Poll of the Day > Do you like nfl more or nba?

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Couldn't care less about the NFL or NBA.

Will choose MLB and PGA instead.

I don't watch either sport except for football on Super Bowl Sunday, so NFL.
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NFL. NBA has become a joke

NHL, all day every day
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The only basketball game I've ever watched and enjoyed in my entire life was the MTV Rock N' Jock B-Ball Jam. And that had very little to do with the actual game.


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Keebs05 posted...

NHL, all day every day

this
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MLB > NFL > NHL > NBA

NBA are the biggest cry baby whiners out of any of the sports. And the league literally lets them do whatever they want to.
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NBA.
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Where's the option for "No"?
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NFL a wide margin, basketball is at the bottom for me.

NFL > MLB > NHL >>>> NBA
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NFL. I've been a Packers fan since I was young. I have no idea how I became a cheese head. Mum likes Vikings and dad likes Redskins. But I love the Packers.

Only been recently getting into NBA (2-3 years) and still don't have a team as I feel like a bandwagoner with any team I pick.
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Im not a sports fan but Id rather watch a game of basketball compared to football

Basketball is a lot more entertaining and doesnt give the players brain damage
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basketball is a really boring sport tbh, you only really need to watch the last minute of the game
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SonyMichel posted...

MLB > NFL > NHL > NBA

NBA are the biggest cry baby whiners out of any of the sports. And the league literally lets them do whatever they want to.

Soccer players are better actors though :p

DirtBasedSoap posted...

basketball is a really boring sport tbh, you only really need to watch the last minute of the game

Exactly. Unless there is a blowout, it's basically a bunch of people scoring points until that last 5 minutes where defensive strategy comes into play.
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Have y'all ever watched a football game?

Its like the most boring thing possible. Theres like 30 seconds of something happening for every 10 minutes of Everyone just standing around
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Check out the Patriots versus the Falcons super bowl from a couple years back. That was like 2 straight quarters of action at the end.
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Mead posted...

Have y'all ever watched a football game?

Its like the most boring thing possible. Theres like 30 seconds of something happening for every 10 minutes of Everyone just standing around

Im sorry mead but in this case, you have no idea what youre talking about.
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Mead posted...

Have y'all ever watched a baseball game?

Its like the most boring thing possible. Theres like 30 seconds of something happening for every 10 minutes of Everyone just standing around

FTFY
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baseball is great. maybe its your attention spans that are the problem?
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DirtBasedSoap posted...

baseball is great. maybe its your attention spans that are the problem?

Must be. That's why the MLB itself is trying to speed the game up.
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Well football is objectively the best sport in the world so...
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Keebs05 posted...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

baseball is great. maybe its your attention spans that are the problem?

Must be. That's why the MLB itself is trying to speed the game up.

theyre trying to speed up college football too. it doesnt mean the game is boring, just that it sometimes takes forever for some of these games to end. Im a huge cfb fan but 4 hour+ games should be rare. I can understand why networks would pressure a league into shortening the gametimes.
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Mead posted...

Have y'all ever watched a football game?

Its like the most boring thing possible. Theres like 30 seconds of something happening for every 10 minutes of Everyone just standing around

pedro45 posted...

Check out the Patriots versus the Falcons super bowl from a couple years back. That was like 2 straight quarters of action at the end.

Two straight quarters where everything had to basically be perfect in order to pull that off. Never saw anything like it in my life.
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Muscles posted...

Well football is objectively the best sport in the world so...

But that's association football - not American football. You're thinking of soccer.

What's "nfi"?
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DirtBasedSoap posted...

Mead posted...

Have y'all ever watched a football game?

Its like the most boring thing possible. Theres like 30 seconds of something happening for every 10 minutes of Everyone just standing around

Im sorry mead but in this case, you have no idea what youre talking about.

No, he's actually pretty accurate. In a game that takes 3 hrs to play, there is on average something like 15 minutes of actual play. The average play takes about 8 seconds from snap to whistle. Unless you count walking/jogging back to the the huddle, huddling up, and walking/jogging to their positions to be action.
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Blaqthourne posted...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

Mead posted...

Have y'all ever watched a football game?

Its like the most boring thing possible. Theres like 30 seconds of something happening for every 10 minutes of Everyone just standing around

Im sorry mead but in this case, you have no idea what youre talking about.

No, he's actually pretty accurate. In a game that takes 3 hrs to play, there is on average something like 15 minutes of actual play. The average play takes about 8 seconds from snap to whistle. Unless you count walking/jogging back to the the huddle, huddling up, and walking/jogging to their positions to be action.

Very close. I would have guessed 15 as well. It's 11 minutes of play. And over 100 commercials per game

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play/amp/

NFL is chess and NBA is checkers. Depending on what you're going for either could entertain.

But he'll, I only watch combat sports so I'm bias to those.

CTLM posted...

Blaqthourne posted...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

Mead posted...

Have y'all ever watched a football game?

Its like the most boring thing possible. Theres like 30 seconds of something happening for every 10 minutes of Everyone just standing around

Im sorry mead but in this case, you have no idea what youre talking about.

No, he's actually pretty accurate. In a game that takes 3 hrs to play, there is on average something like 15 minutes of actual play. The average play takes about 8 seconds from snap to whistle. Unless you count walking/jogging back to the the huddle, huddling up, and walking/jogging to their positions to be action.

Very close. I would have guessed 15 as well. It's 11 minutes of play. And over 100 commercials per game

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play/amp/

I was going by memory. I wasn't aware of the commercial count, though.

I'd forgotten just how boring a football game was until I went to an NFL game about a decade ago, and was forced to only watch THAT game -- other than a college game where some plants I walked by on the way to the stadium flared up my allergies something fierce to where I barely paid any attention to the game, I hadn't been to a game for 10-15 years before that. Because I'd been watching football exclusively on TV, there was always several games to flip around to during commercial breaks. The biggest waste of time was when someone scored a TD. It's TD, TV break, PAT, TV break, kickoff, TV break.
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Blaqthourne posted...

CTLM posted...

Blaqthourne posted...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

Mead posted...

Have y'all ever watched a football game?

Its like the most boring thing possible. Theres like 30 seconds of something happening for every 10 minutes of Everyone just standing around

Im sorry mead but in this case, you have no idea what youre talking about.

No, he's actually pretty accurate. In a game that takes 3 hrs to play, there is on average something like 15 minutes of actual play. The average play takes about 8 seconds from snap to whistle. Unless you count walking/jogging back to the the huddle, huddling up, and walking/jogging to their positions to be action.

Very close. I would have guessed 15 as well. It's 11 minutes of play. And over 100 commercials per game

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play/amp/

I was going by memory. I wasn't aware of the commercial count, though.

I'd forgotten just how boring a football game was until I went to an NFL game about a decade ago, and was forced to only watch THAT game -- other than a college game where some plants I walked by on the way to the stadium flared up my allergies something fierce to where I barely paid any attention to the game, I hadn't been to a game for 10-15 years before that. Because I'd been watching football exclusively on TV, there was always several games to flip around to during commercial breaks. The biggest waste of time was when someone scored a TD. It's TD, TV break, PAT, TV break, kickoff, TV break.

My uncle used to own a semi pro football team and watching that was bad enough. Couple guys who played for him made it to the pros, such as Gary Anderson (the kicker) and Ray Seals (defensive end).

Motorsports
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Mead posted...

Have y'all ever watched a football game?

Its like the most boring thing possible.

That can't be true, because I find both basketball and baseball far more boring. And golf. And NASCAR. And watching paint dry. And playing Final Fantasy XII.

I find a lot of things more boring than football, honestly.


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I like watching NFL more but I like playing basketball more.
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Blaqthourne posted...

CTLM posted...

Blaqthourne posted...

DirtBasedSoap posted...

Mead posted...

Have y'all ever watched a football game?

Its like the most boring thing possible. Theres like 30 seconds of something happening for every 10 minutes of Everyone just standing around

Im sorry mead but in this case, you have no idea what youre talking about.

No, he's actually pretty accurate. In a game that takes 3 hrs to play, there is on average something like 15 minutes of actual play. The average play takes about 8 seconds from snap to whistle. Unless you count walking/jogging back to the the huddle, huddling up, and walking/jogging to their positions to be action.

Very close. I would have guessed 15 as well. It's 11 minutes of play. And over 100 commercials per game

https://www.google.com/amp/s/qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play/amp/

I was going by memory. I wasn't aware of the commercial count, though.

I'd forgotten just how boring a football game was until I went to an NFL game about a decade ago, and was forced to only watch THAT game -- other than a college game where some plants I walked by on the way to the stadium flared up my allergies something fierce to where I barely paid any attention to the game, I hadn't been to a game for 10-15 years before that. Because I'd been watching football exclusively on TV, there was always several games to flip around to during commercial breaks. The biggest waste of time was when someone scored a TD. It's TD, TV break, PAT, TV break, kickoff, TV break.

It's only boring if you don't understand the strategy involved
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Muscles posted...

It's only boring if you don't understand the strategy involved

I understand the strategy: More commercial breaks means more revenue for the league/conference.
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Blaqthourne posted...

Muscles posted...

It's only boring if you don't understand the strategy involved

I understand the strategy: More commercial breaks means more revenue for the league/conference.

I'm not understanding Muscle's strategy in that post.
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Mead posted...

Have y'all ever watched a football game?

Its like the most boring thing possible. Theres like 30 seconds of something happening for every 10 minutes of Everyone just standing around

I agree. 3 hours to play a 1 hour game. That's a lot of nothing going on. Plus they're being WAAAAYYY overpaid for all that standing around.
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I like football and basketball but I prefer college as opposed to the pros.
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Does someone know what "nfi" stands for? I asked on another board but no one there had any idea.
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Lobomoon posted...

Does someone know what "nfi" stands for? I asked on another board but no one there had any idea.

Neonatal Fortitude Impersonation
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I never cared to watch basketball.. I want to play basketball instead.
I have no interest in playing football but football is actually fun to watch.

Blaqthourne posted...

Muscles posted...

It's only boring if you don't understand the strategy involved

I understand the strategy: More commercial breaks means more revenue for the league/conference.

I'm sure you would rather watch the coach talking to the players, scheming up plays, and getting players ready. You know it takes more time between special teams plays right? That's a perfect time for commercials.

When people complain about TD, Commercial, PAT, Commercial, Kickoff, Commercial it just shows they don't know how it really works. It just fills up between the plays.
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Muscles posted...

You know it takes more time between special teams plays right?

Yep, it sure does:
https://www.seahawks.com/video/chandler-catanzaro-hits-walk-off-43-yard-fg-179176
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Blaqthourne posted...

Muscles posted...

You know it takes more time between special teams plays right?

Yep, it sure does:
https://www.seahawks.com/video/chandler-catanzaro-hits-walk-off-43-yard-fg-179176

But where's my commercial? They didn't give them enough time to set up the upcoming play!!
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You know that's why they take a week between games, right? Because the opening kickoff requires that much preparation.
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It's always funny when people try to say it takes so much time for anything other than to just have more commercials.
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As someone who has played all three major American sports extensively and is pretty good at all three... nba is trash, nfl is good, and mlb is best. MLB is the most professionally run by far. Also, to anyone who says nfl or mlb bores them for times of inactivity .... just go play video games you fucking nerds

Another reason I love football so much is many times it comes down to a final play with almost no clock left. It makes games where you have no rooting interest interesting.

Except when they have to contractually cut away from it, just when you were getting into it. I hate that!
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NFL is literally the most boring thing ever

Unless you like watching ads...
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