Moving The Chains: American Football in the UK
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- American football in the UK: London's Newest Royalty
When you think of London what comes to mind?
Big Ben?... The London Eye?... Tower Bridge?
After this week's episode of Moving The Chains, you will think - American Football.
Introducing Episode 3: London's Newest Royalty: American Football
#EarnYourLevel
Being American, I love that you guys are getting into the sport. Like the Uber driver said, sports is for everyone regardless of your race, color, ethnicity, religion or background. People just call it American football to distinguish it from soccer because people in Europe calls soccer football.
Just call it gridiron, that's the real name of the sport. Nfl tries to cash in on American patriotism. Its not a bad thing but might make some players feel excluded
We play football in Canada too. You don't have ownership of the sport. We invented it 1861, eight years before the first recorded game in the US at McGill University in Montreal
David Buswa BS. Doesn’t say anything like that on any history. www.history.com/news/who-invented-football
@@Ms2centsTry the americanfootballdatabase.fandom.com, CBC.ca, thecanadianencyclopedia,ca. The game was played at the University of Toronto, it was born from Rugby. BTW, Babe Ruth hit his first professional home run in Toronto also, Thank Canada for giving the world Hockey, Basketball, Gridiron Football and the Telephone and Insulin
David Buswa wasn't basketball invented in Kansas, I know the dude was a Canuck.
Im falling in love with this sport, from the UK. I hope we can start some sort of league or have NFL and University teams like the US
NFL is getting big in the UK, but I always thought they should watch NCAA football. I myself watch college football every Saturday, but barely watch NFL.
@@zachhardware479 I like college football aswell!
@@ES-wp4bi I'm an Auburn fan, and also a South Florida fan.I have twp college teams, instead of a college team and a pro team to pull for. I'm all College football. I like NCAA basketball better than the NBA too lol
you guys have the BAFA which kicks off in a few weeks, the London Warriors were last years Premier League Champions, the game was actually broadcast on national tv (according to the announcers, I watched it on youtube) so its there man, its just getting to the semi-pro level. When I watched the BAFA 5 years ago it was def an amateur league, but I gotta say that the 2019 BAFA premier championship game was one of the best games I've ever seen and the level of play was really good, there was even back to back successful onside kick recoveries by one team, i've literally never seen that happen in my life in the hundreds (or thousands) of games I've watched
This is amazing guys! Keep pounding! It´s not about how good we play the sport, it´s about that we play. Cheers from Uruguay!
Panthers fan? Me too! Love from Birmingham
Cheers from me! I am an American and I love how much you are getting into the sport. It's a great game. I love it!
That Bear Bryant quote at 11:21 really says it all. Good on those fine folks from Birmingham from a fella from the other Birmingham.
Awesome! UK, you are on the right track. Keep the Love of the game going from day one. Hopefully, we'll see your high schools, and colleges compete. Your club system is great.Wishing you all the best from across the pond .
DAMN, that picture quality
Good Luck Guys! Greetings from North Carolina!
If it never gets to the level of the NFL, then it's like what we used to do with Baseball... for the love of the game... and I'm all in with that!
Good job guys! Happy to hear Europeans are accepting and enjoying a game Americans are passionate about. Keep it up! One day they'll have an NFL team in London.
Uber driver speaking facts
And this is why America is great. We don’t have to ask permission from the government to fund something you like.
Amazing video. I'm 16, from just outside Sheffield. And I'm really wanting to get involved in the sport. Amazing game full of amazing people.
Brad CFC Stone do it man. Football is for everybody. you'll love it.
game of details man lots of dedication the game will treat you well if you treat it well.
The London sillynannys
LMAOOOOOOOOOO
The big issue in America is concussions. It's changing the game. As a spectator, I miss the big vicious hits, but the players long term well being is being considered now. I wonder how player safety is being dealt with in the UK.
Rugby style tackles, basically not going in with your shoulder instead of your head.
I wish ESPN would show these Europe America tackle football 🏈 games on 📺.
Good job guys !
Cheers!
they have college football in the UK? wtf please help me pick a team .. War Eagle!
Come to IRELAND Please
American high school freshman would take these folks OUT.
Europeans playing a real man's sport. Imagine that
love this guys!!
Rugby is weird. I have tried to watch it several times and i dont get it. The rules are so subjective based on the referees. I dont get the advantages and why would they kick it when they have possession
at least the game never stop
Jack Siong Why is that a bad thing? It's a completely different sport/momentum you absolute idiot. Don't bum rugby until you try Football out, arrogant idiots will never realise how great of a sport football is.
it take 3h30min to watch a 60min game ( more than 5 hours for the superbowl ) if the official time is 1 hour for a regular NFL game , what i 'm watching during 2h30min ?
Jack Siong It completely depends on what happens in the game, if it's a fast paced high scoring game with majority of passing plays then it's a much quicker game. If the game is drab and not much action and more running plays/injuries then they play adverts whenever they can, meaning it's a longer game. That's just how it is, you can't say "oh it only takes 2 minutes to pot a few balls in golf", no, it can be quick or very long.
NFL can be the n°1 sport worldwide if
1. They put less commercial break ( 1 half time break is enough )
2 . They reduce the time recover after every tackles to 15 seconds ( to make the game faster like in NRL )
But everybody knows it will never happens because thoses fat linemen don't have enough stamina, so that's why i'm stick into rugby union or NRL
To be honest we love NFL we just don't like to watch it ( it's way too long ) but it's more fun to play it
It's called gridiron
the gridiron is the name of the field or pitch as you would say
I love this
If u don't look up American football in other countries , u only get soccer
How about we call it Tackle football.
In Australia they call it Gridiron
They're unironicly showing a handful of amateur hobbyists playing on deserted council Soccer grounds and somehow think this will show the sport in a good light? LOL!
Feel free to drop the "American" from American Football. We don't give a shit what it's called if you're having fun. Make it your own.
No thanks. It's American Football. If you've got something different, or better, or with a spin on it, then bring it. But DON'T ask us to forsake our name/origin/love just for your desire to possess it.
Football is played with your feet, this is hamdegg
E7 Polar it's called football because the ball is a foot long
Kit McIntosh But you only play about 5% of the game with your foot so it's handegg
E7 Polar no, because it's not named after HOW you play it
Kit McIntosh what if Americans used the metric system? What would it be? Lol (said by a football fan)
Kit McIntosh The "foot long" thing is an oft-repeated myth. The more likely explanation is that all football codes were distinguished by being played by footmen as opposed to men on horseback, which would be more typical of the wealthy types who could afford indulging in sporting leisures back in those times. Once the industrial revolution was complete, societal shifts made it easier for the lower-to-middle classes to gather for organized sports, even if they still couldn't afford sporting horses. Whereupon all forms of football (soccer, rugby, canadian, american, australian, etc) began to rise, more or less simultaneously.