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IMO, rectangle sports are the most boring sports in existence. It's literally a rectangle and always a rectangle every time... And everyone stands around watching the exact same shit happening inside the perfectly constructed rectangle. It's the same thing, over and over. Not only that but millions of people say they love sports, but they don't even play, just stare at a glowy rectangle and watch people in a rectangle run around. You can't define a more boring sport than that. At the very bare minimum, to spice things up, how about introducing some goddamn obstacles randomly placed in the rectangle. Add some actual dynamic scenarios that keep the players on their toes and trying to come up with new strategies.
Motocross and enduro racing are sports and so is golf. Golf courses are all different, they unique, dynamic change depending on temperature, weather, grass length, wind, dew point, hole location.
But I do agree in general, golf courses are very big waste. Especially when placed in the middle of deserts or places that require significant resources to maintain.
Dude you can describe anything this way to make it sound boring, but that doesn't even get close to reality and I think you know that deep down. I don't even like sports and this is a senselessly reductive way of framing the discussion.
IMO, rectangle phone screens are the most boring screens in existence. It's literally a rectangle and always a rectangle every time... And everyone hold it around watching the exact same shit happening inside the perfectly constructed rectangle. It's the same thing, over and over. Not only that but millions of people say they love their phone, but they don't even post, just stare at a glowy rectangle and watch people in a rectangle posts around. You can't define a more boring screen than that. At the very bare minimum, to spice things up, how about introducing some goddamn obstacles randomly placed in the rectangle. Add some actual dynamic scenarios that keep the owners on their toes and trying to come up with new strategies.
Soccer fields are affected by temperature, weather, state of grass, wind, etc. too. So are football and baseball fields. Baseball fields are all unique. Cricket fields are round.
That said, there are obstacles in those identical rectangles. But unlike golf, these obstacles can move and think! They are called opponents and believe it or not, they can often be more dynamic than a tree or pond!
Yeah i might enjoy soccer if players got to run around with roman candles firing them at each other
Goalies get three mortar shells per match
Soccer just needs to adopt some rules from hockey and it would be more entertaining.
Soccer doesn't even have the entertaining fights that hockey has. The soccer players just crumple to the ground screaming in (fake) pain as soon as anything remotely touches them. Every time.
The fans more than make up for the players
I've always wondered why we don't really have hooligans in the US. Not just for soccer/football, but any sport. I wonder if Hockey fans' thirst for violence is quenched by the fights in hockey, and that's why there is no Hockey hooligans or something.
We got Raiders fans who are pretty close, though.
There's a university not far from me that regularly burns couches for big games. Two years in a row, fans have taken uprights from football stadiums and thrown them in lakes/rivers. There's usually a game or two per year that cars get flipped or other vandalism.
The NFL is really good at killing reporting, but fights among fans are fairly common and people have died this year from them.
The US has hooligans.
Fair points. Yea I guess we just got our own breed of them. I think the only reason it's really different is that most of the fan bases are too separated to do the gang fight thing like they do in some places.
It's like you don't even believe in Philadelphia sports teams.
Lmao you are right. It's the same thing just dumb drunk fans doing dumb things. The difference is that our obnoxious fans are spread out enough that they don't meetup and have gang fights too often. Ours mostly just fuck their own cities up.
A man was recently killed in the Patriots stadium after an away fan sucker punched him. US sports definitely have "hooligans".
While horrible that still sounds nothing like hooligans that will literally contact each other and arrange a meeting somewhere near the stadium before/after the match to beat each other up with home made weapons.
I think the true reason is that in the US that would just immediately devolve into gun shootouts and that's probably too much for anyone.
This is more what I was getting at. I think we don't really have the hooligan type gang fights because we are so much more spread out than most of the countries with soccer/football hooligans.
Bruh Philadelphia burns down every time they win something big
Plenty of college football stadium goalposts are designed to be easily replaced because fans will storm the field and take them down/home with them after big wins
Yea I know all about this. It's still a different thing than gangs forming around teams and then meeting up to have a large scale fight. I guess guns and the fact that the fan bases are spread out kind of keep everybody from considering that idea in the US.
They could just use the old rules
Like what happened in Pasadena, 1994.
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I'm not a fan of watching sports myself, but you're ignoring a big part of it: The strategy behind it and its execution. But apart from that, I think most people just want to feel like a part of something and cheering on a team is an easy way to do that.
You just gave me an idea...
Soccer on a square field, four teams playing against one another, scoring in the nets closest to yours gives one point, in the net facing yours gives 2 points. Imagine the chaos!
Aussie rules football is all that you describe, but on an oval.