As a guy who played football in college, and ran my share of special teams, the violence of the hits in why football is not a contact sport but a collision sport. Now in my 50's, I am feeling the effects of those years of smashing and crashing for sure.
To put NFL players into perspective, it helps to utilize metrics "futbol" fans will understand: imagine an athlete 1.8-2m tall, weighing 85-110kg, strong enough to bench press 100kg 20-25 times in a row, running at 9m/s, tryihg to hit you as hard as he can.
@@user-fx2jc3nu4q Not remotely the same thing. Rugby is all slower motion tackles from the waist down for the most part. NFL hits are the equivalent of a 53 km/h car crash. (35 mph for us Americans)
We in America not only watch this, but football is damned near a RELIGION!! (Especially here in Texas!) Friday night high school, Saturday college ball, and Sunday NFL! 🏈 ❤
These types of hits don't happen all the time, but once a game you're going to see a hit that is at least close to these. By the way, we American's don't think a bunch of guys running around in their shorts without getting hit is football.
I love football. I played it from the age of 6 to the age of 18 all through school. My knees are so damaged now at the age of 55 because of it but I would still go back if I could and do it all over again
I only played high school but still have problems 30 years later. It kills your body. I'm so happy I played because it made me a stronger person mentally and physically but in both of those it also hurts as well.
American football got its name fron shape of ball. And to be honest, American football came 1st according to Google. In soccer, Scotland and England played Nov. 30th, 1872 in what FIFA recognizes today as the 1st official match up. The 1st American football match was played on Nov. 6th, 1869, making American football the 1st one invented between the 2. So, in my opinion, I'm going to keep calling American version football, and the other soccer.
Lol your comment screams lack of research. FIFA is the organization for international competitions not local. England vs Scotland is the first official match between 2 international teams. The first match between actual soccer clubs was on Dec 19, 1863. Lol what’s even more funny is that this 1st football match was played using soccer rules.
@vip- so you just made shit up bc you dont like the facts that are recorded for the sports history? Gotcha. Keep watching pussys run around falling on the ground without being touched faking injuries nonstop. Soccer is a pussy sport.
Most of the hits were legal Sheff they occurred... even the face mask. The most obvious illegal hit is the punt returner getting hit before catching the ball. Some are considered unnecessary roughness... meaning they took it a step too far.
This might be a little confusing for you since you watch soccer but there will be no one getting tapped on their leg and falling down like they've been shot and faking injuries all over the field. Also the score won't end 0-0 after an indeterminate amount of boring time watching people just sort of run back and forth a lot
Most of these hits are perfectly legal tackles. Concussion is obviously the most obvious injury. And serious injuries are "common" in a sense there are usually like 4-8 players in the whole league that will miss several games from serious injuries. And then you have the severe which is miss the rest of the season injuries, those are quite rare to see in modern football. And we don't just watch this, we play it starting at like 6 or 7 lol. Sometimes before.
In the 90's I was hit and hit people like that. It was before rule changes and I never played past high school. Yes, there was no feeling like laying someone out but also no feeling like getting laid out. It wasn't a game, it was war. Now it's alot safer and alot of these clips are absolutely illegal now.
The black-and-white footage at around 3:35 shows a face-mask penalty. There was a very brief period after the introduction of the mask when grabbing it was not illegal, I think, but that is extremely rare. And is most definitely a penalty Now.
In North American Football....the players on both teams are tackling and blocking each other from advancing toward scoring...depending on the position they play. So at the beginning of the video the player you saw running and thought was going to block the player ahead of him, he wasn't...the player you thought was hit illegally, was the one that was running toward his teams end zone to get ahead and open to catch the ball the quarterback is to throw to him on his way to score a goal....In our football, it is full contact where the defense physically battle to stop the offense from having possession of the ball and advancing to the end zone to score, and the offense is physically fighting them back and away from stopping their progress or stealing the ball in some way. These tackles are clean , no dirty hits or are fouls....we don't have red cards or cards of any kind to represent a penalty foul, the referees throw small "flags" to indicate a foul was committed during the play. But this kind of physicality is the game itself really.
As a player for the two time Texas 5A champion, the Temple Wildcats, I miss this sooooo much. There is nothing like destroying someone. The feeling is incredible. Blue Front White Back Magic! THS 🤘
Some of the best WWE stars were high school, collage, or NFL players. Goldberg, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and the Rock Dwayne Johnson. Goldberg signature move was the spear a football tackle where you fly through the persons midsection.
Welcome to the NFL, its one of the big four sports we have here. The others are MLB, NBA and NHL, and don't forget college football, it's bigger than the NFL. The 15 biggest stadiums are all college.8 are over 100K. a few suggestions MLB 15 longest home runs NFL here comes the boom NBA best slam dunks NHL glass-breaking moments.
🇺🇸 let’s goo!! It is forsure a sport they get paid 100s of millions to play the game they love just as much as any other sport. The players love the hits as well
Several sports are types of football. Rugby, Gridiron (American and Canadian), Australian, Gaelic, not just Association. They all descend from Medieval Football which had few rules. At 1:29 that hit was probably legal. I can't tell if he hit the guy in the head (illegal) or in the shoulder (legal). Grabbing a player by his face mask, or the helmet opening is illegal. That wasn't just the NFL, there was some CFL (Canadian Football), College Football, High School and pee-wee. 5:27 is currently illegal. There is an unnecessary roughness penalty in the sport. Red Cards aren't a thing in American Football, though a player can get ejected. The closest think we have to a yellow card is an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, you get ejected if you get two in one game. Closest we have to a red card is targeting in College Football, which is a 15 yard penalty and an ejection, or fighting. If you want to know more about the sport check out Ninh's Rules of American Football. It covers the basics. Also College Football and College Basketball are big here. There are videos about traditions in College Football on RU-vid.
"Are we playing WWE"... Nah this is REAL. Some of this stuff you cant do anymore (facemask and some of the QB or defenseless receiver hits). But this is mostly the game. Try to hold the ball until you get to the end. The other guys... try not to let you get to the end.
American football, comes from the sport of, rugby. (Which, originally was called football.) They dropped the term. And we picked it up. (Before, soccer was created.
"At least 500lbs... how is that a sport??" That clip answers your own question. When you see broken-field running that powerful, that is why they hit that hard. THAT (at 5:48) was a form-tackle. You should be told that the play has to be ended with contact, i.e. the ball carrier has to be hit by the opposing team (or driven out of bounds) for the play to end. And they must make contact with the ground. A knee or higher body part must touch the Earth to be "down". And calling that man "unathletic" was uncalled for. Stop comparing this to "wrestling".
NeverEnder, here's the thing: If you don't like American Football, don't watch it. Also we call it football, because that's what we call it in America. If you have a son and call him John, it doesn't mean the next man has to name his son John. We don't care if Asians, Africans, South Americans or Europeans don't like what we named the sport. Anyway, if you don't even live in America, why would you care?
American Football is the real Football. Your sport is called soccer, bud. America didnt make the name, England did. Blame them. Either way your sport is called Soccer. Thats why the ball is a soccer ball.
Do you know how to do math? Bc that makes American Football 3 years older than Soccer or what we call the pussy sport bc of all flops and fake injuries.
Look man if you can't do a simple google search of which sport was invented first, please don't comment. wasted my time searching that shit up lol when. I knew ya'll just copy every single thing from other countries. Your internet is even fake or you could be just stupid. Know your facts before you start commenting bullshit
You can always count on a foreigner to completely disregard any benefits the sport has because it's scary 😂 yeah, when guys act like they've been shot as soon as their touched, it makes sense you would feel that way Grow some balls
This reaction is why America won the wars against all the Europeans back to back world war champs and the revolutionary war get wrecked lmao they cant handle even a little voilence 😂😂
Nah y'all just go to other countries and blow shit up. Just picking on the weaker links. Bet y'all act like darlins when it comes to Russia and China🤣🤣🤣🤣
@theneverenderreacts your just mad cause you know that without the usa all of you would be speaking German and if the usa did not fund nato you would have all been speaking russian a long time ago back to back world War champs get wrecked
