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by Anonymous on March 27th, 2007

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What are the similarities between American football and European football (soccer)?

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  • by tinman on August 28th, 2008

    tinman

    American Football is a bit like Rugby, but with added gayness.

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  • by Barcaluv on March 27th, 2007

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    11 players per side.
    Object in American is to reach the goal line. Object in soccer is to score a goal.
    I think it stops there because as we all know you can't use your hands on soccer, the clock doesn't stop, No more than 3 changes of player per team. and many more differences.
    I wouldn't call it "European" only though. Whether or not Americans agree, it's the most popular sport in the world.

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  • by kelana on August 28th, 2008

    kelana

    11 players on each sides , played in the field and both games are very entertaining.

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  • by Mister Sister on March 27th, 2007

    Mister Sister

    You've never seen or played Soccer?

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  • by HasntBeen on April 8th, 2011

    HasntBeen

    In soccer, the ball is round. In football, nobody even has a word for the ball's shape.

    In soccer, athletes run around chasing the ball. In football, ogres run around chasing the ogre with the ball.

    In soccer, only two guys use their hands, and only to touch the ball. In football, everybody uses their hands to grab each other.

    In soccer, if nobody wins, it's ok. That's why it will never be as good as football.

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  • by Answerersapprentice on April 8th, 2011

    Answerersapprentice

    Nothing, they're the same sport.

    There are a few variants like Gaelic Football, Australian Football, International Football and American Football which do have different rules, usually copied Rugby rules.

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  • by Wulfweard on August 28th, 2008

    Wulfweard

    American football is more like rugby than soccer. In fact considering apart from punts, the ball is carried in the hands, it shouldn't really be called football at all.

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  • by Firebrand on August 28th, 2008

    Firebrand

    Other than the same amount of people on the pitch at one time there is none to my knowledge.

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  • by ChelseaMark on August 28th, 2008

    ChelseaMark

    If you mean soccer and football , nothing.

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  • by unknown on March 27th, 2007

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    I think that the same amount of people are on the field at the same time. They both have balls. They both score goals. They both have backs. They both have to defend their goals because that is how scores are made: by getting the ball into the other team's goal. That's all I can think of at this time.

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  • by KathrynS on March 27th, 2007

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    There are absolutely no similarities between American football and European football.
    American football is football.
    AMERICAN soccer is soccer.
    European football is like American soccer

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  • by bazza on February 13th, 2009

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    None.

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  • by ZiggyStardust on April 8th, 2011

    ZiggyStardust

    Nothing. Soccer is short for "Association Football"
    The only country in which it's referred to as Soccer is America.

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  • by .Its.Just.Alana. on April 8th, 2011

    .Its.Just.Alana.

    soccer you carry the ball lol ?

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  • by Pintapride on April 8th, 2011

    Pintapride

    In the UK its the same thing.

    In the US, footbal is played by men with odd shaped balls!
    They also wear crash hats and body armour because they are wooses! Unlike the guys in the UK that play rugby!

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  • by Answerersapprentice on April 11th, 2011

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    I think another important difference is that association football is played in a lot of smaller countries. In a really big country like the US it's no problem if only one in every 100 people like a sport, you still have 3 million fans nationwide, enough to have a professional league. That's why the US has baseball, basketball, ice hockey, American Football and probably more being played at a professional level. Over here in the Netherlands there really is only one sport that can gather enough fans and resources to host a professional league, with as a consequence that every single guy that likes to hang on the coutch with friends and scream at the television screen while drinking beer is a fan of association football. Because it has such a lot of fans, and because we're not basically the only country playing the sport, stuff like the world cup is a bigger deal here, the whole nation comes to a grinding stall for a few weeks. It's worse than even the superbowl.

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  • by Anon y mouse on February 13th, 2009

    Anon y mouse

    None. European football is a proper sport, American football is not.

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  • by Patti jo on April 7th, 2011

    Patti jo

    The Ball

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  • by LIL "SAINT" on February 13th, 2009

    LIL

    ALL THE PLAYERS GET TIRED AT THE END OF THE GAME (LOL)

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  • by brandon on August 28th, 2008

    brandon

    is american football like rugby

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  • by Tom Terrific on February 13th, 2009

    Tom Terrific

    American football players get paid more, and American football fans don't risk their lives simply by attending games.

    You'd think such a heavy contact sport would be less civilized than one where physical contact is (more-or-less) accidental. But European football is the more barbaric of the two.

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