(17 May 13, 12:03AM)#M|A#Wolf Wrote: If a sport doesn't involve a lot of points, cheerleaders, timeouts, at least 4 quarters, and a lot of action every single second then Americans don't like it.This is where I think I'm getting trolled. I know what you mean but I don't. Like Marti said, the big football match tonight was pure drama - pure entertainment. More action in the last 5 minutes than in every Gridiron match I've seen bits of in sports bars on holiday combined.
And in response to Nightmare, again I know what you're saying but it's not true. In football every player has the opportunity to be the hero, or the villain in a game. Like Aekom said, Tottenham Hotspur must currently be the most one man team in sport at the moment. Game after game the individual performance of one man shines through, he rescues his team time and time again. Bale, Ronaldo, Messi, RVP, Neymar, Lewandowski, Robben, Ribery, Falcao, Hazard, Heskey (but not Landon Donovan). I could go on, and on. In the world of football, the humble, non-american part of planet Earth, these are the stars. These are the people all the kids aspire to be, whose name's are printed on all the fan's backs. The stars who men and women alike get weak at the knees over. Whose image people get on their arse cheeks as their first tattoo, out of devotion and reverence for that player.
Oh, and Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Even just by his name you know he is a star, the man so many pay to see. My analogy for this is think of this as a 10 v 10 ctf on ac_depot, where one team's players all suck and have a negative K/D ratio and no flags, apart from one player, who scores 4 so that team wins the match.
And if I had to metaphorise 3:30, that would be the equivelent of taking out the entire RVSF base with a pistol, taking the flag and rifle sprinting out of the base with the same pistol, without ammunition, before anyone has time to respawn, to go on to score the flag that wins the game.