Super Bowl Sunday

[piipe]

u guys are fat

[Darth_Wayne]

The reason I don't take interest in the NFL (and NBA for that matter) is that a 80%* of a player's success at that level is determined by their genetics. There seems to be more emphasis on physical rather than technical ability in these leagues as opposed to hockey or EUR football, which I find leads to players that are less interesting to watch.

Once again someone that doesn't know what they are talking about when it comes to AME football. You were right until you started this paragraph. Football takes an INSANE amount of intelligence.

The QB is the hardest position to play in ALL of sports. Takes by far the most intelligence than any other sport to play that position. You have to read defenses and study film like CRAZY. The whole team does this too. They have to memorize SOOOO many plays and even the O linemen have to have intelligence on what the defense is going to do. Whether a blitz is coming and which 1 of them is coming and where you have to pick up your block etc. The defense has to see what the offense is running and adapt to it etc. I can keep going and explain every position and why it takes intelligence for that position but I'll just stop it there.

Sorry but football takes more intelligence than soccer and hockey. Both of those are skating/running on fast breaks and scoring by taking advantage of numbers or off deflections. Try to correct me if I'm wrong but running/skating around doesn't really take the intelligence like football does, it's more of ball/puck skills if anything.

I'm not sure you understood the point I was trying to make, I'll elaborate on it later if I can be bothered.

This all reminds me of a similar debate on the old Heroic forums where the Milkman Bros. tried to claim cross-country was a more difficult sport than tennis.

[Max Rambone]

Rofl...tennis.

That's one sport I do suck at....never could stay within the lines.

Racquetball is cool to play, though.

~archi

[Laser]

Badminton is the one!

[Turky]

u guys are fat

Football players can be fat and still have a spot on the team.

But we don't ever see fat soccer players!

[Max Rambone]

John Kruk.

~archi

[tens0r]

u guys are fat

Football players can be fat and still have a spot on the team.

But we don't ever see fat soccer players!

Yea cause the fat people don't have to do anything but just stand there right?

Learn to play a sport before you talk down upon one.

[Max Rambone]

Just as a side note...

I like basketball...used to love it.

I like Shaq, but dude is a freak of nature and that's pretty much the only reason he is/was in the NBA.
(Did he retire yet? Too lazy to google it.)

Gheorghe Mureşan UR?

Manute Bol UR?

Shawn Bradley UR?

Yao Ming UR?

Without basketball, these dudes would probably just be something everyone gawked at.

~archi

[Turky]

u guys are fat

Football players can be fat and still have a spot on the team.

But we don't ever see fat soccer players!

Yea cause the fat people don't have to do anything but just stand there right?

Learn to play a sport before you talk down upon one.

I never said the fat people don't do anything, just that it's pathetic that it's a sport where fat dudes are legit. Take golf. Or billiards. Those are games, not sports.

[jaw4]

u guys are fat

Football players can be fat and still have a spot on the team.

But we don't ever see fat soccer players!

Yea cause the fat people don't have to do anything but just stand there right?

Learn to play a sport before you talk down upon one.

I never said the fat people don't do anything, just that it's pathetic that it's a sport where fat dudes are legit. Take golf. Or billiards. Those are games, not sports.

except to play o-line or d-line you have to be ridiculously strong and pretty athletic to be able to be able to keep up with your blocking assignment