FalconTurf wrote:h2oville rocket wrote:Falconfreak90 wrote:ZiggyZoomba wrote:JWEIII wrote:They haven't kicked a football yet, but I'm already hoop dreaming. Ahhhh.
Amen... amen!
Sorry fellas...love all the BG teams but NOTHING comes before FALCON FOOTBALL.
Its not that I don't like football-its OK, but I never understood its appeal relative to the myriad other sports out there. As an event (tailgating, halftime shows, etc) it certainly has become popular but as a sport, ehhh. Not nearly the action of hoops, soccer or track where stuff is going on pretty much all the time.
EXACTLY, not nearly as much action. People don't miss as much as they gab throughout the game. Watch the crowd at a football game and you'll find most are not paying attention to the game until those key 4th downs or near the end. If they can't socialize due to dismal weather then most don't attend. That is why it is essential to have entertainment (bands, cheerleaders, special on-field presentations, video boards and the like) and good weather or a dome.
Yeah, but you see that at a lot of sporting events. Initial attention is paid at the beginning, then a lag throughout the middle, and then people start paying attention again near the end. During that lag time, people do what they normally would, and talk with the people around them. I don't think that this is special to football. Now, some sports have fewer of these casual fans and thus the ratio makes it look like more of the fans in attendance are actively paying attention the whole game, but still, I think it's common to all sports that people's attention lags a little during the middle of the game.
used to say "Football season is a pretty good warmup for basketball season if you can't have basketball year 'round"! And I couldn't have agreed more.
