Comments on: American Football in Japan

By: Reynaldo Weeks

Reynaldo Weeks — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 05:02:00 +0000

Never was a Japanese player in the NFL. Scott Fujita isn’t Japanese. He’s European-American adopted by a Japanese-American family.

By: Andrew Morales

Andrew Morales — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 07:36:00 +0000

They go to open tryouts and go though about 3 rounds of cuts which lasts about a month. Before the actual season there are 4 scrimmage games to decide if the new players are cut out for the NFL.Then they decide the positions just like soccer or any other sport. Most players just
end up being on the practice squad.

-American

By: Clayton Hanson

Clayton Hanson — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:02:00 +0000

Here’s an Android app to help people learn about American football: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.claytonhanson.football101&hl=en

By: randomtraveler

randomtraveler — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 06:28:00 +0000

All of Central and and South America play baseball as well. Along with Japan that makes baseball one of the most popular sports in the world if you go by population which is what I’m guessing your going by. Also Aussie Rules? You mean the free for all on the field with guys lightly hitting each other? The Aussie players are built like soccer players or basketball players. They admittedly tackle but nowhere near the level of American football players. Have you looked at any of the studies showing the damage done to pro players at the end of their careers? Even with all the padding American football players are waaay more beat up by the end.

That said the world series thing is stupid I agree, but it is an attempt to replicate the success of Europe in monopolizing football, by getting the rest of the world to follow their teams instead of or in addition to local teams.

Finally name an Australian sport that’s known world wide. I dare you.

By: Pavlo

Pavlo — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:19:00 +0000

“I’m not sure what the qualifications are, but only eight teams seems a bit small for a worldchampionship, don’t you think?”

Americans called their champions “World champion”(baseball, football). Why??? BTW i really like football, not soccer))

By: Sarah Hanifa

Sarah Hanifa — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 10:12:00 +0000

Nice article! X League sounds interesting.

I would like to ask you about NFL in USA. If a player who are invited to attend Try Out for NFL, then what? Is that player have to join some kind of training camp?