That's why they don't call American football a contact sport... It's a collision sport.

To put NFL players into perspective, it helps to utilize metrics "futbol" fans will understand: imagine an athlete 1.8-2m tall, weighing 85-110kg, strong enough to bench press 100kg 20-25 times in a row, running at 9m/s, tryihg to hit you as hard as he can.

As a guy who played football in college, and ran my share of special teams, the violence of the hits in why football is not a contact sport but a collision sport. Now in my 50's, I am feeling the effects of those years of smashing and crashing for sure.

We in America not only watch this, but football is damned near a RELIGION!! (Especially here in Texas!) Friday night high school, Saturday college ball, and Sunday NFL! 🏈 ❤

Most of these dudes were totally ok..after a few. We call it “getting your bell rung” 🤣

These types of hits don't happen all the time, but once a game you're going to see a hit that is at least close to these. By the way, we American's don't think a bunch of guys running around in their shorts without getting hit is football.

"Damn" "Damn" "Wtf" 😂😂😂😂

I love football. I played it from the age of 6 to the age of 18 all through school. My knees are so damaged now at the age of 55 because of it but I would still go back if I could and do it all over again

Some of the best WWE stars were high school, collage, or NFL players. Goldberg, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and the Rock Dwayne Johnson. Goldberg signature move was the spear a football tackle where you fly through the persons midsection.

WWE, I'm dying 😂

I only played high school but still have problems 30 years later. It kills your body. I'm so happy I played because it made me a stronger person mentally and physically but in both of those it also hurts as well.

American football got its name fron shape of ball. And to be honest, American football came 1st according to Google. In soccer, Scotland and England played Nov. 30th, 1872 in what FIFA recognizes today as the 1st official match up. The 1st American football match was played on Nov. 6th, 1869, making American football the 1st one invented between the 2. So, in my opinion, I'm going to keep calling American version football, and the other soccer.

This is something we all played in high school growing up.

In North American Football....the players on both teams are tackling and blocking each other from advancing toward scoring...depending on the position they play. So at the beginning of the video the player you saw running and thought was going to block the player ahead of him, he wasn't...the player you thought was hit illegally, was the one that was running toward his teams end zone to get ahead and open to catch the ball the quarterback is to throw to him on his way to score a goal....In our football, it is full contact where the defense physically battle to stop the offense from having possession of the ball and advancing to the end zone to score, and the offense is physically fighting them back and away from stopping their progress or stealing the ball in some way. These tackles are clean , no dirty hits or are fouls....we don't have red cards or cards of any kind to represent a penalty foul, the referees throw small "flags" to indicate a foul was committed during the play. But this kind of physicality is the game itself really.

There were penalties called on some of those hits, but this is the NFL!

This is why we have such disdain for soccer. While soccer players flop after being looked at the wrong way, football players celebrate big hits and are encouraged to get back up and keep fighting.

In the 90's I was hit and hit people like that. It was before rule changes and I never played past high school. Yes, there was no feeling like laying someone out but also no feeling like getting laid out. It wasn't a game, it was war. Now it's alot safer and alot of these clips are absolutely illegal now.

Most of these hits are perfectly legal tackles. Concussion is obviously the most obvious injury. And serious injuries are "common" in a sense there are usually like 4-8 players in the whole league that will miss several games from serious injuries. And then you have the severe which is miss the rest of the season injuries, those are quite rare to see in modern football. And we don't just watch this, we play it starting at like 6 or 7 lol. Sometimes before.

This might be a little confusing for you since you watch soccer but there will be no one getting tapped on their leg and falling down like they've been shot and faking injuries all over the field. Also the score won't end 0-0 after an indeterminate amount of boring time watching people just sort of run back and forth a lot

The black-and-white footage at around 3:35 shows a face-mask penalty. There was a very brief period after the introduction of the mask when grabbing it was not illegal, I think, but that is extremely rare. And is most definitely a penalty Now.

This is why athletes play football and hockey, and floppers play soccer and basketball.

4:07 Well...FEW of WWE Superstar used to play college football....i.e: The Rock, Bradshaw, Faraooq, and Roman Reigns.

It's different if you watch a game through, this doesn't happen all the time.

Canadian football is just as rough, there is plenty of CFL action in this video as well.

That guy you said was was knocked out, once the play was blown dead, just jumped up and ran back to the team huddle as if nothing happed. If fact, in most of these plays, the guy just got up and walked away. These guys will spend hours in the weight rooms adding 10 to 13+ KG of muscle weight to their already massive frames.

the suplex like tackle isn't illegal, and he was "smacking" the quarterback (the player that throws the ball )

Gridiron is the another name for this sport. Sounds more badass too lol.

You gotta be a special type of man to play this...a special kind of crazy.(Speaking from experience)

You should have seen it back in the 60s and 70s . After the tackle, if runner didn't get up right away, he would be stomped on by the defense.

As a player for the two time Texas 5A champion, the Temple Wildcats, I miss this sooooo much. There is nothing like destroying someone. The feeling is incredible. Blue Front White Back Magic! THS 🤘

Doctors have compared an NFL-level tackle to being in a 35mph car accident. The average NFL player is 6'2" and 244 pounds overall.

I'm guessing you can understand why we laugh when people accuse us of being weak because we wear pads and a helmet lol.

We start playing at about 6-7 years old violence but controlled 😊😊😊

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welcome to American football

🇺🇸 let’s goo!! It is forsure a sport they get paid 100s of millions to play the game they love just as much as any other sport. The players love the hits as well

It's a hard man's sport. They get paid tens of millions of dollars for this game.

I'm going to put it like this, we in the USA are built differently. We grew up playing this s***. This ain't nothing, s*** we used to throw rocks at each other as a game. We used to play tackle football in the street , before the bus came. Now you know why our US military so tough and why the rest of the world needs us. While everyone else grows up playing soccer around the world, we're here beating the hell out of each other as friends. It's understandable you would find it violent. But we used to try to hurt each other when we played because that's what you do. And after we helped each other up and laughed about it

"Are we playing WWE"... Nah this is REAL. Some of this stuff you cant do anymore (facemask and some of the QB or defenseless receiver hits). But this is mostly the game. Try to hold the ball until you get to the end. The other guys... try not to let you get to the end.

Welcome to the NFL, its one of the big four sports we have here. The others are MLB, NBA and NHL, and don't forget college football, it's bigger than the NFL. The 15 biggest stadiums are all college.8 are over 100K. a few suggestions MLB 15 longest home runs NFL here comes the boom NBA best slam dunks NHL glass-breaking moments.

This is Football! And they start from a very young age!

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This is why they get paid millions and I mean millions

Yeah so next time you say soccer players are tougher remember this moment big dog that’s real football son!!!!

Several sports are types of football. Rugby, Gridiron (American and Canadian), Australian, Gaelic, not just Association. They all descend from Medieval Football which had few rules. At 1:29 that hit was probably legal. I can't tell if he hit the guy in the head (illegal) or in the shoulder (legal). Grabbing a player by his face mask, or the helmet opening is illegal. That wasn't just the NFL, there was some CFL (Canadian Football), College Football, High School and pee-wee. 5:27 is currently illegal. There is an unnecessary roughness penalty in the sport. Red Cards aren't a thing in American Football, though a player can get ejected. The closest think we have to a yellow card is an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty, you get ejected if you get two in one game. Closest we have to a red card is targeting in College Football, which is a 15 yard penalty and an ejection, or fighting. If you want to know more about the sport check out Ninh's Rules of American Football. It covers the basics. Also College Football and College Basketball are big here. There are videos about traditions in College Football on KZfaq.

Qbs getting receivers killed

Multiple things can have the same name. American football is not fake.

Football rules have changed and all of those are penalties now

"At least 500lbs... how is that a sport??" That clip answers your own question. When you see broken-field running that powerful, that is why they hit that hard. THAT (at 5:48) was a form-tackle. You should be told that the play has to be ended with contact, i.e. the ball carrier has to be hit by the opposing team (or driven out of bounds) for the play to end. And they must make contact with the ground. A knee or higher body part must touch the Earth to be "down". And calling that man "unathletic" was uncalled for. Stop comparing this to "wrestling".

Welcome to NFL trying to kill each other’s

Football is distinctly American. Soccer is our fifth rated sport.

Yes, some of these are penalties. Not all. But most would be today.

Lmaoooo

Think this is tough...biggest hits of the AFL...Australian Football League...then we'll talk!

its about the player with the ball , not the ball and yes most of those were fouls and would be red cards

American football, comes from the sport of, rugby. (Which, originally was called football.) They dropped the term. And we picked it up. (Before, soccer was created.

yes, the player that was pulled down by the face mask on his helmet , that is definitely not allowed and will draw a penalty.

They wear helmets and padding because when they play they go to war but, Fortunately or “unfortunately” for us fans most of this hits and tackles are now “illegal” but they still do it and in the United States this game is a Religion just like “soccer” is for the rest of America now go and watch #52 Ray Lewis greatest hits…Go Ravens!!

Your football can't be the REAL football.... it does not have yard lines!

Canadian football is not nearly as fast in the actual play. That is the main difference.

lol the difference between WWE and American Football is Football isn't staged and fake.

This is a tough man's game if you are weak stay home, FOOTBALL is the best sport, they are wearing pads, 90% of those hits looked way worse than they feel, watch a full game before judging...

A sport has a winner and a loser in every game. So what does that make futbol?

Real men play football. The rest play soccer

I promise you some of those fat "unathletic" guys are more all around athletes than some of your favorite soccer players

Nobody is forcing them to be playing the game man. These guys are getting paid absurd money. Some players are getting nearly $50 MILLION per year. That comes out to over $3 MILLION PER GAME. If someone gave you $40 million to run around and play 16 weekly games playing a game, you would be out there doing the same shit and laughing all the way to the bank.

Now you know why football players are called Gridiron Gladiators, because this is the closest thing you are gonna see to actual gladiators fighting in the arena

Americanis HAND EGG. They are throwing egg shaped ball by hands not hitting by their feet.

Soccer floppers can't comprehend American football.

Pro football started in America. before you soccer went pro. so be quit & let adults talk👍

You don't play football unless you're getting hit so hard the snot comes out of your nose. You're playing some kind of field hockey but with your feet. In the US, we use one of the unique things that makes us human, exceptional hand dexterity. You could get horses or dogs to play soccer, but not our sports. It is amusing to see you stumble around out there the try and control a ball with your feet, though.

Its soccer not football

American Football is the real Football. Your sport is called soccer, bud. America didnt make the name, England did. Blame them. Either way your sport is called Soccer. Thats why the ball is a soccer ball.

This is a man's game. What is soccer?

You dont agree with people calling football,football. Do you need to agree?

NeverEnder, here's the thing: If you don't like American Football, don't watch it. Also we call it football, because that's what we call it in America. If you have a son and call him John, it doesn't mean the next man has to name his son John. We don't care if Asians, Africans, South Americans or Europeans don't like what we named the sport. Anyway, if you don't even live in America, why would you care?

😂 you talk more than a woman‼️

Actually it is football. You are just showing how ignorant you are in regards to linguistics.

My son started playing at 4 years old he lost a couple of teeth but it's all good

Yall may play “real football” but that shit is soft🤷🏼‍♂️ I agree American football is a bad name but anyone who talks trash can’t survive

America......yes we are crazy..... your welcome

You can always count on a foreigner to completely disregard any benefits the sport has because it's scary 😂 yeah, when guys act like they've been shot as soon as their touched, it makes sense you would feel that way Grow some balls

This reaction is why America won the wars against all the Europeans back to back world war champs and the revolutionary war get wrecked lmao they cant handle even a little voilence 😂😂