I cant decide if Im sorry or not, but I find NFL football quite boring.
A while ago I attempted to watch some of the San Diego vs. Carolina preseason football game.
Quite frankly, I found it dull.
I suppose its to be expected, after a summer full of Tri-Nations and Guinness Cup, and a hand full of other Rugby tourneys shown throughout the summer. I was also introduced to Australian Rules Football. While not as quite as rough as rugby or American football (yes, Im adding the American prefix on it now. With soccer, Aussie football, American football, and Gaelic football, and rugby football how else am we going to differentiate between them all??) its still a blast to watch for various reasons.
One of them being that play doesnt stop all that much because someone gets tackled. From the few AFL (aussie rules) games I watched (theyre aired on Setanta live, which is about three in the morning here), full blown tackles arent near as common as rugby and NFL (American rules), but when they do, either the ball gets back out, or the ref blows the whistle and play is 'reset' for 3 seconds only to resume immediately.
Erm, Im going to point out now that Ive seen maybe three games of AFL, and most of my observances are just that...and that for the most part I have VERY little idea of what Im talking about rule wise other than if a player catches the ball in their dome-area the get a sort of free shot at goal. Mkay?
Rugby is the same way. Tackle? Get in the ruck, get the ball out and keep going. Play never stops. The closest thing rugby has to the NFL line of scrimmage is the scrum, but this only occurs if theres a rule infringement, such as an offside player or a forward pass or something. Theres also the line-out when the ball goes out of bounds.
Otherwise?
Nope.
Not like the NFL where the players take 2 or 3 minutes to regroup, figure out what the heck theyre going to do next, line up and do it again every three feet every time someone hits the ground.
Also, as hard as ruggers tend to tackle each other, they dont feel the need to wear enough armor to rival a medieval knight.
Stumble It!
Quite frankly, I found it dull.
I suppose its to be expected, after a summer full of Tri-Nations and Guinness Cup, and a hand full of other Rugby tourneys shown throughout the summer. I was also introduced to Australian Rules Football. While not as quite as rough as rugby or American football (yes, Im adding the American prefix on it now. With soccer, Aussie football, American football, and Gaelic football, and rugby football how else am we going to differentiate between them all??) its still a blast to watch for various reasons.
One of them being that play doesnt stop all that much because someone gets tackled. From the few AFL (aussie rules) games I watched (theyre aired on Setanta live, which is about three in the morning here), full blown tackles arent near as common as rugby and NFL (American rules), but when they do, either the ball gets back out, or the ref blows the whistle and play is 'reset' for 3 seconds only to resume immediately.
Erm, Im going to point out now that Ive seen maybe three games of AFL, and most of my observances are just that...and that for the most part I have VERY little idea of what Im talking about rule wise other than if a player catches the ball in their dome-area the get a sort of free shot at goal. Mkay?
Rugby is the same way. Tackle? Get in the ruck, get the ball out and keep going. Play never stops. The closest thing rugby has to the NFL line of scrimmage is the scrum, but this only occurs if theres a rule infringement, such as an offside player or a forward pass or something. Theres also the line-out when the ball goes out of bounds.
Otherwise?
Nope.
Not like the NFL where the players take 2 or 3 minutes to regroup, figure out what the heck theyre going to do next, line up and do it again every three feet every time someone hits the ground.
Also, as hard as ruggers tend to tackle each other, they dont feel the need to wear enough armor to rival a medieval knight.
Stumble It!
posted by Sandra at 7:55 PM
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