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[BS.Dos.]

It probably does seem like bull$hit if you been brought up on sports where there's generally a goal every couple of minutes, especially if the football game you've been watching is some dreary 0-0 draw on a cold and miserable Wednesday evening in the middle of Winter.

I think the difference between Football and NA sports should always be measured quantitively and not qualitively. If you like to see the scoreboard constantly ticking over then forget about football as the quality of the game isn't always measured simply by the result. For most, the love of the game comes a distant second to the love of your team and typically transcends both the result and the 90-minutes on a Saturday afternoon when its played.

Personally, I think American football is bull$hit. It's just so completely over the top and devoid of anything remotely entertaining unless of course, your idea of entertainment is seeing wardrobes running around in tights for a couple of hours. I'd argue that American Football was actually created by marketing executives who simply invented the game as a novel new way of selling cornflakes to rednecks. American Football is for locker room jocks who like a bit of dressing up and nothing more.

And for the record, I'm not using this as an excuse to rubbish America or Americans or to retaliate because someone has slighted football. I enjoy watching baseball. It's both a working mans' game that I can identify with and the sport that the country was built upon and, without question, by far and away the most entertaining and successfull of American sporting exports.

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[Craven Moorehead]

[BS.Dos.]

[lucas_p]

[ajgeddes]

The NBA is only a proportion of basketball. Basketball is probably played in as many countries as soccer is, of course with less popularity. Baseball is like hockey and played in about 20-30 countries. Basketball is popular in former Soviet countries, South America, Southern Europe and increasingly so in East-Asia. How many countries have profession baseball leagues? 10? How many have professional hockey leagues? 20? How many have professional basketball leagues? I would so probably closer to 40. How many countries have a professional football league? 2 (maybe 3).

[BS.Dos.]

lucas_P
Fair point.

I think that American Football should be compared to Cricket and Baseball to (our) football rather than the other way around.

From a spectators viewpoint (and speaking as a Brit) American Football makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. All I see is a terrific clash of bodies, (possibly) a couple of short darting runs before the whole thing collapses under a heap of bodies about 20-seconds later before being restarted again (usually after a 5-minute TV break). Now, I'm not so stupid as to realise that there's something more going on here, it's just that Baseball unlike American Football at least has a sense of continuity about it, which is why I'd draw comparrisons with football. Cricket, on the other hand, is similarly long-winded and drawn out and (probably) equally perplexing to the uninitiated.

I think what I prefer about Baseball is that it doesn't neccessarily require much in the way of knowledge to appreciate the game (like football. Ours that is). Anyone could sit and watch a game and after a couple of innings, grasp the broader (pardon the pun) strokes of it. It's just so much more accessible, which is why it's travelled so well. American football on the other hand, requires a degree of understanding before it can be fully appreciated much like Cricket.

[Newbie]

Soccer = definitely can be dull and completely void of action, but what can you do. Not bad if you have someone to cheer for

Basbeall = painfully boring. But a hell of a lot of fun to play and go watch. Something magical about it when you really understand the game.

Hockey = it's takes a talent (and $$$) to appreciate this game. Too complicated for most to understand. Fast, hard, great action. Little hint: few people actually "watch the puck" for the full 60 minutes. When you know the game, you know where the puck is and where it's going.

Football = not a bad sport, but seeing the 'tards jump around like jack-asses everytime they make a semi-decent play makes me want to kick the TV.

Basketball = not my cup of tea, but can't argue with the world wide popularity of it. Too much scoring

Rugby = great sport. Real men, real gentlemen. No jack-asses.

Cricket = kinda interesting when you take time to figure it out. Much like baseball; ectremely boring from the outside, but quite remarkable when you understand it

And that's all you need to know about sports.

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[BS.Dos.]

[SCE2AUX]

Association football (soccer) is tremendous fun to play but not all that exciting to watch, though I would certainly prefer it to basketball, which I really couldn't care less about. I can watch soccer, but it has never really stirred my passions or those of most of my countrymen.

I think Americans would like to see the US win the World Cup so that we can say that we really DON'T care that much about the sport, we're not just ignoring it because we suck at it.

American football is the greatest game in the world as far as I'm concerned as a spectator. You couldn't pay me enough to actually play it, but if you learn the game, the history, the strategies and the evolution of the stragegies, there is nothing that compares to it. I was watching the Super Bowl while chatting about it online and I was disappointed at how many people were calling it a boring game because the score was only 7-3 for much of it. That wasn't the point, if you were familiar with the game, you just KNEW that something was going to happen sooner or later, and it was that tension that made it great.

Baseball has even more mystique than football, but you really have to learn the game to appreciate it. It is a pleasure both to watch AND play.

American sports are more given to analysis as the game is going on, whether it is those seconds before the ball is snapped (or pitched) or those interminable minutes of commercials, football and baseball both give you time to reflect and consider. Nope, we can't offer you a continuous stream of activity, but that isn't what these two great games are about.

[4 months left]

[mistermasan]

american football is how america does war.the old guys call the shots, a propaganda machine churns 24/7 assuring the masses, the young (mostly minority) guys are used up and discarded at an amazing rate.the field generals (still mostly whites- but things are getting more colorful), the QBs get the glory of schwarzkopf, powell, petraeus. the people pay, billions are made by corporations. then we talk about the commercials.

everybody is always prepping and doing recon. the day comes. they wait and then they strike in seconds. pick up the pieces and do it again. scoring is not enough. the only objective is winning.

expectations can be raised way too high. such as the patriots. they just had the greatest NFL season ever. broke every scoring record, most wins ever but their fans call the season "a wash" because they didn't win the last game. it is an all-or-noting proposition. diplomacy? middle men? coming to peace terms? cannot (and will not be done).

[Justin Hale]