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Iamthetruth

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43. I get so tired of these type of comparisons

Mon Sep 15, 2014, 12:39 PM

Sep 2014

I played college football and will tell you that while you celebrate not using helmets or pads I would like to see one of your "football" players take a hit from a 250 pound linebacker who runs a 4.4 40 yard dash with his helmet down right in his chest. You see the pads are not for the protection of the tackling player a lot of time, they are used to knock the snot put of the guy with the ball. Also, I don't see too many austrailian rule football players crossing the middle of a field at full speed trying to catch a ball and knowing a hit is coming from a guy traveling at the opposite direction at full speed.

Australian rules football is a bunch of grown men running around in shorts that are too short.

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High school football standout Jayru Campbell arrested a second time [View all] FrodosPet Sep 2014 OP

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

Sounds like NFL material to me KinMd Sep 2014 #2

Does he have a mental illness? Ivywoods55 Sep 2014 #3

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

DUzy shenmue Sep 2014 #39

I despise US football. longship Sep 2014 #4

Dude, no one cares ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2014 #6

Yup! I prefer games without overt violence. longship Sep 2014 #7

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

I prefer rational discussions. longship Sep 2014 #10

The girls in my daughters soccer league were viscous and brutal. Dont call me Shirley Sep 2014 #11

Wait, you're a soccer fan? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2014 #16

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

They are 300 lb men who move like 180 lb men Drahthaardogs Sep 2014 #30

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

Here is an article at the time about exboyfil Sep 2014 #31

Here's what's more likely to happen.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2014 #35

Assuming he is guilty exboyfil Sep 2014 #37

Racist much? XemaSab Sep 2014 #49

How so? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2014 #50

They're are, no doubt, many bad guys in football. But they're are WhoWoodaKnew Sep 2014 #42

Notre Dame gave him a scholarship offer. WhoWoodaKnew Sep 2014 #45

Not just Notre Dame FrodosPet Sep 2014 #47

He has to get through college first KamaAina Sep 2014 #46