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American football, basketball and baseball have millions of followers, but they can't match soccer for sheer excitement, says a team of scientists.
The reason is its element of surprise, claim researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US.
They reviewed five sports: ice hockey, football, baseball and basketball in the US, and English football.
The team decided to make unpredictability - how often a leading team is overcome by an opponent with a worse record - the best measure of how exciting a league is.
"If there are no upsets, then every game is predictable and hence boring," co-author Eli Ben-Naim told New Scientist magazine.
The results of the analysis showed that the "upset frequency" was highest for soccer, followed by baseball, hockey, and basketball. American football came last on the list, and so was labelled the least exciting sport.
Originally posted by ridcully
Pointyball: scientifically proven as the most boring game on earth!
American football, basketball and baseball have millions of followers, but they can't match soccer for sheer excitement, says a team of scientists.
The reason is its element of surprise, claim researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US.
Unless you support Chelsea of course.
I read an article that said people were getting up and walking about at Stamford Bridge at the weekend like "Americans wandering around to get hot dogs during a baseball game". If this is true of baseball games, and judging by how fat most Yanks are, nobody must actually watch any of the game whilst at a baseball stadium!!!!
[edit on 5-1-2006 by KhieuSamphan]
Originally posted by ridcully
Pointyball: scientifically proven as the most boring game on earth!
The team decided to make unpredictability - how often a leading team is overcome by an opponent with a worse record - the best measure of how exciting a league is.
Originally posted by xeroxed88
I guess you never saw the final of the Champions League in 1999 (i think thats when it was) Man Utd Vs Bayern Munich (I think). That was one hell of a match! Man Utd scored in the last minute.
Originally posted by KhieuSamphan
ROSE BOWL...LOL...How gay is that name?!?!?
Originally posted by Dr Love
Yeah, I'm sure most Husker fans weren't real happy about the Horns winning the national championship, but at least it was another Big 12 team.
Originally posted by LostSailor
Originally posted by xeroxed88
I guess you never saw the final of the Champions League in 1999 (i think thats when it was) Man Utd Vs Bayern Munich (I think). That was one hell of a match! Man Utd scored in the last minute.
So... 1999 was the last time there was a last minute victory in soccer for you guys? That must be lame... We've already had at least three just this bowl season in college football. I htink thats what makes football so exciting to watch. The game is never over until the final horn sounds.
Originally posted by Dr Love
Originally posted by ridcully
Pointyball: scientifically proven as the most boring game on earth!
I guess the Rose Bowl wasn't broadcast in whatever backwards country you guys live in, huh? It's unfortunate because you would have seen why American football is a game of MEN and HEART and TOUGHNESS.
Hook 'em horns baby!!!!!! !..!,
Peace
Well... Here is where these scientists made their first mistake. If they want to measure how exciting a game is they need to include a few more factors. Maybe... Number of bone jarring season ending tackles. The unpredictability of a trick play or a fake field goal or punt, etc. etc. Oh... Final 30 seconds of a ball game wins like lasts nights Texas Longhorn victory in the Rose Bowl.
Lastly, if soccer is so god damn exciting to watch. Why is it so boring?
So... 1999 was the last time there was a last minute victory in soccer for you guys? That must be lame... We've already had at least three just this bowl season in college football. I htink thats what makes football so exciting to watch. The game is never over until the final horn sounds.
Originally posted by LostSailor
Originally posted by KhieuSamphan
ROSE BOWL...LOL...How gay is that name?!?!?
That's the best comeback you could come up with? I'm disappointed. If you guys are gonna lay on the fat jokes I'll come back with the teeth jokes.
Quit trying to prove soccer is more exciting then football and go brush your teeth.
Originally posted by KhieuSamphan
ROSE BOWL...LOL...How gay is that name?!?!?
My team plays at Nettle Park...Beat that!
Originally posted by xeroxed88
Welcome to Nou Camp.
Capacity: 98, 600
Originally posted by Dr Love
Originally posted by xeroxed88
Welcome to Nou Camp.
Capacity: 98, 600
Complete with collapsible stands for easier trampling. Also, in the nosebleed section urine bag lobbing is allowed.
That's just it you see, there's more excitement in the stands at a soccer game. I'll never forget a video I watched once that showed a soccer referee running off the field because fans were actually on the field chasing him, probably wanting to hurt him real bad. The thing was he had no security escorting him. Security just let the poor ref fend for himself because they were pissed at him too.
Peace
Brazilian soccer fans who urinate on the terraces so as not to miss any of the match are destroying the historic Maracana stadium.
The gallons of urine dispatched by 120,000-capacity crowds have eaten through the concrete and are weakening the stadium's steel girders.