Why football sucks

As with most sports or games, much of the time is involved in setting up strategy. Not much. For a thinking person, this is the best part of the game. In football, the strategy begins days before the match, sometimes months for particular teams. What players to play? What schemes to run? After the game begins, tactical moves are being made in order to thwart an opponent or to employ your own strategy while the ball is not in play.

When the huddle breaks, how is the offense lining up? Run or pass? Two tight end set? Shotgun or under the Center? How does the defense react? Crowd the receivers or play off? Play the run? The same happens in soccer, but the players are constantly moving while the tactical moves are being applied. They have to run down the field to set up their strategy, but all-in-all, the same thing is going on.

Positioning of players to increase the chances of a score. Very well said! One of my favorite games as a child was a board game called NFL Strategy. A two player game where each player calls plays and based on the 2 plays and which hash the ball was positioned would get a randomized result.

It was a terrific game that really simulated the outcomes accurately. I remember asking what special teams were. Most people who love the sport are patient teachers to those who want to learn, and after watching many games and asking many questions, I grew to love the sport. As noted, half the fun is seeing what plays are developing, and I also love the replays.

Watching the best quarterbacks throwing to premiere wide receivers is especially thrilling. It sucks about Adrian Peterson, and I lost much respect for the man, but I loved watching him run the ball. I also have a DVR, so I can zip through commercials I really would have a hard time watching football if I had to slog through all the commercials.

I agree entirely. I enjoy watching many sports — gridiron football, association football, hockey, tennis, rugby union, etc. Personally, when I was watching the World Cup this year, I broke down to watching the 30 minute recaps on Univision for most of the games. Now, all the other issues with football are big problems, especially the injuries. For non-stop action with great athleticism the best sports are Aussie rules and netball, the former a mixture of football and basketball loosely speaking and the latter basketball without the dribbling and incessant timeouts.

Not a lot of other sports have all this in the mix at once. On Wed mornings, former? What is the responsibility of any coach or the head of a professional sports organization or a Fortune private corporate tyrant compared to that of the POTUS? These obscenities strike me as features of American culture, not of football in particular. I once mentioned this salary difference between a university sports coach and the POTUS to an acquaintance. An Army major general? A GS civil service senior official?

The U. Poet Laureate? A state lieutenant governor? A state-level secretary of state? This page provides a lot of info on the salaries of college football coaches. The data are far more disgusting than you realize. And until perhaps recently one also has seen little if any team owner or fan concern for that damage.

Hockey is the only team game left that the players are not constantly thanking that invisible man in the sky. That being said: Go Giants. This is a bit of a daft complaint. Same is true of music. Playing Hendrix or Pink Floyd or most jazz and classical is immensely gratifying…but can be boring to listen to or watch. But, overall, to say that listening to music is boring. If you do like them their concerts are spectacular. I do quite like the Floyd.

Saddest thing I heard in a while, it was. Dave Mason. I thought for a moment you said Nick Mason — my world was teetering on its foundations.

The college game has slightly different timing rules, specifically the clock is stopped when a first down is achieved, it is not in the NFL. Sadly I think the problem may be getting even worse in terms of football corrupting academia.

Over the last years cable TV has greatly increased the TV exposure and thus the profitability of college football. In the last years, they have begun nationally televising High school football games. Add that to things like the ESPN top or , which ranks the top recruits in the country and voila, you have a recipe for HS football factories.

The commitment to academics at Hoover was sadly, and predictably, less enthusiastic. I grew up, along with most of the men in my family, sweating out August two-a-days in the Florida sun. That sport meant the world to me when I was a kid. I confess that I once was a football addict, like as a youth I bought into the fundamentalist BS of the religion I was brought up in, until I fortunately outgrew both of them in college.

They have a lot in common — both are utterly pointless activities that countless millions of Americans are addicted to. Of course, the game could be safer or less damaging anyway. Accumulating the amount of acceleration a helmet undergoes over the course of a game or a season could cut down on the amount of brain injuries. A team would be required to withdraw a player from the game when his amount of acceleration goes beyond some limit.

A player might be withdrawing from a season if some limit is reached. In America it is all about the money and nothing else matters. So-called student athlete hardly graduates from high school and gets four years free waste of time. Most of the commentators are retired international cricketers, usually very distinguished ones, so, while they can waste airtime as much as anybody, a lot of their commentary is extraordinarily revealing.

You can expect soccer-like jerseys eventually being the norm for basketball much better selling potential than the current jersey-types. But the biggest nail-in-the-coffin for football is the undeniable fact that it is a stupidly dangerous sport to enroll your kids in.

Not trying to be confrontational- just wanted to site the facts. Basketball is making leaps and bounds overseas, which will further spur its growth. Perhaps your oil analogy is somewhat apt. But in the case of football, the effects and aftermath are immediately felt by parents. With oil — and the effects it has on climate change, the mess in the middle east, the contamination of our water supplies with regards to natural gas , etc, etc — the effects are long term and people can keep brushing them aside plus all the mis-information leading them to believe its all bogus anyway.

People always used to tell me baseball is boring compared to football because baseball lacks action. That seems pretty laughable in light of this data. Admittedly at the end of that both sides might yet to score a goal, but still…. In that respect it resembles that other great English game, cricket, where both sides can play for five days and end up with a draw….

My favourite spectator team sport is volleyball, where you know that when the ball is launched a point will be scored soon and one team or other will win. This would increase the typical score per game from maybe 2 goals to maybe That is, one goal might be just pure luck, half a dozen are much less likely to be.

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The RedZone channel solves many of those problems. In college ball, you lose the last game of the year, you are not going to the National Championship. The NFL is a few steps away from becoming scripted. If you don't know what that means, it's the same as WWE.

Miami Mitch's article on refs throwing the game is more than enough evidence to say that this is already happening. They get paid, win or lose, so who cares? They are part of a system that make billions of dollars a year.

The NFL is bureaucratic, un-smiling, and clinical. Most college players aren't going to be drafted, so they play because they love the game and enjoy displaying the pride of wearing the school's Jersey. So next year, join me on Saturdays to watch some good football and avoid the Sunday sleepers.

I have no clue how legions and legions of fans are so enthralled with the sport and how dedicated they become to these teams. People shell out fortunes and even get into fights in the stands over their allegiance to their club. Tyler is a writer from Montreal, Canada. He enjoys cheeseburgers, sports, music, and double cheeseburgers. Follow him on Twitter and every other social media tlemco.

The Revolution and the Impact tied Add that fantasy football has been a cash cow for the league and always will be. The sport is made for fantasy play unlike any other. I was surprised that the lack of a preseason did not effect as many teams as I thought it would.

The network did a pretty good job of piping in the crowd. Definitely a lack of energy and excitement by not having fans, but it was still pretty fun. Did not even give it a second thought — No fans that is. The games I watched yesterday were great. I just wish they would have gone a step further—not to play in Week 1. I watched the Pats-Fins, Bucs-Saints and some of the night game and all 3 it seemed like the crowd noise was pretty well run.

But lack of practices and no preseason is likely to blame…. I am a Phins fan and the Pats Phins game was boring. No fans kills the atmosphere as well. I am also little turned off with the BLM propaganda. I skipped all of the pregame stuff, tuned away from the commercials, ended up being a tolerable Sunday of football. And at least the number 1 commentating teams for the 3 networks are really good. Preseason may not be necessary for the veterans.

But there are a lot of young guys drafted in the mid to late rounds that may make an NFL roster with some preseason experience. I say cut it down to 2 games.

Really weird with no fans in the stadium. But then no Cowboys showed up either. Maybe he should push himself away from the TV and work on some exciting projects. I can think of a few. With all political stuff being put into the NFL and other sports it has lost it luster to me. Kidding right. Its a time people, buds, girlfriends. We pick sides.

Break bread together and never even talk politics. Looking squarely at you, Fox. Keeping an eye on the rest of you. I went to my first game in Washington in 46, I like the candy and other treats at the time. So is politics. Just no. FOX was the only network to see better numbers than last year, and that is mainly because of the Brady v. Brees game.