is it just me or does football require the least skill of all the major sports?

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Guess you haven't watched baseball or golf, have you?

guess you don't read thread titles, do you?

and baseball requires much more skill than most give it credit for. i'd say it's probably the hardest of all major sports.

Swing stick at ball someone threw. Get lucky, hit ball with stick. Guy with big glove jog to ball, get lucky and ball drop in glove. Play game again.

I read your thread title. Baseball, simply put, is one of the least athletic and least intelligent sports out there.

Actually, I take that back - for those that consider NASCAR a sport... baseball requires a tad bit more of both athleticism and intelligence than that.

Football, in most all of the positions on the field require far more "skill" than pretty much any position in baseball. I'm not going to bother with examples, because you've made it abundantly obvious that you really don't care.

lol at grossly underrating the skill of baseball players.

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Guess you haven't watched baseball or golf, have you?

guess you don't read thread titles, do you?

and baseball requires much more skill than most give it credit for. i'd say it's probably the hardest of all major sports.

Swing stick at ball someone threw. Get lucky, hit ball with stick. Guy with big glove jog to ball, get lucky and ball drop in glove. Play game again.

I read your thread title. Baseball, simply put, is one of the least athletic and least intelligent sports out there.

Actually, I take that back - for those that consider NASCAR a sport... baseball requires a tad bit more of both athleticism and intelligence than that.

Click on my link above, ESPN disagrees with you and so do I. Baseball easily makes the top 10 in difficulty (9th), and to compare it to NASCAR or golf means you didn't use an iota of a thought when assessing difficulty. Or maybe you've just never played and don't know how the game is played. /shrug

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Football (#3) is arguably THE hardest sport along with ice hockey(#2), basketball (#4), and boxing (#1)according to ESPN Analysts and I agree with them. To say football takes no skill shows you are either a) a troll b) ignorant c) mental midget. Or you could be an ignorant, trolling mental midget who knows?

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i surprised boxing is higher than hockey since hockey involves boxing on ice skates

 

[Kanalua]

i was an offensive lineman (tackle) in High School...I can say even being a lineman takes skill. The biggest and strongest guys I faced were the easiest to block...

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Football (#3) is arguably THE hardest sport along with ice hockey(#2), basketball (#4), and boxing (#1)according to ESPN Analysts and I agree with them. To say football takes no skill shows you are either a) a troll b) ignorant c) mental midget. Or you could be an ignorant, trolling mental midget who knows?

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i surprised boxing is higher than hockey since hockey involves boxing on ice skates

Take out the stupid category "Nerve" and ice hockey is ahead.

 

[BeauJangles]

Originally posted by: JS80

Originally posted by: CPA
yet baseball signs kids out of high school, while football players don't develop their skills until late into college or even a couple years on the practice squad.

Doesn't that help my argument?

Is it easier for a baseball player to learn to play football, or easier for a football player to learn to play baseball?

No. Baseball and football are completely different beasts. First, football teams aren't allowed to draft players out of high school. Second, why would they? Playing football requires size and muscle mass. A lot of that mass is developed in the 18-22 window. Third, baseball has minor leagues, which means that teams can draft a player who isn't ready to play and shove him in any one of a number of leagues for a few years while they help him develop. In football you have 53 roster spots + 6 guys on the "practice squad." There's no room to carry dead weight.

As for your latter question, it's largely irrelevant and nearly impossible to determine. Baseball players, for the most part, do not have the size, speed, or mass to play football. No matter how good they might be able to get at catching passes, they've missed out on years of specialized development and CNS training. The same goes for football players. Most won't have the ridiculous muscle-memory required to go out and play baseball competitively.

There are always exceptions (Bo Jackson), but unless these guys grew up playing both sports to a high level, like Jeff Smazdja (sp?), making the transition from the highest level of one sport to the highest level of another is really, really difficult, if not impossible.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Football (#3) is arguably THE hardest sport along with ice hockey(#2), basketball (#4), and boxing (#1)according to ESPN Analysts and I agree with them. To say football takes no skill shows you are either a) a troll b) ignorant c) mental midget. Or you could be an ignorant, trolling mental midget who knows?

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i surprised boxing is higher than hockey since hockey involves boxing on ice skates

:laugh:

I went to a fight once, and a hockey game broke out.

Or...

I went to a fight once, and a soccer game broke out.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Guess you haven't watched baseball or golf, have you?

guess you don't read thread titles, do you?

and baseball requires much more skill than most give it credit for. i'd say it's probably the hardest of all major sports.

Swing stick at ball someone threw. Get lucky, hit ball with stick. Guy with big glove jog to ball, get lucky and ball drop in glove. Play game again.

I read your thread title. Baseball, simply put, is one of the least athletic and least intelligent sports out there.

Actually, I take that back - for those that consider NASCAR a sport... baseball requires a tad bit more of both athleticism and intelligence than that.

Football, in most all of the positions on the field require far more "skill" than pretty much any position in baseball. I'm not going to bother with examples, because you've made it abundantly obvious that you really don't care.

lol at grossly underrating the skill of baseball players.

Hey, if I got to stand around on a field picking my ass for a couple hours a day and collect a fat paycheck at the end of the day, I'd say my profession required skill too. Doesn't mean it actually does. 99% of baseball is luck. The other 1% might be "skill".

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer


I went to a riot once, and a soccer game broke out.

fixed

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer


I went to a riot once, and a soccer game broke out.

fixed

True.

GOAAAAAAAL!

ARE YOU READY TO RUUUUUMBLE?! FIGHT IT OUT!

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: JujuFish

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Football (#3) is arguably THE hardest sport along with ice hockey(#2), basketball (#4), and boxing (#1)according to ESPN Analysts and I agree with them. To say football takes no skill shows you are either a) a troll b) ignorant c) mental midget. Or you could be an ignorant, trolling mental midget who knows?

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i surprised boxing is higher than hockey since hockey involves boxing on ice skates

Take out the stupid category "Nerve" and ice hockey is ahead.

I don't think Nerve is a stupid category. Translate that to BALLS. Rodeo Steer Wrestling or riding takes a lot more balls than golf. Boxing takes more balls than hockey, period. Your liklihood of dying is way less in hockey than boxing, hence more of a fear factor. Standing toe to toe with an MMA champion, Mike Tyson in his prime, or a snarling bull with sharp horns invokes more fear than most anything else in sports.

 

[venkman]

he doesn't like football because it has too many fat people making millions playing it professionally.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

Originally posted by: venkman
he doesn't like football because it has too many fat people making millions playing it professionally.

I would like the OP to share how he feels about fat offensive linemen making millions of dollars to hit other fat defensive linemen making millions of dollars who want to hurt a skinny quarterback.

 

[sao123]

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: Feldenak

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Guess you haven't watched baseball or golf, have you?

guess you don't read thread titles, do you?

and baseball requires much more skill than most give it credit for. i'd say it's probably the hardest of all major sports.

Again, different skill sets for different sports. There's much more to football than pure athletic ability. I'd say baseball is a much less mentally taxing than football though because it's the least team oriented. As a fielder you don't really have to worry abuot what the guy beside you or across from you is going to do (pitchers excepted). With football, you have to understand what your teammate is going to do and when he's going to do it (ie. do I have contain on this play? do I have help over the top?).

I have a hard time believing you're quite this dense and am leaning towards this being a troll post.

why are you bringing up any mental aspects of anything? this is purely about physical skill.

Are you an idiot? Physical skill is tied to mental skill. Otherwise you could just bring in gorillas to play all our sports.

ok, then everything can be considered mental then, since every action requires our brain to control it.

you're bringing up the intelligence part of the game.
i'm speaking merely of the physical aspect.

well then if you put it that way, if you remove the intelligence from the game, baseball is a zero skill game.

Given significant strength, any man can throw a ball 90+ mph, and any man can swing a bat and hit that ball.
the intelligence factor is what allows a pitcher to throw different pitches to confuse the batter, and the intelligence factor is what gives the batter the reaction time to know to either swing/not to swing, and where to swing and how hard.

Either way, football requires more skill, intelligence, and physique than baseball for any part of the game.

 

[zerocool84]

This is one of the few times I'll ever condone using Boxxy.

OP is so full of fail we need a LB to run him over.

 

[meltdown75]

nah man, football requires all types of skills. stop hatin!

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Guess you haven't watched baseball or golf, have you?

guess you don't read thread titles, do you?

and baseball requires much more skill than most give it credit for. i'd say it's probably the hardest of all major sports.

Swing stick at ball someone threw. Get lucky, hit ball with stick. Guy with big glove jog to ball, get lucky and ball drop in glove. Play game again.

I read your thread title. Baseball, simply put, is one of the least athletic and least intelligent sports out there.

Actually, I take that back - for those that consider NASCAR a sport... baseball requires a tad bit more of both athleticism and intelligence than that.

Football, in most all of the positions on the field require far more "skill" than pretty much any position in baseball. I'm not going to bother with examples, because you've made it abundantly obvious that you really don't care.

lol at grossly underrating the skill of baseball players.

Hey, if I got to stand around on a field picking my ass for a couple hours a day and collect a fat paycheck at the end of the day, I'd say my profession required skill too. Doesn't mean it actually does. 99% of baseball is luck. The other 1% might be "skill".

Ok fine, when players are ON the field it takes quite a bit of skill. So your point is that people are sitting down doing nothing half the time in baseball...

 

[bobross419]

Football blows... Stupid football season coming back... everyone in the office will talk about nothing but big sweaty guys grabbing each other, bunch of homos. Not to mention the bullshit "Wear your team jersey" days. What about something for those of us that hate football... how about a "Wear your favorite video game shirt" or something? Stupid bullshit sport. And the only people that require skill are the QB and the coaches. The fat tubs of lard that just plant their fat selves in the middle of the field like a sumo wrestler playing king of the hill only need the skill most detested by Blahblah - uber leet eating skills.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo
arguably, the only positions that require special set of skills are the QB and the kicker.
all the other positions rely on speed and strength/size, and soft hands for receivers.

it's not like baseball where you need eye hand coordination to hit or field/throw the ball.
or basketball where you need to dribble and shoot (except for shaq who relies on buldozing his way to the rim).
or hockey, where just getting on the ice without falling on your ass requires skill.
etc.

yeah, you're an idiot.

you didn't even consider golf?

oh wait...that's not a sport

 

[zerocool84]

Originally posted by: bobross419
Football blows... Stupid football season coming back... everyone in the office will talk about nothing but big sweaty guys grabbing each other, bunch of homos. Not to mention the bullshit "Wear your team jersey" days. What about something for those of us that hate football... how about a "Wear your favorite video game shirt" or something? Stupid bullshit sport. And the only people that require skill are the QB and the coaches. The fat tubs of lard that just plant their fat selves in the middle of the field like a sumo wrestler playing king of the hill only need the skill most detested by Blahblah - uber leet eating skills.

Sad sad non-sport loving nerds. No wonder why sport loving people rule the world.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: bobross419
Football blows... Stupid football season coming back... everyone in the office will talk about nothing but big sweaty guys grabbing each other, bunch of homos. Not to mention the bullshit "Wear your team jersey" days. What about something for those of us that hate football... how about a "Wear your favorite video game shirt" or something? Stupid bullshit sport. And the only people that require skill are the QB and the coaches. The fat tubs of lard that just plant their fat selves in the middle of the field like a sumo wrestler playing king of the hill only need the skill most detested by Blahblah - uber leet eating skills.

obvious troll is obvious

 

[bobross419]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: bobross419
Football blows... Stupid football season coming back... everyone in the office will talk about nothing but big sweaty guys grabbing each other, bunch of homos. Not to mention the bullshit "Wear your team jersey" days. What about something for those of us that hate football... how about a "Wear your favorite video game shirt" or something? Stupid bullshit sport. And the only people that require skill are the QB and the coaches. The fat tubs of lard that just plant their fat selves in the middle of the field like a sumo wrestler playing king of the hill only need the skill most detested by Blahblah - uber leet eating skills.

obvious troll is obvious

Not trying to troll... just hate football and all the omg i love football crap that people have to put up with. Felt like bitching here because I'd get fired for bitching the way I want to bitch at work.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Originally posted by: bobross419

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: bobross419
Football blows... Stupid football season coming back... everyone in the office will talk about nothing but big sweaty guys grabbing each other, bunch of homos. Not to mention the bullshit "Wear your team jersey" days. What about something for those of us that hate football... how about a "Wear your favorite video game shirt" or something? Stupid bullshit sport. And the only people that require skill are the QB and the coaches. The fat tubs of lard that just plant their fat selves in the middle of the field like a sumo wrestler playing king of the hill only need the skill most detested by Blahblah - uber leet eating skills.

obvious troll is obvious

Not trying to troll... just hate football and all the omg i love football crap that people have to put up with. Felt like bitching here because I'd get fired for bitching the way I want to bitch at work.

that was definitely a troll....baseless criticisms of pro athletes in the same breath mentioning wanting to wear your favorite video game shirt. :thumbsdown:

 

[meltdown75]

the hateraide in this thread is awesome. i love it.

football kicks ass..... second only to hockey for me in terms of spectator sports!

i love going to Michigan games and tailgating... an added benefit of the total badassery that is football.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: BlahBlahYouToo

Originally posted by: SunnyD
Guess you haven't watched baseball or golf, have you?

guess you don't read thread titles, do you?

and baseball requires much more skill than most give it credit for. i'd say it's probably the hardest of all major sports.

Swing stick at ball someone threw. Get lucky, hit ball with stick. Guy with big glove jog to ball, get lucky and ball drop in glove. Play game again.

I read your thread title. Baseball, simply put, is one of the least athletic and least intelligent sports out there.

Actually, I take that back - for those that consider NASCAR a sport... baseball requires a tad bit more of both athleticism and intelligence than that.

Football, in most all of the positions on the field require far more "skill" than pretty much any position in baseball. I'm not going to bother with examples, because you've made it abundantly obvious that you really don't care.

lol fail.