remiga007 wrote:Saints14 wrote:remiga007 wrote:For whom? Only for US I suppose, as literally all 200+ countries in the world enjoy football far far more than NFL. And being American sport has nothing to do with it, NBA does awesome outside of US.
NFL is just so boring, it's quite unbelievable.
Tried watching super bowl a few years ago, had to turn it off after like 20 minutes, there were literally 10 seconds of play interrupted by minutes of not doing ANYTHING. A few of my friends watched it separately from me, I asked them next day how was it - they only watched for the commercials, the gameplay had no flow whatsoever, they all agreed on it.
Around 99% of people outside of US get excited about football more than NFL, even with flopping etc. So congrats being American I suppose.
American football isn't meant to be continuous like soccer is. Personally I find soccer boring because while there's continuous play, 99% of the time there's no real threat of goal scoring or any advantage creation. In football there's a discrete event every 40 seconds with a chance something exciting will happen. It feel more like a chess match - given a certain game situation and down and distance, which play should the offense call and how will the defense counter it?
The commercial breaks are an issue but that's an American thing, not a football thing necessarily (and it's particularly bad during the Super Bowl). And I feel it's worse in basketball, which is a sport intended to be more continuous so stoppages in play whether it be due to commercials or free throws really kill the flow
Well, I might give NFL a second chance with a non Super Bowl game then
I like your thoughts but kinda disagree that 99% of the time there's no goal scoring chance creation. Literally a pass from a goalkeeper through all field can lead to a chance if, for example, offside trap fails. And I agree that there are some boring soccer games, but it does happen in every sport from chess to basketball, I guess.
I'd highly recommend it! Unfortunately all primetime games are pretty bad with commercial breaks, but if you ever catch a regular one it's not too bad.
Yeah that was definitely a bit harsh towards soccer, I like how UcanUwill put it:
UcanUwill wrote:That's why it's suspense thriller and why I compare to Hitchcock. Hitchcock said, suspense is not putting two characters behind table and then table explodes. It's about putting characters behind table you know where bomb is, but not knowing when or if at all bomb will explode.
That's why even tho I like bb better, I think soccer is objectively better. basketball is trading baskets sport, you sit down and you know you will see 100 little explosions and that's entertaining. Soccer is sitting and knowing atomic bomb can just blow up, and you watch numerous players desperately trying to launch that bomb. and you either think it is stupid waiting game ir you think it's best a hole tightening time you will have.
I'd still prefer the anxiety of a team needing to convert a 3rd down to keep a critical drive alive, but I can see how this continuous low-level tension is appealing. Probably comes down to rooting interest, since I'm not a fan of any soccer team I wouldn't feel that tension myself
