High scoring sports have their advantages, very rarely does the better team lose, however in low scoring sports the game can be decided by a bad decision or mistake. I went to a Brooklyn Nets game last week when I was in New York, loved every minute of it, completely different experience to watching sport here.
I'm pretty certain the Cowboys game MVP was offside on EVERY play. please log in to view this image EDIT: Always good to include the image in your original post...
Any sport is boring if you don't know the rules. Baseball is the best sport on the planet, IMO. American football is very entertaining, but it is mostly a sport with a leviathan, contrived set of rules designed for watching on television with minimal application of thought. And when I watch my St. Louis Rams play, the minimal application of quality. But that's a different topic entirely. Speaking of Tigers, my Missouri Tigers won the Citrus Bowl over Minnesota. Woot!
SOME NFL is good..Most of it is about passion. Baseball is dire.. most game end 0 - 0. I prefer watching girls play rounders, cos at least you have eyecandy to gawk at.
LOL, I don't think there was a 0-0 in baseball this year out of thousands of matches. And in any case games don't end in a draw.
If American football was any good it would have conquered the world by now. The beautiful game didn't need any marketing to spread round the world. OK the USA have been bloody-mindedly resisting its spread but that's because the Yanks have got to have their own games and it's an insular country
Basketball, Ice Hockey and Baseball are huge in other parts of the world, American Football less so, its a common misconception that these sports are exclusively American, typical insular Brit.
Only massive in very few parts of the world. Even rugby league could cobble together a bigger world cup than they would manage.
I wouldn't say very few, they are quite widespread, they just receive no attention from the British media so people are inclined to believe they're exclusively American. Most of those sports have higher participation levels than rugby league, they just don't value international completion like they do in Rugby League.
Japan's top tier baseball league has a combined attendance of 22 million people a season. The Premier League gets 13 million.
They also have 864 games played across one season whereas the Prem has 380... Also, outside of Japan and the USA, how big is Baseball overall? Now, ask the same about football.
Baseball is big in Cuba. The Yanks had a competition inviting other countries a few years back. They got rather embarrassingly beaten so won't be repeating that in a rush. They will carry on with a competition with 1 Canadian team in it in addition to the American ones and refer to the winners as World Champions. Baseball is just a reason to consume a lot of beer and hotdogs.
Lacrosse is more popular than rugby league BTW. As far as team sports go football is way out on its own. If you go by purely audiences and TV figures cricket knocks the other sports mentioned out of the water. Even then the largest ever crowd India for a sporting event, over 130,000 was for a football match.
Your completely missing the point, no ones suggesting these sports are bigger than football, I was simply pointing out that they are significant outside of America, which people have suggested their not. As far as team sports are concerned nothing compares to football however some 'American' sports are actually bigger worldwide than sports we perceive as global.
