Scoobes said:
Kasz216 said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:
...and I wonder, if American football was an olympic sport, how well the foriegn teams would do against us, lol?
I'm pretty sure we're competitive in most sports, including soccer, basketball, baseball, hockey, and all of the other sports worldwide. I'm not sure if the entire rest of the world combined could form one team that could beat the Colts of the Saints.
That's not a dig on soccer, or any other sport, but we do have American football, and I'd love to see someone say they could do THAT better.
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Eh, they may catch up if it ever catches on. I mean look at Baseball. Those South American teams are killers now a days.
American Football is way too complicated to be an international Sport though.
I mean the kind of playbooks you'd need to memorize? Forget about it.
People call Soccer more technical then American Football... but most people would be quite shocked how complicated Football really is when it comes to management and styles and such.
It's probably the most complicated sport in the world when it comes to strategy.
The last major Soccer innovation was what? Total Football? Where the players can play more then one positon?
Every play in Football is like a chess move. Well a very VIOLENT chess move anyway. The adjustments you can make are staggering.
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If this question was reversed and it asked "Why isn't American Football more popular in the rest of the world?" than I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head. Most big international games consist of fast paced or relatively constant action.
Instead, in American football, it's like watching a very violent version of chess, which in many ways provides a false pretence to the game as you see these giant and padded athletes, yet they only enter action for short bursts. The athletes paint a picture of a powerful, action-packed sport, yet that action is secondary to the devising of strategy.
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By too complicated to be an International Sport...
I meant you could never have a World Cup of American Football.
There are too many Offensive and Defensive formations and plays to learn for National teams to exist along with regular teams. I'm sure that's one reason it's not an Olympic sport.
Hell, depending on what system you run... it's COMPLETLY Different.
Like, a 4-3 Linebacker is built and serves a COMPLETELY different function then a 3-4 Lineback. You can tell the difference just by looking at them height and weight wise.
With the World Cup, you can just take the best players in your country and have them play together as a team.
In American Football you would need to practically build two or more completely different defenses to decide which was best... and you'd be leaving a lot of your best at home just because it'd be impossible for them to work.
Offesnivly you'd need to find the right level of Long, Cutback and possesion receivers, you'd have to decide whether you wanted a catch passing RB or a pure rusher, a pass catching FB, Rushing FB, Blocker... or even no fullback.
Or a HB on the bench that you may want to run the Wildcat... or even a QB backup to run the Wildcat.
Pass Cathcing TEs or Receiving TEs?
On different teams, the different positions responsibilties vary so widely, it'd be near impossible to just use your best players... and you'd have to comit to a playstyle and the type of players you'd want EARLY and even then it would take forever to Drill in.
American Football isn't as forgiving of mistakes. I mean lets be honest, despite being the best Soccer event around. Worldcup Soccer isn't the best as far as purity of play. That's the Premier League and Champions League.
Worldcup is behind in quality, but ahead because of the Drama.
With American football, it may end up being unwatchable in a "world cup" setting... and more resemble a game of pickup then a proffesional game.
