**CLOSED** NFL Pick The Winners Contest - Week 8

[eejit101]

you must know rivers

[Ringo]

you must know rivers

It's time for Philip to start wearing womens underwear untill his funk goes away and next he faces GB after they had a bye week.

[eejit101]

You really do overvalue bye weeks.

Playing 60 minutes of football does not kill people. They run for about 5 yards. then stop for 40 seconds,t hen run again. Its not challenging. Play soccer, you run 11 miles in 90 minutes with no real breaks.

American footballers are unfit. Except WRs.

[ScareCrowAKA]

I think BYE weeks are more about recovering from injuries, not fatigue from running... something soccer players dont really have to worry about on a play by play basis, considering the 1st little nudge of contact they feel they fly to the ground and roll back and forth, screaming for about 2-3 mins

[ScareCrowAKA]

I think BYE weeks are more about recovering from injuries, not fatigue from running... something soccer players dont really have to worry about on a play by play basis, considering the 1st little nudge of contact they feel they fly to the ground and roll back and forth, screaming for about 2-3 mins

funniest espn commercial I have seen

[NDN]

I won't work for weeks! Love it!

[eejit101]

First of all, i love NFL. Alot. But the players are utter pussies.

Lets compare the NFL, where a "leading rushing breakout performance" by DeMarco Murray, was heralded when he rushed for, 253 yards. Thats a distance I just ran. I measured it. Its 230 metres (approx). I ran this in a total of 30 seconds.

THIRTY SECONDS.

Compare that to the following post about soccer, from an actual scientific study...

According to The Sunday Times website, midfielders in England's Premiership worked the hardest in the 2005-06 season, running on average 7 miles, 246 yards per game. Right midfielders win the distinction of performing the most "high-intensity" runs -- running at a three-quarter sprint speed or faster -- averaging nearly 150 bursts per game that cover 339 yards. Discounting goalkeepers, centerbacks ran the least amount per game, yet still impressively averaged six miles, 332 yards. Gennaro Gattuso of Italy's AC Milan racked up more than 6-1/2 miles in the 2007 semifinal of the Champion's League, suggesting that the particular league a player is a part of has no bearing on the average distance covered during a professional soccer match."


Ok, thats 6.5 miles average. Over 90 minutes. With a 15 minute break.

Bear in mind with injuries like you are claiming, the clock DOES NOT STOP. This means that even if they "fall over and roll around", they still do these distances in 87 minutes.

So your point is just dumb. Yes, some players overact for injuries, and yes, i hate it. But soccer is continuous, there are no breaks to recover, there is not 45 seconds between plays, of HALF THE ENTIRE GAME SAT ON THE BENCH. Football has 3 teams, soccer has 1. In soccer all the team is on the pitch, and continuing to move. In NFL, if an RB doesnt get the ball, he runs say 5 metres, blocks someone,t hen just watches.

How can you possibly compare the two.

And then compare this to NFL without the padding. A.K.A Rugby.

I dont even need to type anything. They run 5.5 miles a game on average... and this happens...




So, that being said, sit your fat american asses in your chairs, with you beer and wings and whatever cheese covered crap you eat, and watch rugby, and now tell me rugby and football plyers dont work harder, and would literally outlast any single NFL player (with maybe 2 exceptions), in any game where you have to be at speed for longer than 7 seconds.