Thank so much for the overwhelming support on the video. As a thank you, here are 10 more leagues, draft is this SATURDAY! I'll also be posting more leagues throughout next week so keep checking in for a rewatch ;). football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1373078/invitation?key=91b096ac95977219&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=7fce0635b1494714 football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1373084/invitation?key=61f08e2f486d1649&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=04fb7ca4f14a60be football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1373085/invitation?key=4a6e8d46a5ea6cac&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=88d3bf28190ecbb5 football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1373091/invitation?key=fc4ea478969b39ba&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=be5b7d0f91943e80 football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1373097/invitation?key=7b2e3f54d873e840&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=d9879991432f61b7 football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1373107/invitation?key=b0a8bbb869d54908&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=baabf858666a6a74 football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1373109/invitation?key=2ebaa619d846049b&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=4d23e3e6476ce86a football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1373130/invitation?key=29ec5f0f149c12ca&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=6b1e9431fadf04d8 football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1373136/invitation?key=a29b9d4eb5302a11&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=b928f3d07564f058 football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1373137/invitation?key=65002c6464526292&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=dbdfe94ae052daa1
Let's say your team has 7 more attempts at the 10 yard line, but after throwing the ball, the opposite team catches the ball? Does that mean that the sides get switched and it is the other team's turn to attack? I am currently watching a game and I am curious.
@John Doe can you please clarify what you mean by on foot. Just in case I'm not missing something and you're actually making a decent point. Because otherwise you're speaking absolute nonsense. As far as I know or at least what I have heard. It's called football in America because the ball is a foot long.
@John Doe the reason is simple. All those sports technically all originated from actually football. 🤣🤣 For example Rugby and Australian football definitely originated from football. Canadian football developed from Rugby football. And my guéss is American football did too. This all comes brings us down to the overlord of all the games titled "football" being the prestigious, addictive, mouth watering. The absolute epitome of beauty. Real FOOTBALL 🇬🇧🇬🇧 God Save the QUEEN 😍😍
That's so true !!! That perpetual atrocious franchise cost me $4k in week 1 because those sorry bunch of assholes couldn't even put up a decent fight against Eagles. I had everything perfectly lined up on a 9-team parlay. Three soccer matches, three college football and falcon -3, Seahawks -5 and Niners -7. Only the Falcons failed to cover and I wanted to strangle Matt Ryan so much, I would be in jail today if that opportunity was ever given to me.
You know what? I usually try to teach my friends about the sport, and you’re kinda right. Once they get over the downs & 10 yards thing it makes a lot of it more simple
@@Jordan-Ramses if someone who’s at least educated to a high school level and/or has internet access doesn’t know what a yard is, they shouldn’t be following football, but focus on learning a thing or two.
I started watching this season, I'm French so I choose New Orleans to follow, I'm starting to understand, even installed Madden, but, will I suffer watching them because I'm also an Arsenal fan so Im already pretty close to a mental breakdown lmao
The Saints? Maybe, their best player in franchise history just retired last year but they still look pretty good so far. New Orleans is a great city. They certainly aren't going to be like Arsenal this year.
The saints are a great team to follow. Great city and game atmosphere. They’ve been a pretty consistent playoff team for a while now. Some uncertainty starting this year though since drew Brees retired.
J’etudie français pour 1 mois avec mon amie. Elle est française. New Orleans à Alvin Kamara. Comment l'aimes-tu jusqu'à présent ? Est-ce que parce que le connexion de France avec New Orleans? Je suis un fan de géants. Ils sont mal. Pardon pour mon mauvais français.
@@MCKevin289 that's not bad for only a month of learning, I've only seen two games but I enjoyed it even after the bad performance against the Panthers
It's definitely interesting but NFL is awful to watch imo. It stops every 5 seconds, takes 5 minutes to set up, then another 5 or 7 seconds. Plus the massive brain trauma. I'm an American also haha.
The best thing about being a Lions fan is that by week 5 the games are meaningless and I have no guilt about cracking out on red zone for the rest of the year.
I picked my nfl team before learning anything - and picked the lions because they play in the same colour as Coventry (my football team) I have cursed myself to an eternity of suffering
Hey West Ham Supporters! Come cheer for the Philadelphia Eagles! We embrace Hooligan Violence like y'all do. Edit: From the amount of Traffic I got for this, I wonder how many of you have become Eagles Fans?
@@javierfernandez2576 I mean look at last season. Remember when the Colts beat the Chiefs? Or how about when the radiers took back a pick six against the Pats. What about the lions going toe to toe with the Bills, only losing by a miracle catch from Diggs? It's so electric!
I'm a UK fan of the Brown's, got into American football just before the 2018 season and wanted to support an underdog and nobody was a bigger underdog after the 2017 season than the Brown's. My reccomendation for any European thinking of getting into American football is first you have to choose a team to follow, it's incredibly hard to watch a game of American football without a strong interest in who wins, secondly the amount of commercials in a game really is jarring, its way more than us Europeans will be used to so I advise that you find a secondary activity you can do during the commercials and other downtime and finally if you find that the game length and amount of commercials is too difficult for you to be interested in then just watch the highlights that get posted to RU-vid once the game is over, 10-15mins of pure highlights is a pretty great experience.
The ads actually make me fuming, you pay £100 to watch the games and they have the cheek to play you ads too? If you watch them the next day there arnt any ads but still it’s annoying.
Haha you discovered the hack, as a life long American and NFL fan myself that’s exactly what I do. Or just record the game on my DVR and start watching it about an hour in to just FF thru the ads.
@@letsgobrandon987 thats what i do. Let it record for about 45 minutes then start it. By half time im usually caught back up to live. At half time i usually grab something to eat and smoke a cig to let it record another 45 minutes.
@@larrybuchannan186 I'm not interested in soccer outside of big international tournaments like the world cup or the euros, routing for your country is always fun, just like with the Olympics. As for NFL games being "longer on the ground" than soccer that's just flat out wrong. There is typically only 10-12 minutes of actual in play time for the average NFL game, soccer is always around 90minutes since any wasted time is added on at the end of each half.
@@dominicnalan942 i wouldn't necessarily call the cowboys "america's team". It's one of their slogans or gimmicks but that's all it is. Still going to go .500 and miss the playoffs
It's called Football because way way way back in the old days of England. "Football" was any game that was played by common folk on foot, in order to distinguish it from any rich dude sport that was played on horseback. This is why Rugby is actually "rugby football" Australia has Aussie rules football, there's a Gaelic football, and even where the term soccer was coined (soccer being another abbreviation for Association football, the "clinical term" for football).
I think the reason why they keep complaining about the names is mostly because Europeans wanting to talk shit about Americans. Australia does literally the same thing yet they get a pass
Thank you! I've been saying what you wrote for decades when arguing with snobs who don't know what they're talking about. Football means a sport that's played 'on foot' not 'with your feet.'
Absolutely what i needed i started following the NFL this year and a lot of people saying that this two weeks were one of the best starter of the season I'm slowly getting into it , thanks for that video , from algeria 🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇺🇲🇺🇲
I agree. I’ve been watching football all my life and I’ve never seen so many games go down to the wire this early in the year. There’s been at least 5-7 games so far where the lead changed in the final minutes of the game.
@@leroiarouf1142 Tu aimes Paris? Mon cousin habite à Paris. Je suis américain mdr. Elle est française. La mère de moi cousin est à Paris. Le père de moi cousin est américain. Il est le cousin de mon père. Pardon mon mouvais français, j’ étudie por six semaines.
I really needed this a couple years ago when I first moved to the US… (I’m originally from Italy) and was trying to figure out this madness of a game… now a (not so) proud browns fan!
I used to be a clueless european getting into the NFL and now I have to suffer through being a Broncos' fan because I saw a cool Payton Manning highlight video once
I love scrolling through comments to see these kind, they see something cool in the past from one team then realize how depressing a whole season can be for an NFL team and reality hits…. Like being a Spurs fan😂
0:24 I hate that this diagram is accurate. The NHL is so vastly underrated as an American sport's league. Hockey has pretty much anything you could want in a sport, but people don't watch it as much, because most of the country is too warm for people to get into hockey at a young age.
It has nothing to do with warmness, it's all about the cultural impact of football vs the cultural impact of hockey. If it were the violence, football wouldn't be popular either. Despite the NFL continually dumbing down the game with crappy penalties like roughing the passer, letting o-lines hold more, etc, it's still a super violent sport. I personally love the NHL too, but I think there are way more factors which have to do with things like advertising, your average person's exposure to NHL, etc.
Kinda true in my case. I've lived in the south my whole life in a place that gets a foot of snow maybe once every 5 years. And I don't think I've ever met a legit NHL fan who wasn't from up north. I wish I could like hockey, but I have a hard time getting into sports that I didn't grow up on. 🤷♂️
Kinda disagree on this one, but that's just personal preference. I'm more into the game when I can follow it from start to finish than having to constantly switch between 8 games (yesterday was an exception). I do love the second part of redzone though, when there are fewer games to follow
Once you become attached to a particular team it’s a very emotional thing. The speed, the legal violence, the highs, the lows, the incredible athleticism, the crowds, the beer…it’s just plain fun…until your team underperforms and you feel so annoyed. That’s when you know you are an actual fan. Haha.
watching it for years and being in my second year of fantasy football now, i can fully understand what you say about addiction. Watching NFL all sunday evening til late in the night gets even more addictive with these little numbers on my phone counting the times that Derrick Henry stiff-armed someone to concussion while getting the egg in his hand over half the field
The fantasy thing really works for finding a team, I didn't have one in 2015 and I had Julio Jones and Devonta Freeman in fantasy and they both had crazy seasons so I watched a ton of games. Fell in love and I will be a falcons fan for life.
i am a chelsea fan in football, hugee seattle seahawks fan in the NFL and raptors nation in the NBA!!! and guess what, i came from a country in the southeast asia.. such a wonderful world.
my god fam im 5min an im watching a masterpiece unfold upon my eyes. the balance of serious reporting and memeing through the stories used, analysis' made, and tongue in cheek writing. Pog Clap
Chiefs have a lot of talent with head coach Andy Reid that goes hard on offense and Patrick Mahomes who is a freak of nature and possibly the most raw talented player to ever play quarterback, which is by far the most important individual position. All positions are important. No position is negligible and the 2010 Chargers are the best example of that (best offense and defense in the league and missed the playoff tournament because their special teams - the most overlooked part of the team - were spectacularly bad) but no position is as make or break as quarterback and Mahomes has the talent with development on track to be the best QB ever Browns are experiencing a bizarre period of being consistently good for the first time since before you, yes you reading this, were born. Also since you're familar with the Browns go ahead and watch a broadcast of the Browns/Ravens primetime game from last season - it was easily the best game of the season and you'll get the feel another very good and relevant team the Baltimore Ravens. Fun fact - the Baltimore Ravens used to be the Cleveland Browns. The owner moved the team and changed the name and logo of the team. Then a few years later somebody set up a new team in Cleveland and named it the Browns.
The DK comparison is actually spot on. Bigger than Lukaku and as quick as Mbappe, you just can't compare. Yes there are great athletes in football but you just don't find guys with that size and speed running around the pitch. Whereas most receivers in the NFL are that fast and that big.
The Marshawn Lynch Applebee’s video from when he was a rookie in Buffalo encapsulates everything you need to know about him. It’s glorious Also everyone join Bills Mafia, we jump through flaming tables in the snow
I think the main reason that American Football is so popular is it's the closest thing to human chess that we're ever likely going to achieve. Yes, it's a very physical game. Arguably the most physical, even, but you'd have to consider Rugby as well in that conversation (and even "soccer" or what Europeans call football is unbelievably difficult considering how much running is involved) but there is a level of strategy in the form of play calling that can only be compared to strategy games like chess.
American football is so fascinating because while yes it is incredibly strategic on a high level of discussion, the actual second to second gameplay boils down into "Your planning doesn't mean shit if I can just run my bigger guy headfirst into your smaller guy".
@@Juju25118 Started out 2-0 and looking really solid! We've got an excellent defense(one of the best in the league) led by Von Miller and Justin Simmons(linebacker and safety). We have a solid offense, but we're definitely bolstered by our defense
@@Juju25118 Matt damon (or some celebrity like him) started a league in India but it folded and switched to college instead of professional, i gotta see how thats going
Im an aussie and i follow american sport religiously. I follows the Jags in the NFL and Tarheels in college football. I went on exchange to the states just to play high school football lol
Wow that’s awesome, sounds like you really had a great experience. There’s actually a lot of Aussie football players, mostly kickers, playing here now in college and even some in the NFL. In fact many punters are now incorporating the “Aussie style” sideways running punt to better target where they send it instead of just blasting it deep like they used too. That’s what is cool, the game changes every year little by little even at the top level.
@@eyzmin yea I’ve seen semi-pro American football played in a lot of other countries especially in the UK and Germany at a pretty decent level. Didn’t know about Australia. I’ll have to check it out. Lots of Pacific Islanders like Samoans play here in top Colleges and get drafted quite a bit to the NFL and man they are really really good.
Jags and Tarheels eh? Are you a masochist? Ha ha. More politely: you enjoy watching a team work its way up. Go Buffalo Bills! Go GA Bulldogs! Go Roosters (2022)!
As a non American and hardcore football (the real one) fan I've been watching NFL since more than 10 years ago just because of the Patriots. They weren't the first team I saw but for some reason I just kept watching their games trying to understand the rules and everything, and by the time I got used to it I was already a fan.
The biggest international competitions in football, CopaAmérica, Euro Cup, World Cup, all have playoffs. They just call it "knockout rounds". It won't be too hard to grasp
Playoffs are just the equivalent of quarter and semi finals in the World Cup. Easy enough to understand in any team sport but why oh why do they have them in NASCAR?
I think for new american football fans, you have to understand that you can really choose any team because if you are the worst team instead of getting relegated or getting less money, you get the number one young prospect. But some words of advice, I wouldn't recommend choosing the Patriots, Jets, Texans, Lions, or Falcons(they have a rough history).
I've also started watching properly this season after years of seeing the odd bit of the odd game and never quite getting it. I've picked the Bears as Chicago has been my favourite place to visit in the US in the past, and Soldier Field the only NFL stadium I've been to, ironically to watch the round ball game between the US and England years ago. I'm really enjoying it too, finally getting some understanding of the nuances of the game, and having a team to cheer for really helps. It will be a tough decision to make if the Jags do move permanently to London.
Great video! Can’t wait for the next part. As an American who has found it hard to get into the NFL I think you’ve sold me on trying to actually follow it.
I’m American from Florida, I’ve traveled the world. In the military I went to Europe and the Middle East. Many many years later, I took at trip to Stuttgart Germany in 2018, and I’ll never NEVER forget we were looking for a place to eat and I walked past an apartment with a Tampa bay Bucs banner on it. Being from Tampa I just stood there blown away lol
i personally like football over the american football, but i really find people who absolutly hate nfl very annoying...like get a life bro....your favourite player isn;t going to fuck you if you defend the sport
I love American football so much more then other sports i watch, and pretty much like watching anything regarding sports xD mostly football and hockey tho. But with NFL its like they every catch, every first down is like a goal in football or hockey and that only happens so oftern. But in NFL is happens all the time.
American here-I actually switched from NBA to NFL (I still love basketball, but more so on the college level). I guess in more recent years I noticed too many players flopping in the NBA, which annoyed me. In the NFL the players take a big hit and get right back up.
@@civichoo6017 The NBA is actually much more watchable this season. This season has been an all time low in fouls called because they've changed the rules. Trae and Harden are having a career low in Points because of this fact. Oh and for the checking the foul at the end of the game, the team has to challenge it instead of them checking every single foul or out of bounds that happens in the last 2 minutes
Not a bad pick to be honest. Herbert is a really good young QB. I wish my Dolphins would have taken him instead of TUA at QB. Also when the Chargers on certain occasions wear their famous powder blue uniforms and it’s just simply awesome.
Chargers aren’t a bad pick at all, but they’re somewhat of an anomaly. They’ve had 3 VERY good back-to-back quarterbacks but still haven’t been to a Super Bowl for whatever reason. Drew Brees for 5 years, Philip Rivers for 15 years (Brees and Rivers are future Hall of Famers-just do some research on them), and now Justin Herbert.
I just started watching American football, and while I like sky's coverage the ads and constant stoppages really do make it insufferable. To any Europeans who want to watch it, the redzone is the only way to watch it. On a side note, I never got why people were so confused by American footballs name, after all, rugby is called Rugby football and in Ireland we have gaelic football
Redzone is fun to watch. If you really want to get into a team you'd probably have to follow their broadcast. What I do when my team is playing (the Bears) is I have their game on my TV and redzone on the computer so when the commercials come up I just swap to redzone
@@spjr99 yeah that sounds like a good idea. I'm following the panthers (and marginally the steelers because their fans seem fun). Sky only get one match per slot so say if there are four matches on at one time they get to show one in full and then occasional updates on the others. I think the panthers are being shown so I'll watch that one for sure.
I’ve been saying that for years to English people. When I lived in Ireland whenever I saw a sporting goods store(rip Finn’s) advertising “soccer equipment” I sent it to my uncle who is that type of American soccer fan who calls it handegg.I actually just watched a Gaelic Football match the other day at the local GAA. Although, I’m more of a hurling fan myself. Corcaigh Abu!
Now I have two teams I really like, but I will have to choose one of them. The cardinals and the chiefs. Hard to pick, both are appealing to me in their own way. Started watching football for the first time after this video. 2 weeks in. It is lit🔥🔥💯.
It's not actually dumb for it to be called football The etymology of "football" comes from the fact that peasants played their games on foot, as opposed to on horseback which was what noblemen did. So all forms of sport that are played on foot are technically football. Rugby is actually Rugby football, as it originated from the town of Rugby. Soccer is short for association football. American football is just football from America, makes sense to me!
Dude you should make NFL videos like 5 points and UT, I really like how you do it and I'm an European NFL fan and know how people think about American football.
Is there a team in Europe that has all the luck, falling into once in a generation players, winning loads of games, and dominating the regular season for decades, only to win one single championship (in the current city)? If you want this pain, be an Indianapolis Colts fan.😌
If you’re a Man United fan, support the Buccaneers! You probably know our owners, the Glazers, also own Man U, so our success means more money for you guys to spend in the transfer market. Plus we’re the reigning champions, but as a team we’re not hated by most of the league because we used to be pretty terrible.
@@BobSmith-ql7fb yeah I‘m familiar with the Buccs because of the glazers but to be honest I‘m not sure I want to support another team run by the glazers🤣
@@nyykSIUUU 😂 fair enough, I didn’t like them for a while either but now that they brought us Tom Brady and another Super Bowl… I’m a fan. I completely understand why y’all want them out though.
First time EVER watching one of your videos before and I didn't get to the 2:50 mark in the video before subscribing to your channel. Funny shit my guy, funny shit 😂
I am a huge American sports fan, have been since I was a toddler, but I stopped following the NFL once I started following soccer hardcore around 2012-13, but fantasy football got me back into the NFL last year and I am obsessed lol
That was never true, and it isn't even a foot long. The real explanation is that all forms of football evolved from a medieval sport named the equivalent of "foot ball" by the French, who conquered England. The version in which you almost never touch the ball with your hands and most physical contact is prohibited was a rule change made in the 19th century to avoid getting the sport banned in English schools, as there had been a spat of deaths playing the more violent version. The rest of the English-speaking world didn't get the memo, and kept playing their own versions of football. The US would eventually address the too many deaths problem the American way, with expensive body armor technology.
As a Norwegian, I am sold. Definitely watching NFL from now on. Edit: watched my first game of the NFL 10 mins after watching this. Currently watching Jaguars vs Cardinals. Another edit: currently watching my first prime time game(Bengals Vs Jaguars) , and damn it is entertaining. It is 03:40 am here though 😅😂.
@@thacrypt223 Are you a ⚽️ Football Fan? If yes which Team. If not I would recommend a good Team to begin with like for example: Los Angeles Rams, Arizona Cardinals, Buffalo Bills or Tennessee Titans. LA Rams Play vs the Cardinals this Weekend, will be a Crazy Good Game Thats a matchup you shouldn’t Miss and pick a team from those two my suggestion.
