Goooooooooo Bears.

I like the Coca Cola commercials, as well as the Bud Light and Career Builder ones Halftime show was okay.

Psh. America, great inventor of such true and great sports like Baseball, Football (the real football; not soccer. Just accept it you non-americans, our football is the only one that counts) Basketball, Lacrosse, Paintball, Motor sports, and more. Show some respect for the country that is the biggest mecca for all sports in the world

"Unnecessary body armour" eh! Now thats just trolling the Americans -.-

Yeah right. You people only play sports nobody else plays, like a vile perversion of Cricket and pansy rugby (Only a pansy needs to wear that kind of protection to play Rugby. Seriously. Real men wear that kind of body armour when they're going bear-wrestling).

Oh, and football (Real football - the kind played with one's feet exclusively) is the most popular sport in the multiverse.

I'm American and I'm with Verithax. Rugby IS a better sport. I hate the crowns

Have you ever looked at a rugby player and American football player side-by-side? Rugby players don't wear padding because the hardest thing they're going to hit is the ground.



Above: Shane Drahm. One of rugby's top scorers. Big, tough man?
Below: I could have been unfair and put up a picture of an NFL offensive linemen--really big men who don't have to move fast. Instead, here's Dominic Rhodes in blue. He's a "light and agile" player.

I'm Australian and I took the morning off work to watch the Superbowl (although admittedly I lived in Tennessee for 3 years when Manning was with UT)

WOOT

Sorry Bears' Fans. The Colts got their rings.

No fair comparing them in uniform. Anything would look bulky in that suit.

having watch professional football and professional rugby being played live...

if football players did not have the padding they had, we would have a lot fewer players in this world. Orginal football players did not wear padding, but after so many deaths, people start wanting to protect themselves.

It was a decent game...not spectactular, not crappy, but average. Got a good laugh at Prince; overall it was some good times.

Anyways, go vote for lusty. What does that have to do with this thread? Nothing

Yay Colts! I haven't watched any good amount of football these last couple of years, and really, I'm a college ball fan (Cornhuskers FTW!) but that was a good game. However, the first half of touchdown-fumble-interception-touchdown-fumble-interception and the last half of flag-flag-flag-interception-touchdown-flag-flag-flag-flag-challenge-flag-flag-flag with Prince sandwiched in between was probably NOT the greatest game I've ever seen, but lovable nonetheless.

Verithrax, I've managed not to call you out as a complete moron yet about anything, but this time...this time you are like the retarded kid in the ninja suit swinging the plastic sword.

Football is an American pasttime. It racks in billions of dollars a year between college and professional, millions of viewers and fans, and has become a traditional part of high school sports in the United States. I tossed around a ball, even threw together makeshift games with the neighborhood until I was seventeen or so. You, sir, have no idea. Cricket? Rugby? Are those even comparable to football? The clashing of pads, the smell of grass, the screaming fans, the amazing last minute glorious plays that are heaven-sent for the underdog, the little kids trading their favorite players' cards and begging for a Brett Favre jersey for their birthday, Sunday all day, Monday nights, Thursdays and Saturdays for college ball, millions of TV sets tuned in for the whole family to watch...and you have absolutely NOTHING to back up your arguments but the need to be contradictory. That is not being a thinker or some amazing breakthrough writer, that's being a four year old in the grocery store. Take your cricket bat, shove it where it belongs, and go home.

FOOTBALL FTW!

Mhmm, yummy troll food.

For really, Football is far better.

Football >>>>> American Football

but still, I love the super bowl.. it was OK this time

I vote we rename American football soccer, and call soccer football, like the rest of the world. Why the hell we stole the name to stick on our new sport and made up a brand new one for something that already had a name still confuses me.

Because thats how we roll.

Annnd we have a winner!

The reason behind this is actually very interesting.

Originally, yale and harvard played two competing sports game. Association Football, and Rugby Football. They were doing pretty well at Rugby, however, the English teams ALWAYS beat them in Association Football, and the Ivy League parents did not want to have thier children injured while playing Rugby Football.

So what they did, was they changed the rules of Rugby Football, and Called it American football. Then Association Football, started to get shortened to just Assoc. And from there it turned into Soccer. (Last time the conversation came up I did a bunch of internet research on the topic)

Huskers fan! Wooooooo!