The reason for the embellishing, and we are now seeing it in Hockey too, is because teams get penalized for hurting their opponents physically. It's a gross tactic and I don't like it, but if the referee is gullible... well, then there is something to gain.
While I appreciate both forms of football, the football/soccer requires finesse, control, and lightning fast reflexes. The rugby version of football is quite savage where strength prevails quite often. Don't generalise based on a few incidents for it will make you a twat!
Well, it's pretty much mandatory in pro basketball too...kinda hilarious. Yes, you knocked that 250 lb 6'11" black dude back 15 feet by hitting him with your pinkie. Yes, you definitely did...
"Soccer" is for douche bags, only because anyone who calls it "soccer" is a douche bag. RUGBY is a game for hard men, FOOTBALL is a game for skill and finesse. SOCCER is for dick head americans who think "FOOTball" is a game where you hold a ball to your chest while covered in padding while a bunch of other guys wearing padding cuddle you until you give up the ball
The fact that you call it soccer shows that you are a douche. Americans are the only people that could name a sport "football" where you hold the ball for 90% of the game, surely that's "handball"? Football is an English invented game where you use your foot to kick a ball. Makes sense? Rugby is not football nor will it ever associate with football of the English kind or the retarded kind. Rugby is a game for hard nuts who don't care about injuries, football is a game for varied and talented sportsman to show case their skills, inevitably they get hurt more because they are not as fucking hard. Douche
You and 99% of the world should research before talking. AMERICAN FOOTBALL is called football because the ball is a foot long. You can us culturally ignorant in the US, you are all worse.
I'm from America too, and I'd just like to point out that the whole concept of a ball that is a foot long is based on our stupid wonky measurement system. So, either way we lose...