American Football Is Better Than Soccer!

OK, you tell me where Nigerians play American football - in Nigeria! In Aguda? or Festac? Or Warfi? or Aba or Owerri or PH? Where? - just say that you and your brother practiced it at home in Victoria Island after watching it on TV - don't tell us that it is played in Naija.  The only American football we played in Naija is the one where if somebody gives you 'opio' (i.e if someone puts the ball through your legs or nutmegs you), you will get beaten by everybody until you touch a tree. Soccer is the game of the people my brother. Everywhere in the world, from Latin America to Africa, Asia, Europe etc, Soccer is not only number one, but it TOTALLY dominates all other sports.

BTW, I watched the Superbowl last time - man I could not believe how BOOOOORING that game is. Every two seconds, the referee blows the whistle and there is no fluidity in the game. O-boy, I fell asleep quickly.

American football requires no skill except for the quarterback position. You can start playing at 18 and still become professional as long as you are big and fast. One guy in my sisters school in FGC PH went to Yankee after GCE having never played American football in his life - a few years later he was in the NFL! Look, if its brute strength or sheer athleticism I want to see, then I will watch wrestling or track and field, not American football.

To be a footballer (soccer) player, you cannot start playing football at the age of 10 sef. You have to be playing from the age of 3, 4 or 5. You hone your skill for a good 15 years before you even smell professional soccer.

All these Yankee Nigerians should hand back their Nigerian passport sef.

well i do knw the rules on the game,  and while there is definitely skill involved in the game. it is largely restricted to a few positions.

That is why it is largely a blue collar sport and football players on average don't earn as much as their counterparts in basketball, baseball
and even hockey

well i do mean african football. . . .

no even try talk basketball


the kobe's. lebron's. O'neal's sure earn a lot more than
Manning's Brady's and Mcnabb's

They have bigger revenues, but the payroll on an Nfl team is way bigger.

Their contracts also are a lot more favoured towards the team than the player

In fact its such a generally known fact I can't be bothered to get you a link.

bruvits not even close

average for NFL is around 770 thousand dollars

for the nba is around 5 million dollars.

anywaywhen did sacramento acquire an NFL team.

The kings are about the only thing to do in 'sactown' 

Oh - so now you admit that it is not played in Naija. I thought you said it was. Make your mind up!

You can do what you want when you reach Yankee. You can learn American football over there. Just don't come here and force it on us like it is superior to our National game. All I know is that nobody who tapped soccer in Naija goes to Yankee and then learns American Football. Only the rich kids whose mummy's didn't allow them outside to play with common Nigerians.

Eh - that is good for you. At least you tapped soccer, so you don't disrespect it. As per say there is no good soccer in Yankee, no problem with you following another sport.

The problem is these other Yankee idiots who never tapped soccer coming here to denigrate soccer - on a Nigerian forum!

ohhh and, YES i played soccer all ma life in Nigeria, matter of fact i ran and played soccer throughout during the offseason to keep me fit and ready for football season, so i absolutely DONT disrespect or talk smak about soccer.
what ticks me off is not soccer itself, its comparing soccer to football, and talkin smakk about foootball