06-16-2010, 04:12 PM
Vllad Wrote:Jake's list while it has a criteria is still full of oxy morons.
While you may like College football over the NFL we aren't talking about leagues we are talking about the sports themselves. American football is football whether it is High School, College, Arena or the NFL.
I find it hard to believe that any reasonable American would claim Soccer is more exciting then American Football. Sure there are some knuckleheads out there that just say that because they wished Soccer were more popular. They don't say it because it is actually true.
Poker isn't a sport it is a game. That isn't to say it isn't more exciting then Soccer but games don't qualify in this discussion. If you are going to list games then you might as well put WoW on your list.
That list was posted as a joke.. Although I would say that Arenal football and NFL are completely different sports (college and NFL are different too but not significantly enough to say they are different sports).
I know lots of reasonable Americans that say Soccer is more exciting than American Football. They certainly aren't the majority because it isn't the game we grow up watching, but its not inherently more boring than live american football - which with the pauses many people find dreadful. If you go to a NFL game live and see the dozens of TV enforced breaks, many people find live games horribly boring. I'm sure college games could be boring live if one wasn't a fan and too drunk to see while at them, but I have never actually been at a college game in either of those capacities. Every Texas game was after 4 hours of tailgating and with several flasks smuggled in...
I'm saying this as someone who still finds soccer more boring than baseball or college football or college basketball (although I might find premiership soccer games more entertaining than NFL or NBA), so I certainly don't find it the best thing since sliced bread - but it certainly isn't inherently more boring than many American sports that 95% of the world would find far more boring... You like what you grow up with or experience a lot of, bottom line.