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Soccer sucks, but....
massive88:
--- Quote from: Level42 on June 25, 2009, 04:14:14 am ---American football is popular in the US because it's a great sport to put a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin----load of commercials on TV during a game, mainly because the play is dead after every couple of seconds. Talks about BORING !
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American Football is the best TV sport period. It doesn't matter if you like it or not, no other sport has the same pacing and violence to make it appeal to the greatest number of people like football.
ChadTower:
I usually stay way out of these debates because they're stupid... but the concept that a sport is popular because it allows tons of commercials makes no sense. People hate the commercials and complain about them all the time. It actually works in the opposite manner. The networks are able to cram in so many commercials without losing viewers because of the popularity of the sport.
Or, for people like me, we watch it on Tivo and there are no commercials and no halftime. :woot Record four games at once and flip among them at will or watch them later on if you managed to not spoil the results. Sunday during football season in my house is an event unto itself.
CheffoJeffo:
Bunch of damned heathens ... get offa my lawn!
No strategy ... pfft ... no brain.
--- Quote from: Level42 on June 24, 2009, 04:32:06 pm ---Football is the best sport to watch in the world.
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+1
Go Seleção!
--- Quote from: massive88 on June 25, 2009, 09:23:12 am ---
--- Quote from: Level42 on June 25, 2009, 04:14:14 am ---American football is popular in the US because it's a great sport to put a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin----load of commercials on TV during a game, mainly because the play is dead after every couple of seconds. Talks about BORING !
--- End quote ---
American Football is the best TV sport period. It doesn't matter if you like it or not, no other sport has the same pacing and violence to make it appeal to the greatest number of people like football.
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American football is popular in America because it is broken down into 30 second bits, after which the preceding 30 seconds are then explained to the viewer. It is the ultimate sport for the lazy fan.
As for "best TV sport period" -- compare 100 million viewers for the Superbowl (half of which just want to see the commercials) with over 1 billion viewers for the World Cup.
It may be, however, the best sport for TV, with its relentless stoppages in play and related advertising opportunities. You watch how Tide gets your whites whiter, I'll watch Macon streak down the right side.
Ginsu Victim:
MMA is pretty much the only sport I care to watch.
LLUncoolJ:
This is how you know if your sport sucks:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPxgTmHJaE[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0yX_1O3sRY[/youtube]
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