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Originally Posted by krudmonk
Yeah, and you're called on to do it only about 4 times a game. If you're successful in doing so about 40% of the time, they call you great. So even if that's the hardest feat in sports, everyone sucks at it so who cares?
yep i totaly agree with that! who cares about all those sports players making millions of dollars a year for somthing that should be played for fun when was the last time u herd of a brain surgon geting 20 million a year for standing around.
So does he pass to the batter and the batter hits a home run? No, the pitcher does. Does the runner catch a hit from the batter and then circle the bases? No, because he'd be out if the ball touched him.
Wow, sounds like a great team sport. A bunch of guys working parallel to each other with barely any interaction.
This doesn't really make sense. Here, let me try to explain something to you. In soccer, someone may not have the ball, but he is still a cog in the offense if he is trying to maneuver to get a pass or set up an offense. He may not have the ball, but he is participating. Now, baseball is structured differently so a base runner is not at bat, but he had to successfully execute his at bat in order to get on base. He may not be at the plate; or have the ball to equate it to socer; but he is on base trying to generate offense and participating.
This doesn't really make sense. Here, let me try to explain something to you. In soccer, someone may not have the ball, but he is still a cog in the offense if he is trying to maneuver to get a pass or set up an offense. He may not have the ball, but he is participating. Now, baseball is structured differently so a base runner is not at bat, but he had to successfully execute his at bat in order to get on base. He may not be at the plate; or have the ball to equate it to socer; but he is on base trying to generate offense and participating.
Let me put it this way:
In soccer, players work together. In baseball, players work in parallel.
In the shorter time frame of American football, there are more strategy, planning, and variables than 90 minutes of a soccer game.
Actually, I believe there is just as much strategy, planning, and variables in soccer game it is just that a lot of it is either done in advance or done without stoppage of play. There are a lot of changes that go on in strategy during a soccer game that the average person would never notice if they didnt know the game.
Actually, I believe there is just as much strategy, planning, and variables in soccer game it is just that a lot of it is either done in advance or done without stoppage of play. There are a lot of changes that go on in strategy during a soccer game that the average person would never notice if they didnt know the game.
In one snap of the American football; you have several major cogs that have to work together to make a play happen succesfully, often in unison and often in split seconds:
(bolded lines represent things that happen while the clock is running, but the ball is not technically in play, skewing those "ball in play stats" that people throw around)
-offensive line has to make the proper reads on the defense pre-snap
-quarterback has to make the proper reads on the defense pre-snap (change play if necessary)
-offensive line has to execute said reads and blocks to keep quarterback upright
-quarterback has maybe 3-4 seconds to locate primary receiver or go through "check-downs"
-simultaneously, wide receivers have to run precision routes and expect the ball to be thrown at any time, at times while their back is turned, and often with defenders hanging on them
If you are lucky, all eleven people have done their job and you gained yardage.
Of course, this is a simplification and does not account for the fact that the defense is changing things and making calls before the offense snaps the ball. The two opposing teams are working and reacting against each other, in the span of maybe a few seconds, on several different spots on the field. It also does not account for running the ball instead of throwing it and vice versa.
Now, I am not trying to say one is better than the other, or convince you or anyone to prefer one sport over the other. I am open to learning more about soccer; but so many soccer people use flawed logic and out right wrong logic to pump up soccer against American football. They are completely different sports, the nature of American football does not allow for continuous play like soccer. Likewise, the sport of soccer does not need the stoppages to set up offenses and defenses because it is a different game. Soccer is more akin to hockey or lacrosse; and is a different game that should never be compared to American football on basis of game play and strategy. They are too different.
In 90 minutes of the NFL, you get 65 minutes of commercials, 24 minutes of replays, and 1 minute of ACTUAL play.
What's funny is that football's biggest day of the year isn't about football...it's about TV commercials. People won't remember that the Steelers won...but they will remember that a dude bit into a Dorito and that caused a woman's clothes to fly off....
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