As part of our offseason program, I decided to do some posts on explaining why American football is the best sport in the world. I will be addressing it on several levels. I will be addressing each sport on it’s most basic level and also comparing the professional and college games as well. Since basketball is well underway (what? you didn’t know that?), I will start with basketball.
Football vs. Basketball
Pickup Games: Basketball pickup games can be played with as little as 4 people, and can be started up any place there is a hoop, which in America means everywhere. Ability levels can be matched much more easily and the equipment and uniform is relatively cheap. Plus it can be played indoors or outdoors.
Football, on the other hand, is a pain in the ass to play pickup with. You usually have to organize it in depth with a group of friends. Touch football is faggy, tackle is too violent and leads to injuries and fights, and 95% of people are too retarded to understand the concept of two hand wrap up. Also, there always ends up one guy who is 1,000 times better than everybody else at Quarterback and/or Wide Receiver and he gets the ball all game while the rest of the team runs 5 yard hitches in 5.10 seconds.
Advantage: Basketball
Style and Substance: Basketball has a lot of style. A whole hell of a lot. But, in my opinion, football crushes it in substance.
In basketball, a team can score unlimited amount of points off of the fast break, the pick and roll, and the drive and kick. As a result of this absurd simplicity, basketball has very little real strategy involved. You can draw up plays and plans all you want in your local pickup game, but the team with the bigger, faster guys who shoot better will win the game. Teamwork in basketball is highly overrated in lower levels of competition.
In football, strategy is huge. Sure, a team can win by just crushing everybody with talent, but with the expanding of offensive creativity and the emphasis on speed over size, teams like that, even on high school and college levels, are becoming rarities.
Football combines the most complex choreography and skill with the raw power and primal instincts that make men what they are. It requires man to be at his best: smart, analytical, and tactically sound along with fierce, fearless, and powerful. Everything must be coordinated by multiple coaches preaching technique and skill, but ultimately it comes down to who hits harder and who is faster. Tactical advantages and disadvantages are exploited and masked and planned around in every game from the high school level on up.
Basketball just doesn’t have this amount of complexity. It’s why people knew LeBron James would be a NBA star by the time he was 12 but Drew Brees best scholarship offer was from freaking Purdue.
Football, more than any major American sport, is the true thinking man’s game.
Advantage: Football. By a mile.
College Football vs. College Basketball
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