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The only way to follow football here in Belgium is the NFL site on the web. Anyway, i started playing american football here in belgium 2 years ago. (starting my 2nd year) We have an amateur league with 9 teams and 2 other teams that will enter the competition next season. I prefer this sport over soccer any day as it's more tactical IMO than soccer. (I do play soccer too) But that's just an opinion. Last season, my wive even dared to look while i was on field :-) Took her a few games though and she still has the occasional shock when i'm at the bottom of a pile of linemen but the "worst" injury i had so far where a couple of bruised ribs. Annoying yes, painful, not really.

My first season, i started as RDE although i only weigh around 84 k (185 lbs) and thus am much lighter than most tackles opposing me but i'm much quicker so i can always run to the outside and go after the running back or the QB. 1 thing is sometimes did wrong was i ran so fast to the outside, i ran past a running back that was just running this way. Then you hope the secondary is watching your back otherwise you get burned bad.