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18. Metric? Most US folks have a stunning ignorance about metric, and Aussie rules football.

Fri Sep 12, 2014, 11:26 PM

Sep 2014

And what is known only in the USA as soccer.

I have no problem with touch football, or, the best version of such, flag football, where one pulls a handkerchief out of the opponent's pocket to tackle them. Instead, the NFL insists on bodily damage. Why in the fuck do they need so much padding?

And I agree. Different strokes. But I prefer non violent strokes. US football just is not there. And the football culture is violent, too, which is illustrated by both the game itself and (apparently) the players' activities off the field.

The sport disgusts me.

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poor tyke just needs someone to understand him. Hoppy Sep 2014 #1

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Yeah, he's an idiot. RandySF Sep 2014 #5

DUzy shenmue Sep 2014 #39

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Dude, no one cares ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2014 #6

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Well, at least you didn't use the "thugs" dogwhistle n/m ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2014 #8

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No violence in AFL? Are you kidding? FrodosPet Sep 2014 #17

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You don't know what you are talking about. cpwm17 Sep 2014 #36

Yep, not violent at all . . . toopers Sep 2014 #38

No never any violence there. former9thward Sep 2014 #9

And yup. Penalized for doing that. But that was on the field. longship Sep 2014 #13

You are living in a fantasy world. former9thward Sep 2014 #14

Classic straw man argument. longship Sep 2014 #21

From your posts in this thread, it is clear that you do not separate sport from sportsmanship; xocet Sep 2014 #33

Overt violence in the AFL FrodosPet Sep 2014 #19

Wow, I had never seen even a minute of Australian football before. rug Sep 2014 #12

I still like football FrodosPet Sep 2014 #15

Metric? Most US folks have a stunning ignorance about metric, and Aussie rules football. longship Sep 2014 #18

I've posted some videos upthread FrodosPet Sep 2014 #20

You do realize soccer is a British term? ybbor Sep 2014 #23

Many thanks for the relentless sharing of your superiority complex on this thread. Paladin Sep 2014 #32

Only in the USA MFrohike Sep 2014 #48

US football is violent, but so is any other contact sport - b-ball, hockey, footy, rugby, soccer, xocet Sep 2014 #22

Big fan of AFL... SkyDaddy7 Sep 2014 #25

No doubt! n/t xocet Sep 2014 #34

Whoopity do award for you! Oktober Sep 2014 #40

I would imagine most everyone here has heard of soccer before snooper2 Sep 2014 #41

I get so tired of these type of comparisons Iamthetruth Sep 2014 #43

I get so tired of these type of comparisons Iamthetruth Sep 2014 #44

We should start talking about steroids BrotherIvan Sep 2014 #24

Or he could end up like Tony Farmer exboyfil Sep 2014 #26

The kid's NFL contract is debateable. The 'farm teams' are colleges, and this guy reeks. Shrike47 Sep 2014 #27

Big question should he have been let back into school exboyfil Sep 2014 #28

Hard to see but this is actually his third violent incident exboyfil Sep 2014 #29

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Assuming he is guilty exboyfil Sep 2014 #37

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