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Old 04-29-2008, 08:01 PM   #1
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No other country could form a football team to beat an NFL team, so until then: :foc:

Besides, NFL champions are the Super Bowl Champions, not world champions technically.

Either way, I agree with Supreme, he is right. The coach may call the play, but each player has to execute the play meticulously in order to be successful. The whole game is reading and reacting to what the opposition is doing. If you think that NFL players are not able to think on the fly, you're just being a dumb ignorant cunt.
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Old 04-29-2008, 09:24 PM   #2
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No other country could form a football team to beat an NFL team, so until then: :foc:

Besides, NFL champions are the Super Bowl Champions, not world champions technically.

Either way, I agree with Supreme, he is right. The coach may call the play, but each player has to execute the play meticulously in order to be successful. The whole game is reading and reacting to what the opposition is doing. If you think that NFL players are not able to think on the fly, you're just being a dumb ignorant cunt.
Its always nice that you feel the need to resort to names.

That said, I have often heard the Superbowl Champions refered too as Champions of the world, much like Baseball and the world series.

And I will admit my ignorance of this but isnt there a lot of players in the NFL who could and do claim residential status in other countrys? I seem to remember a lot of islanders floating around in there. But I admit im not certain on that.

Also just to note NFL doesnt have a huge following anywhere else in the world too my knowledge, I know of the CFL and NFL Europe otherwise it only seems too be played in America.

But I am pretty damn sure somewhere else in the world could put a decent team together if the time and the money were dedicated too it. Just seems no one else cares enough too.
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Old 04-29-2008, 09:34 PM   #3
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Like most sports, the game has to be played your whole life to be able to compete at the professional level. Nobody could field a team of players with enough experience and knowledge of the game elsewhere in the world to beat an NFL team. It is an extremely complex game at the professional level.

I have played rugby. I think its a tough game in its own right, it is just different from football. They're both difficult sports respectively.
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Like most sports, the game has to be played your whole life to be able to compete at the professional level. Nobody could field a team of players with enough experience and knowledge of the game elsewhere in the world to beat an NFL team. It is an extremely complex game at the professional level.

I have played rugby. I think its a tough game in its own right, it is just different from football. They're both difficult sports respectively.
That's not true. Football is actually one of the few sports that doesn't require you to play it your whole life to play it at the professional level. Why do you think they let guys like Justin Gatlin and Brock Lesnar try out for teams? I'm willing to bet that a good chunk of the players in the league didn't start playing until high school, or at the very least middle school.
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Old 04-29-2008, 11:49 PM   #5
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That's not true. Football is actually one of the few sports that doesn't require you to play it your whole life to play it at the professional level. Why do you think they let guys like Justin Gatlin and Brock Lesnar try out for teams? I'm willing to bet that a good chunk of the players in the league didn't start playing until high school, or at the very least middle school.
They may have tried out, but were they successful. The majority of players play all throughout high school at least, through college and into the NFL. I bet the percentage of players who start playing in college, or later on in life is small.
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Old 04-30-2008, 07:04 AM   #6
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That's not true. Football is actually one of the few sports that doesn't require you to play it your whole life to play it at the professional level. Why do you think they let guys like Justin Gatlin and Brock Lesnar try out for teams? I'm willing to bet that a good chunk of the players in the league didn't start playing until high school, or at the very least middle school.
And they let Billy Crystal try out for the Yankees this season, so whats your fucking point?

Anyone can try out, its usually a way to get some press.

You cant just walk onto the field, that is why a kid could never walk from High school straight to the pros.

Basketaball, Hockey, Baseball and Soccer can all be owned by 19 year olds (and have been)

Football players struggle to make it after their whole lives and 4 years of college at the top level of play.
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And they let Billy Crystal try out for the Yankees this season, so whats your fucking point?

Anyone can try out, its usually a way to get some press.

You cant just walk onto the field, that is why a kid could never walk from High school straight to the pros.

Basketaball, Hockey, Baseball and Soccer can all be owned by 19 year olds (and have been)

Football players struggle to make it after their whole lives and 4 years of college at the top level of play.
The only reason 'football' hasn't been 'owned' by a 19 year old yet is simply because they aren't allowed to without special academic shit (Amobi Okoye) If there was a way of getting some special looking players into college at an earlier age than 18 I'm sure we'd have seen some 18/19 year old guys tearing it up by now
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