why is everyone crazy about football?
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maybe it's coz so many secretly admire grown men who are happy to play with their balls in public !!!
1036987
soccer/football....over 2 billion people can't be wrong
604249
Because people need entertainment in their life. Way better than reading a book. \n\nPeople don't root for colors!! They root for their home state, they root for their favorite players. They root for the History of the team.\n\nFree Agency isn't that big of a deal. They usually sign long term deals with the huge money. \n\nTheir are many players on a team and there are usually only a few that leave every season. \n\nSome players spend their entire career with a team!!\nI'm from Minnesota- Twins- Kirby Puckett and Kent Hrbek, all lifers. \n\nTake Barry Sanders- Detroit Lions\nWalter Payton\nTim Brown spent almost his entire career in Oakland \nJerry Rice in San Fran for all those years\nJoe Montana\nThe list goes on and on. They do amazing feats and we like to watch it.
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The World Cup is and will always be the biggest sporting event in the world. Every country in the world competes and dreams of being crowned the champions of the greatest sport in the history of sport. The best players in the world square off agaisnt team mates and friends, so it is not solely about the competition. It is about the entire world coming together to watch and participate in a common like. It is about passion and emotion even for those thousands of miles away. It is about nationalism, when a country becomes one in support for their team. To me, the world cup isnt even about the football (even though thats an amazing part of it) but its about the people who love the sport so much that the entire world unites together for a whole month and can forget about all their problems and instead focus on the  excitement and pure skill that is football.
280665
Because there some people are too stupid to know that football is just a great sportgame and nothing else \nAnd there is no solutions for it
1166360
You obviously have never played the game.  Our football is the ultimate team game.  There are 11 guys on each team on the field at a time.  If one guy doesn't do his job right, their whole team suffers.  The game is a combination of intelligence, strategy, finesse, strength, and power.  \n\nWhat makes this sport stand out is that each position is extremely specialized.  Whereas in other sports, many guys can play different positions, in American football each player has a much more specific role and is detrimental to his team.\n\nThe quarterbacks have to be very intelligent as well as talented.  They have to be able to read the entire defense (11 guys, mind you) and try to figure out who is blitzing, who is covering what receiver, and who is playing a zone.  \n\nThe runningbacks combine speed, finesse, and power.  They are the workhorses.\n\nThe receivers have speed and great hands.\n\nThe offensive linemen aren't your traditional "skill" players.  They have to learn how to use their size to their advantage.\n\nThe defensive ends are some of the most impressive players, because they are surprisingly fast for their size.  Line backers have to be pretty aware of the entire field.  Cornerbacks have to be fast, and able to shadow a receiver's every move.   Safeties act as the defense's last hope.  \n\nBut, no matter how skillful the players on a team are, they won't win many games without a good coach.  This is where the games are really won.  It is a game of strategy, and the coaches have to keep one step ahead of their opponent.  This sport has more trick plays than any other game.  I think that is one element that makes the sport so popular here - the element of surprise.  You never, ever know what is going to happen on each play.\n\nAs for the place kickers and punters wearing pads...If you had 11 guys, all of whom nearly twice their size using all their might to come after you, when you have no way to defend yourself, are you saying you wouldn't wear padding?  If you don't, you are pretty masochistic.
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Hello!!! Football, its like heaven for them
454341
I do not understand anything about football but I love to watch the football players, cheer leaders and the crowd.
475080
What.. this seems to be two seperate questions here!! Firstly, people get fanatical over football as it is a psychologicl substitute for war. \n\nSecondly... don't 'chead' on your girlfriend. Simple answer.
358736
Because people have differnt interests in sports.Football isn't the only sport most people play.Somedon't like it and some do.
685408
Not likely.  People seem to enjoy fighting over football as much as fighting over anything else.
319239
This game is so popular for many reasons. 1) The poor can play this game(majority of the worlds population). Any little boy can one day make it. You don't have to have parents taking you to practise every day.2) The simplicity of it. A ball, use your feet and score! We use our hands every day but not on the green pitch.3) The passion of the fans. 100k in a stadium chanting and wearing their teams colours. This is not a sport in some places it is a religion.
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Well I wont say football but sport in general makes the world go round. There is nothing more exciting than watching your fav team win and do it in style. Sport has everything it can possibly need. \n\nThere is drama comedy action and horrors. Its better than any movie they can ever make, its like a story that has no ending. I really am a sportsnut though i make time for other things sport is what makes this world a place worth living.\n\nI arrange my schedule so that i can watch all my sport I just cant help thinking about my teams, upcoming matches and who will win the trophies this year.\n\nIn football I support Chelsea, Liverpool, and Barcelona. I dont like Arsenal and M United I only like if they lose. I also like Brazil and Argentinia. Fav players are Ronaldinho, Lampard, Gerrard and Terry.
160394
I actually am not interested in football.  I think it is the best time to go shopping because so many people are watching it and the stores are not crowded!
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The motive why football is such an INTERNATIONAL sport, it's not only because you only need a goal, a ball and at least 3 players in each side. It's for the FANS it has all over the world.\nFootball has so many fans for the PASSIONS  it generates. And this passion comes from the comments "that decision was good .... no it was bad ....where was he looking ... ".\nWhen a referee or assistant  referee makes a decision it generates CONTROVERSY between fans,  if doen't matter if you are from the same team or the opposite team, you have to make your point approving or disapproving the call.\nThat controversy is the HEART of football, that's what catch a fan at least during a tournament, and if we have luck for live.\nDon't use the technology that will kill the passion and controversy  of football, that will take from us those future moments where we will be arguing  that the referees were right or wrong, betting a beer that "YYY" will have the same opinion .... lets leave the imperfection of a perfect game alive. \nRemember football is passion and that passion comes from the controversy it generates .....  so let us be the last team's sport pending of the decision of one that will sparkle our passion.\nThat's the reason why I don't want or need the technology.
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Haha...good question.  They're just amazed that Americans don't go crazy over soccer so they try to make fun of American football...however, American football is simply a much, much more exciting game.  I'm not a soccer hater, it's alright, but not nearly as exciting as football.
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Football is the universal world sport, played by millions, not confined to North America, and is the inspiration for thousands of children every day.\nPele, the greatest footballer of all time, but it simply when he called it 'The Beautiful Game'.