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The thousands of people who do play soccer out there on muddy local pitches .. While it's not the country's most popular sport, the Ashes, just because
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It's a question that I am sure has been pondered many times before. An ex-soccer player for Notre Dame had 3 interceptions on Saturday.. and check out what Michigan's kicker had to say after kicking the winning field goal in front of 111,000+ as time expired...
http://www.detnews.com/2002/sports/0209/02/sports-576574.htm
Brabbs, a junior walk-on, kicked a 44-yard field goal -- the first of his career -- as time expired.
"That's why you play football," Brabbs said. "I could be playing soccer."
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Dec 5, 2007 The eight games they'll play here over the next five years could've to watch collegiate athletes, envy because you wish you could’ve had
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He certainly has a point.. he wouldn't be nearly as popular today had he scored the winning goal in a Michigan soccer game. I wonder how many athletes would play soccer if football and soccer received similar media attention here in the US.
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In addition to following soccer, I am a pretty avid college football fan and moderately interested in NFL as well. However, I think gridiron football will ultimately destroy itself unless some basic changes take place.
One of the obvious charms of soccer is that "normal sized" people can play it - you don't need to be a 380 lb. behemoth or a 7 foot plus pituitary freak. Gridiron football players, very BIG gridiron football players, are no longer tubs of lard sitting in the line - they are very fast as well.
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I also play in the over 35’s in football. You raise an excellent point, .. Heck, I want a Trevor Grant, because the soccer journo’s so far just present
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He’s one of the best football players on this list. He played primarily defensive end and was a terror who just got after quarterbacks.
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Simple physics tells you that when you increase the speed of a collision, the force generated by the impact goes up. When the object traveling fast is 350 lbs., the force is obviously greater than if it were a 250 lb. object. BUT, human bones, ligaments etc. are no intrinsically stronger than they ever have been. Maybe you can protect joints a bit by improved musculature and protective gear, but as gridiron players get bigger and bigger, faster and faster, they will increase the risk of injury by geometric proportions. Eventually, absent some basic rule changes or weight limits, the game becomes too destructive for humans to play.
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Nov 7, 2007 Just because of a funny little thing, Su Su and I almost didn’t end up So I had to do a bit of groveling over the next trip or two and
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As pointed out by Price (1997a), this may be because white male athletes .. As well, the demands of such competitive play over a long period of time,
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As gridiron goes that direction, soccer becomes a more attractive option to gifted athletes.
Originally posted by prk166
How many guys forgoe football because they don't want to blow their knees out 20 times and have arthritis by age 33?
Plenty of soccer players blow their knees out (reference Josh Wolff, Clint Mathis, Chris Armas). Or were you using the British English word for soccer when you said football?
How many guys forgoe football because they don't want to blow their knees out 20 times and have arthritis by age 33?
As much as we don't like to admit it, football still offers superior poontang. And that's pretty much all high school boys are interested in.
Originally posted by nancyb
Plenty of soccer players blow their knees out (reference Josh Wolff, Clint Mathis, Chris Armas)...
True enough... but ex-NFL players typically have extreme problems that either end their careers early or haunt them throughout the rest of their lives.
I'll look for an article I saw on this subject just last week, if I can find it I'll post it.
Daniel Hernandez played both soccer and football at SMU. I'd suspect if this Michigan kicker was a good enough soccer player, he could do the same there.
Originally posted by Bajoro
True enough... but ex-NFL players typically have extreme problems that either end their careers early or haunt them throughout the rest of their lives.
I work at the college where the Steelers have their training camp, and when some of the retired players come by, it's pretty sad. You see guys in their forties, and sometimes even thirties, who walk like arthritic senior citizens. Guys who ten-fifteen years earlier could do a 4.3 forty now need a cane to get around. Lots of guys.
Originally posted by SpeakEasy8
He certainly has a point.. he wouldn't be nearly as popular today had he scored the winning goal in a Michigan soccer game.
Yeah, but he won't be nearly as popular if he keeps missing kicks during the game. He may have won this one, but at some point, he is going to cost Michigan a crutial win. We'll see what he says then about playing "Football".
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do today's athletes play football over soccer just because of the fanfare and media? 
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