Is it just me or do all the American sports just seem really simple? They are like a dumbed down version of sports...

Is it just me or do all the American sports just seem really simple? They are like a dumbed down version of sports. There never really seems to be much skill involved, or am I missing something. Why are the Americans like this?

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have you seen soccer? literally so simple a poor favela group can figure it out

And yet most of you simpletons still don't understand the rules

Your post reads like a really simple and dumbed down version of the English language, so yeah you're probably missing something.

American sports are literally grinds based around hoping once in a million times something ridiculous happens, like a pass gets caught off someone's butt or something.

They then replay it as if it's some heroic feat by an athletic "freak of nature" and justifies watching 4 hours of military and viagra commercials.

sports so simple and yet nobody else can dominate.

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Good luck explaining the offside rule.

wow who fucking knew people don't understand the rules of sports they don't care about
i don't know the rules of soccer beyond the basics, just like you probably don't understand the rules of gridiron beyond "throw the ball and catch it in the end zone"

Lol Americans aren't good at basketball

>Is it just me or do all the American sports just seem really simple?
In Gridiron football, Team A is on offense, team B is on defense. Neither team has any timeouts. There's 50 seconds left on the clock in the 2nd quarter. The offense is on the 50 yard line. It's 1st down and 10. The offense runs a running play, gaining 5 yards and taking 8 seconds until the play has completed. There's a holding penalty against the defense.during the play, which is declined by Team A. The offense hurries up the field and spikes the ball to stop the clock after the penalty is clarified. The spike took 1 second to initiate.

Where is the line of scrimmage on the following play, what down is it, and how many yards does the offense need for a first down?

45 yard line
2down
5yards

Wrong.

Oh also, here's a slight hint: you should also be able to figure out how much time is left in the 2nd quarter based on this information. That is, if the rules of gridiron football are so simple.

Baseball is way more complicated than cricket
American football is way more complicated than soccer
Basketball is about the same as netball or whatever Brits play

(You)

it's all about action and spectacle. americans are severely mentally ill and have the collective attention span of a child. there needs to be action and their side needs to win. that's the american dream

Since I have to go in a second and will probably forget about this post/the answer, I'll just give the answer now incase anyone is curious and illustrate the point I was trying to make.

The answer is it's 3rd down and 15 from Team A's own 45 yard line, and there's 31 seconds left on the clock. Because in Gridiron football, when within the 2 minute warning of a half, a penalty occurring will stop both the game clock and play clock. After the referees announced the holding penalty, and it was declined, it was 2nd and 5. As stated, the quarterback then hiked and spiked the ball to try and stop the clock. The problem is that in the NFL, you cannot stop the clock two plays in a row whether it be by timeout, penalty flag, or spiking the ball. Due to this, the spike is intentional grounding by rule, a penalty which causes a 10 yard penalty and a loss of down. Since it occurred within the final minute of the 2nd quarter, it results in a 10 second runoff.

Simple.

Says the faggot highland games bro. Hitting a baseball is the most difficult thing to do in all of sport.
>try harder

Every divegrass final you guys complain how the video replay got it wrong

Apparently you guys don’t understand the rules either

Which proves just how complex and complicated our sports are.

I don't think American sports are simple, but with the exception of basketball, most American sports are fucking boring to watch

>he hates sports with action
>just called soccer gay and boring
good post

oz on the offense because the US team C lost
in the exhibition game.
hopefully it will give them enough confidence to ask for a rematch against the emus.

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basketball and football are not simple, there's at least as much tactics involved as soccer (if not more). baseball is retarded tho

No, youre right
American sports are designed so that skill is secondary compared to natural athleticism. For whatever reason, most Americans care more about watching "freak athletes" than actual skilled competition.
Soccer isn't popular for 2 reasons: 1) You can't pu ads on it so corporations won't develop it here 2) to be great at soccer, the type of body or athleticism required isn't the same as what you'd see in basketball or football so most americans don't like it.

>OUR OWN REFS AND FANS DONT UNDERSTAND THE SPORT BECAUSE ITS 2DEEP4U

Why are brits so obsessed with americans

>can’t put ads
>the fly Emirates have defeated the Chevrolet’s in the Heineken match of the day to with the Barclays premier league presented by Toyota

I didn't realize corporations built up baseball 150 years ago. How fucking dumb are you? They're capitalizing on the already existing popularity

Gridiron football is more about overhead tactics than individual athletic performance. The NFL has a bunch of athletic meme players that get hyped up every year, but the teams that actually make it to the superbowl are well managed teams that know their way around a gameplan. The Patriots have been dominating the league for almost two decades because Bill Belichick is an autistic savant who knows how to adapt his game to the opponent's strengths and weaknesses and isn't afraid to switch key players in and out of his lineup depending on the situation (instead of trying to cheese the game by designing his entire playbook around 2-3 stud players). This is also why he seems to have a knack for drafting questionable third-stringers and turning them into football gods; he picks players who are particularly gifted in certain positions but whose talents are wasted on teams who don't know how to use them properly, or prodigies like Tom Brady who have exceptional football IQ but who get passed over in favor of one-dimensional guys who happened to put up big numbers in college. Teams like the Chiefs, who are currently loaded with MVP caliber players, lost to them both times when they faced off last year because they kept painting themselves in a corner by way of mediocre game management. I honestly can't think of another sport where the coaching staff is just as important as any other guy on the field.

Also lmfao at the idea that soccer fans are too refined for freak athleticism. Messi is the textbook example of a freak athlete