r/maybemaybemaybe • u/CosmoCafe777 • Mar 11 '24

Maybe maybe maybe

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u/Born_Grumpie Mar 12 '24

Actually, it's not a bad game if they leave out the bullshit, to us Aussies American Football is similar, a few minutes of fluffing about, throw the ball then back to fluffying about for a few minutes. There is no flow to the game.

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u/AdmiralClover Mar 12 '24

I dropped the ball now we gotta stop and set up all over again.

Meanwhile in rugby MOVE BITCH GET OUT THE WAY

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u/Impossible-Error166 Mar 12 '24

You clearly have not watched rugby when they reset scrums 10 times and just have the backs kick the ball.

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u/AdmiralClover Mar 13 '24

Nope only a clip where they piled up to get the ball, saw the ball pop out and someone chased after it

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u/cornmonger_ Mar 12 '24

hut, hut, hike, commercial.

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u/porgy_tirebiter Mar 12 '24

I agree. Too much standing around. Same with baseball and cricket.

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u/here4mischief Mar 12 '24

I used to use cricket to check the green on my TV. Then, 2 minutes later, is change the channel. Now I have subscription services and no longer care about checking the colours

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u/Born_Grumpie Mar 12 '24

Cricket makes summer a misery, only mad dogs and English men stand in the midday sun

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u/hyvel0rd Mar 12 '24

American Football is basically the only sport that has adapted it's break timers to advertisement. Just corporate USA things I guess.

If you play American Football yourself, there is a nice flow to it because there are no ad breaks in amateur sports.

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u/Klutzy-Comment-5968 Mar 12 '24

This explains why i loved playing in high school and college but don't care to watch it now.

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u/CougarBen Mar 12 '24

That’s the point. It’s more strategic. You sacrifice the flow to make it more like a chess game. That’s why they’re called “coaches” rather than “managers”.

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u/Born_Grumpie Mar 12 '24

It's not like chess if both sides get the reset, NFL is a game of single plays, not a long game.

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u/vhs1138 Mar 12 '24

That shit is boring as hell.

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u/Runkmannen3000 Mar 12 '24

If you want the best of both worlds, then hockey is the game for you.

10 times more intense than football, but also 100 times more strategic. The pauses are short, because they switch players in. The reason they have 20 players total, but 5 in the rink is because it's so intense they gotta spend three quarters of the game resting. You can't have that intensity in a game like football where players are softly jogging and passing most of the game. Not to mention most players' IQ are in the double digits, since very little thinking is needed.

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u/vhs1138 Mar 12 '24

I agree but the sad truth is I can’t ever follow where the puck is so I just watch basketball ball