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.

• 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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    • jaaake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      what if we took both teams and put them in a third arena…

      There was a Korean reality show that kind of did this:

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical:_100

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