2006-11-13 05:10:56 · 39 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Baseball
While I like to watch both, it's true that smarter people enjoy baseball and big dumb people who can barely graduate high school (if at all) enjoy watching football more because it's easier to understand that a big 300 pound guy can tackle a 200 pound running back or wide receiver, plus they probably like the pretty colors on the helmets...but it actually takes a brain and more skill to figure out where in God's name you're going to try to locate a fastball against the other team's best power hitter in the bottom of the ninth with two outs and the winning run on second base. Or when the best count is to do a hit-and-run or why there are so many little things (like how to round a bag when running) you can do in baseball that don't get mentioned by announcers that often but can be pivotal in any game. It's a game of inches. Baseball players play 162 game schedules, that's not easy. Baseball fans watch their favorite team 162 times a year. Baseball fans are more hardcore. It's easy to be a football fan, your team plays 16 times in between week intervals, and if you make the playoffs, they play 19 at most. People who don't understand sports, claim to be experts in football when they aren't, all they are is people who think they're fitting in by watching this game, which is popular, and can be interesting, but don't have a damn clue on what the hell a 4-3 defense is. I bet you don't know what that is do you? Explain it to me. If you do, I'm sure you looked it up on Wikipedia or something, right?
I bet you're the kinda person that plays Madden on Playstation all the time and it makes you a damn genius on football right? Because you've figured out a cheat code or a running play the computer can't defend. If you ever actually got into pads though and got knocked on your ***, you'd be probably be the type to quit right away.
It takes balls to play football and baseball and it takes brains for both to watch, but it takes a wimp to hide behind this question.
2006-11-13 08:07:16 · answer #1 · answered by Js_5 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. If you get a baseball player and put him in pads, he can kind of hold his own. Most of the baseball players played football in high school. But if you put a football player in the batters box, there is no way he will hang in there with a 92 mph fastball coming.... Real men stay in the box
2006-11-15 00:08:39 · answer #2 · answered by safetyinscars 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I agree REAL men watch football(if they are into sports as I know some real men that just don't like sports) but not going to insult people who watch baseball. I put it on sometimes, not a big fan but grew up near Pittsburgh and they have had losing seasons half my life. I remember that Umpire that stole the '92 Championship series from us. Man that should have been a sweet year having just won back to back Stanley Cups and to bring home the World Series title as well. Instead an ump made the wrong call and STOLE game 7 from us. Anyway though back to the point. I think baseball is kinda boring to watch as it is too slow paced to me. Hey if you like it though that is your choice, but I'll still think football is better.
2006-11-13 06:30:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
So your telling me everybody that goes to a baseball game are wimps. I have season tickets for both sports.
2006-11-13 13:05:19 · answer #4 · answered by Eaglesfan19 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's see....
A. Football is played by overpaid millionaires who wear a helmet and wear tons of padding so they don't get hurt. In a two hour game the players actually play about 30 minutes of game. The rest of the time is used standing around in a huddle, waiting for a referee call, measuring the field or taking a time out. Also players get to be taken out of a game for a little R&R then put back in. Football apeals to brute emotion with hardly any intellect.
B. Baseball is a slow but even game that is also played by overpaid millionaires. The only one in the game who wears a lot of protection gear is the catcher. In baseball a small hard sphere traveling close to 100 mph is thrown within two feet of a player wearing only a helmet for protection. Also when a player is taken out of the game, he can't go back. Base ball appeals to the intellect with stratagies and the "game within the game".
C. Rugby or Australian rules football is the real he-man sport. No helmet, no protective pads, no stopping of the clock, no taking players out (unless they're carried out) and constant running.
I choose B or C as the answer.
2006-11-13 05:12:08 · answer #5 · answered by Do You See What Happens Larry? 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
And since you're not a real man or a wimp for that matter, What sports do you watch?
Figure Skating?
2006-11-13 06:25:13 · answer #6 · answered by Oz 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No Real men and wimps watch both
2006-11-13 05:12:16 · answer #7 · answered by keith s 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No, we men like both baseball and football. It's the soccer fans that I cannot understand, but it's a free country.
2006-11-13 05:12:20 · answer #8 · answered by mattapan26 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
that's not true at all i'm a manly man and i watch baseball as well as football and basketball and hockey so don't pay attention to all the bull s h i t you hear
2006-11-13 05:49:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No the intelligent men watch baseball and the closet gays watch football.
2006-11-13 05:29:13 · answer #10 · answered by peterg1313 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋