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" Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer."
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" Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer."
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That's why there's so many riots and hooligans. After watching an hour and a half of nothing happen I'd be ready to kill someone too
No, Cricket has even baseball beat.
I didn't say it was the only one
The rest of the world needs to wake up and realise the most entertaining game to watch is Aussie rules football
Yea, the goofy refs in AUS rules football are quite entertaining to watch.
Need to give them all fist spikes and have a designated chainsawer and have the endzone behind the "claymore zone"... Something kind of like chaos league/blood bowl...but with more variation. Gah where is all the futuristic sports so many authors promiced!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperblade
HyperBlade is an action video game, depicting a futuristic sport in a futuristic world. The sport is a mutated version of Hockey, played in an egg-shaped arena rather than on a flat field or rink, which is loaded with weapons and deadly traps.
I didn't say it was the only one
The rest of the world needs to wake up and realise the most entertaining game to watch is Aussie rules football
I wish they would fucking SHOW IT more in the states. Aussie rules football is entertaining.
And ++ vote for trollface.
Honestly, I find cricket more entertaining to watch than soccer. I can't really speak for baseball, its not televised much out here and I don't go out of my way to watch it. But cricket, its slow as all hell, but at least something is fucking happening. Soccer is so boring the highlight reels have to include the plays that almost would have been goals if the player kicking didn't miss by 2 feet
And I actually played soccer growing up, played way more soccer than either cricket or aussie rules and I STILL like watching soccer the least.Aussie rules is one of the best spectator sports, hard hits, impressive skills, nice flowing game, one of the few games you'll see a whole range of players from guys who are 5'4 to giant beasts who are 7' tall, guys who are skinny and guys who are bulky, all playing at a professional level and doing different tasks across the ground (you'll never see anyone who's unfit though). In any given game you'll see around 2 dozen impressive plays that result directly in a score or denying a score that are actually worth cheering about. I haven't played the game in years myself and have intention of going back to it, way too unfit to survive a game and frankly I don't want to get injured... but a good game to watch none the less
LOL.
Football > hockey > baseball > rugby > basketball > darts > bowling > snooker > soccer > cricket
What makes a sport exciting to watch are tension, unexpected plays and complexity of rules. American football has tension buildup every play, hits, beastly players, battle armor and acrobatics you just don't see in other sports.
Hockey - constant back and forth tension, dire penalties, sudden death overtime, blood, fights and lightning fast scoring. With there were more US teams.
Baseball - constant tension and the biggest energy swing of all of the sports. Intricate set of rules keeps things interesting.
Rugby - intermittent tension. Scrums kill momentum, but coordination of team to score trys is exciting. Big hits, no pads. Downside, is it is generally not real surprising when a team scores - you can see it about to happen.
Basketball - great to play, but no real tension until the last 30 seconds. A 20 point lead can be wiped out within a few minutes and most games go down to cheap fouls, acting and a few lucky shots at the end.
Soccer - Unknown play clock eliminates tension, simple rules, limited scoring. Snoozefest.
Cricket - 5 million to zero scores, games can last days. How does this thing even work?
Aussie football looks fun. I would like to see a match on that, to get a feel for what it's really like.
What makes a sport exciting to watch are tension, unexpected plays and complexity of rules. American football has tension buildup every play, hits, beastly players, battle armor and acrobatics you just don't see in other sports.
Hockey - constant back and forth tension, dire penalties, sudden death overtime, blood, fights and lightning fast scoring. With there were more US teams.
Baseball - constant tension and the biggest energy swing of all of the sports. Intricate set of rules keeps things interesting.
Rugby - intermittent tension. Scrums kill momentum, but coordination of team to score trys is exciting. Big hits, no pads. Downside, is it is generally not real surprising when a team scores - you can see it about to happen.
Basketball - great to play, but no real tension until the last 30 seconds. A 20 point lead can be wiped out within a few minutes and most games go down to cheap fouls, acting and a few lucky shots at the end.
Soccer - Unknown play clock eliminates tension, simple rules, limited scoring. Snoozefest.
Cricket - 5 million to zero scores, games can last days. How does this thing even work?
Aussie football looks fun. I would like to see a match on that, to get a feel for what it's really like.
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This is like high school all over again. "Football rules, soccer drools" "Soccer rules, football drools"
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Football(true football, not american handegg) has unknown play clock? Lolwut, it tells you right at the top where the scores are how long it is..
Also baseball is the biggest lulz in america..they have a world series..when they are the only country to actually play in it
Also baseball is the biggest lulz in america..they have a world series..when they are the only country to actually play in it
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"Complexity of rules" makes a sport exciting? I guess Chess is incredibly exciting to watch then. Otherwise it's a no-brainer that (American) football would be in your top spot. That game seems like invented by 100 untreated ADHD patients on the field and one person writing down all the BS rules they were making up as they went. It is by far the most pointlessly confusing sport ever concocted... When a football fanatic tries to tell me it's a simple game, I say "Sum it up in one sentence" ... I have yet to meet anyone who can.
Then let's get to the "teams" ... holy crap, could they be any bigger? they need a different person for each individual task? they get breaks every 20 seconds, so don't tell me they're tired. I think it's the only sport that has this insanely massive roster, and allows you to switch players basically at will...
And you're REALLY going to bring up the clock in soccer, when Football games take upwards of 4 hours to get through ONE hour of playtime? A Soccer game takes less than 2 hours, depending on the league (some allow ties, some have golden goal, some have shootouts, etc...) Two 45 minute halves with up to 5 minutes of stoppage time added for each, and a 15 minute half time.
No popular sport in the US is worse than Football when it comes to being uncertain when it's going to end, and it always screws up my DVR when I'm trying to record a show after it.
To each his own, I guess, but I think people like sports that they grew up watching or playing. I never watched football, never played football (except backyard), and never understood most of the rules in football. I am sure I could understand the game if I were even the slightest bit interested, but just glancing at it casually shows me that it has no consistency or foundation. The name (Football) is great, because it shows that nobody really knew what else to call it, even though the ball (egg) rarely makes contact with the foot, and even when it does, there are only one or two people on each team (of 50+) that can kick it...
Again, if you like football, that's awesome. You probably grew up watching it or playing it. Or you felt the need to learn to like it in order to fit in with classmates or coworkers. I personally can't stand it, and I live in the Pro Football HOF city.
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I must be the last person in the world to get this. What is the face and what am I missing?
I used to watch soccer, but not anymore, and u know why, R E F E R E E!
Obviously my Dear Friend you have never watched proper game of football. US Soccer or some obscure leagues yes, it is so boring that you want to hurt yourself. But if I had to pick most boring trio then it would be:
1. Cricket by length as long as Milky Way galaxy diameter.
2. Baseball. (how can you even watch a sport where 99% of players are stuffed with steroids?)
3. Golf
Most exciting IMHO:
1. Rugby Union (rugby league is for retards who can't grasp rules of proper Rugby)
2. Ice Hockey
3. Football
Of course like in every sport there are boring games, but overwhelming majority of matches are quite good with many really spectacular affairs. I like rugby more than football even if I live in football/speedway/ski jumps mad country. Football changed a lot for the worse during last 30 years. Too much money, TV, greed. Rugby Union is much more honest sport with much less money. Despite being at disadvantage financially, RWC final 2012 was watched by 4 billion people worldwide. It really does speak volumes..
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I hope we are talking about team games only here, when it comes to most exciting. Because if we are including one vs one games, Tennis beats everything.