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Isn’t American football the game where the second half basically consists of the leading team wasting time on purpose until the game ends? So he’s not too wrong
The D Quuuuuillamusingly, strategically in gridiron football it is to your advantage to run the clock any time you have any lead no matter the down, distance, or quarter. the load management of the game makes it so that it’s to your offense’s advantage with a lead to keep the opposing defense on the field as the clock runs.
gridiron football is a game of action in which the goal of the action is to maintain inaction. contrast with the other american pastime sport, baseball. that’s a game of inaction in which the goal of the inaction is to suddenly spark action. and the very most exciting game in baseball is the one where one pitcher renders the other team completely inactive.
us americans are a confounding bunch. there’s a reason Canada had to be who invented our third most popular sport, basketball
wiesonWait, your telling me that baseball is more popular than basketball?
If I had to rank the top 3 US sports by interest/engagement to me I’d say
it looks like baseball has finally been surpassed by basketball. the major american sports fandoms now go:
from here it gets murky. like should WWE and AEW be included, even though they’re staged soap operas?
And when you say football, surely you mean a game where a ball (= sphere) is played with the feet, amirite?
gridiron football starts with a kick. many games are ended with a kick as well
I mean a sport that is played on foot rather than on horses ;)
If we do want to be pedantic then the list, 1-4, would be
Better?
I went ahead and used the americanized shorthand of “football” for gridiron rules football and the british loan word “soccer” for association rules football (soccer is a an Oxford slang tradition of adding “-er” to the end of something to make it an activity, IE calling rugby rugger and footer for all forms of football. In that tradition association football became assoccer or soccer) since the context was “what are americans watching, and why are all of us engaged in this weird ritual where even if we don’t care about the superbowl we find ourselves at superbowl parties?”
American Hand-egg, if you will
Surprised MMA isn’t on there. The UFC is pretty damn big now.
It was after professional wrestling and boxing. I was surprised boxing was ranked higher than UFC/MMA
Wow yea that surprises me, I know boxing is still decently big but you rarely hear of boxing having competition shows like the ones UFC did and then all the ads I see of MMA/UFC constantly. Wrestling I think I’ve only seen it on TV during the Olympics even.
professional wrestling is what got ranked here. Think about the shakespearian theatre about the amateur sport of wrestling as being what’s ranked here, not true competitive wrestling where the winner and loser is determined by the bout
Ah, WWE style wrestling. I was thinking Greco-Roman wrestling.
It’s a bit difficult to directly compare the popularity of the different major sports when they play such vastly different numbers of games each year (17+ for pro football, 82+ for pro basketball and 162+ for pro baseball).
Dr. Bobyou also made gridiron football watchable, and have never gotten the credit that the CFL deserves