Econ majors: "Get a new coach, this one is depressing!"
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Took me a bit, but I got the joke eventually.
I didn't and I have a Masters in Business (done ironically after the real one).
Companies can't plan past the current quarter. They're slaves to the "line must go up" stock market.
Thank you
Getting a degree you don't need as an ironic joke is the most MBA shit ever 😄
exactly this, I was drunk half the time
Isn't American football the game where the second half basically consists of the leading team wasting time on purpose until the game ends? So he's not too wrong
amusingly, strategically in gridiron football it is to your advantage to run the clock any time you have any lead no matter the down, distance, or quarter. the load management of the game makes it so that it's to your offense's advantage with a lead to keep the opposing defense on the field as the clock runs.
gridiron football is a game of action in which the goal of the action is to maintain inaction. contrast with the other american pastime sport, baseball. that's a game of inaction in which the goal of the inaction is to suddenly spark action. and the very most exciting game in baseball is the one where one pitcher renders the other team completely inactive.
us americans are a confounding bunch. there's a reason Canada had to be who invented our third most popular sport, basketball
We might have invented baseball too.
But we feel that way about curling, which we want to own, but was definitely invented in Scotland.
you also made gridiron football watchable, and have never gotten the credit that the CFL deserves
Wait, your telling me that baseball is more popular than basketball?
If I had to rank the top 3 US sports by interest/engagement to me I'd say
- ice hockey
- basketball
- I don't know, surfing, skateboard or breakdance but not gridiron or baseball
it looks like baseball has finally been surpassed by basketball. the major american sports fandoms now go:
- football
- basketball
- baseball
- soccer
- hockey
- tennis
- golf
- auto racing
from here it gets murky. like should WWE and AEW be included, even though they're staged soap operas?
Even if wrestling is staged, it requires a shit ton of athletic ability to do half of that shit and not get seriously injured.
I don't care for wrestling, personally, but some of what they do is legitimately impressive.
It's literally a circus performance.
I remember seeing a pretty convincing “pro wrestling is just drag for people who are afraid of cross-dressers” argument, but I can’t remember the finer points.
Yeah so we are clear, I am not disparaging the talent and artistry that goes into wrestling. In fact, I'm decidedly not, I love that shit. I just think it should maybe treated as the most popular live performance art instead of as the 9th most popular professional sport.
You could say the same about ballet. Participants in both are athletic but they aren't playing a sport
What is ice skating but ballet on skates? And it’s in the Olympics.
Surprised MMA isn't on there. The UFC is pretty damn big now.
It was after professional wrestling and boxing. I was surprised boxing was ranked higher than UFC/MMA
Wow yea that surprises me, I know boxing is still decently big but you rarely hear of boxing having competition shows like the ones UFC did and then all the ads I see of MMA/UFC constantly. Wrestling I think I've only seen it on TV during the Olympics even.
And when you say football, surely you mean a game where a ball (= sphere) is played with the feet, amirite?
I mean a sport that is played on foot rather than on horses ;)
If we do want to be pedantic then the list, 1-4, would be
- Gridiron Rules Football
- Basketball
- Baseball
- Association Rules Football
Better?
I went ahead and used the americanized shorthand of "football" for gridiron rules football and the british loan word "soccer" for association rules football (soccer is a an Oxford slang tradition of adding "-er" to the end of something to make it an activity, IE calling rugby rugger and footer for all forms of football. In that tradition association football became assoccer or soccer) since the context was "what are americans watching, and why are all of us engaged in this weird ritual where even if we don't care about the superbowl we find ourselves at superbowl parties?"
gridiron football starts with a kick. many games are ended with a kick as well
I always thought hot dog speed eating was somewhere up there