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Comment on How come soccer and tennis never caught on in the states? Also why hasn't there been an NFL team vs a Soccer Team and vice versa. Just to prove which is the better sport? Details inside.

Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I’m not dogging on soccer players at all, takes some real stamina and conditioning to do what they do… but if you put them on the field with even the worst NFL team, someone is gonna get hurt. Most people don’t realize just how powerful even the average NFL player is… then you put them up against someone like Ray Lewis (picking retired player to avoid favorites) it’s going to end bad.

To put it in simpler terms, it’s like asking why we don’t see which boat does better in the Indy 500?

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TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I agree someone is going to get hurt but nfl players on average are going to gas out long before a soccer player.

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- Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Right, I agree. Conditioning is wildly different in both sports. 4 seconds of sprinting and physical impact 90-120 times versus 90+ minutes of jogging and sprinting is no comparison.
  
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wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

NFL athletes would have the conditioning and stamina to at the very least compete in a soccer match

A few might not be utterly exhausted and wishing for death, but running around attempting to play soccer for ninety minutes is not the same as succeeding. Even Wide Receivers and Defensive Backs with some soccer experience aren’t going to hang with any professional team; that’s just not what they train for. Then there’s the skill issue. It would be like asking which Indy car would do better in the America’s Cup. ;-)

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- Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Oh yeah, sorry, I didn’t fully flesh out that thought, was cooking dinner.
  
  You’re right, obviously… but by “compete” I simply meant it would go exponentially better than the other way around.
  
  Poor choice of words on my part, apologies.
  
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  - wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Yeah, no worries. One of the beauties of soccer is that playing it is not hard, but playing it competently is, and playing it at a high level is insanely difficult.
    
    Don’t get me wrong though, in spite of the perfectly good reasons not to be, I still love American football, and you’re right that the other way around would be a literal bloodbath.
    
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    Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I was one of the football players who would’ve been hating life, if not outright died. That being said, I did enjoy going out and playing a bit of soccer just for the cardio. Reminds me of a line I heard long ago… “Play away…just remember, even boys can play.”
    
    But I’m kind of enamored by this thought experiement… what if we took both teams and put them in a third arena… say track and field or something? Should be a fair way to accurately test athleticism without favoring either side in overall scoring. Sure, certain events would favor certain builds better…but overall I think it could balance fairly well.
    
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