Poll for Non-Americans: Would you watch Super Bowl LIV ?

Poll for Non-Americans: Would you watch Super Bowl LIV ? Jan 26, 2020 15:35:53 GMT via mobile

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Post by masterofallgoons on Jan 26, 2020 15:35:53 GMT

Jan 25, 2020 7:18:03 GMT hoskotafe3 said:

Jan 25, 2020 6:50:19 GMT Hairynosedwombat said:

Is superbowl the game where players wear armour and stop every two minutes for an advertising break?

Watch rugby league instead. It has the big hits without armour and is 80 non stop minutes of superfit athletes running, pummeling each other and with superb kicking and ball handling skills,

Well to be fair, it's actually 2 40 minute blocks of "non-stop action" that has a surprisingly large amount of stopping. The big difference in Australian codes is that the coaches, particularly in league, are responsible for training players during the week and coming up with strategies and set pieces there that it's up to the players to remember and execute on game day. Coaches are more or less helpless in most Australian sports on game day. In the US though coaches call pretty much every play in NFL, every pitch and every fielding shift or batting tactic in baseball, which is the main reason why I'd rather watch basketball or ice hockey of the US sports,

I can't claim to know a whole lot about Rugby, but I do enjoy the occasional game when I catch it, and I watched a lot of it when I was in Australia.

But I appreciate you saying that there is a lot of stopping. It's the lame cliche complaint you hear all the time about American football from international viewers, but in Rugby they do stop and in soccer there's quite a bit of stoppage even if the clock keeps running. And there's quite a bit of just jogging and standing around. Calling soccer nonstop action is just ignoring all the time when there isn't much of anything actually going on. And in Rugby there's a lot of hitting and tackling, but not anything like in American football. It's just not same.

Hard for some to believe but these aren't the same games and some people like them for different reasons.