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It’s a tossup for me. I voted basketball initially but I might pull that back later. Plus the NFL pays one of our own to post on the internet. So that counts too.
Post by Jake Jortles on Apr 20, 2024 8:12:52 GMT -5
Going for the one where every play of every game matters. No stupid heat checks, no consistent purposeful fouling as a strategy. Far less of a tanking problem. Not the one where they have to figure out ways to make players try. Or the one where players step out of the way on defense because they are scared they might get embarrassed more than they care about getting a stop. Oh well I guess that also comes back to the fact that most possessions and most games dont matter. They’ll just make it up later.
“Theres nothing like a Game 7 in the NBA playoffs!”
How about every NFL playoff game ever?
The NFL got lucky that they physically cant do 82 games and 7 game series, because I bet they would have if they could. But the limited amount of games and single elimination playoffs is the main special sauce that makes every snap appointment viewing. Sometimes there’s good reason for why one thing is far more popular than the other. The NFL dominates for good, obvious reasons.
It’s a tossup for me. I voted basketball initially but I might pull that back later. Plus the NFL pays one of our own to post on the internet. So that counts too.
Post by jorgeandthekraken on Apr 20, 2024 8:39:54 GMT -5
Football is only popular in America. Basketball is globally popular.
Basketball is more equitable - there is next to no opportunity for women to play football, and compared to basketball, it’s not even close.
March Madness >>>>>>>>>> bowl season
Higher scoring? Basketball More action per minute? Basketball More fun to play by yourself? Basketball More progressive professional league? Basketball, by a mile. No NBA player has been blacklisted for protesting police brutality.
Plus, the NFL chews up and spits out its athletes, many of them practically disabled, and only has recently started to make any effort at all to support them after the fact.
Olé defense is not just a basketball thing - see: plenty of defensive backfield players who can’t tackle for shit and sometimes don’t even try. Also LOL at the idea that football players never take a play off.
Football owns Sundays, but name me one football player with the cultural clout of Michael Jordan or LeBron in their prime.
Do you want to dance while also thinking about all the ways you've failed as a human?
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I am fine with any outcome but I don't think football's peak is the NFL, or bowl season, or any of that.
To me, peak sports is a late October college football game between two undefeated teams with the season on the line. Between the weather and the passion and the atmosphere, there's nothing better.
Football is only popular in America. Basketball is globally popular.
Basketball is more equitable - there is next to no opportunity for women to play football, and compared to basketball, it’s not even close.
March Madness >>>>>>>>>> bowl season
Higher scoring? Basketball More action per minute? Basketball More fun to play by yourself? Basketball More progressive professional league? Basketball, by a mile. No NBA player has been blacklisted for protesting police brutality.
Plus, the NFL chews up and spits out its athletes, many of them practically disabled, and only has recently started to make any effort at all to support them after the fact.
Olé defense is not just a basketball thing - see: plenty of defensive backfield players who can’t tackle for shit and sometimes don’t even try. Also LOL at the idea that football players never take a play off.
Football owns Sundays, but name me one football player with the cultural clout of Michael Jordan or LeBron in their prime.
Again, this should be a no-brainer.
Who cares about global stuff. Wheres cricket?
Is basketball really more equitable? 14.5% of men globally are 6ft or taller. So if we are being extremely generous, 85% of the hiring pool is eliminated off rip, and its why its the case that some people can play in the league is very little skill or athleticism just because they are tall.
Im fine with your take about the amateur version of the sports. I dont like watching low level of competition all the way around.
More scoring is the problem… none of it ever matters. Theres very rarely a basketball reason to scream at the top of your lungs yet thats 10 - 20 times in every football game.
Better to play alone - absolutely basketball and Id give basketball the edge when it comes to playing in general. Its too hard to set up a real football game.
Progressive and chewing up athletes sure.. not a big point for me until you get to the level of like gymnastics when its forced on girls and shit.
Your point about defense is too obviously wrong to entertain. And the point about taking plays off. The difference btw these sports there is stark. Football players will get cut instantly if they are not caring and giving up plays. You might pull up an example here and there, but at the bottom of this comparison, Im right.
MJ and LeBron are cool, but another terrible thing about basketball is that its all about the players instead of the teams. Basically ruined an entire decade of the sport in the 2010s. The most beautiful thing about sports in my opinion is the way a team can unite a city. The way kids get attached to players that stick around for a while. I despise how many people are fans of players and not teams in bball. Thankfully this seems to be trending back in the right direction.
If you think the action and passion is great in college football, you should check out pee wee football. They have really long plays and the kids try their hearts out.
I am fine with any outcome but I don't think football's peak is the NFL, or bowl season, or any of that.
To me, peak sports is a late October college football game between two undefeated teams with the season on the line. Between the weather and the passion and the atmosphere, there's nothing better.
Football has significantly more unwatchable games than basketball, but the high-end experience of a back and forth football game with real stakes is peak sports. That Chiefs-Bills 13 seconds game a couple years back had me on my feet in the living room for half an hour and I don’t even care about either of those teams.
It’s just harder for me to get there with basketball if I don’t have a rooting interest.
basketball also given us some of the best gifs of all time, Harden cocking his head and walking away, Lakers bros, Kobe soft, and the goat, Alonzo coming to terms.
basketball also given us some of the best gifs of all time, Harden cocking his head and walking away, Lakers bros, Kobe soft, and the goat, Alonzo coming to terms.
I'm on football but this is an undeniably compelling point. Can add crying Jordan and "I wasn't familiar with your game"
