[quote]TDub301 wrote:
red04 wrote:
TDub301 wrote:
But soccer has all that stuff, too, even the controlled collisions (to a lesser extent, obviously). There’s an immense amount of strategy, team play, and athleticism. There’s a lot more coordination involved because you are not carrying the ball in your hands, you have to keep it around your feet that don’t have an opposable thumb like your hands do. Also, I’m sure there are plenty of soccer players who are as fast as football players, except they can keep up the speed for 40 minutes, not just 10 seconds at a time…
Your first 2 sentences are fine, but after that not so much. Not only do I doubt ANYONE that plays International Football can sprint anywhere near as fast as the average skill position player(or most linebackers and edge linemen), but the second part of that bolded statement is a complete joke. I’m going to assume that you aren’t this dumb and just fell victim to rampant fanaticism towards your sport instead of thinking about how ridiculous that proposed athlete would actually be. The coordination part is probably debatable as well since you only covered handling the ball, which only 1 person at a time does in both games, while 10 others are doing other activities that require great coordination themselves.
But if you think it’s popular because it’s easy, perhaps you should try playing with some people who know what they’re doing since “any brokeass” can kick a ball around. Go out and when you get pawned, which you will, at least don’t go back and get all spiteful and continue insulting the sport because you got owned. You don’t have to like it, but the sport deserves respect. At least respect it.
He didn’t argue that it’s popular because it’s easy to play in the sense that it requires no skill(I don’t think so at least), but that the game is very easy to set up, which is the point of his comment about “any brokeass” kicking a ball around. It is unquestionably one of the cheapest sports to get into, which helps fuel it’s popularity by allowing more people(especially in impoverished countries) to experience and learn the game. American Football will never be as popular because funding a team is expensive, this says nothing about how “good” the sport itself is or how “easy” it is to be an athlete competing in it skill wise.
So can we produce some 40 times for any soccer players? Cuz I’m sure there are plenty who can run just as fast. And no it wasn’t a joke at all, they can run for 40 minutes. It’s not literally full speed the whole time, but they’re constantly moving and making at least short sprints if not long half-field runs regularly. The thing you’re not considering is the size difference. Those football players are bred to run for 15 seconds at a time or less (almost always less than that). So they are capable of running fast and maintaining their size while soccer players obviously don’t have as much mass, which helps them build the endurance to be able to do so. The skill players may be light, but 9 times out of 10, they’re still way more built than most soccer players, obviously in their upper body, since football obviously requires more upper body strength. I’ve played both, please don’t accuse me of being dumb unless you’re refering to that “brokeass” comment which I will admit I completely missed. Good point on that one.[/quote]
Agreed, there are a number of players in Football that could outsprint a fair chunk of the American football players. David James who is a goal keeper went and trained with the Dolphins in his offseason as something to do and he was keeping up in all of the drills with the wide recievers. Bear in mind that the Goalkeeper position in football requires the least running.
