American football

[BimboBob]

How can people not love basketball FFS?

My team would be a four-guard offense of Jesus, Sane, Sterling, and Walker with Yaya at the low post.

Because it's dull after the same thing over and over again, also played by freaks.

See also Baseball. Though not the freak bit.

 

[jay_mcfc]

Anyone that just watched that Chargers v Jets game that doesn't follow either side would probably never watch a game again.

 

[better dead than red]

It's a sport that is completely devoid of skill. And its mindnumbingly boring

It can be boring. But if you think it is "devoid of skill" you are clearly talking out your arse and come into the discussion with a preconceived bias.

I know you aren't a stupid man. Don't be ignorant. If something isn't your favourite that is just fine but don't show your arse when trying to express you don't care for it.

Happy Christmas

 

[City Raider]

I just love sport, has to be pretty shit for me not to watch it. Could easily waste my life drinking beer and watching sport. Unless any **** wears red.

 

[city986]

More breaks than Dave Whelan mentions in every interview he gives

 

[citizenyank76]

I sometimes wonder if the game will even exist in a generation or so. More and more parents are pulling their kids out of the game due to CTE and the NCAA is nothing but a cartel. While American college football is a religion in places like Texas, Ohio, Nebraska and the South the pro game seems to be lagging in many ways. They protect the quarterback so damn much it's ridiculous. Brady barely gets gets touched whereas guys like Roger Staubach and Terry Bradshaw got murdered.

 

[malg]

Anyone that just watched that Chargers v Jets game that doesn't follow either side would probably never watch a game again.

We have the equivalent over here with West Brom v Stoke, or Southampton v Bournemouth etc, etc. There are utter shite games in our league week, after week.

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

How can people not love basketball FFS?

My team would be a four-guard offense of Jesus, Sane, Sterling, and Walker with Yaya at the low post.

Up there as one of the most boring sports in the world. What makes it worst is that the final few minutes its just time out after time out. Just finish the game you cunts!

I enjoy american football although the constant flags and stops in play do ruin it a bit imo. I will say though that there is no more exciting sport when its a close game in the final quarter.

 

[yerwot?]

over a thousand colleges/unis have teams, the idea that the successful 1% do not have exceptional skills is illogical. Every position has special requirements, physical as well as mental. Learning the "playbook" has been a stumbling block for rugby players who have tried to make a career in the states, although a handful of footballers have made it as kickers where the job is straight-forward. As always in these perennial threads, the anti-usa agenda comes through loud and clear, making any rational discussion unlikely. There is nothing that cannot be improved, the situation with brain injuries being the most serious (for the nfl) but the corruption at the top of football is nowhere near being eradicated, despite the recent scandals. Whereas the Nfl has the draft system to at least try to produce a level playing field, fifa has nothing , in fact they make sure it can never happen by selling out to "commercial interests" like sky adidas etc ; awarding world cups to the biggest bribes. It boils down to glass-houses and stones blah blah.
To appreciate something as complicated as grid-iron takes a basic understanding of what is going on, the options available on each down; without this understanding it can look like random collisions and aimless running about, whereas on a football pitch nearly everything is revealed by just watching the ball. Apples and oranges , the two cannot be compared. The over-riding factor is that no-one is forced to watch something they dislike, sadly, some cannot resist the chance to take the piss out of those that do not share their opinions. Humans, hey..............
And a fine and joyful festive season to everyone ( except of course to rags, landlords, payday loaners, the banks, brexiters , atos , thatcherites , murdoch, traffic wardens, bailiffs, fifa , eufa , the fa, the nay-sayers, with special mention to jeremy hunt for his remorseless destruction of the NHS) x

 

[citizenyank76]

There are towns in America that live for football. That have generations of families that all produce football players. Take Aliquippa, Pa , its produced multiple HOFers over the history of the NFL. Every position has had an evolution of play, pedigree and physical requirement. Just like "futbol." The Wing T, The Notre Dame Box, The Wishbone, The West Coast Offense, The Run And Shoot, The Air Raid.... You can spend you entire life in the sport and still only learn half of it.