yes but you are ignoring the obvious fact that in basketball there are time outs, substitions etc which make it easier to make the constant running up and down. as a sportsman myself, i would much rather take the constant sprints with 5 minutes breaks than running non stop for 90 minutes at a slower pace.
Are people excited that Beckham has come to the US?
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"Throughout the history of mankind, the urge to kick at stones and other such objects is
thought to have led to many early activities involving kicking and/or running with a ball.
Football-like games predate recorded history in all parts of the world, and thus the
earliest forms of football are not known.
Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest activity resembling football can be
found in a Chinese military manual written during the Warring States Period in about the
476 BC-221 BC. It describes a practice known as cuju, which involved kicking a leather
ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30 foot poles."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
well my preference is rugby however the thing about footy is that it's cheap to play and in
football/soccer playing countries it begins as a 'street game' so for many children it's part
of their upbringing. in Canada rather than footy is shinney -- street hockey out of season
and on ponds and rinks during the season, but football/soccer is the largest child/youth
sport played throughout the world and one played by both boys And girls so it rates high
with parents, educators etc
years ago US televised soccer controlled the game by stopping play for commercials,
they've gotten better but soccer'll never replace American football plus NAs players don't
have the consumate acting skills required of international players in order to display the
extreme pain resulting from being kicked on the shin pad then being able to fall over and
writhe on the ground, also being able to pull their hair with agonized facial expressions
while gesticulating wildly at offending players and most important being able to appear to
have been hit by an opposing player -- collapsing, writhing, agonizing expressions and
moaning loudly -- sound censored to spare viewers
WWF, now THAT'S a sport
thought to have led to many early activities involving kicking and/or running with a ball.
Football-like games predate recorded history in all parts of the world, and thus the
earliest forms of football are not known.
Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest activity resembling football can be
found in a Chinese military manual written during the Warring States Period in about the
476 BC-221 BC. It describes a practice known as cuju, which involved kicking a leather
ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30 foot poles."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football
well my preference is rugby however the thing about footy is that it's cheap to play and in
football/soccer playing countries it begins as a 'street game' so for many children it's part
of their upbringing. in Canada rather than footy is shinney -- street hockey out of season
and on ponds and rinks during the season, but football/soccer is the largest child/youth
sport played throughout the world and one played by both boys And girls so it rates high
with parents, educators etc
years ago US televised soccer controlled the game by stopping play for commercials,
they've gotten better but soccer'll never replace American football plus NAs players don't
have the consumate acting skills required of international players in order to display the
extreme pain resulting from being kicked on the shin pad then being able to fall over and
writhe on the ground, also being able to pull their hair with agonized facial expressions
while gesticulating wildly at offending players and most important being able to appear to
have been hit by an opposing player -- collapsing, writhing, agonizing expressions and
moaning loudly -- sound censored to spare viewers
WWF, now THAT'S a sport
Hmm, when were helmets made compulsory?
Was it before, or after gridiron acheived fame as the sport with the most fatal head /neck injuries in the world?
Rugby;
"Lets make a game, where you have to get to the other end of the feild-by throwing the ball backwards, and kicking it out of bounds!"
Soccer;
"Lets make a game so exciting and spectacular, the main ball control technique is called dribbling-and its even possible to score a goal every couple of matches!"
Gridiron;
"Lets make a game, where most of the team never handle the ball, because their not very co-ordinated-and lets develop complex tactics that require a break every other minute, 'coz our guys aren't very fit, and they want to keep fresh for the kegger tonight."
As for substitutions in basketball, most of the top players play most
of the game. And they do more than run. They jump. A lot. They
run around in circles. They block. They get run over. They get elbows.
Their shots get blocked and they get clobbered once in awhile.
Soccer players hardly even touch each other. Sprints take more out
of you than running constantly at a slower pace IMHO...
Even with all the "wrapping" as you call it, football players get
hurt quite badly at times. Imagine if a receiver ran across the
field full bore to catch a pass and was hit by a cornerback at full
speed in the head without a helmet. The dude's head would get
crushed. And you say it's not a full contact sport?
I think American football is the most violent sport of them all.
We are talking about the biggest, fastest dudes in the world here.
Not some little guys with shorts on... LOL...
As far as boxing, they wrap their hands up with nice soft gloves...
'Cept ice hockey
And rugby union......where the offense of "raking" , stomping your opponent with your boot studs, is only an offense if excessive downward pressure is evident, or the ball is actually quite a few feet away from said boot.
Sure, gridiron, they hit hard, but have you seen a defensive lineman recover a fumble? Its like they dont know what to do with it, its hilarious, the look on their face-like
"wtf is this? Shit, i got the ball?What do i do?" and there teamate points upfield and says "run that way". Priceless
The very fact that threads like this exist shows that Beckham is doing what he was brought to America to do....raise the profile of mls.
people who never heard of him and are indiffernt to soccer all of a sudden have an opinion...
he hasnt played a game yet but is already earning his paycheck!!
people who never heard of him and are indiffernt to soccer all of a sudden have an opinion...
he hasnt played a game yet but is already earning his paycheck!!
Um, what the heck is mls?
This was a payed junket, he earned whatever he was going to before he set foot on the plane.
Oddly, this seems to have coincided with a spice girls reunion, but what the heck.
To andread, he can play-its not whether he's the best in the world, what matters is that he's the best britain has, that poor sports starved, rather damp little nation, that sometimes gets pretensions of being able to play cricket successfully, against its former colonies.
Mate I don't think you've ever seen a soccer game if you think they hardly touch each other. What do you think tackling is? There is so much contact in the sport, as much as in basketball. Sprinting every 2 minutes and then getting a 10 minute break for 48 minutes, or consistently jogging with the sprints for 90 minutes with 1 10 minute break. Pretty easy for me.