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post 1672277433 12-05-2022, 12:39 PM
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I was gonna play in the NFL before I was sidelined with an injury.
post 1672277623 12-05-2022, 12:42 PM
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post 1672277743 12-05-2022, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted By 401Delta⏩
I was gonna play in the NFL before I was sidelined with an injury.
what position
What injury?
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post 1672277843 12-05-2022, 12:45 PM
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Originally Posted By 401Delta⏩
I was gonna play in the NFL before I was sidelined with an injury.
This you?

post 1672277913 12-05-2022, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted By 5x10⏩
what position
What injury?
I was a running back & safety...I was very fast.

My coach told me I had hands like feet and it hurt my feelings real bad.
post 1672279083 12-05-2022, 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted By goingcia⏩
It can be enjoyed and I do watch whatever game I can each season but when it comes down to it, it's a bad sport and we are all cucked by watching it.


1) This has been repeated a million times but fact is fact that out of an average 3-hour game there is only 11 mins of action. This is pathetic.
Define action. 60mins of regulation in each game boyo
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2) A ton of little rules to patch up the holes in the game's poor overall design. This says a lot. Some commentators don't even know what the fukk happened sometimes.
Be more specific. Beginning to feel as if you are trying to re-communicate someone else's much better argument, but you didn't retain the details of it
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3) I admire the athleticism of the players but in terms of skill, its really only the QB who does anything impressive. The rest just run and push with an occasional cool looking catch. That's why half of them are just big fat fuks.
Lol this is where you have begun to try and think for yourself and it's blatantly obvious now you ripped off the original thought
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4) The biggest cope is the "it's like chess" bullchit. I always lol at the arrows they draw on screen to explain the 'complex' strategy. You could draw arrows in any team sport if you wished. Not like you can see this supposed strategy as the default camera is never zoomed out enough.
This is simply rehashing point 3 and a very feeble attempt at expounding upon it
Originally Posted By goingcia⏩
5) The cuckening part. The sport is designed from the ground up to maximize ad revenue. Stoppage after stoppage and an ad after an add, literally every few seconds. There is even a rule that the game has to pause for a certain time (the 2 min rule) because it is the most lucrative timeframe for ads(thats literally the reason for this rule, look on wiki). There was a study that said that MOST people tune in to watch the Super Bowl because of the new ads. Just lol.
This is only at the professional NFL level, but someone getting their fact checking from Wikipedia wouldn't realize that
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6) Because of 5, to keep the money machine going, the amount of effort spent to hype up the sport and make it interesting with the constant promos, various showy spectacles, halftime shows, cheerleaders, patriotism chit, etc. This says it all. There is no purity of just the athletes and the fans as in other sports. This is why it's only popular in US, unlike say basketball.
That's quite a word salad to say no other country in the world could field a competitive football team at any level
Originally Posted By goingcia⏩
The game is basically like a free kick after a free kick in soccer but without the organic adaptation that comes from a flowing game and without impressive ball handling skills but with a lot of fukkin unnecessary noise.
At least we agree the free kick is the one exciting part of soccer
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post 1672279123 12-05-2022, 01:06 PM
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LOL'd at the dumb responses. People aren't even trying to argue with OP because he's objectively right.
post 1672279363 12-05-2022, 01:10 PM
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Every American sport is retarded which is why only Americans care about them.
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post 1672279443 12-05-2022, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted By frankdtank20⏩
I loved playing football, but truth be told rugby seems like a far superior sport in almost every way.
Rugby is closer to soccer then it is to American football - coming from someone who grew up playing rugby.

Rugby League has more elements that American football has, use the ball it or lose it is awesome forces action instead of sweeping boring phases. The stop start nature of football is the reason why it is so awesome - every play is at 100% explosive as they they start from rest.

It is like chess aswell. OP is stupid.
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post 1672279653 12-05-2022, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted By Barteh⏩
LOL'd at the dumb responses. People aren't even trying to argue with OP because he's objectively right.
This. Look at the post above yours.
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trying so very hard
post 1672279723 12-05-2022, 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted By Barteh⏩
LOL'd at the dumb responses. People aren't even trying to argue with OP because he's objectively right.
no one gives a **** what op thinks about football
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post 1672280443 12-05-2022, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted By goingcia⏩
This. Look at the post above yours.
You itt

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post 1672280773 12-05-2022, 01:29 PM
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Originally Posted By thedarrenestes⏩
You itt

Sure buddy. I may reply if you try again and actually respond to the points without trying to be clever. Otherwise, sure.
post 1672280953 12-05-2022, 01:32 PM
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**** on the play .i mean flag ...........they literally throw a hankie! lol ghey as fck
post 1672281203 12-05-2022, 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted By goingcia⏩
Sure buddy. I may reply if you try again and actually respond to the points without trying to be clever. Otherwise, sure.
I truly hope if you do that wikipedia isn't down for your sake
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post 1672281503 12-05-2022, 01:39 PM
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Americans in general seem to be happier waddling around at 300lbs & stuffing beef burgers down their greasy holes. Than watching an artful game like football.
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I didn't really understand the football hype until I came to USA and started watching it. There are some flaws like the whole coinflips often times deciding winners in draws and teams icing kickers with timeouts, but it's a sport where seconds feel like minutes. People crash, the ball is thrown amazing distances into small windows, players are extremely fast or extremely strong - sometiems both. A lot of rules, but a lot of small things to watch
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Football doesn't do much for me, but it can be fun watching games with other people.
post 1672282283 12-05-2022, 01:50 PM
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i stopped watching full games long ago. i only watch the highlights now.

but yea too much money is thrown into it.
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post 1672282373 12-05-2022, 01:51 PM
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Originally Posted By 5x10⏩
no one gives a **** what op thinks about football
He didn't even make a thread about football though.
post 1672282673 12-05-2022, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted By Deutschlandbrah⏩
I didn't really understand the football hype until I came to USA and started watching it. There are some flaws like the whole coinflips often times deciding winners in draws and teams icing kickers with timeouts, but it's a sport where seconds feel like minutes. People crash, the ball is thrown amazing distances into small windows, players are extremely fast or extremely strong - sometiems both. A lot of rules, but a lot of small things to watch
It's not without its share of entertainment value. I watch it and I do enjoy it but it is a heavily flawed sport that feels bloated for the wrong reasons.
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In a lot of ways I agree. Where is the skill in being handed a ball and running as far and fast as you can before someone drags you to the ground? Catching a ball requires marginally more skill, but not by much. And throwing does require some skill, especially reading where to throw it. But you already mentioned the QB being the one position that requires some skill.

There's really not much to practice for 99% of the positions. Practice basically just consists of working on agility drills and strength training. Every other sport requires much more skill and practice. Basketball dribbling is a legitimate skill. You don't carry the ball wherever you go, you have to dribble it. Shooting is also a skill, much like throwing of a football which only one position does in the sport.

Then you have baseball. Fielding takes considerable skill. Being able to barehand balls, quick reactions to liners hit at you, throwing involved as well. Hitting and pitching obviously both take tons of skill as well which should go without saying.

Then you have hockey, skating on ice alone is a skill.... so once again even being able to move around the surface of the playing area, much like basketball, requires some skill. Goalies of course require their own unique skillset guarding the goal. Everyone requires skill with the stick in order to maneuver and shoot the puck.

Then there's golf.... do I really need to keep going?


Literally every sport requires tons of skills to be practiced and perfected. Football requires almost no skill for the majority of the positions. Just be big and fast and strong and run far before being dragged to the ground (or reversed if your defense, do all those things until you do drag someone to the ground).
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Out of the 3 hour game there's literally 60 minutes of action. It's a 60 minute play clock.

The other 2 hours is TV advertisements, which is why it's actually pretty boring to attend a game. But that's how the coaches and players get paid. If you're sitting in the stands there isn't anything happening. You just wait. Not even close to enough time to get up and go to the bathroom between plays.
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
This might be your most ridiculous post ever, and shows you have zero understanding of football schematically. I almost think this a troll its so ridiculous.


Watch videos breaking down defensive and offensive schemes, and you will see the level of involvement of all eleven players how the smallest mistakes in positioning, communication, leverage, midreading by one individual can fuk your whole side.
He's quite obviously talking about technical skill, not tactical skill. I don't think anybody denies tactics play a big role in handegg.
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One of the best parts of the game is the anticipation of the next play, specially when things get down to the end and its close. I hate commercials but saying there is no action between plays is dumb. There is a lot going on if you actually watch it. Personal changes, how they line up, coverage, etc.

I have a buddy who records the games and fast forwards through a lot of it. Completely killing the vibe of the game. Go watch a 5 min recap of any game. Its bam bam bam and truly sucks for the fan experience. Its pointless.
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