this is the strangest description of football Ive ever read.I basically think about this like a game of football
There's the version where you toss lobs and hope someone is interested enough to grab and run with it, and if you're lucky they're skilled enough to take it to the endzone, and maybe that happens enough and people start consistently lookin for your lobs etc that you become a presence
And there's the version where you coordinate in advance with some runningbacks. That one's a lot more reliable.
It's almost non-existent in the UK, but I think it's pretty big in Spain. [/MEDIA]
You can't deny how tall they are, how high they jump etc but what's weird to me is how in football someone does a piece of skill to beat a man or whatever, makes sense... in basketball you got a guy gonna score for sure and then he does some elaborate dunk and that's the highlight. It doesn't gain anything, just looks good... it's kinda like figure skating or sonething.
I once read that man-for-man in terms of playing time and pounds of protecting equipment, basketball is the most physical team spot. you'd think it would be American football, where they smashing into and tackle one another, but a football play runs for a few seconds and then play stops, you have half the players go off the field for awhile since they play only on offense or defense, and they have pounds of protective pads and helmets.
whereas basketball players are constantly running up and down the court for both offenses and defense, there is no stop in play after each score, and they wear literally not protective padding. more equivalent to non-americas football, except each team in that sport has a goalie who just stands in front of the goal and doesn't move much for probably 90% of the match.