Who is watching or watched the Super Bowl

Agreed.

I watched half the game. I was very much hoping for the at best decent team called the Panthers finally get exposed when facing a good team, and noticed they were down at half. This pleased me, so I watched up until Cam pussied out of that fumble, and knew the game was over.

American football is dire though. Basketball is better, but not by much. The NHL is the best of the lot tbh.

Never understood why people like Moal claim modern football is boring but continue to watch the NBA. I guess it's a personal preference, but football will always be superior for me at least.

Art Morte wrote:Too many timeouts in basketball, imo.

Basketball is a lot more physically demanding than footy though, the timeouts are needed. They could probably remove 1 timeout from each team but I don't see anymore than that.

LeSwagg James wrote:I don't care much for football but I do watch the big games from time to time. Not a fan of all of the breaks in play and running plays. Its basically run into a wall -> run into a wall again -> failed pass -> kick to other team 80% of the time

Don't even get me started on baseball.. I've never watched a full (or even half) baseball game in my life and I never will

Basketball should be America's #1 sport

I have to agree that baseball is as boring as golf to watch. Playing though is quite fun. It is boring when your team is batting, however, you pass the time talking to your teammates in the dugout as you wait to go on deck, that is, when the batter before you goes to bat and you exercise swings with a few bats (now they have lead rings that go around a single bat I think) so that when you go up to bat your bat feels real light. Then at bat it is an adrenaline high when you look into the pitcher's eyes wondering if he is going to hit you with 100 MPH pitch. When your team is fielding it is quite exciting and quite fun.

CBarca wrote:
Never understood why people like Moal claim modern football is boring but continue to watch the NBA. I guess it's a personal preference, but football will always be superior for me at least.

Simple really, most NBA games to me are entertaining ( except for the free throw fests) because of the way it's constructed almost everyone has talent. This year has been a bit annoying because Golden State is so much better than the rest but it's usually not the case.

In football it's been the same shit for years now and i'm tired of it, not usually the case in the NBA.

LeSwagg James wrote:

Art Morte wrote:Too many timeouts in basketball, imo.

Basketball is a lot more physically demanding than footy though, the timeouts are needed. They could probably remove 1 timeout from each team but I don't see anymore than that.

Ice hockey is physically very demanding as well, but guess what, they use about 20 players in a game instead of trying to get through with their seven best or so... Cut the timeouts in basketball down to, say, two and use your bench more.

I found out many things in this thread, except anything about Super Bowl

Thats because maybe noone is watching or watched super bowl

Pirloisjesus wrote:Thats because maybe noone is watching or watched super bowl

Or because there already was an NFL thread. Actually it was the top thread when this one was created.

The NHL seems to only be enjoyable if you are drunk.

We use to have a team in my city, called the thrashers, and game day experiences there were the worst thing ever. A bunch of drunk guys, in john deere hats, swearing at the players and each other. The timeouts were replaced by icing, and at random times it just seemed like people would start fighting for no apparent reason. Even on TV you can't see the puck. Just look like a bunch of people going back and forth on ice dressed like robots. Figure skating is a better Ice spectator sport.

The NFL at the very least provides a decent game day experience. During all the breaks you have games/music/ect on the soundboard. They try really hard to keep you engaged.

Well we're talking about two very different things, game day experience and experience through TV. Not being able to see the puck isn't really an issue if you watch more than...no NHL at all. I've never had issues seeing it after my first couple games of NHL when I had no clue what was going on.

I do agree about the fighting though, hate that aspect of the NHL. Otherwise the NHL provides probably the best entertainment of all the American leagues imo. NFL is just awful to watch on TV and NBA is generally boring to me unless the Bucks are playing or two good teams are playing each other. I know it's a bit of a stereotype but sometimes I'm watching the NBA and it seems the players can't even be bothered.

CBarca wrote:Well we're talking about two very different things, game day experience and experience through TV. Not being able to see the puck isn't really an issue if you watch more than...no NHL at all. I've never had issues seeing it after my first couple games of NHL when I had no clue what was going on.

I do agree about the fighting though, hate that aspect of the NHL. Otherwise the NHL provides probably the best entertainment of all the American leagues imo. NFL is just awful to watch on TV and NBA is generally boring to me unless the Bucks are playing or two good teams are playing each other. I know it's a bit of a stereotype but sometimes I'm watching the NBA and it seems the players can't even be bothered.

NBA has too many games for a competitive product nightly

My eyes must terrible from all my work. The few times I've tried to watch on NBC I can't see anything

I mean, it's a fair criticism, it's something that a lot of people have problems with.

It's that watching hockey for a while, it's not so much that you become better at seeing the puck (I should point out that is not what I was inferring), it's that you learn to know where the puck is and what's going on based on the movement/action of the players. For hockey, you don't really need to know where the puck is at all times, you will know where it is by the way situations present themselves.

It takes a bit of time though. I've watched an alright amount of NHL and I had season tickets for Wisconsin (college) hockey last year, so I've seen a decent amount in person and on screen. It's probably the worst sport for casual fans watching on screen...but I think once you get past that barrier it offers the best entertainment of American sports. This is, of course, subjective.

Though it does have a bit of an issue with the number of games like the NBA, it's just not quite as apparent since the structure of the game is that players are on for a short amount of time and then are pulled, so you don't see people just blatantly slacking from tiredness much.

Anybody who enjoys watching American sports (don't know why you would tbh, NHL aside as said) should check out the Stanley Cup playoffs. I've watched a lot of NFL playoffs, I've watched a little bit of the NBA playoffs (enough to judge). Stanley Cup playoffs are generally of a higher quality imo and are worth checking out. I myself was never invested in hockey--it's a stretch to say I am even now--but one day I flipped on some of the Stanley Cup playoffs because I was bored and was roped in. Followed the rest of that series and tuned in some more, now I generally try to catch the final every year at least, if not more.

CBarca wrote:I mean, it's a fair criticism, it's something that a lot of people have problems with.

It's that watching hockey for a while, it's not so much that you become better at seeing the puck (I should point out that is not what I was inferring), it's that you learn to know where the puck is and what's going on based on the movement/action of the players. For hockey, you don't really need to know where the puck is at all times, you will know where it is by the way situations present themselves.

It takes a bit of time though. I've watched an alright amount of NHL and I had season tickets for Wisconsin (college) hockey last year, so I've seen a decent amount in person and on screen. It's probably the worst sport for casual fans watching on screen...but I think once you get past that barrier it offers the best entertainment of American sports. This is, of course, subjective.

Though it does have a bit of an issue with the number of games like the NBA, it's just not quite as apparent since the structure of the game is that players are on for a short amount of time and then are pulled, so you don't see people just blatantly slacking from tiredness much.

Anybody who enjoys watching American sports (don't know why you would tbh, NHL aside as said) should check out the Stanley Cup playoffs. I've watched a lot of NFL playoffs, I've watched a little bit of the NBA playoffs (enough to judge). Stanley Cup playoffs are generally of a higher quality imo and are worth checking out. I myself was never invested in hockey--it's a stretch to say I am even now--but one day I flipped on some of the Stanley Cup playoffs because I was bored and was roped in. Followed the rest of that series and tuned in some more, now I generally try to catch the final every year at least, if not more.

I'll try to catch some stanley cup when it rolls around this year.