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Pragma · 08-04-2003, 06:09 PM

Now, I apologize if I'm misinterpreting your words, but you seem to coming across as fairly hostile, so I'm being defensive here:

I have admitted I'm not too familiar with American football, and I wasn't the first in this thread to offer basketball as another sport to compare football against. In that case, why bring up American Football? Why not compare Rugby (or Aussie rules Football) with American Football, and leave soccer alone?

The point that I was trying to make is that there were a few ways to make points in American football (field goal or touchdown), and that because of that discrepancy, it was possible for one team to quickly outdistance the other, while both are "scoring" at the same intervals. I do understand the need to differentiate between the two in terms of points, but that's yet another reason why I don't think American football should be compared to football, if you're not allowing basketball <-> football.

08-04-2003, 06:09 PM	#72 (permalink)
Pragma I am Winter Born Location: Alexandria, VA	Now, I apologize if I'm misinterpreting your words, but you seem to coming across as fairly hostile, so I'm being defensive here: I have admitted I'm not too familiar with American football, and I wasn't the first in this thread to offer basketball as another sport to compare football against. In that case, why bring up American Football? Why not compare Rugby (or Aussie rules Football) with American Football, and leave soccer alone? The point that I was trying to make is that there were a few ways to make points in American football (field goal or touchdown), and that because of that discrepancy, it was possible for one team to quickly outdistance the other, while both are "scoring" at the same intervals. I do understand the need to differentiate between the two in terms of points, but that's yet another reason why I don't think American football should be compared to football, if you're not allowing basketball <-> football. __________________ Eat antimatter, Posleen-boy!