A football game is more physically taxing than a baseball game. Football requires more time between games (and therefore fewer games) than most other sports. That's the reason, Linda.
A football game is more physically taxing than a baseball game. Football requires more time between games (and therefore fewer games) than most other sports. That's the reason, Linda.
Exactly LG, I think the average player can only play 4 years in the NFL before the body just wont take any more. Footall is a game of 3 or 4 seconds phyical explosian per play. It is bone crunching every play and the body can only take so much. If you don't get hurt and when you are young in the NFL it will take 3 or 4 days for your body to heal after a game.
That actually occurred to me last night, but I forgot about it by the time I posted today. Mind like a sieve.
It's only logical. Swinging a bat at a ball and running around the bases is a lot less hazardous than running head-on into a 300-lb brick wall with legs.
The first round NBA playoffs is a best of 5, and basesball used to be that before 1985 and then started it up again when they began to use wild card teams in 1995. All NHL playoff rounds are best of 7, but in football even during the regular season no team plays any sooner than 4 days after the previous game and that very rarely.
I thought basketball has best of 7 series throughout the playoffs too, at least in the NBA?
Ha! I was thinking of the NCAA, and March Madness. ;)
The NBA could learn a few lessons from them, but that might cause a few reductions in salaries.
And in baseball, you're sitting on the bench about as much as you are out on the field. Plus -- little (if any contact) with the other players, and the only time you hit the ground is if you have to slide into base.
Ron --- Poker is a sport??!!???
The only *sport* I partake in is fiddle contests -- and believe you me -- the *trash talk* backstage, and in the practice rooms has been elevated to a high art form!
Someone will be picking a tune, getting ready for the competition,
and a rival will walk by, stop a second, and say:
"Didja really mean to play that D note flat like you did? Interesting" -- and then they'll walk away.
totally ruining the person's concentration, as they try to figure out what they did wrong.
Baseball is different from any other sport; very different. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals; in baseball you score runs.
In most sports the ball or object, is put in play by the offensive team; in baseball the defensive team puts the ball in play, and only the defense is allowed to touch the ball. In fact, in baseball if an offensive player touches the ball intentionally, he's out; sometimes unintentionally, he's out.
Also: In football, basketball, soccer, volleyball, and all sports played with a ball, you score withthe ball, and without the ball you can't score. In baseball, the ball prevents you from scoring.
In most sports the team is run by a coach; in baseball the team is run by a manager; and only in baseball does the manager (or coach) wear the same clothing as the players do. If you had ever seen John Madden in his Oakland Raiders football uniform, you would know the reason for this custom.
Now I've mentioned football. Baseball and football are the two most popular spectator sports in this country. And, as such, it seems they ought to be able to tell us something about ourselves and our values. And maybe how those values have changed over the last 150 years. For those reasons I enjoy comparing baseball and football:
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.
Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park. The baseball park!
Football is played on a GRIDIRON, in a STADIUM, sometimes called SOLDIER FIELD or WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying.
In football you wear a helmet
In baseball you wear a cap.
Football is concerned with downs. "What down is it?
Baseball is concerned with ups. "Who's up? Are you up? I'm not up! He's up!"
In football you recieve a penalty.
In baseball you make an error.
In football the specialist comes in to kick.
In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.
Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting, and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has the sacrifice.
Football is played in any kind of weather: Rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog...can't see the game, don't know if there is a game going on; mud on the field...can't read the uniforms, can't read the yard markers, the struggle will continue!
In baseball if it rains, we don't go out to play. "I can't go out! It's raining out!"
Baseball has the seventh-inning stretch.
Football has the two-minute warning
Baseball has no time limit: "We don't know when it's gonna end!"
Football is rigidly timed, and it will end "even if we have to go to sudden death."
In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling. Emotions may run high or low, but there's not that much unpleasantness.
In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you were perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being
And finally, the objectives of the the two games are completely different:
In football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his recievers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! "I hope I'll be safe at home!"
That George Carlin speel was truly a classic. Thanks OutInTexas.
And Dave Miller I would love to hear you play the fiddle some time. That is an instrument that I like. Would you say the fiddle is more Blue Grass or more Country and Western?
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Galen
I thought they played through an entire season.
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Ron G.
Yeah, all teams play an entire season, but why does football have just one game...the Superbowl while the World Series is best of seven?
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Because baseball is a *wimpy* sport?? I don't know.
As pertains to basketball -- all teams play all season.
And it all boils down to one final game there as well.
The way it should be. Either produce, or get off of the court. :)
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Linda Z
Just look at it proportionally. Last year Cleveland Browns played 16 games, vs. 162 for the Indians.
The football season is roughly 4 months long, while baseball is 6 or 7 months.
In other words, i have no idea, but apparently "less is more" when it comes to football.
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A football game is more physically taxing than a baseball game. Football requires more time between games (and therefore fewer games) than most other sports. That's the reason, Linda.
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Exactly LG, I think the average player can only play 4 years in the NFL before the body just wont take any more. Footall is a game of 3 or 4 seconds phyical explosian per play. It is bone crunching every play and the body can only take so much. If you don't get hurt and when you are young in the NFL it will take 3 or 4 days for your body to heal after a game.
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That actually occurred to me last night, but I forgot about it by the time I posted today. Mind like a sieve.
It's only logical. Swinging a bat at a ball and running around the bases is a lot less hazardous than running head-on into a 300-lb brick wall with legs.
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I thought basketball has best of 7 series throughout the playoffs too, at least in the NBA?
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The first round NBA playoffs is a best of 5, and basesball used to be that before 1985 and then started it up again when they began to use wild card teams in 1995. All NHL playoff rounds are best of 7, but in football even during the regular season no team plays any sooner than 4 days after the previous game and that very rarely.
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Ron G.
Thanks everybody. I didn't think about football being so much rougher than baseball. Makes perfect sense.
I still prefer to watch rodeo.
The only sport I actually participate in any more is poker.
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Ha! I was thinking of the NCAA, and March Madness. ;)
The NBA could learn a few lessons from them, but that might cause a few reductions in salaries.
And in baseball, you're sitting on the bench about as much as you are out on the field. Plus -- little (if any contact) with the other players, and the only time you hit the ground is if you have to slide into base.
Ron --- Poker is a sport??!!???
The only *sport* I partake in is fiddle contests -- and believe you me -- the *trash talk* backstage, and in the practice rooms has been elevated to a high art form!
Someone will be picking a tune, getting ready for the competition,
and a rival will walk by, stop a second, and say:
"Didja really mean to play that D note flat like you did? Interesting" -- and then they'll walk away.
totally ruining the person's concentration, as they try to figure out what they did wrong.
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Baseball versus Football
A classic from George Carlin
Baseball is different from any other sport; very different. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals; in baseball you score runs.
In most sports the ball or object, is put in play by the offensive team; in baseball the defensive team puts the ball in play, and only the defense is allowed to touch the ball. In fact, in baseball if an offensive player touches the ball intentionally, he's out; sometimes unintentionally, he's out.
Also: In football, basketball, soccer, volleyball, and all sports played with a ball, you score withthe ball, and without the ball you can't score. In baseball, the ball prevents you from scoring.
In most sports the team is run by a coach; in baseball the team is run by a manager; and only in baseball does the manager (or coach) wear the same clothing as the players do. If you had ever seen John Madden in his Oakland Raiders football uniform, you would know the reason for this custom.
Now I've mentioned football. Baseball and football are the two most popular spectator sports in this country. And, as such, it seems they ought to be able to tell us something about ourselves and our values. And maybe how those values have changed over the last 150 years. For those reasons I enjoy comparing baseball and football:
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.
Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park. The baseball park!
Football is played on a GRIDIRON, in a STADIUM, sometimes called SOLDIER FIELD or WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying.
In football you wear a helmet
In baseball you wear a cap.
Football is concerned with downs. "What down is it?
Baseball is concerned with ups. "Who's up? Are you up? I'm not up! He's up!"
In football you recieve a penalty.
In baseball you make an error.
In football the specialist comes in to kick.
In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody.
Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting, and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has the sacrifice.
Football is played in any kind of weather: Rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog...can't see the game, don't know if there is a game going on; mud on the field...can't read the uniforms, can't read the yard markers, the struggle will continue!
In baseball if it rains, we don't go out to play. "I can't go out! It's raining out!"
Baseball has the seventh-inning stretch.
Football has the two-minute warning
Baseball has no time limit: "We don't know when it's gonna end!"
Football is rigidly timed, and it will end "even if we have to go to sudden death."
In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling. Emotions may run high or low, but there's not that much unpleasantness.
In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you were perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being
And finally, the objectives of the the two games are completely different:
In football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his recievers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! "I hope I'll be safe at home!"
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That George Carlin speel was truly a classic. Thanks OutInTexas.
And Dave Miller I would love to hear you play the fiddle some time. That is an instrument that I like. Would you say the fiddle is more Blue Grass or more Country and Western?
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