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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4749261, member: 289"] I was watching some vintage football clips on You-Tube and thought this would be an interesting thread: Why do we like football? Why do so many of us like it more than any other sport? - In my case, it was the first sport I became a fan of. In 1961, my father brought home a booklet he’s pick up at a bank about the coming NFL season. He wanted something he could do with his 7 year old son. Jim Brown was the best player ever and he came from Syracuse and another player named Ernie Davis was playing for Syracuse and would follow big Jim to the Browns and who was going to stop them? I was hooked. Baseball came when I joined Little League and basketball when Dave Bing and company were scoring 100 points a game. That seems a small difference in years now but football was first by a big margin in those days. - It also has a long history, now going back over 150 years. That’s a lot of games and personalities. Baseball can match that but not the other sports. - I think the colorful uniforms matter. They cover more of the player than in basketball. Baseball was bland for years. They’ve gotten into colors now. I’m not a hockey guy. I’m not sure why but most of the people I know who like basketball are not big on hockey. I also think that football uniforms, at least for successful teams, tend to change less than in other sports. The colors and design are part of their personality. - There’s a military aspect to it. I’m a political liberal but the idea of two teams battling over territory has always seemed exciting to me. It may not appeal to the better angels of my nature, but those little devils are still there. In other sports, you beat the other team. In football you conquer them. - It’s the ultimate team sport. Every successful play is the result of the coordinated actions of 11 guys. A team is as strong as its weakest link. - Home runs are great but the most exciting thing in sport is a long play in football: a bomb, a tailback bursting into the open or a kick returner getting past the first wave and then the second wave. - No day is as beautiful a great fall day. The ’87 Penn State game was the most beautiful day I’ve ever seen: temperature in the low 70’s with warm zephyr of a wind, puffy white clouds floating across the sky, all kinds of reds and yellows in the trees and on the ground below them. I just knew that nothing bad would happen on a day like that and it didn’t. [/QUOTE]

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