But it is unique in certain aspects. The relative scarcity of goals makes it very different: a single goal is a hugely game-changing event, unlike in most other sports.
Absolutely.
No, but reading about it, it's not quite the same: for starters, only the home team can win the game that way which immediately makes it vastly different from football.
What. I understood the articles and prepositions there.
All you’d need to do is hit a walk off hit just once in your life and you’d understand. Not many feelings like it in the world.
This.
Not denying that at all. Be a moment you'll never forget for sure
One thing I’ve gathered from being on this site is that non-Americans know nothing about baseball.
That's a lot of ignorance in a relatively short post.
I'm pretty sure tons of Americans do. Sure, when you play with your friends on a field with just a ball and no protective equipment etc. it's quite different from the NFL but they still do it.
I’d say the Pats SB wins vs Seattle and Atlanta were at least comparable. But then I’m a Pats fan. Nothing will ever best our Bayern 1999 win though.
How is that different from someone saying first half or first 60 minutes in a football match are redundant? Rubbish post.
Buzzer beaters are common in basketball and are extremely dramatic. Ice hockey can be too.
It still hurts
I was watching it at Franklin"Redundant" is a bad word to use but in a sense, his point is easy to understand.
That's why I brought up baseball, and not those sports.
Eh? Plenty of games get decided in the first and especially in the third quarter. Just watch any Warriors game from the last 3 years to see how they use the third quarter to completely annihilate the opposition to a point of no return.
Really? Odd thing to hear from a European. I watched the NFL here and there and it's fun enough but the stop-start nature of it put me off.
Which is why I said close games.
@Siorac has summed it up very eloquently
Can confirm.
That makes no sense. Every point is added to the final score just as every goal is added to the final score, regardless of when it was scored.
And very incorrectly, as well.
But yet you can pick up a basketball game midway through the 3rd quarter and not miss anything of consequence the vast majority of the time.
I don't do that, for the record, I just meant you can predict the outcome as Huddersfield is never coming back from that. Erasing a 14-point lead is weekly business in the NFL. Like I said, the odd CL game where a 3-0 deficit is turned around or games like yesterday and the night before top NFL games for me, but your standard Premier League game not involving Liverpool is just a pass-time for me, e.g. I watched Utd-Chelsea recently and it's not like I was really entertained by that.
Same goes for a football game that is 0-0 till the 80th minute.
You just don't want to consider a different perspective other than your own.
Yes, every point is added to the final score, obviously. No one said they don't MATTER in the final result. What I'm saying is that you won't get a single decisive contribution in the first quarter of a basketball game because that's simply not how the game works.
This is the part that is incorrect, not a matter of perspective but simply factually incorrect. Plethora of games to contradict that.
Yeah, well, no wonder. We're both shit. But I have seen games between shit NFL teams and those were boring, too. It's not like there aren't NFL games which basically consist of both teams punting the ball away after getting nowhere in three tries.
