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american football are a decent band yeah but i dunno why you would compare them to soccball.
seriously though it's really funny when fans of american football call european football slow paced. i like amer. football but it's actually the most slow paced sport in the history of the world. 9000 commercial breaks, 40 minutes of actual time will get you about 10 minutes down on the play clock, and the last few minutes of the 2nd and 4th quarters last for what feels like a million years.
i know that's not exactly what elph said but i just hear it a lot
That's why I can't watch it. Football is great because it's much easier to follow and get used to. Just get the ball in the net. It probably is slower in terms of 'in play' action but there are less breaks.
I prefer the culture to the sport these days if I'm honest though. England are shit and Villa are shit so that sucks a lot of enjoyment out, there is only so long I can watch my teams getting battered.
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american football are a decent band yeah but i dunno why you would compare them to soccball.
seriously though it's really funny when fans of american football call european football slow paced. i like amer. football but it's actually the most slow paced sport in the history of the world. 9000 commercial breaks, 40 minutes of actual time will get you about 10 minutes down on the play clock, and the last few minutes of the 2nd and 4th quarters last for what feels like a million years.
i know that's not exactly what elph said but i just hear it a lot
The only time I ever quite get the hype is for the Superbowl. And then somehow all the pomp makes you care and you don't even know why.
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It definitely feels like a sport that's easier to get into than one that has an entire globe of 12,000 years of history.
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Holy **** I want to hear elph announce a baseball game.
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How many times do the players run all the way up that gigantic field just to have the ball kicked out of bounds
I don't get it. The ball is back in play in under ten seconds most of the time.
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my problem with the sport as a spectator is the all or nothing nature there's barely any marks of progress, you can go to take a piss and miss the only crucial 30 secs in a 1-0 game
Where as American Football is a strategic tug-o-war mixed with chess and everything builds off the previous play
True but the other side to that is scoring a late goal and winning. Individual points being more significant and having a bigger impact on the game = more drama imo.
you're dumbing down the entire sport of European football and then exaggerating the strategy in american football.
for me a good match of euro football is like a game of chess. the whole team moves together and shifts allowing the better team to retain possession and make quick, short, accurate passes.
it's like me sitting here and saying yeah american football is just hail marys down the field until the other team gets an interception.
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Bruh, seriously, tennis is the best sport. It's the closest sports will ever come to a true clash of physical skill between two gladiators. Novak Djokovic is a monster of a human being, Rapha Nadal is a cyborg, Andy Murray is a Hogwarts student, and I don't even know what Federer is.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
Bruh, seriously, tennis is the best sport. It's the closest sports will ever come to a true clash of physical skill between two gladiators. Novak Djokovic is a monster of a human being, Rapha Nadal is a cyborg, Andy Murray is a Hogwarts student, and I don't even know what Federer is.
Tennis is up there definitely.
Some of my most enjoyable sporting moments were in tennis. Emotional when Murray won Wimbledon the first time.
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Tennis is up there definitely.
Some of my most enjoyable sporting moments were in tennis. Emotional when Murray won Wimbledon the first time.
Dude I got so into Murray during one of my tennis binges when he was still hitting himself with his racket and biting it and being the guy who was just on the cusp of being in the Big 4. He was so fun to watch but he still so clearly deserved to be among the best in the world if he would just chill out lol.
But definitely the most fun I've ever had watching tennis was Djokovic during his first winning streak. OMG he was insane. Possibly the greatest shot I've ever seen was when Federer served him this insane serve and Djokovic just reacted like a cheetah and sent this completely impossible return that instantly ended the game. The mother****er is Spider-Man with his speed, strength, and flexibility I swear.
@1:12 if you want to see Djokovic send a shot between the net and the official stand. Basically an impossible shot if you're not a Greek God.
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