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wasoxygen  ·  3197 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Help me learn new things! – Wine

But it's strategy and theory of football. Surely there's something to it. I always wonder why we don't see more crazy trick plays, but the reason is probably that the strategy has been pretty well polished and ironed out. The only interesting desperation move is bringing the goalie out of the box when time is running out (if it's that kind of football).

I hardly watch any professional sports and find it dull. But it was interesting to sit with a fan watching NBA on TV and have him explain to me what was going on. I saw eleven (I mean five, it's five, right?) tall guys trying to get the ball in the hoop. He saw something like chess played at 500x normal speed.