Best Sport?

[IrishArmenian]

Football first.
Rugby second.
I am a big guy, but I think football takes the most skill, while rugby is the bruiser sport. I like to play both, but football is much simpler and can be played by nearly all with nearly no experience.

[JimBob]

If you want pageantry you watch baseball.
If you want ass kicking you watch rugby
If you want style and class you play Ultimate Frisbee.

'Nuff said.

[El Diablo]

Coming from New Zealand I have to say Rugby is a great game. Mainly because the All Blacks are the only team we have worth a coin toss.

However having spent my OE (overseas experiance) in the Mother Country I did manage to enjoy a fair bit of Soccer. Albeit that I hate the diving!!!

Cricket is a great game just don't watch NZ.

American football is up there with Aussie Rule - ?????
I just dont understand how you can have so many platers in a team.
Although the guy that gets paid millions of $$$ to kick the ball off - he is onto a winner!!!

[Fragony]

American football is so slow, playing it on the other hand sounds like great fun.

[naut]

Ahhh Football. The sport of gods. The world game.

[InsaneApache]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrM7HyptOKk

Now, do you see beauty and elegance such as that in American Football?

Another view on Giggs

[IrishArmenian]

Ahh. I belong to an amateur league which goes Football: Every part of the year but Mid January to April, where we have a recess for Rugby.
I play Flank and if needed, fullback.

[yesdachi]

Women’s beach volleyball, foxy boxing and jello wrestling are all more fun to watch than foolsball.


I would rather watch paint dry than baseball, but American football and basketball are both fun to watch, I just cant get into soccer.

[AntiochusIII]

I dont know anyone in my entire school except for one exchange student that even watched a glimpse of the World Cup, while i didnt know one single kid, including the exchange student, who didnt watch the Superbowl. IMO, the whole more violent thing is a bunch of crap, rugby has way more violence in a match than football (gridiron, with the "pigskin").

You're in America. I can't even freaking find a proper (non-US) Football channel that's not in Spanish on my cable. It's a disgrace to God and country and all that. I don't know Spanish damn you!

Obviously if even the World Cup -- the only sports championship that carries the level of international competition to stand toe-to-toe with the Olympics -- is this hard to catch I rather doubt it'll boom enough to challenge the Superbowl anytime soon.

And yes, the wise man on page 1 is right: your culture usually has a great influence on what makes your favorite sport of all time. Everywhere outside of the US, growing up as a fanatical Football fan is a rather good probability. In the US, only the Trekkies can grow up to hate Superbowl or the NBA.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

I don't get why people don't like american football:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=563u7B7BNLI

[Pannonian]

I don't get why people don't like american football:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=563u7B7BNLI

This is why

A longer version

[Sasaki Kojiro]

This is why.

Yeah, it's the same.

[Strike For The South]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_VGBxfAdDM

[Andres]

I don't get why people don't like american football:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=563u7B7BNLI

It's because we Europeans are not familiar with it.

Besides, what about Diego Maradona:

Warming up

Just sit back and enjoy

[JimBob]

In the US, only the Trekkies can grow up to hate Superbowl or the NBA.

NBA basketball blows. "lets see which over payed, pompous ass we can give the ball to so they can charge down the lane and dunk". Some college basketball, some high school boy's and almost all highschool girl's basketball games are fun to watch. But the NBA needs some serious change.

[Decker]

Soccer(aka. Football), is incredibly amazingly fun and intense. The rivalries that spring up because of the sport between clubs(Man Utd v Arsenal for instance-it's big in the states) or international(like the US v Mexico: we won 2-0 woot woot!) make this sport great. Anyone can win at anytime and no one team can really dominate(like Chelsea,Brazil, etc.) at one time. It is fast and exciting, requiring a lot of skill to play and watch(same goes for others of course) and can be played anywhere with any amount of people.
As for American Football, I've been watching it since I was born(Oakland Raiders!), and can say that it comes with all of the same emotions that come with while watching a soccer match. I have witnessed many many great moments watching this game, and I have been to more of them than professional soccer/football matches. No one sport is better than the other or worse than the other, and the athletes that participate in them should deserve the highest respect for the fact that they come under close observation from the public media and hence require a great deal of patience and humor.

I agree with JimBob. The NBA does need some changes and especially the players need some "schooling" in their behavior issues. First off they are like little kids who just want everything for themselves and nothing for others(that is why Soccer and AF is so great!). That is also why the US sucks when it comes to the Olympics. We have pre-madonnas and dream team wannabes who think they rule the world, yet Olympics after Olympics they have been crushed by teams that play together instead of for themselves. That should come as a sign to the NBA that they need to promote good behavior and team-work among its' athletes to get the best out of the game.

[naut]

No one sport is better than the other or worse than the other

[Pannonian]

Yeah, it's the same.

Why go for the imitation when you can have the original?

[Pannonian]

I agree with JimBob. The NBA does need some changes and especially the players need some "schooling" in their behavior issues. First off they are like little kids who just want everything for themselves and nothing for others(that is why Soccer and AF is so great!). That is also why the US sucks when it comes to the Olympics. We have pre-madonnas and dream team wannabes who think they rule the world, yet Olympics after Olympics they have been crushed by teams that play together instead of for themselves.

Prima donna - first lady

Presumably refers to the tendency of performers to push themselves up and others down in order to secure the most attention in a production. Can be seen in guitar bands, where the lead singer and lead guitarist often hate each other.

[Lorenzo_H]

Billions of people watch the World Cup. Basketball doesn't even come close to that.

Until you produce some figures, I'm going to assume you are mistaken.

Ahhh darn it I can't find where I read that. Assume I'm wrong - definitly. I'm having doubt myself. I'm assuming I'm wrong.

[Pannonian]

The finer points of rugby
Who needs padding?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Another view on Giggs

[Avicenna]

Gah to Giggs. Kudos to Garrincha, world's best dribbler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yd6r-1EDo

Also, here's a video of how the game should be played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqBgobHQ2sU

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

That Garrincha video is great, I've never understood why he's not better known-it's worth remembering when watching that clip that he's doing all of that with a ball much heavier than those used in today's games, and on a pitch that's in far worse condition.

Remarkable.

[Sir Boo]

Squash,

Speed, Power, Placement, Technique, Tactics

All are needed in the fast pased action on the squash court.

[Pannonian]

Gah to Giggs. Kudos to Garrincha, world's best dribbler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yd6r-1EDo

Not quite the same calibre, but there's an amusing moment 26 seconds in.

Chris Waddle

Also, here's a video of how the game should be played: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqBgobHQ2sU

The best English team ever, according to Tom Finney (who started in the 1940s). The 2nd goal is one for the connoisseurs.

Liverpool 5 Nottm Forest 0 (87-88 season)

[Decker]

Prima donna - first lady

Presumably refers to the tendency of performers to push themselves up and others down in order to secure the most attention in a production. Can be seen in guitar bands, where the lead singer and lead guitarist often hate each other.

Yea but basketballers in the NBA are really makin the wrong kind of names for themselves because of their on and off court actions. The Olympics is a prime example of this.

[Orb]

Judo's certainly my favourite. Good competition, good exercise, amusing moments, good fun.

[Louis VI the Fat]

Only in rugger.

[Csargo]

Hot potato.