In American Football there are long breaks between plays, defense and offense are not even the same players and different plays use different players. Baseball has almost one entire team sitting at any one time and even the team in the field isn’t running around for better position. Basketball uses a tiny court and substitutions are unlimited. Hockey is on a small, ice (which allows gliding into position instead of more strenuous running) and also allows unlimited substitutions.
Football uses 11-14 players who are almost constantly running with intermittant sprinting (except for the goalie). Unlike the other sports I mentioned it uses the legs(mainly) to control the ball so that running around directly affects the energy you have left to control the ball. A break for water only occurs at halftime or when you can get to your team’s sideline and get someone to pass you water and hope that you are not needed to cover someone.
I think that this comparison, coupled with the low goal scoring of football, shows that, unlike other sports, football does not fit well with the idea of extending play until someone scores. Humans can only stretch their endurance so far.
Plus would you like it if you tried to get an autograph and the player was so tired from 3 hours of playing that she couldn’t hold your pen? 
Well put, HeadlessCow. There’s one additional point I’d like to make about forcing players to play for hours - the added risk of injury to the players. Outside of the US, very few domestic games have to end with a winner, so mostly when we debate this subject we are talking about international games. Well, it isn’t the international games that pay a player’s salary - they’re contracted to their team - and their team isn’t going to want to send them to internationals if they risk getting them back unable to play for weeks or months. I can’t see the players being thrilled about it either.
This isn’t a minor concern.
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ruadh posted:
As is this statement. A few sports come to mind right off the bat for physical intensity: American Football, Australian Rules Football, Gaelic Football, Boxing, Wrestling (not the WWF stuff), certain Track and Field Events, Rowing. The list just goes on.
But it’s an apples and oranges and bananas and citrons and…and…and…thing.
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I think there’s little doubt the Indians were better than the Orioles, and I don’t say so just because I live in Cleveland and used to work for their flagship radio station.
OTOH, the Marlins were a fluke, and a travesty. That Series should be stricken from the books.
I suspect having all those women behaving jocks has upset alot of delicate sensibilities. Sometimes it takes time for people keep up with or even be aware of shifts in social or cultural paradigns.
<<My biggest difficulty with her is the fact that she yanked her shirt off in front of the whole world, then in a CNN interview stated that she put her shirt back on to receive the medal because she wanted to “look presentable.”
She can pose any way she wants for magazines, but as long as she is on television being a “role model” for young women, maybe a little restraint is in order.
A world cup soccer game shouldn’t have to be PG rated!>>
I agree: she was posing with her shirt off (perhaps for future ad revenue, playboy revenue)and so violated the demeanor of the entire women’s cup. These women had successfully focused attention on the sport until the very last moment: a woman ripping off her shirt thus focusing attention on her sexuality, not her achievement. It was a sad moment for the sport. She blew it. Then to swear in public afterward: This is not how I want my daughter to act.
“Valenton del mundo!”
Yes, that’s right–if a man does it, it’s “celebrating the victory”; if a woman does it, it’s “calling attention to her sexuality”.
I can’t believe I live on the same planet as some of you people.
Phil! You and I agree 100%! Just because a woman does something that some men might find sexually stimulating does not mean that she “called attention to her sexuality.” The fact, as I understand, is that the men in soccer rip off their shirts in celebration, and the women have simply followed suit. Like you say, as of yet I see no posts complaining that the men have been doing this for years in an effort to call attention to their sexuality.
Is this a prudish American phenomenon, that we think seeing a woman’s sports bra is going too far? Representatives of any more open-minded cultures care to voice their viewpoints?
I found it very tasteless to rip off your shirt (especially since it was just a PK goal) and then curse in the interview afterwards, ESPECIALLY when we’re the host country and ESPECIALLY when its a World Cup game. Gender does not play a role in my feelings about this- we simply have a higher standard for international events and, IMHO, rightly so.
Uh, Nickrz, help out the biblically challenged here and identify which commandment you are referring to…I can’t think of one that applies to someone taking off their shirt. (although her abs are so sculpted I suppose they could qualify as a “graven image.” LOL
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I think Nickrz was referring to the cursing and the commandment regarding using the lord’s name in vain.
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Ya know Arg, oh nevermind. . . .
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