Many a time I've had to leave the room because I can't take it anymore.