What is the future of football?

[Orion]

Soccer is just plain boring.  So boring you think your teeth are gonna fall out.....and then they go to EXTRA time.  It's like a penance. 

I DID hear a funny line while watching a game, the announcer was talking about one of the teams being so bad that, they were lucky to have nil. 

[hoorta]

@mjp28 said:

No its probably because it originated in and is largely  played in dirt poor countries all over the world. No uniforms or equipment necessary not even shoes just a ball. 

And yes it's boring, unless you actually like 0-0, 1-0 games. "Recess for big kids", 

Hockey isn't exactly a high scoring sport either. Soccer is essentially hockey played on a grass football field. Slow motion hockey if you like. 

Nah- U.S. sport fans are just going to have to get used to the idea what we consider exciting isn't necessarily what the rest of the world does. False superiority complex. Put the shoe on the other foot and I'm sure a lot of the European nations wonder why America hasn't gotten on the soccer bandwagon yet. And you want to talk about crazy fans? Our diehard football fans are minor league compared to the riots they've had many times in soccer stands, with people getting killed.  World's most popular sport? Your numbers prove it. 240 million? That's about 70% of the entire population of the United States. 

& FWIW, I played competitive tennis for years, and I can hardly stand watching it on the tube.  If soccer bores you - I get that. And if you don't think it takes skill- Chris Collisnworth told a story way back. Him and the Bengals were having a brew or three in a Cinci bar after a game- and a club soccer team was there doing the same. Bengals guys started ragging on the puss nature of the soccer guys. Oh yeah? You're on. Can't remember what the bet was for, but the Bengals guys quit when they were down 10-0.   

[LondonBrown]

@orion said:

I'm pretty sure that whacking a fast moving soccer ball with your head is NOT gonna be good for your brain.  The elimination of the header is in soccer's future.

Certainly an issue for the old timers but the balls are incredibly light now, which is evident in how it moves after the likes of Ronaldo strikes a dead ball.

[LondonBrown]

@orion said:

Soccer is just plain boring.  So boring you think your teeth are gonna fall out.....and then they go to EXTRA time.  It's like a penance. 

I DID hear a funny line while watching a game, the announcer was talking about one of the teams being so bad that, they were lucky to have nil. 

If you guys think Soccer is boring (when a NFL game, which I love, takes four hours) I dread the day you discover Cricket. . . 

[TexasAg1969]

@londonbrown said:

If you guys think Soccer is boring (when a NFL game, which I love, takes four hours) I dread the day you discover Cricket. . . 

Sometimes on a late summer night I have a beer outside and listen to their mating calls. I'm sure some of 'em score.

[The Gipper]

@texasag1969 said:

Sometimes on a late summer night I have a beer outside and listen to their mating calls. I'm sure some of 'em score.

I prefer to watch fireflies....or lightning bugs....whichever you prefer

[The Gipper]

The answer is oh so simple:    Bubble wrap

[mjp28]

What is the future of (AMERICAN) football?

Well as long as there is money on the table it essentially stays as is for the near future, if/when viewership and attendance continue to drop (yes even in Super Bowls, 3 straight down years),   the sponsors start backing away, moms continue to refuse to let their little boys play tackle football and the younger generations keep staying away from the sport in increasing numbers changes will happen.

So let's look at the mjp list of exciting world and AMERICAN sports......unofficial of course:

1. NCAA FOOTBALL 

2. NFL FOOTBALL 

3. MLB 

4. NHL

5. NCAA BASKETBALL 

6. NBA, except if the Cavaliers are in it

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

98. CRICKET (new)

99. SOCCER

100. anything else left

So there you go........

[The Gipper]

@mjp28 said:

What is the future of (AMERICAN) football?

Well as long as there is money on the table it essentially stays as is for the near future, if/when viewership and attendance continue to drop (yes even in Super Bowls, 3 straight down years),   the sponsors start backing away, moms continue to refuse to let their little boys play tackle football and the younger generations keep staying away from the sport in increasing numbers changes will happen.

So let's look at the mjp list of exciting world and AMERICAN sports......unofficial of course:

1. NCAA FOOTBALL 

2. NFL FOOTBALL 

3. MLB 

4. NHL

5. NCAA BASKETBALL 

6. NBA, except if the Cavaliers are in it

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

98. CRICKET (new)

99. SOCCER

100. anything else left

So there you go........

I often get excited watching a good golf match. My wife even more so....and she hates just about all the other sports, except baseball.

[TexasAg1969]

@the-gipper said:

I often get excited watching a good golf match. My wife even more so....and she hates just about all the other sports, except baseball.

Now golf is a real pussified game. The object is to put it in the hole with a long stick right?

And they set up all kinds of barriers to keep you from doing that. Yep that there is some game!

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Remember Jarts?  They looked like large darts that you threw at a circle in the lawn?  I wonder how many kids got impaled before the banned them?  Used to have a set in my parents yard.

[The Gipper]

@texasag1969 said:

Now golf is a real pussified game. The object is to put it in the hole with a long stick right?

And they set up all kinds of barriers to keep you from doing that. Yep that there is some game!

It is not a physical/contact/collision sport....but I don't know about pussified.   It takes tremendous skill.

[The Gipper]

[The Gipper]

[mjp28]

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Remember Jarts?  They looked like large darts that you threw at a circle in the lawn?  I wonder how many kids got impaled before the banned them?  Used to have a set in my parents yard.

LAWN DARTS! Now those suckers were fun......might have to move them up to #3 or 4 on the mjp list.

[mjp28]

@the-gipper said:

It is not a physical/contact/collision sport....but I don't know about pussified.   It takes tremendous skill.

Pool is fun, so is the World Poker Tour. 

Golf was fun during the Arnie, Jack, Chi-chi era for me.

Actually some games are just more fun to do than watch......like sock-her. "Professional flopping". 

[Orion]

Lawn Jarts.  Did anybody EVER think that was a good idea?  Even as a little kid I thought there was something wrong with that game.

[The Gipper]

@orion said:

Lawn Jarts.  Did anybody EVER think that was a good idea?  Even as a little kid I thought there was something wrong with that game.

It was an OK idea.  We had them.  You just had to be smart enough to stay out of the way.  Some  Kids were too stupid to do so. 

[Tour2ma]

Hey... the world needs javelin catchers, too...

[mjp28]

@orion said:

Lawn Jarts.  Did anybody EVER think that was a good idea?  Even as a little kid I thought there was something wrong with that game.

The trick was to keep them really sharp so they stick real good!