Because it’s too late to watch it last fall?
That’s when football season starts.
Oh! duh. I didn’t think about it having a season. Seems like it’s always on.
During the Apollo/Soyuz era a bunch of cosmonauts and their staff were visiting Washington DC and were taken to a football game. During the game they were talking among themselves and the translator was asked what they were saying.
“All get up… all fall down… all get up… all fall down…”
Criminy, guys, has no one heard of links? Madden NFL.
And it’s on a lot more platforms than XBox or Playstation. To quote Wiki:
Platform(s)
Amiga, Super NES, Genesis, Game Gear, 3DO, Nintendo 64, GameCube, Wii, Wii U, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Switch, Windows, macOS, MS-DOS, PlayStation, PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita, Saturn, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, iOS, Nintendo 3DS, Android, BlackBerry PlayBook, Arcade
Pretty much everything there is.
Here are the results from googling basics of american football
Or if studying text on paper is the the best option, there is, of course, a for Dummies book, the one Sheldon is holding above.
Of course Madden has been released on many, many platforms. My point was more that if you have a modern console and want a game that’s fairly up-to-date in terms of both rosters and controls, your choices are really the PS4 or the XBox One. Didn’t realize it was ported to the Switch; I’d honestly never seen a copy for it.
It wasn’t a complicated question. I felt it was better to answer it directly rather than send somebody off to another site that had the answer.
Well that’s a great user/post combo.
I’m not so sure a video game as interactive as a Madden game would be ideal, unless they have a mode these days where the player can set the play and not actually control a player.
Not to be sexist with the choice of article, but I thought this was a very good short introduction to football.
Hah! I love TBBT episode where Leonard pretends to enjoy football after Sheldon explains it to him. Even I get how funny Leonard’s comments are.
“This is just HALF?!”
No, that’s basketball.
That said, if you get NFL Network, they often run replays of games cut down by taking most of the time between snaps and other dead time out. It’s cheap filler programming for them and so you’ll see it on a lot of the time.
And if you get the Red Zone you can spend 6 hours watching every score from every game on a Sunday afternoon. It’s a wonderful way to waste a lot of time.
Here’s how the NFL season works:
March-July - No NFL football
August - The pre-season. This lasts four weeks. These are essentially practice games and the results do not count in determining season standings. (These games were skipped in 2020 due to the pandemic.)
September-December - The regular season. This lasts seventeen weeks. Each team will play sixteen games and get one week off at some point during the season (known as their bye week). The results of these games determine which teams go to the playoffs.
January-February - The playoffs (also known as the post-season). There are thirty-two NFL teams. Fourteen teams go to the playoffs, based on their season record of wins and losses. These teams then compete against each other; teams that win go to the next round, teams that lose a game are eliminated. Eventually there are only two teams left and they compete against each at the Super Bowl in February to determine which team will be the champion for that season. (The Pro Bowl is also played during the post season but there is very little interest in this game.)
Basketball season ain’t that long. Both professional and college basketball takes the Summers and early Fall off. Soccer is the one that is always on (due to overlapping leagues - Most of Europe goes Fall to Spring, while Scandinavia, US/Canada, and others go from Spring to Fall (Brazil goes from Fall to Spring, but their Fall to Spring is different from our Northern Hemisphere countries, so end up having a similar season as US/Canada and Scandinavia.
No, you’re thinking of the NHL.
I hardly think a season that goes (normally) from October to April & then playoffs until June is ‘always on’.
Professional wrestling season continues year round. Now you wanna talk about difficult to understand rules, pro wrestling is worse than Calvinball.
Honestly, as someone who likes the NHL, it does feel longer than an ostensibly “winter” sport should be. It’s always surprising to me when it’s May/early June and there’s still hockey to watch.
The one that’s really “always on,” based on one definition, is baseball, once the baseball season starts. By that, I mean on any day during baseball season (outside the All-Star break), it is likely your team is playing. That’s what having 162 games will do. It may not span the calendar as much as some other sports, but in the half year it’s on, whatever teams you follow (or even don’t) are almost always playing.