Friday, March 1, 2013

American Footbal v.s. Soccer



In the United States, American Football has become immensely popular, in both the collegiate and high school level. This has morphed into a society in which American soccer has become inferior to American football. People have even gone to many lengths to completely tear down the sport as a whole without attempting to explain that their sport is better. Websites such as http://www.soccersucks.net/real_sports.html look at the worst events in soccer history, alter the facts to come up with a beastly story of what they want to portray this sport as. In my opinion, people of the United States have become fascinated with the big hits and crushing tackles seen in the NFL or on the collegiate levels. A sport in which the drawing component is mindless brutality, in my opinion does not require skill, talent, or strategy. I would have no problem with American Football if people were drawn to the sport because of athletes amazing skill, coach’s intelligent strategy, and players ability to play consistently. The other thing that bothers me is the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is claimed to be a "World Title"... am I missing something? When did the United States become the center of the World? However, soccer has the world cup in which several countries compete for an actual world title, because they actually play different teams from around the world. Also, in the NFL the teams play one game per week, which means that there is lots of recovery time and time to adjust to fix things. Soccer on the other hand play anywhere from one to three games a week, which means athletes need to be able to physically perform more often than those of football players.

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