june gloom on 6/10/2009 at 16:59
if it ain't hockey i ain't interested
We don't even have a real NHL hockey team as far as I know.
Matthew on 6/10/2009 at 17:24
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Even slower than baseball
No offence, but can I ask what football you've watched? I'm just curious as to why you've come to that conclusion.
the_grip on 6/10/2009 at 17:48
Quote Posted by dethtoll
if it ain't hockey i ain't interested
We don't even
have a real NHL hockey team as far as I know.
^^^^This.
Although I do love American Football, hockey is bestest.
demagogue on 6/10/2009 at 18:50
Quote Posted by Matthew
No offence, but can I ask what football you've watched? I'm just curious as to why you've come to that conclusion
He may be talking in terms of the amount of "action" in the characteristically American attention-span-of-a-gnat sense, where "action" means a play involving a real chance of adding points or involving some sort of clutch. In world football a team could score only 3 goals in the entire game, and maybe another 3 or 4 near-misses ... the rest is "puttering around" with the ball back and forth, if you have that kind of attitude. (I like and played soccer, so I never found it particularly slow myself since I had a feeling for what was going on in those stretches.)
Of course the only way American football avoids a similar charge is because they tweaked the "puttering around" part so that every first-down is like it's own mini-touchdown, so by design it's riddled with clutch plays all the way through.
mudi on 6/10/2009 at 19:09
I'm not so fond of soccer not because only 3 goals may be scored in a match, but because no goals may be scored in a match and still the match would be considered by some 'exciting'. Way too much excitement for me.
I do love to watch Rugby however. Fun stuff there.
