Football or Baseball?

Smokey · 01-10-2009, 08:41 PM

Disclaimer: I am American. Therefore, football is played with a ball in the shape of an oval with the two ends tapered down to points, and only four people in the entire game get to kick it. Also, it's played with pads and a helmet, and there aren't any Italians taking dives when the wind changes directions or Frenchmen headbutting people in the chest.

Considering that the Hockey/Basketball thread has seemingly run its course (with Hockey emerging from a landslide victory, as expected

), I figured we could use another argument about something fun and wholesome (because anything with either Barry Bonds or Terrell Owens affiliated with it is wholesome, right?). So, which is better, America's pastime or the most expensive spectator sport around?

Personally, I find football to be more entertaining, both to play and to watch, and I do consider it to have more depth, since there actually is some potential for back and forth action as well as major upsets in the action (i.e. fumbles, sacks, etc.).

**HGW XX/7** · 01-10-2009, 08:46 PM

Baseball to play. Football to watch.

My entire life it's been that way for me. Don't know why.

Smokey · 01-10-2009, 08:56 PM

That might have been the way it turned out for me if it weren't for my dad. Eventually I stopped wanting to go to batting cages with him after he nailed me in the ankle for the hundredth time, and then every pitcher I ever played against was my dad and I couldn't take it anymore. Now, I still don't feel like getting hit with something moving that fast, but I also don't care for relying on other guys in order for me to score my run.

I'm a fairly brawny fella, and I'm also pretty fast, so I make one hell of a runningback as well as a blocker. I'm just more physically disposed toward football.

**MR EPIC** · 01-10-2009, 09:14 PM

Baseball is the correct answer.

Smokey · 01-10-2009, 09:25 PM

On Opposite Day.

Rensa · 01-10-2009, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Smokey

Disclaimer: I am American. Therefore, football is played with a ball in the shape of an oval with the two ends tapered down to points, and only four people in the entire game get to kick it. Also, it's played with pads and a helmet, and there aren't any Italians taking dives when the wind changes directions or Frenchmen headbutting people in the chest.

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Nismo · 01-11-2009, 12:58 AM

Football, fun as hell to play and awesome to watch.

I enjoy soccer too though, the acting is horrendous and hilarious when someone fakes an injury.

Baseball is so boring to watch and the announcers sound like they are on painkillers.

**Joey D** · 01-11-2009, 01:07 AM

I've never made it past 5 innings while watching a baseball game on TV. Football takes the cake for televised games.

HOWEVER... I'd consider them nearly tied when it comes to actually being at the game. Football edges baseball only because I have more of an interest in the teams involved.

Playing... baseball is a lot easier to casually field amongst my friends. Both games are fun given the right circumstances.

Lizzaroni · 01-11-2009, 01:21 AM

I'm the exact opposite. Unless I'm physically at the game or attending a game-party, football bores me to tears (exaggeration, but I'd rather watch baseball.) "LOOK HE'S DOING SOMETH -- FLAG! Oh boy, they're going to start aga -- FLAG! FLAG! FLAG! Let's stop the game one more time, just for fun FLAG!!" I really don't know why America bothers with "gridiron" when rugby already exists.

Rensa · 01-11-2009, 01:30 AM

To be honest, I don't really like watching sport on telly full stop. I like going to games for the atmosphere and I like playing them, but I couldn't give a toss about watching them. I don't get into all the player stats and predictions and such.

Z.E.I.D.A.N · 01-11-2009, 01:52 AM

I don't watch sports, but I suspect I'd enjoy playing baseball more than football. I don't even know how to play baseball though, but I'm sure I'd have more fun with it.

Idol Australian · 01-11-2009, 05:46 AM

What can;t be beaten is the MCG on Grand Final day. 100,000 people all in the same building for the same purpose.

The last couple of years I have watched the Super Bowl, which (if I remeber correctly) were hed at stadiums that held only 50,000 (or less) people.

There is not much else like the MCG on grand final day.

**Lucas** · 01-11-2009, 05:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Lizzaroni

I'm the exact opposite. Unless I'm physically at the game or attending a game-party, football bores me to tears (exaggeration, but I'd rather watch baseball.) "LOOK HE'S DOING SOMETH -- FLAG! Oh boy, they're going to start aga -- FLAG! FLAG! FLAG! Let's stop the game one more time, just for fun FLAG!!" I really don't know why America bothers with "gridiron" when rugby already exists.

I do get tired of the CONSTANT penalty flags in recent games, but it's worth it when something does actually happen. To their credit, the penalty can take less than a minute before they get the game going again, so it's not as bad as it used to be.

Smokey · 01-11-2009, 06:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Joey D

Playing... baseball is a lot easier to casually field amongst my friends. Both games are fun given the right circumstances.

Are you talking about setting up the field and stuff? I would think that football would be easier since all you need is a ball and some boundary markers. That and you don't really need extra equipment for catching the ball. I mean, you could go without, but only if you're used to the pain. Or you're a masochist.

Off-topic: We need a shrug emote, STAT!

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Originally Posted by Lizzaroni

I'm the exact opposite. Unless I'm physically at the game or attending a game-party, football bores me to tears (exaggeration, but I'd rather watch baseball.) "LOOK HE'S DOING SOMETH -- FLAG! Oh boy, they're going to start aga -- FLAG! FLAG! FLAG! Let's stop the game one more time, just for fun FLAG!!" I really don't know why America bothers with "gridiron" when rugby already exists.

We've gotta be different, even if it's not necessarily better. Otherwise, we'd be like...them.

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Originally Posted by Rensa

To be honest, I don't really like watching sport on telly full stop. I like going to games for the atmosphere and I like playing them, but I couldn't give a toss about watching them. I don't get into all the player stats and predictions and such.

Definitely cheaper than going to an NFL or MLB game, though. Although I will agree with you about watching sports on TV in general. Don't do it much except for hockey and whenever the Super Bowl or an All-Star game is on.

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Originally Posted by Z.E.I.D.A.N

I don't watch sports, but I suspect I'd enjoy playing baseball more than football. I don't even know how to play baseball though, but I'm sure I'd have more fun with it.

Wha...huh? How do you not know how to play baseball? I'm sorry, but that just seems really basic to me, like knowing how to walk. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I've never heard anyone say that before, although if ML or Rensa had said that, I'd have shook my head and written it down on my list of reasons why the UK and Australia are inherently inferior.

**Joey D** · 01-11-2009, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Smokey

Are you talking about setting up the field and stuff? I would think that football would be easier since all you need is a ball and some boundary markers. That and you don't really need extra equipment for catching the ball. I mean, you could go without, but only if you're used to the pain. Or you're a masochist.

I meant "field" as in like get together a full group willing to play. You know, we can easily field two teams. My friends are more willing to play baseball than football.