I care even less about Swift.
The only swift I love is my old Suzuki Swift, my first car. That’s it
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Etymology was probably to do with games played on foot.
I don’t generally care for sports, especially popular sports like football (American or not).
But Soccer is boring to watch. Times I was forced to watch them felt like watching a blank sheet of paper. I have no idea why others are so engrossed in it (and soccer is HUGE among latin Americans). At least an hour and a half of kicking balls back and forth and nobody scores… no wonder why they yell “GOOOOOOOOOAAAALLLL” because it happens once in a blue moon.
American football seems more exciting, and there are strategies involved. But I have no idea why it’s even called football because there’s often no kicking involved except for penalty kicks. I guess you run around on foot?
But the 2018 superbowl? That was exciting.
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Then how about hurling? That is a bunch of guys running with a ball and a big stick!
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That’s what I said.
Baseball is too slow but recently they’ve implemented a pitch clock to get them to speed things up (just like how football has a play clock). Besides, baseball has the most advanced analytics of any sport in the world.
If your measure for sports is how well they can be quantified, look no further: International Mathematical Olympiad - Wikipedia
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Baseball has 0 game flow. It’s just 2-second actions with lots of breaks in between. And the breaks drag the game to unnecessary length. Thats just not pleasant to watch or follow. Many people zone out from that.
Well, watching grass growing doesn’t become more interesting, if you analyze it more closely.
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That’s what Americans want—strategy. Plan your next move. Every play is meaningful because you build up to your goal. Round the bases, move down the gridiron.
Non-American sports are all chaotic and unsophisticated.
Indian food is better than Mexican. LotR is better than Harry Potter. Heavy metal is better than hip-hop. Oh, wait, it’s another pointless thread asserting that your personal preference is based on absolute objective universal values.
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They are acutally not.
And by the way, the strategies you’re talking about are usually aimed at creating chaos. Otherwise, these two teams would just play grass chess against each other and neutralize each other. Those are the most boring games to watch. Chaos makes any game more unpredictable and entertaining. I’d say it takes more skill to make the right move in a chaotic situation than just playing game strategy xy and hoping it works.
Even motorsports are more fun to watch with chaos involved. Meaning some unpredictable element.
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Fixed it for ya
No matter what countries play it, any game that bares the name football that doesn’t end with ritual sacrifice is random-ass and boring-ass.
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Americans strategy is stop the game to run advertising.
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That’s an interesting theory. Another one is Americans have the attention span of a gnat so can’t handle continuous action.
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Non-American Football: The random-ass, boring-ass game
As opposed to the socalled sport that ostensibly calls itself football despite having very little foot on ball action, and can more accurately be described as an sausage-fest orgy on grass that stops the ‘game’ after simply running a few metres before everyone decides to jump on each other to start the orgy.
Hilariously, it’s the ones that heavily assert themselves as heterosexual that like this ‘game’ the most.
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Except hockey fans.
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Every sport has a random element, a skill element, and a strategic element.
Considering what kind of demographic watches Non Athletic Sport Created Around Rednecks, I’m sure there are people who don’t value strategy.
You had me at orgy.