PLEASE DO NOT TURN THIS THREAD INTO ANOTHER LETS ALL FLAME US/EUROPEAN SPORTS
One thing I (as a european) have noticed about the U.S. sports is that they are all high scoring, as opposed to a E.G. 1-0 in soccer.
Any thoughts on this.
Another thing I have noticed is that Baseball and American Football are very much about bursts of speed and power. What I mean by this is that they are not continuos sports like Soccer with half time break. They are kind of slow in duration but the action is a quick burst of action e.g. - Baseball - The pitch (power + Speed), The bat (if connects with the ball - power) The sprint (power + speed), then it all calms down again till we get the next pitch. (it is all most like players get a rest inbetween). American Football is similar the teams line up, the hike lots of tackling (bursts of power) QB hands off to line backer (power + speed) or QB throws to a reciever who catches it and makes 1st down (power, speed, agility). again it all calms down and they start again.
I hope people understand what I am getting at European Sports tend to be a continuos game (Basketball falls into this catagory) where as U.S. sports tend to be stop start with short moments of Speed, Power Agility etc. I think the Americans thrive off the bursts of excellence from individuals.
I am always amazed that an American football team has so many players - offence, deffence, special plays, and the fact that they come and go off the field as they please, European sports are often a limited number of substitutions
I am not looking for being flamed just expressing what I see as the difference between U.S. and European sports. I know there are some sports of both which fall into opposite catagories (cricket for example), but a discussion on what other people notice about other countries sports (with out flaming that country) would be interesting.
Maybe if you always wanted to know certain rules or why the ref gave that decision for a foreign sport you could ask it here.
Hope this works
One thing I (as a european) have noticed about the U.S. sports is that they are all high scoring, as opposed to a E.G. 1-0 in soccer.
Any thoughts on this.
Another thing I have noticed is that Baseball and American Football are very much about bursts of speed and power. What I mean by this is that they are not continuos sports like Soccer with half time break. They are kind of slow in duration but the action is a quick burst of action e.g. - Baseball - The pitch (power + Speed), The bat (if connects with the ball - power) The sprint (power + speed), then it all calms down again till we get the next pitch. (it is all most like players get a rest inbetween). American Football is similar the teams line up, the hike lots of tackling (bursts of power) QB hands off to line backer (power + speed) or QB throws to a reciever who catches it and makes 1st down (power, speed, agility). again it all calms down and they start again.
I hope people understand what I am getting at European Sports tend to be a continuos game (Basketball falls into this catagory) where as U.S. sports tend to be stop start with short moments of Speed, Power Agility etc. I think the Americans thrive off the bursts of excellence from individuals.
I am always amazed that an American football team has so many players - offence, deffence, special plays, and the fact that they come and go off the field as they please, European sports are often a limited number of substitutions
I am not looking for being flamed just expressing what I see as the difference between U.S. and European sports. I know there are some sports of both which fall into opposite catagories (cricket for example), but a discussion on what other people notice about other countries sports (with out flaming that country) would be interesting.
Maybe if you always wanted to know certain rules or why the ref gave that decision for a foreign sport you could ask it here.
Hope this works