shio said:
flagship said:
Because just like golf it's extremely boring to watch. Americans like watching games with fast paced action like football and basketball. |
joke post? In my opinion, americans enjoy sissy sports that are afraid of contact: Basketball - I liked playing basket at physical education back in highschool, but it's a bit boring to watch. It's not a very dynamic sport, it's tactically limited and not very fast with serious symptoms of stopclock-o-litis. No contact whatsoever. American football - The players are afraid of getting sued so they wear big equipment that will save their pocket money, and are so out-of-shape that need to stop the clock everytime something happens(joke). Serious now, Rugby is simply faster and has alot of real contact, how can american football beat that? Baseball - No contact whatsoever and definitely slow paced. But to be honest it's the main american sport that I respect the most. Ice Hockey - I like this one, but it's not as fast as rink hockey and there's no real contact. |
Please don't talk about crap you know nothing about. I have more scars on my body from basketball and football than anything else in my life. Try taking a charge on hardwood (that means having someone run into you, usually full speed, and ramming you to the ground), much less cement. There's so much contact going on in basketball it's ridiculous, especially the moment you go inside the paint (that means when you get close to the basket ;)). Calling any sport you have limited experience with tactically limited is retarded. There's so much going on in basketball, just like in every other sport. I'm not going to bother giving you an example because I don't feel like wasting three minutes typing something you won't understand.
I got the out-of-shape thing was a joke, and it better be, because those are some of the best athletes in a nation of 300 million.
Real contact?
Yeah, do the pads make sense now? If you received one of those hits without pads, you'd either be knocked out, screwed up for life, or dead. I'm so sick and tired of people so full of themselves and sports they're familiar with that thing anything foreign is automatically stupid. I love my American sports, but that doesn't mean I think any less of soccer, rugby, or the like.
OT: It's like Montana said, it's culture and history. It's just the way things progressed in America. Soccer never became as popular as other sports. That said, it is a very popular sport in terms of youth sports. Oh, and hockey is very popular in North Carolina and has been for a while. Plus, we just won the Stanely Cup...
