why does america love football

Back in the day everybody watched boxing to see one guy beat another guy about the head until his brain started rattling around in his skull and he fell to the canvas before having to take any more blows that would probably kill him. Boxing got greedy and thought they could rake in more dough by going pay-per-view on all the good fights. The really blood thirsty fans would pay but the casual sports enthusiasts couldn't fit it in their budget. Football was already getting a little more popular and along with hockey were the only televised sports where one guy could bash in another guys brains without going to jail. Since nobody in America cares about a bunch of guys skating around for a couple hours and maybe scoring one goal, that left football as the sport to watch.

After a few years though, it was only a couple teams winning all the time so the league devised a plan where the poor teams would play a bunch of other poor teams and a couple of those would end up with a good record. Meanwhile, all the good teams had to play each other so they lost more games than they normally would. They called this parity. Finally when the money got too big and the networks had to sell millions of dollars in ads for every game, they needed to make sure the fanatics stayed tuned in the whole game. That meant no blow-outs were allowed knowing the fans would turn to something else if that happened. That's when they taught the officials how to call the games to insure virtually every one came down to the last series. If one team got ahead by too much, a couple holding or illegal procedure calls would eventually let the poor team catch back up.

This has worked fantastic over the years because most of the football fans are too stupid to realize they are doing this and the rest don't care as it's there only excuse to get drunk 3 or 4 days a week.

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It suits people with a 5 second attention span.

They've been conditioned to do so by the giant billion dollar corporations that make money off of them. Coke, Bud Weiser, Doritos, Nike and all the other companies that make billions off the fat couch potatoes watching Monday Night Football. All about the money. At least the World Cup only comes around 4 times a year. US Football is a year round nightmare.

professional football is irrelevant. The real purpose of football is to teach kids to be warriors. Boys watch football and then they go play football on the grass, learning the three most essential fighting skills - maneuvering, tackling, and breaking tackles. Organized football doesn't do that because the pads makes it much easier to tackle.

Because I played pick-up football nearly every day between the ages of 6 and 12, I can easily tackle anyone of any weight except the small percentage who can outrun me indefinitely, and impossible to tackle for anyone who never played football.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Because I played pick-up football nearly every day between the ages of 6 and 12, I can easily tackle anyone of any weight except the small percentage who can outrun me indefinitely, and impossible to tackle for anyone who never played football.

That sounds like a really useful skill.

You sound like you watch a lot of football.

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Do you even know what you're talking about? I mean i've heard some dumb stuff before but your post by far takes the cake. Thanks to you I now have to go to the doctor's to make sure I haven't developed an aneurysm in my brain. I dont mean to be rude but I could probably form a more logical and coherent statement by repeatedly smashing my face on the keyboard. You have the IQ of a hyena with brain damage and I nor anyone else here knows how you manage to make a bowl of cereal without burning down your house. I hope next time you post you will seriously consider doing your homework first so that I dont have to take time out of my day to write out my frustrations with you.

I'm American and I don't know. I prefer track and the real Fútball.

America? you mean USA right? so you probably are refering to the one that uses helmets and shit. I mean the game that u.s citizens call soccer wouldn't be compatible with all the advertisement bullshit scheme that USA television uses, I mean family guy episodes which would otherwise have 20 minutes have like 4/5 breaks for ads, wtf is up with that right? when you look at it baseball and ''football'' do really fit with that consumer-like market model. That's really about it because honestly it sucks, i'll stick to track, tennis and cycling thank you very much.

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You sound like you watch a lot of football.

Not much anymore but it is pretty comical to listen to the Cleveland Browns (the fake ones since the real ones are in Baltimore) on the radio. They can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory with the best of them.

The one good game they happened to play in the last 5 years I was on the treadmill at the fitness center watching them. They were two touchdowns ahead in the first half and driving the ball easily. They had 8 straight penalties called against them taking away touchdowns twice. Had to settle for a field goal. The other team was playing so poorly, the refs finally just gave up and it ended up being a blow-out anyway. I turned the channel and watched something else.