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People don’t need to like everything.
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Don't understand the appeal?
And that’s fine.
People don’t need to like everything.
never watched it... yank vehicle for advertising(as is all their sports)
I don't understand the question.Originally Posted by Taffy Blue in Berkshire
Think he’s asking for someone who likes the game to explain why. For instance, I like following and watching boxing.
I find it both exciting and educational when boxers who train hard most of the yr, pit their skills, punching power, balance, hand speed and all round boxing ability against an opponent (usually about the same weight) under a certain set of rules, and try to become one of the best in the world in their division.
Not everyone’s cup of tea though.
I quite like the NFL but the superbowl just annoys me, I don't care about any team in particular, it's late, sack off the halftime show and get on with it. I will probably watch the first half and go to sleep
It's got a chess-like appeal but the hype, ad breaks and showbiz drawing it out over three hours is too much to bear. An edited version of just the play and lasting an hour would be good.
Each year I give it various amounts of viewing, usually I can't get into it.
Think it was the year before last though that I enjoyed it, very close match.
It's more a cultural event than a sports match, if viewing it with that mindset I think it can be appreciated by a lot of people that wouldn't usually enjoy the sport itself. Probably a good laugh with a few mates and beers.
Saturday night would be better if I can make a request.
The best way to watch it. I’ll avoid the result until the morning, then watch the extended highlights show which is normally 40-45 minutes and only has the plays.
The actual game KO is 11:30pm
124,000,000 people might disagree with you.
The actual sport is great but yes the endless stops in play are unbearable. I'd watch it if I didn't have work in the morning though
Forget sacking the quarterback, sack whoever sorts out the off field entertainment.
You, of course, are the mirror image of the many Americans who complain that soccer is boring, with its "endless passing, stupid offside rule and low, low, low scoring." It does little good to point out that peoples as culturally diverse as the English, Brazilians, Germans, Ecuadorians, Koreans and Turks find it gripping. They just don't get it.
Here's the truth: If your parents had emigrated to Kansas City, and you had been born and raised there, chances are you would be absolutely on fire for today's game. It's what you know and where you're from.
Bit like language, really. Germans may sound guttural and rough, but to them it's all poetry.
So just like an American version of the Premier League?
The truth is English,Brazilians, Germans, Ecuadoreans, Koreans and Turks as you say and many more peoples play soccer but a measure of American Football is that very few other countries apart from the US play the sport. American football is totally and absolutely dependent upon their college system which makes it, apart from its turgid lack of continuity, not economically feasible to develop it anywhere else. The only way to watch American Football with enjoyment is solely highlights.
The recent innovation of Flag Football to try and give a sort of rugby 7’s appeal is plainly not thought through.
74 million voted for trump...see how that's going! In other words don't put all your faith in popularity. Swifty :P
Last year 62.5 million people outside of the US watched the Super Bowl. Not bad for a sport nobody plays.
Would you explain the "turgid lack of continuity" thing please?
I'm guessing "turgid lack of continuity" means it's too stop-start?
Pomeroy is absolutely right about American football (NFL) being dependent on the college system. That couldn't be replicated anywhere else in the world because of the finance involved.
On the other hand, kids can easily kick a football around in the streets of El Salvador or Sudan.
an't wait to ignore it.
That’s only a third of the population of America.
Quite like the game, but it’s a no no for the Super Bowl for me - it’s everything I don’t want sport to be.
One hour actual playing time in an “event” lasting three hours plus. There’s not much continuity there.
Only 10% of the UK population watch the FA cup final…..33% is pretty impressive in comparison.
Oh, I see. In that case, the turgid lack of continuity is exactly why it's so commercially viable. More space for advertising. American football may not be the most popular sport in the world but it generates significantly more revenue than any other.
Doesn’t take an Einstein to work that out. E.G. every time someone catches the ball, ,loses the ball, scores a touchdown the whole thing comes to a stop and players trot on, trot off and sit down with legions of their pals on the touchline perhaps catching a Gatorade or calling the wife at the touchline phone booths. When a touchdown is scored the whole team comes off and is replaced by 11 new men. Then back to the studio for the obligatory 10 minute discussion before restarting with the usual change to special teams. The Pro game roster allows for 65 players many aimlessly discussing the news of the day at the touchline. Pity the poor kicker who very infrequently gets called upon to take part in the show, comes on takes a kick and then returns to his touchline booth to continue watching Tom & Jerry cartoons. I pity even more the big guys whose job is just to push and shove , many of whom in the whole of their career never get to handle the ball let alone run with it.
Only the Yanks could devise such a game!!
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