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why is american football the dominant sport in the US?
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:07 PM Author: Soren "Bob" Odenkierkegaard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248266) |
Date: October 27th, 2024 11:09 PM Author: ............,.,.,.,.......,,.,., Americans have always had a pioneer, frontiersman spirit. Football channels the aggression and force you sometimes need in this environment. As opposed to Eurodorks who want to pretend to be sophisticated by being vaguely effeminate and playing 'dignified' sports like soccer. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248272) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:10 PM Author: hank_scorpio Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248276) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 1:39 AM Author: but at what cost (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248517) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:15 PM Author: ataraxic it's the ideal weekend get-together / television sport, dramatic in its (pretense of) violence, and cuts across demographics in its appeal because the game can be watched in very different ways. white iowans like the team / toughness aspect, urban blacks like the athleticism, "cerebral" people appreciate the strategy, etc.
besides the accumulated history. |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:17 PM Author: hank_scorpio we bred big buck niggers and by god we're going to use them for something (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248297) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:18 PM Author: Soren "Bob" Odenkierkegaard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248300) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:21 PM Author: hank_scorpio this is unironically true, american atheltic exceptionalism is entirely the result of breeding big bucks like cattle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248306) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:27 PM Author: you can have it all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248324) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:29 PM Author: hank_scorpio can you imagine some skinny african fraud trying to play OLB in american football? ljl, that takes generations (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248328) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 12:07 AM Author: Darnell Football isn't a skinny man's sport, no matter your ethnic background
But (primary West) African names are common in football, especially on OL |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 1:32 AM Author: hank_scorpio but they aren't actually from (((west africa))) now are they? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248510) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:17 PM Author: MCHMRDCZ Because chiefs are fraud$ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248298) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:18 PM Author: Self-serious Macbook Airplane Girl as opposed to what? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248301) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:54 PM Author: Soren "Bob" Odenkierkegaard baseball, namely, followed by basketball and soccer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248403) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:37 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, A big part of it is that it looks the best on TV. They figured it out in the 70s how to film it to look compelling and it took off.
They also aren't shy about tweaking the rules to make it better for TV. Contrast that iwth baseball which took like 20 years to realize no one wants fucking 4 hour games watching people step in and ou to fhte box. |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:50 PM Author: .,.,..,...,.,.,...........,,..... Football gets the eyeballs because, as a country, we are mostly stupid.
Baseball is the most “American” sport and is the most prestigious. HTH. |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:54 PM Author: Soren "Bob" Odenkierkegaard Football is more prestigious than baseball. The whole "ivy league" is a football league (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248401) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:56 PM Author: .,.,..,...,.,.,...........,,..... Bro, if the pinnacle of the sport is in the American South, it isn’t prestigious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248407) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:57 PM Author: gedood persoon So baseball isn't prestigious? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248410) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:58 PM Author: Soren "Bob" Odenkierkegaard best players are not even americans (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248413) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 12:00 AM Author: .,.,..,...,.,.,...........,,..... This is a very recent phenomenon. Historically, the major American cities were the hotbeds. They still are from a viewership and cultural perspective. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248422) |
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Date: October 27th, 2024 11:57 PM Author: Soren "Bob" Odenkierkegaard Tom brady is from California (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248411) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 12:04 AM Author: potluck football is the only sport where sophisticated strategy and high level cerebral coaching and scheming are not only possible but essential and a core part of every successful team it is by far the most cerebral of the major sports only reason you think otherwise is because it’s also a highly emotional/high energy and physical game inviting a lot of retard speak and jockish faux analysis. which can be a turnoff to certain types of high iq ppl |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 12:06 AM Author: .,.,..,...,.,.,...........,,..... This is categorically false. No sport can be that complex if Ole Miss is able to be competitive in it. Baseball has plenty of strategy as does basketball. Football wants you to believe it’s multivariate calculus and then you see the moron that coaches the Lions get interviewed and realize it can’t possibly be that complex. Lee Corso did this for a living. Be serious, please. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248429) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 12:16 AM Author: potluck your argument is idiotic. you think college baseball and basketball are being dominated by elite schools? or is it mostly where the athletic talent and donor money goes? not sure how you can dispute that football necessarily has more strategy than basketball and baseball. for starters, every play gets drawn up by coaches on both sides of the ball, then play stops after a few seconds and the play callers spring back into action |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:51 AM Author: ,,,...,,......,,....,,,,,,,,....... Counterpoint- the head coaches are regularly 100 iq types and the vast majority of teams are in set plays literally every play. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248616) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 12:32 AM Author: veggie egg roll Sports like soccer are mostly boring with low scores and fake gay flops and ties. Football is more like combat, aggressive and war like. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248469) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 12:54 AM Author: gowlcut book I can only imagine how thin the OP's wrists are to even have bothered posing a question like this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248484) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 1:36 AM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248513) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 3:02 AM Author: Respect your Elders (1799 SOL away from student loan freedom (thanks gator)) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248584) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 1:39 AM Author: but at what cost because it is the best sport ever invented (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248516) |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 1:48 AM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; TV thing upthread is CR, but it’s also that the pacing is the best of all the major sports. It has plenty of breaks and downtime that facilitates hanging out with your friends and catching up and/or obsessing about the game. But it also has usually at least 10 or so exciting and important plays that reward the audience’s attention span. Cf basketball which is basically just waiting to see if it’s close in the last 5 min of the 4th and everything before that can be understood as a stream of various feats of athleticism but with often little consequence to the outcome, which is usually a question of which team got more boring/easy baskets. Baseball, which regularly bores the shit out of viewers for 2+ hours at a time. Soccer which does the same and regularly ends in 0-0 ties. Closest major sport is hockey, but hockey doesn’t have the same level of aesthetics because it’s so flat and back and forth, and though it’s less likely to be boring it can be a snooze for over an hour, and that basically never happens in football with modern offenses.
Also culturally it dominates because it selects for Chads and that has really significant impact on eg high school social heriarchies and in that way it has a central cultural significance far beyond sports that other sports don’t. It’s a war metaphor game, too, so the entire Friday Night Lights schtick is that all of society sees value in glamorizing our most Chadly teen boys. The number of 6’-6’3” 215-245 lb guys of various races who can run a 4.5-4.7 40 and bench 225 15+ times is pretty wild. Like we produce hundreds of them every year and a bunch play D3 or walk on because they’re 2” shorter, slightly slower or 15 lbs lighter. We are intimidating to other cultures because of this and eg Euros openly discuss it in a hilariously defensive and self-conscious way. |
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Date: October 28th, 2024 1:53 AM Author: hank_scorpio a football team placed against any other team in a battle of strength is laughable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5619369&forum_id=2#48248534) |