It's not horrible to watch, I can watch a game every now and then. But to play? It's such a poor sport. It's way too calculated. The distribution of responsibility is all over the place. Who in their right mind would want to play tight end over quarterback? Field goal kicker over wide receiver? I know a 10 year old kid who plays football and he plays tight end for no other reason than he's fat. His entire play experience consists of standing up. Then you've got all the specialty teams. Seems you can't blow your nose in the game without first calling out the kleenex team. All players just blindly follow plays and have very little influence or say on the game. Football is played too much at the coach level, and not enough at the player level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew
I think football may be entertaining for its grunts and exciting tackles and what not, but as a game it's poorly conceived and just not that engaging.
Baseball has a lot of strategy and depth to it. Chess does too but I don't watch chess for fun. I can appreciate it a lot more than football. But where as I can watch a football game on occassion, you can't pay me to watch baseball.
Soccer is a nice balance of excitement, pace and strategy. As are basketball, hockey, etc. Generally any game that involves a relatively uniform team trying to get an object in a goal tends to work. Here the teammates aren't just simple drones doing the tasks they've memorized. The entire team as a whole is constantly thinking, adapting, working together, and setting up plays on the fly. Soccer requires you to be fit, skilled and intelligent, you can't really say that for football.
