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Lol, I remember a football player picking on me because I played soccer. He called it a "p***y Sport". I laughed in his face and gave him these facts:

1: The only "armor" soccer players wear are shin guards and (if you're lucky) a cup. Thus, due to the nature of Soccer being a contact sport, Soccer players get hit more often and suffer more because of it.

2: Soccer games and football games both last about an hour, but where Football games are divided into four 15 minute quarters with five minute breaks in between, as well as a 15 minute half time, Soccer games are divided into two 30 minute halves and we only get a 10 minute break in between. Thus Soccer players play harder and longer than football players.

3: Soccer players don't have to make themselves feel better by belittling those who play sports more popular than theirs.

Unfortunately, the amount of logic and large words overloaded the poor boy's brain and he had to stumble away dazed and confused.

Yep, that sounds about right. Not only that, but professional football is 90 minutes with the same ten minute break in between, whereas American football, even at professional level, stays with that hour broken up massively.

Beep boop!

THANK YOU!!!! I'm glad that i'm not the only person who hates [American] football.

You may be amused then to find out baseball was actually invented in England as a game, mostly played by young people at school now, called rounders. It's basically baseball on a smaller scale.

As with everything America takes on as its own, often claiming they invented it, such as the internet, the successful design of the space shuttle and a lot of the sports in circulation over there, they took the idea, made it bigger and claimed it as their own.

For reference, the internet was originally a British network used to wirelessly send secret documents during one of the wars in the 20th century without any risk of being breached or spied upon. I cannot remember exactly which war, but my mind says WW2, even though I think that was a bit too early.

However, what America did do was make the internet a commercial force and refined the idea into what we have today, which raises the argument, sometimes bigger is better.

Hence why America has an obesity problem. XP

Heh, I like bigger meals as well :3

I don't hate football, I just think the concept is stupid. Just like baseball.

And now we go to one of the most bizarre holidays ever: Thanksgiving. almost as strange as july 4th.
"I need to eat 3 hamburgers, 4 hotdogs, and a steak so I can blow s**t up to celebrate the founding fathers"