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re: British Guy watching college football
Posted on 9/15/21 at 1:23 pm to mollygray
Posted on 9/15/21 at 1:23 pm to mollygray
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British Guy watching college football
He also reacts to the tOSU Marching Band halftime show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqhqCH0_u1s
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Posted on 9/15/21 at 2:23 pm to mollygray
commenting to watch later 
Posted on 9/15/21 at 3:02 pm to KwoodTiger
I explain to them that American football is similar to chess. You are playing offense and defense. Each side gets a chance to form a strategy, then run a play.
This post was edited on 9/15/21 at 3:53 pm
Posted on 9/15/21 at 6:30 pm to Glorious
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small to medium sized cities like Athens,
Athens has 125K permanent residents. When you add UGA, the population pushes 160K. Add full capacity at Sanford, and you're looking at a quarter million. It's the 5th largest city in the state. So on game day Athens is the 2nd largest city in Georgia.
It is not small by any means and is almost too big to be considered medium.
This post was edited on 9/15/21 at 6:38 pm
Posted on 9/16/21 at 6:15 am to delta saint
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I think soccer is so fricking boring but it’s the most popular sport worldwide by a pretty significant margin.
I don’t get it.
Once you get into soccer, college and pro football games are agonizing long and slow. Start stop. Start stop. Commercials. It becomes hard to sit through an entire game tbh.
Plus college football is life and death down south. Not like that around the rest of the country. It's pretty strange how big it is down south if you really sit and think about it.
Posted on 9/16/21 at 7:38 am to mollygray
There are tons of videos of Brits reacting.
Most say, even at Uni its just parents watching a game like American Pee-wee.
See the videos of them reacting to high school football stadiums in Texas.
They are gobsmacked. They say in high school they just have a field. No stands for fans. 10,000 fans at a high school game? They say we have a few bored parents on the sidelines for a "football" match.
Most say, even at Uni its just parents watching a game like American Pee-wee.
See the videos of them reacting to high school football stadiums in Texas.
They are gobsmacked. They say in high school they just have a field. No stands for fans. 10,000 fans at a high school game? They say we have a few bored parents on the sidelines for a "football" match.
This post was edited on 9/16/21 at 7:40 am
Posted on 9/16/21 at 8:20 am to KwoodTiger
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Soccer is easy to understand for the masses with limited rules (ie basically offsides).
Yeah. BTW the sport would open up more (enlarge the field functionally) if they got rid of offsides penalties. People have a negative reaction when you point that out about soccer and hockey but there's still a goalie and basketball serves as something of a (extreme) comparison sport.
When you have more offensive and defensive players taking risks, the sport increases in tempo, and games are more competitive with a two or more score margin. The ability of a grinding defense to reduce the size of the playing field is a bug, not a feature of those sports.
Down vote away. It would be more interesting to watch
Posted on 9/16/21 at 8:41 am to YNWA
quote:I don't know. From Penn State south to Florida and west to Nebraska it is huge. Then it picks up on the west coast.
Plus college football is life and death down south. Not like that around the rest of the country
Posted on 9/16/21 at 8:46 am to molsusports
Hockey would not be more interesting with no offsides. It would be terrible to watch and terrible to play.
Have you ever seen or played in a a game of shinny hockey? Because that is what you're talking about. Shinny hockey is a pickup game with no rules like offsides and it's a joke. You're basically out there just screwing around with the puck.
Have you ever seen or played in a a game of shinny hockey? Because that is what you're talking about. Shinny hockey is a pickup game with no rules like offsides and it's a joke. You're basically out there just screwing around with the puck.
Posted on 9/16/21 at 8:49 am to SoDakHawk
quote:
shinny hockey
Played by skilled athletes? No. Just terrible amateurs
Posted on 9/16/21 at 8:56 am to Jake88
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Then it picks up on the west coast.
What? CFB is not big on the west coast. At least not anywhere it is to the level it is in the South or some parts of the Midwest
This post was edited on 9/16/21 at 8:59 am
Posted on 9/16/21 at 9:00 am to 1BamaRTR
quote:Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA, Stanford, ASU?
What? CFB is not big on the west coast
Posted on 9/16/21 at 9:06 am to Jake88
Mostly smaller stadiums that they struggle to come close to filling. Tv ratings back up the assertion that the west coast simply is nowhere near as passionate about cfb as the South and Midwest.
Posted on 9/16/21 at 9:08 am to kingbob
quote:I don't think I said it was as popular as the MW and South, simply that it was popular.
Tv ratings back up the assertion that the west coast simply is nowhere near as passionate about cfb as the South and Midwest
Posted on 9/16/21 at 9:32 am to Jake88
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Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA, Stanford, ASU?
Are you really trying to say Stanford and UCLA are “big” on CFB? That constitutes big to you? You really think they’re anywhere near the craziness of ND, many SEC and Big 10, and Big 12 teams? USC is the only one in that group and they don’t see to care as much as they used to.
And when I say big, I’m not talking about just when they’re good. Schools like Stanford have a hard time filling their stadiums all the time.
I don’t know why you think California, Oregon, and Washington are huge CFB states. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Florida, and a few more states take CFB craziness to another level.
ETA: I saw that you said it wasn’t on the same level, but you think it’s popular?
Yeah I don’t see that either. It’s not irrelevant but it’s also not popular enough to constitute being “big”.
This post was edited on 9/16/21 at 9:35 am
Posted on 9/16/21 at 9:39 am to 1BamaRTR
quote:Did I say that?
You really think they’re anywhere near the craziness of ND, many SEC and Big 10, and Big 12 teams
Posted on 9/16/21 at 9:59 am to scott8811
Go to the East coast and talk to a Phillies fan about how big college baseball is in the SEC. They won't believe you.
Posted on 9/16/21 at 10:18 am to Jake88
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Did I say that?
You say it was “big”. It’s big in the MW and South. The West Coast is nowhere near that so it can’t be big. It’s popular enough to be notable but it’s not popular enough to be considered a big sport. The NFL for them is but CFB is not
Posted on 9/16/21 at 2:06 pm to mametoo
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Go to the East coast and talk to a Phillies fan about how big college baseball is in the SEC. They won't believe you.
Big East and Big Ten state people will often try to equate college hockey and college baseball.
Not all that similar given the number gap between schools that participate in the respective sports.
Posted on 9/16/21 at 4:36 pm to VOLhalla
This is actually what I thought the op posted. I love it when frye gets speechless after the flyover
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