So you're saying that part of the 60 minutes of actual game time with the clock counting down isn't action? I guess I can agree. I have a hard time believing it's only 12 minutes of action for the game, though.
Look, I get that you seem to think EVERY sport out there should have non stop action with no stopped time, or time outs, and not even any water breaks, despite having to add time at the end of the game for having to cart poor lads that cramp off the field because of it, but that would simply not work in American Football. Clearly you do not understand that being a sport that requires a decent amount of padding, and the clothing to pack it in, due to the aforementioned high speed impacts, AND the fact that they're evading and getting hit by very large men, you tend to sweat buckets. There's no way you could play a sport like that non stop. Few can even play a game of NBA basketball without rest, and the fact that soccer CAN be played that way by pretty much everyone on the team, shows it's not nearly as demanding. The ONLY reason in fact soccer takes so much stamina is that it's played in a non stop fashion with no substitutions, which again, is ludicrous.
The only "fishing" going on here is soccer fans trying to reel us into believing their sport is better than ours. LOL
Get over yourself dude, American Football is not a nerd "look what I found online, I know all about the game now!" sport. The only books that matter in American Football are the rule book and play book, player wise anyway, but you have to know a LOT more than that to assess what you're watching, and you obviously don't. It seems to me the sport with only 12 min of interesting action is soccer, in fact most games probably have less time than that spent actually making goals. The rest is, oh right, he tried to pass again and missed his guy, got "tackled" (well soccer tackled anyway), or failed a goal attempt. If American Football offensive drives were mostly failed attempts, no one would want to watch it. In fact if American Football played out the same way, most offensive drives wouldn't even involve a possible goal attempt. Why soccer fans put up with it, yet still think their sport is the best, is beyond me. Maybe they're too sloshed to notice the difference. 😆
Even though I mostly agree, and I know you're slightly exaggerating, I'll have to admit there are some pro soccer moves every once in a while that are insane. One time I saw a guy kick the ball from one end of the field about 2/3 of the way down to a guy there. Without the ball bouncing or touching the ground at all (one big arc from the kick), the guy 2/3 of the way down jumped and kicked the ball with the back of his heel the other 1/3 of the way down the field and made a goal. That was crazy.
Yeah, Like I said, I know full well there are some pretty talented players that can make plays most others can't in soccer, but they don't happen very often. That's also why when players like that appear in soccer leagues, they are paid such extremely high salaries. And don't kid yourself, there's probably lots of soccer fans that leave a game very disappointed when they don't see such players make those huge plays. God forbid they should talk about it and have millions of fans hating them for it though. My NFL team, the Seahawks, have a huge following in the UK, well for American Football in a soccer dominated area anyway. Can you imagine all the hate they must get from soccer fans over there?
That's an increase on the only source I can find now, a 2010 analysis by the WSJ which says 11 minutes. If you don't have a sub, here's a broader report, tho I can't vouch for that place's general credibility.
Oh gosh no, obviously I'm not explaining myself well, sorry about that. A couple of sports I played at a fairly high level as a kid:
See above.
Oh sure, if plenty of scores are what you want, then you're absolutely right. But obviously soccer isn't primarily about that, nor are many other sports. I had a peek at yesterday's games of America's national sport—I see 2 of them ended 1-0, taking 2 hours and 3 hours respectively.
Ooh, the Wall Street Journal will be miffed 😀
Who is it? Let's gang up on 'em! Your passion and my charm, we'll bury 'em 😀
Brian tries handstand. Ouch! Out of practice. Hmm, cushion and wall… oh hey, look at that!!
How do you reckon? Soccer is the most watched field sport in the world, by a huge margin—can ~3.5 billion all be wrong?
That is true. Do you know it's played in an organized way in 120 countries?
In some countries, they're not too far off it—in other countries they're great. Soccer suffers from being the big dog, the obvious outlet for anyone who wants to get noticed—bit like Windows being the fav target of hackers.
As you say, "one time". That's not remotely what the sport is about, anymore than a quarterback throwing a ball to bounce off the goalpost into a waiting receiver's hands 🙂
Absolutely right. Soccer has a very level playing field, so to speak—all you need is a ball, no other gear and not a big space either. That's how South America has done so well, kids playing barefoot in the street picking up the skills—the mythical 10,000 hours for expertise not a problem.
So basically what you're saying is that soccer was interesting "one time," but being interesting isn't remotely what the sport is about. 😆
Eh, take a peek at the username saying that—what I'm saying is what I said 😀
I've been trying to find a good injury rate worldwide comparison for years—please share your source, thanks 🙂
It's a pretty dumb statistic. How much of Civilization is action? You really play an entire civ game for very little action. When you play an open world game, what percentage of it is action? It would, on paper, look abysmal, yet it's very fun. Consider American football a strategy game, as that is what it really is. In American football, in the pause between plays, you consider what just happened and what might happen next. Players coming on and off the field for substitutions--that's fun to see if you know what you are looking for. Lining up, that tells you a lot. Players going in motion, defenders looking like they are going to blitz then backing off. Defenders switching their man. It's all great stuff, and it's all action/strategy. When a linebacker charges up to the line of scrimmage while the snap count is going, that's both action and strategy. Watching how the QB responds to that is interesting. Before the snap, when the receiver fakes going in motion, that's action and strategy. It's just really dumb to boil the game down to only the time during plays. That's like judging Civilization on nothing but its combat.
Have you ever been injured watching American football? If the players are okay with it, then that's all we need to know.
This is from 2017, but it's a good article with a good, simple chart in the beginning of it.
nflinjuryanalytics.com
Uh, I'm tempted to not even comment on that, given the way you get your so called proof, and the obvious need for FAR more padding in US football, not to mention the aforementioned multiple lawsuits aimed at the NFL, forcing them to go to much safer rules. Did soccer face anything like that, of COURSE NOT! Get a clue dude!
I presume this is talking about actual injuries as reported by a medical professional? As opposed to... well...
