Sonny Bunch
Football vs. futbol: Which is in bigger trouble?
As fewer great athletes play college ball the NFL will have a harder team replenishing its talent pool. In a couple of generations the league may have degenerated to the point that audiences turn their attention to other, more interesting, better-played sports. Like boxing before it, football may end up relegated to niche status. Who wants play a game that’ll end up killing you?
Soccer, on the other hand, has a much more serious short term problem. As Brian Phillips notes at Grantland, Match-fixing is a massive, massive problem for fútbol and its fans.
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Soccer players hit the ball with their unprotected head, doesn’t that cause damage too??
Dollayo on February 8, 2013 at 11:36 PM
There’s a graphic internet death video depicting a soccer player getting his neck broken by a kick to the head. I’ll take football thank you.
Red Creek on February 9, 2013 at 12:47 AM
“futbol” is played by never were or has-been nations with populations so lacking entertainment that watching skinny knob-knees in shorts kick a ball back and forth for hours (and mostly never scoring) is fun.
We have football. The most popular sport in the world.
wildcat72 on February 9, 2013 at 12:50 AM
Ultimate Frisbee and pétanque: America’s sporting future.
Greek Fire on February 9, 2013 at 5:11 AM
Irrelevant.
It is all about Beer and Wings anyway!
ProfShadow on February 9, 2013 at 7:46 AM
cobrakai99 on February 9, 2013 at 9:03 AM
Wow, I need some caffeine.
cobrakai99 on February 9, 2013 at 9:04 AM