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The players are constantly running, the game is stopped only for a few seconds, and kicking skills are important. That's Football... The NFL version isn't.
The players are constantly running, the game is stopped only for a few seconds, and kicking skills are important. That's Football... The NFL version isn't.
You don't understand the etymology of the word football. It isn't called football because it's played by using the foot to kick a ball. It is called football because proto-football, played in merry ol' England, was played on foot, not on horses.
So football is any of the sports that have descended from proto-football (which, by the way, was NOT association football/soccer). Therefore association football, gridiron football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby football, and rugby league football are all football for the same reasons: they are all games, descended from a common football ancestor, in which a ball is moved forward, with players playing on foot, not on a horse.
To say otherwise is to be willfully obtuse. Now you know. Please stop harping on how gridiron football isn't football, because by any correct definition of the term, it is. (But go ahead hating it anyway, because that is your right - just don't use ignorance as an argument).
I feel that I have hijacked this thread enough - so please everyone, post videos of their favorite football highlights!
Seems interesting....I'm planning to go to Sydney this year, I might try to catch a game.....when is the regular season?
Be sure to catch some rugby league, too. It, not Australian rules, is the chief code in Sydney. Both are great, though.
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