baseball/football worst sports ever?

[burkemi5]

Originally Posted by nalkin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

11 minutes of actual playtime? ROFLMAO. How pathetic is that? In two games that are probably the most nonathletic sports that exist, they only actually play for 11 minutes. So while you are huddled around your tv for a few hours remember how little gametime you are actually watching and unfortunately for you its not a case of quality vs quantity, they are actually the worse quality sports there are. If you want a real quality sport with 60 min of high intensity physical play let me introduce you to hockey.

Sidenote: soccer is gay

yup football sure isn't physical, ask colt mccoy about that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfFW-Yezv0k

also, why don't you go tell players like Calvin Johnson, Reggie Bush, or Darren Sproles that they aren't athletic. Please keep troll threads in RnF.

[MrSparkle001]

11 minutes of actual play and people still get season and career ending injuries. Football is a badass sport.

Hockey is good too. Baseball though is kinda boring for me. It's fun to play but not so fun to watch, which is the opposite of football which is the cause of many personal concussions, intense migraines until I quit (back then a head injury was treated by the coach saying "walk it off". Yep we were idiots 20+ years ago. I had to stop playing entirely) and possible brain damage as a result.

Anquan Boldin knocked out and shattered his sinus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P--cSlHsVjk

Joe Theismann. I don't even need to describe it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHCXNt4P8Xg. This makes me cringe even now.

Hockey has lots of good hits and pretty intense games that can leave you breathless, but it's just too Canadian to be taken seriously in the US. It's probably my second favorite team sport though.

On a related note (not to the OP or anyone here): I laugh at people who criticize football because pads are worn. People would be killed if they didn't, or else the game would be nowhere near as intense. It's a collision sport, 250lb+ men crashing into each other every single play. Without pads they'd either die or be unable to do it.

[Hailto]

Originally Posted by MrSparkle001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

11 minutes of actual play and people still get season and career ending injuries. Football is a badass sport.

Hockey is good too. Baseball though is kinda boring for me. It's fun to play but not so fun to watch, which is the opposite of football which is the cause of many personal concussions, intense migraines until I quit (back then a head injury was treated by the coach saying "walk it off". Yep we were idiots 20+ years ago. I had to stop playing entirely) and possible brain damage as a result.

Anquan Boldin knocked out and shattered his sinus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P--cSlHsVjk

Joe Theismann. I don't even need to describe it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHCXNt4P8Xg. This makes me cringe even now.

Hockey has lots of good hits and pretty intense games that can leave you breathless, but it's just too Canadian to be taken seriously in the US. It's probably my second favorite team sport though.

On a related note (not to the OP or anyone here): I laugh at people who criticize football because pads are worn. People would be killed if they didn't, or else the game would be nowhere near as intense. It's a collision sport, 250lb+ men crashing into each other every single play. Without pads they'd either die or be unable to do it.

Worst sports injury ever was when Chuck Malarchuk got his throat cut with a skate, google that video if you want to see some messed up shit, i wont post it here. But yeah, football is the best imo.

[Harrison]

I've seen a femur snap in half during football practice in high school. I'd rather have my throat cut than endure that level of pain.

[Gwence]

op needs to put down the crack pipe


just for some perspective

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_sea..._waiting_lists

scroll down to the waiting lists for season tickets for different NFL teams, especially Green Bay.

[nalkin]

Originally Posted by Gwence [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

op needs to put down the crack pipe


just for some perspective

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_sea..._waiting_lists

scroll down to the waiting lists for season tickets for different NFL teams, especially Green Bay.

Uhh... ok football is popular? never said it wasn't. Im saying i don't understand why when there is only 11 minutes of actual play in a game, and to me the play is not even quality. Better than baseball for sure, but if you think 250lb men colliding is athletic, well coo i guess... but there are way more physical sports than football (eg hockey), which actually incorporate alot of skill as well.

[Tuko]

Football is like a game of physical chess. Hockey is like basketball on ice you just go back and forth back and forth...

I prefer watching Rugby games, it's physical and it doesnt stop for commercial break every 30 seconds.

[Doors]

Baseball is a game of intelligence. If you don't like it, that is because you are stupid.

Football I could go either way on these days. Goodell pussified the league.

[Mardur]

I agree that football and baseball are pretty boring. I'm not sure why you don't like soccer though, it's really the only sport that's the only combination of "american football-esque" on-the-field strategy and athleticism.

I also really enjoy hockey but I'm not a big enough idiot to hate something just because another country already does.

Originally Posted by purest [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

drive a car on the field honking when they're blowing their top

[nalkin]

Originally Posted by Mardur [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree that football and baseball are pretty boring. I'm not sure why you don't like soccer though, it's really the only sport that's the only combination of "american football-esque" on-the-field strategy and athleticism.

I also really enjoy hockey but I'm not a big enough idiot to hate something just because another country already does.

Ehh I think soccer could be great actually if there were a few fundamental changes. The game is a bit slow to me, though very exciting when they get in scoring chance. I think maybe if they decreased the field size a bit and made the goal smaller it would make the game more exciting. Also wtf with soccer offsides. The other problem is that the players are so pathetic diving everywhere. I think a variation of soccer could be the great world sport, I realize it already is, but it could be so much better than it is.