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Subject: Why Football sucks For Schools.

Everything you know is wrong.


Posted by: Hachee Bungwhy

Posted by: U2 Magnificence

Baseball isn't a timed game, if you read my first statement. In hockey, there is much more movement in a span of time than a five second play in American football before a ton of time is wasted before the next snap.[/quote]
40 seconds isn't a ton of time

In soccer, there is much more running on a much larger field for 90 minutes and lost time is added into extra time to fulfill the 90 minutes.

The goal is the size of an SUV and the ball is tiny yet they can't seem to get the small ball inside of the giant goal more than about 6 times in 90 minutes hence marathon.

In basketball, a full 40 minutes of game is played and play doesn't stop until a foul is committed or a timeout is called. There could be a 10-minute frenzy in basketball of running and scoring and clock won't stop until play is dead.
I have never seen a 10 minute frenzy in a basketball game. There is a foul about every couple of minutes and both teams get quite a few time outs. I miss my Sonics.
I wish it was the same in American football.I think it's fine
When you add snap after snap, those 40 seconds add up.

Soccer players use their feet. Accuracy is better within the grasp of hands. Look at water polo.

NBA isn't very good. You'll see these frenzies in college. I'm not saying 10-minute frenzies are a daily sunrise. You'll see these frenzies more in college basketball, where officiating is more sane.

  • 12.31.2012 11:52 AM PDT


Posted by: U2 Magnificence


I simply don't like all the wasted play time there is in American football, not to mention with all of the security during possession.


The wasted time adds to the strategy. Coaches have to think minutes in advance on what they will do.

Also its not as secure as you think. See Leon Lett.

  • 12.31.2012 11:52 AM PDT

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Posted by: U2 Magnificence
I absolutely hate how 3:00 can be left in the fourth quarter of a football game with a score of say 23-20 and the leading team can run those 3:00 minutes out with near full security of the ball.


Please. Burning 3 minutes of time is pretty difficult. A team would have to have all their remaining timeouts and it still wouldn't be easy. That's part of the strategy. Sometimes it results in the other team having possession with less than a minute to go and they have to get down the field and into scoring position in that amount of time.

  • 12.31.2012 11:54 AM PDT


Posted by: Biack Rose66
Sums up my opinion of football. Everyone should give this a read.


Horrible article. I hope it was a joke.

Football is great. I never got injured in my 4 years as a highschool QB. However, I tore my MCL playing pickup basketball. You can get injured in anything you do.

Also, if you think bulking up 30 pounds is bad. You should hear the stories my wrestling friends tell. They have to cut weight like crazy.

  • 12.31.2012 11:55 AM PDT

Brainwashing, idiotic media: "hur dur, vido gaems cas vilenc n iz nt gud. dey ned 2 b baned."

Logic: Really? Then please explain how there's violence in third world countries. I guess they're all poor due to the large amount of video games they buy.

American Football:

>Use hands 99% of the time, so why not call it handball?

>Men running around in tights and trying to touch each other.

>The concept was stolen from Soccer and Rugby

>Players get payed millions of dollars for running around while teachers get squat.

>People have respect fot the ones that somehow go broke and commit crimes.

  • 12.31.2012 11:55 AM PDT


Posted by: BlazingAngel94
American Football:

>Use hands 99% of the time, so why not call it handball?

>Men running around in tights and trying to touch each other.

>The concept was stolen from Soccer and Rugby

>Players get payed millions of dollars for running around while teachers get squat.

>People have respect fot the ones that somehow go broke and commit crimes.


1. Why are you arguing over a name?
2. Football is ANYTHING but what you are trying to imply.
3. It was? If so, whys that matter?
4. And they bring in BILLIONS of dollars for their business, the NFL, teachers dont do that. Players also have a skill set that not many people have. Supply in demand.
5. People in every profession go broke and commit crimes. Your point?

  • 12.31.2012 11:59 AM PDT


Posted by: BlazingAngel94
American Football:

>Use hands 99% of the time, so why not call it handball?

>Men running around in tights and trying to touch each other.

>The concept was stolen from Soccer and Rugby

>Players get payed millions of dollars for running around while teachers get squat.

>People have respect fot the ones that somehow go broke and commit crimes.

1. They gain yards or feet hence FOOTball.
2. OK?
3. So?
4. And actors get paid even more. What's your point?
5. Last time I checked OJ wasn't very respected.

  • 12.31.2012 12:00 PM PDT

Don't worry, you're still your mom's favorite Bnet member.

I think everyone should have something that they enjoy doing. I don't think people should be angry with or look down upon those who enjoy something you don't. How do you feel when those 'jocks' are mean to you because you suck at sports and just play video games? Two wrongs don't make a right.

That said, I do love sports. And video games. And video games about sports.

  • 12.31.2012 12:02 PM PDT


Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: Biack Rose66
Sums up my opinion of football. Everyone should give this a read.


Horrible article. I hope it was a joke.

Football is great. I never got injured in my 4 years as a highschool QB. However, I tore my MCL playing pickup basketball. You can get injured in anything you do.

Also, if you think bulking up 30 pounds is bad. You should hear the stories my wrestling friends tell. They have to cut weight like crazy.


What a great way to completely disregard anything this article said with anecdotal evidence. The injury rate for football is tremendously high and just because you never gotten injured means that nobody did. Also, with the general weight of Americans, it doesn't surprise me that people have to go on crazy cutting, but those two both are bad and do not negate them out. Football is still pretty awful in middle/high school.

  • 12.31.2012 12:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: Biack Rose66
Also, with the general weight of Americans, it doesn't surprise me that people have to go on crazy cutting,


Uh...most wrestlers aren't going to fit the description of "the general weight of Americans," but nice try on "lolamericans are fat" jab.

  • 12.31.2012 12:03 PM PDT

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Posted by: BlazingAngel94
>The concept was stolen from Soccer and Rugby

>Players get payed millions of dollars for running around while teachers get squat.
I consider it more a melting pot of sports around the world that came together and formed one, rather than a ripoff. And their salaries are proportional considering how much money they bring to their teams. It's Capitalism 101.

[Edited on 12.31.2012 12:07 PM PST]

  • 12.31.2012 12:06 PM PDT


Posted by: Biack Rose66

Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: Biack Rose66
Sums up my opinion of football. Everyone should give this a read.


Horrible article. I hope it was a joke.

Football is great. I never got injured in my 4 years as a highschool QB. However, I tore my MCL playing pickup basketball. You can get injured in anything you do.

Also, if you think bulking up 30 pounds is bad. You should hear the stories my wrestling friends tell. They have to cut weight like crazy.


What a great way to completely disregard anything this article said with anecdotal evidence. The injury rate for football is tremendously high and just because you never gotten injured means that nobody did. Also, with the general weight of Americans, it doesn't surprise me that people have to go on crazy cutting, but those two both are bad and do not negate them out. Football is still pretty awful in middle/high school.


Its a heavily biased article. It shows nothing about the advantages of playing football. While the injury rate is high, its getting safer every year, just as every other sport is.

Why bring up the weight of Americans? Cutting weight in wrestling has nothing to do with that. My friend weighed 160 and had to cut 10 pounds in 3 days to make weight. He starved himself. Its very common in highschool wrestling. Which is alot more dangerous than what football players do

  • 12.31.2012 12:07 PM PDT


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Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: BlazingAngel94
American Football:

>Use hands 99% of the time, so why not call it handball?

>Men running around in tights and trying to touch each other.

>The concept was stolen from Soccer and Rugby

>Players get payed millions of dollars for running around while teachers get squat.

>People have respect fot the ones that somehow go broke and commit crimes.


1. Why are you arguing over a name?
2. Football is ANYTHING but what you are trying to imply.
3. It was? If so, whys that matter?
4. And they bring in BILLIONS of dollars for their business, the NFL, teachers dont do that. Players also have a skill set that not many people have. Supply in demand.
5. People in every profession go broke and commit crimes. Your point?

Couldn't just ignore him?


id rather just prove him wrong.

  • 12.31.2012 12:08 PM PDT
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I don't care about my school's football team but I will root for them since they are part of my school, and since I'm in the marching band, I have to go to their games every week during football season.

Really, I don't have a problem with them unless they turn into cocky, arrogant jerks(which some of them are, but not all).

  • 12.31.2012 12:09 PM PDT

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Do you not use feet in American football?

  • 12.31.2012 12:09 PM PDT

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Do you not use feet in American football?
No, we fly. Usually on hoverboards.

  • 12.31.2012 12:09 PM PDT


Posted by: True Underdog
Posted by: Biack Rose66
Also, with the general weight of Americans, it doesn't surprise me that people have to go on crazy cutting,


Uh...most wrestlers aren't going to fit the description of "the general weight of Americans," but nice try on "lolamericans are fat" jab.


Many of the one's who do enter in it at high school level aren't at their physical level that they should be, hence the cut of fat, and odds are, bulking back for muscle.

  • 12.31.2012 12:11 PM PDT

+1 for you good sir.


Posted by: SweetTRIX
Many school sports "make people" like that, not just American football.
OP doesn't understand.

  • 12.31.2012 12:12 PM PDT

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Posted by: Biack Rose66
Many of the one's who do enter in it at high school level aren't at their physical level that they should be, hence the cut of fat, and odds are, bulking back for muscle.


Either way, your comment was dripping of a "lolamericans are fat" jab. I'd defer to BV though. I just enjoy watching athletics; he's an athlete so he knows way more than I do on the subject.

  • 12.31.2012 12:12 PM PDT


Posted by: Biack Rose66

Posted by: True Underdog
Posted by: Biack Rose66
Also, with the general weight of Americans, it doesn't surprise me that people have to go on crazy cutting,


Uh...most wrestlers aren't going to fit the description of "the general weight of Americans," but nice try on "lolamericans are fat" jab.


Many of the one's who do enter in it at high school level aren't at their physical level that they should be, hence the cut of fat, and odds are, bulking back for muscle.


But they arent cutting fat to bulk up on muscle in wrestling (Like other sports do). They are just cutting fat so they can make weight to fight. Kind of like Boxers do.

Either way the topic at hand here isnt wrestling. Its football.

And IMO, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages when it comes to playing highschool football.

  • 12.31.2012 12:15 PM PDT


Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: Biack Rose66

Posted by: DatDudeBV

Posted by: Biack Rose66
Sums up my opinion of football. Everyone should give this a read.


Horrible article. I hope it was a joke.

Football is great. I never got injured in my 4 years as a highschool QB. However, I tore my MCL playing pickup basketball. You can get injured in anything you do.

Also, if you think bulking up 30 pounds is bad. You should hear the stories my wrestling friends tell. They have to cut weight like crazy.


What a great way to completely disregard anything this article said with anecdotal evidence. The injury rate for football is tremendously high and just because you never gotten injured means that nobody did. Also, with the general weight of Americans, it doesn't surprise me that people have to go on crazy cutting, but those two both are bad and do not negate them out. Football is still pretty awful in middle/high school.


Its a heavily biased article. It shows nothing about the advantages of playing football. While the injury rate is high, its getting safer every year, just as every other sport is.

Why bring up the weight of Americans? Cutting weight in wrestling has nothing to do with that. My friend weighed 160 and had to cut 10 pounds in 3 days to make weight. He starved himself. Its very common in highschool wrestling. Which is alot more dangerous than what football players do


First off, starving yourself has no connection to losing weight in the short run. And I can get the advantages of football through strength training. It's not a biased article, it just clearly shows the opinion of the author with empirical evidence showing why football is bad. Also, actually losing weight in three days is impossible. I suspect your analogy is a bluff at best. I bet he had little water weight and other factors that fluctuate weight loss.

  • 12.31.2012 12:15 PM PDT

Everything you know is wrong.


Posted by: True Underdog
Posted by: U2 Magnificence
I absolutely hate how 3:00 can be left in the fourth quarter of a football game with a score of say 23-20 and the leading team can run those 3:00 minutes out with near full security of the ball.


Please. Burning 3 minutes of time is pretty difficult. A team would have to have all their remaining timeouts and it still wouldn't be easy. That's part of the strategy. Sometimes it results in the other team having possession with less than a minute to go and they have to get down the field and into scoring position in that amount of time.
If you look at a basketball game with is 30.5 seconds left in the second half (I am using college here), both teams have no timeouts left and the score is 88-86, I think it would be much more difficult for either basketball team to win. Play is live, it can be stopped by players, or possession could suddenly turnover to the team trailing. 30.5 seconds is a lot of time in basketball.

In my original football example, one first down and a few kneels and the game is over. 3:00 may seem like a lot of time, but all the time that can be killed, and so safely, ... There isn't much the defense in the football game can do.

All I am saying is I wish the full 60-minutes in football was used as play, not as a simple time frame.

I am also a little partial to timed games where time is fully of the essence. :)

  • 12.31.2012 12:16 PM PDT

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Your football scenario works when there's only one minute of time left; not three.

  • 12.31.2012 12:17 PM PDT