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On Mar 24, 3:20�am, keithr wrote:
wrote: �The term "Monday (or Tuesday, in the era of Monday Night Football) Morning Quarterback" is often �used derisively in the sense that any idiot can see after the fact what the pros are paid to think likely before it. �It also reflects, as Sailer says, on the fact that whereas soccer comes down to which team is in better condition physically, American football is essentially as much a strategy game as an athletic one and the strategy of opposing coaches and quarterbacks is to use their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses against those of opponents is what makes it a great spectator sport, as opposed to soccer which is a stinky spectator sport. Road racing vs. oval track is also a question of participant (SCCA, IMSA, hobby racing depending on one's wealth) vs spectator emphasis as well. American football is essentially something to fill the spaces bteween the commercials. Don't get me started. "Enriquez passes to Gomez. Gomex passes to Enriquez. Here comes Mtombo. Enriquez shoots past Mtomobo but Ntambe gets it. Here comes Enriquez behind it. He gets the ball back! Enriquez passes to Gomez. Gomex passes to Enriquez. Here comes Mtombo. Enriquez shoots past Mtomobo but Ntambe gets it. Here comes Enriquez behind it. He gets the ball back!" I also enjoy how a world championship can be determined by a bunch of free kicks. That's excitement! |
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On Mar 24, 11:25*am, calvin coolidge
wrote: I also enjoy how a world championship can be determined by a bunch of free kicks. *That's excitement! It's called 'sudden death' overtime. But, apart from all that, any nation that makes Cricket - a sport that makes Baseball look as exciting as basketball - into a national sport will have a rather distorted view of excitement. Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA |
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calvin coolidge wrote:
On Mar 24, 3:20�am, keithr wrote: wrote: �The term "Monday (or Tuesday, in the era of Monday Night Football) Morning Quarterback" is often �used derisively in the sense that any idiot can see after the fact what the pros are paid to think likely before it. �It also reflects, as Sailer says, on the fact that whereas soccer comes down to which team is in better condition physically, American football is essentially as much a strategy game as an athletic one and the strategy of opposing coaches and quarterbacks is to use their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses against those of opponents is what makes it a great spectator sport, as opposed to soccer which is a stinky spectator sport. Road racing vs. oval track is also a question of participant (SCCA, IMSA, hobby racing depending on one's wealth) vs spectator emphasis as well. American football is essentially something to fill the spaces bteween the commercials. Don't get me started. "Enriquez passes to Gomez. Gomex passes to Enriquez. Here comes Mtombo. Enriquez shoots past Mtomobo but Ntambe gets it. Here comes Enriquez behind it. He gets the ball back! Enriquez passes to Gomez. Gomex passes to Enriquez. Here comes Mtombo. Enriquez shoots past Mtomobo but Ntambe gets it. Here comes Enriquez behind it. He gets the ball back!" I also enjoy how a world championship can be determined by a bunch of free kicks. That's excitement! Personally, I can live without soccer too. Try one of the variants of rugby or even aussie rules, full contact games with no armour, just a little padding and the players play the full 90 minutes without commercial breaks to get their breath back. I get terminally bored by both baseball and cricket although some of the modern versions of cricket make baseball look as interesting as drying paint. The best advice that I have heard about basketball is that the game should start with 1 minute to go and 100 points each on the scoreboard. |
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On Mar 24, 12:11*pm, " wrote:
On Mar 24, 11:25*am, calvin coolidge wrote: (snip) But, apart from all that, any nation that makes Cricket - a sport that makes Baseball look as exciting as basketball - into a national sport will have a rather distorted view of excitement. Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA Now, now, Peter... put your fingers on one of your 6 volt car radio vibrators if you want excitement! :-) "Cricket lovely Cricket, At Lord's where I saw it..." This calypso was written after the West Iindies won the test in 1950 against England at Lords. http://www.cricinfo.com/database/MIS...0_CALYPSO.html Great game! "With those two little pals of mine Ramadhin and Valentine." Cheers, Roger |
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On Mar 24, 7:52�pm, keithr wrote:
wrote: On Mar 24, 11:25 am, calvin coolidge wrote: I also enjoy how a world championship can be determined by a bunch of free kicks. �That's excitement! It's called 'sudden death' overtime. But, apart from all that, any nation that makes Cricket - a sport that makes Baseball look as exciting as basketball - into a national sport will have a rather distorted view of excitement. Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA It's kind of telling that cricket and soccer would have 10-100 times the number of followers that baseball and gridiron have. Isn't that the McDonald's argument? |
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On Mar 24, 9:26*pm, wrote:
On Mar 24, 9:52*pm, keithr wrote: wrote: On Mar 24, 11:25 am, calvin coolidge wrote: I also enjoy how a world championship can be determined by a bunch of free kicks. *That's excitement! It's called 'sudden death' overtime. But, apart from all that, any nation that makes Cricket - a sport that makes Baseball look as exciting as basketball - into a national sport will have a rather distorted view of excitement. Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA It's kind of telling that cricket and soccer would have 10-100 times the number of followers that baseball and gridiron have. *Beisbol is very popular in the Latin world along with Japan. (Taiwan and Korea also play) *whereas American football coexists with soccer, rugby, Australian rules football, and others worldwide. The only variant of baseball (considering baseball and cricket as essentially wholly different games) that I know of taken seriously is softball which is for girls and old people. When I was a kid there was a lot of men's semi-pro fastpitch softball which certainly wasn't for old people. They had their own world series and teams came from all over the US to compete. It has since diminished but that game was not to be confused with rec. league slow-pitch softball. I recall the King and his Court coming in every year to start things with an exhibition game. Pretty amazing. http://www.kingandhiscourt.com/playerphotos.php *It's like board games: chess is chess and that's it, except for speed chess and lately speed pool (which IMO, sucks) but there it is. ScottW |
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