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<blockquote data-quote="Groundhog" data-source="post: 1064340" data-attributes="member: 50079"><p>I watch tonnes of college football and NFL (have seen a decent amount of hs too) and this argument is mind boggling to me. They're not different sports, they're different levels of the same sport with pretty marginal rule changes. To say these changes are more significant than the difference between union and league is just false. The fact that the clock stops briefly between first downs in CFB, or only having to get one foot inbounds vs two is not comparable to the differences between league and union.</p><p></p><p>We have pretty reasonable differences and rulesets between the levels of rugby here in Ireland too, particularly in relation to the scrum, is that a different sport?</p><p></p><p>We're fully aware that most college players don't go pro, but 99.99% of NFL players played at the NCAA level. The body types are different only to the extent you're dealing with 18 and 19 year olds. The cream of the crop will absolutely be built like and NFL player.</p><p></p><p>Also I'm pretty sure if we split out the most popular sports it goes 1. NFL 2. MLB 3. NCAA Football, but I can't find a straight answer on this anywhere l.</p><p></p><p>Also American Football is not a combat sport, you may be thinking contact sport.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Groundhog, post: 1064340, member: 50079"] I watch tonnes of college football and NFL (have seen a decent amount of hs too) and this argument is mind boggling to me. They're not different sports, they're different levels of the same sport with pretty marginal rule changes. To say these changes are more significant than the difference between union and league is just false. The fact that the clock stops briefly between first downs in CFB, or only having to get one foot inbounds vs two is not comparable to the differences between league and union. We have pretty reasonable differences and rulesets between the levels of rugby here in Ireland too, particularly in relation to the scrum, is that a different sport? We're fully aware that most college players don't go pro, but 99.99% of NFL players played at the NCAA level. The body types are different only to the extent you're dealing with 18 and 19 year olds. The cream of the crop will absolutely be built like and NFL player. Also I'm pretty sure if we split out the most popular sports it goes 1. NFL 2. MLB 3. NCAA Football, but I can't find a straight answer on this anywhere l. Also American Football is not a combat sport, you may be thinking contact sport. [/QUOTE]
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