snipelfritz wrote:Football is kind of like a game of chess where every turn, you get you move all of your pieces at once. I've more recently really decided I enjoy certain sports. Primarily football and baseball. Soccer sucks giant monkey butts.
congratulations, you fit the majority of white people living in the US
to your first point, no. no it's not, its an amalgamation of the crappy, pussy parts of old english sports. Comparing it to chess insults chess players.
chess where you move all your pieces at once? try starcraft (fanboy much? lol)
football is a tiny bit of strategy that doesn't take too much thought, applied to physical prowess and talent
chess is a game where you and your opponent have the same pieces in the same positions at the beginning of the game, there are no advantages. It comes down to who is a more apt player, defeat your opponent with the same tools he has. It's an amazing concept, designed and evolved throughout centuries to be what it is now. Balanced and thought provoking. It's not, go catch this ball after I act like I'm gonna throw it to this other guy, but before I get knocked down. then run really fast,k?
Chess is when two players of equal skill are playing. It's an art. If two players of equal skill are playing it comes down to (this is actually part of Bruce Lee's philosophy in JKD) who can feign better. That is, who plays a better mind game. And that is part of the appeal of it.
So many different levels to it.
To appreciate a game of chess is to understand the basic strategy, the evolution of it, the execution, only to realize that neither player was playing the game you thought they were.
A good game of chess is more like a good beer, a well cooked meal or a song than it is like football
So then the next point one tries to make is that it's not a strategy game but instead a pitting of human bodies and minds against eachother, the show of man working with fellow man against another man, maybe more capable, maybe more cunning. All in search of that touchdown.
Soccer is nothing like American Football. It's a sport that requires constant physical exertion, pushing your body to keep running at its peak sometimes for over an hour while maintaining a standard of play, while keeping in mind every thing thats going on around you. body/eye coordination that no other sport, except maybe basketball, can match. A 'true' sense of teams, a real show of passion and grace.
AND A HISTORY OLDER THAN THIS COUNTRY.
Ok I officially don't like you.
I realized that like 20 minutes after I posted it. Hey, it was partly cause I didn't know what day of the week it was. 