Why are American sports so boring?

[Rjk]

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they are all great sports, you just have to get used to their own particular cadences

[jimmyscoular]

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All I can tell you, having now lived in the United States great number of years, is that if life's twists and turns had led to you being born and raised here you would not think American sports are boring.

It is what you grow up with. It's all those years following a team along with your dad and your grandpa and your cousins and friends and reading all about in the paper and so on. Believe me, Americans don't show up in their millions to watch football and baseball and basketball to be bored.

[StraightOuttaCanton]

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All I can tell you, having now lived in the United States great number of years, is that if life's twists and turns had led to you being born and raised here you would not think American sports are boring.

It is what you grow up with. It's all those years following a team along with your dad and your grandpa and your cousins and friends and reading all about in the paper and so on. Believe me, Americans don't show up in their millions to watch football and baseball and basketball to be bored.

You nailed it. I’ve been in North America for almost 15 years now. Sport is social currency here and once you get it they’re all great. Biggest issue is that I now have to watch all the UK stuff as well as everything here

[the other bob wilson]

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I know that our baseball is a better game. There have been nine innings in US baseball when no one actually makes a hit. Basketball is where giants run up one end and then up the other end to the strains of terrible organ music. American football has to be the daftest game ever where hordes of men carrying helmets walk around on the sidelines doing nothing for 95% of the game waiting for their moment of glory.

I would argue that making it hard to score adds to a sports attraction. Although cricket is catching up as I get older, I'm going to spend all of my life believing that football is the best sport in the world and is there a harder one to register a score in than football? It's because a goal is so hard to score in football that they tend to get celebrated so much. I don't watch a great deal of baseball, but, based on what I have seen it, I feel it's a sport I should get into more - I like what I've seen of it and part of the attraction is that it's so hard to register a score.

Again, I don't watch a great deal of American football now, but I used to when it was on Channel 4 on.a Sunday back in the 80s and really got into it then, I think it's a really good sport once you peel away all of the media crap that goes with it.

Basketball on the other hand is mind numbingly boring in my opinion - it seems harder not to score in that game. Another thing that makes a goof sport is if it is something that people of all sorts of shapes and sizes can play to a good standard. Sadly, there is a trend towards favuring bigger players in a lot of sports these days, but there's still a place for a good little one in most of them - maybe someone who knows more about basketball than me can show that a small person can succeed in that sport, but it seems a game designed to be played by giants to me.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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I don't watch a great deal of American football now, but I used to when it was on Channel 4 on.a Sunday back in the 80s and really got into it then, I think it's a really good sport once you peel away all of the media crap that goes with it.

I used to like the results montages with Frankie goes to Hollywood in the background:

https://youtu.be/cyyHRoQyIy4?feature=shared

[Majorblue]

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Sports are boring if you have no emotional attachment to them.

[fugsyphil]

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Sure if you asked random Americans to watch half our home games this season they'd convince you what we love is way more tedious than what they do

[the other bob wilson]

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I used to like the results montages with Frankie goes to Hollywood in the background:
https://youtu.be/cyyHRoQyIy4?feature=shared

Thanks for posting that, it brought back a lot of memories and some names I'd forgotten about for years. My team was the Houston Oilers because they were always crap - I remember they signed a number one draft pick quarterback Warren Moon who was meant to transform them, he didn't.

However, I see thay beat the Dolphins that week as Dan Marino had a mare - that must have been the Oilers best win of the decade :hehe:

[Der Kaiser]

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Basketball, Baseball, NFL are substitutes for sleeping tablets!!

Lets hope none have watched Cardiff City recently as their introduction to football.

[Der Kaiser]

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I know that our baseball is a better game. There have been nine innings in US baseball when no one actually makes a hit. Basketball is where giants run up one end and then up the other end to the strains of terrible organ music. American football has to be the daftest game ever where hordes of men carrying helmets walk around on the sidelines doing nothing for 95% of the game waiting for their moment of glory.

A no hitter or perfect game are amongst the best individual achievements an athlete can make in any sport, they certainly aren't to be sneered at.

[pomeroy]

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A no hitter or perfect game are amongst the best individual achievements an athlete can make in any sport, they certainly aren't to be sneered at.

But do you want to sit through it ?

[J R Hartley]

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Imagine a Cardiff City fan in the Erol Bulut error cristicising other sports for being boring. :hehe:

People in glass houses.....

[Der Kaiser]

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But do you want to sit through it ?

Yes, happily. I've been to baseball games previously and thoroughly enjoyed them.

[Undercoverinwurzelland]

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My team was the Houston Oilers because they were always crap

Bit of a theme emerging 😁

I seem to remember Warren Moon being decent but not good enough to carry the rest of the team. I supported the Redskins (as they were then) as I had family in Washington who used to send me merchandise.
They won a couple of superbowls before I started to lose interest in it. I still look out for their scores, but never watch it.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Eric probably loves them, there must be stats galore.