- Joined
- Jul 14, 2024
the entire nfl ecosystem is one giant machine to blow smoke up people's asses to give a really fake and gay kayfabe the illusion of importance. football is an incredibly simple game with very little in the way of tactics or actual skill involved because the victory conditions are secured through metagaming. I'm not even being facetious here becasuse im a nerd, the strategy involved in NFL Gridiron football is "make sure they can't catch the ball so you can run the timer down" it's not like soccer or hockey or baseball or basically any other sports game where there is a Situation and you have a limited amount of resources (players) to deal with the Situation - with gridiron football the winning strat is legitimately to just stop the game from being playedAs far as I know, in the NFL the game clock is only stopped when the ball goes out of bounds. That's why you have 3-4h brodcasts with only about 10 minutes of gameplay. I don't have any interest in that sport, but I wonder if there's someone out there who makes edits that are just 100% gameplay, so you don't have to watch hundreds of ads and players discussing strategy with their coach.
this is ideal for a televised game because it allows them to fit more ad space in the runtime. everything about gridiron football is designed from this point of view. Look, nobody even plays the fucking game. You can go out and see kids playing soccer or hockey or baseball but you never see people playing football. it's because it sucks.
