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[ila]

Originally Posted by D1ckL0v3r

American football is called "American" for a reason - only in USA rugby is know by that name, in the rest of the world soccer is known as football. My personal opinion ......

This is not quite true. In Canada we also play football. The main difference between Canadian and American football is that in Canada there is one more player on each team, the ball is bigger around, and the field is longer and wider.

Rugby and soccer are also popular sports in Canada.

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The simple solution to this nomenclature problem is to wipe "American football" -- from the NFL down to the Pop Warner kid level -- off the face of the earth. It is the worst major sport humans have invented, it takes up too much money in cash-strapped U.S. colleges and universities, and the oversize stadiums that dot certain parts of the United States (e.g., for high schools in Texas!) are architectural abominations.

[ts_addict]

This may be a hugely ignorant statement, but I've always found american football to be a game of who has the biggest and fastest team. *yawn*

Same could be said for Rugby I suppose, but I'm not a fan of watching it, playing is a good laugh though. (Union not League)

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Originally Posted by ts_addict

This may be a hugely ignorant statement, but I've always found american football to be a game of who has the biggest and fastest team. *yawn*

Same could be said for Rugby I suppose, but I'm not a fan of watching it, playing is a good laugh though. (Union not League)

You left out a game of whichever team has the most players with overactive pituitary glands!

[D1ckL0v3r]

Originally Posted by ila

This is not quite true. In Canada we also play football. The main difference between Canadian and American football is that in Canada there is one more player on each team, the ball is bigger around, and the field is longer and wider.

Rugby and soccer are also popular sports in Canada.

Well only in USA and Canada they call rugby - football or there are some more countries out there where rugby is football, what about Australia ?

[ila]

Originally Posted by D1ckL0v3r

Well only in USA and Canada they call rugby - football or there are some more countries out there where rugby is football, what about Australia ?

Reread my post that you quoted. I said in Canada we play football and rugby. Football is a different game than rugby although they are similar and football is an offshoot of rugby. But to say that we refer to rugby as football, in Canada, is wrong.

[D1ckL0v3r]

Originally Posted by ila

Reread my post that you quoted. I said in Canada we play football and rugby. Football is a different game than rugby although they are similar and football is an offshoot of rugby. But to say that we refer to rugby as football, in Canada, is wrong.

Yeah, I see what you mean now but I am living in Europe and neither rugby nor Canadian football are well know here and I am not very interested in them ,too, so I am sorry for the mistake.

[ila]

Originally Posted by D1ckL0v3r

Yeah, I see what you mean now but I am living in Europe and neither rugby nor Canadian football are well know here and I am not very interested in them ,too, so I am sorry for the mistake.

It's no problem. I've lived in Europe and you are right that football, as played here, is not well known.