dekedangle_rpfanon | #23 — Brown Goes Down

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I would say that (at least to me) it is complicated than other popular sports. Like, I have been exposed to more football than pretty much any other sport aside from hockey, and my understanding of it is still fuzzier than my understanding of basketball or golf or baseball or soccer/football.

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I will also freely admit that some of my ignorance is willful because of my aggressive not-giving-a-shit that sprung from growing up around people who fixated on it to an alarming degree. But the fact remains that if it were a simpler sport I would probably be able to explain it better just by osmosis, the way I can with the other sports mentioned above.

I actually had the opposite experience! I played baseball and American football in high school (mandatory, PE) and I came away with a much greater understanding of football than baseball. Football, you have your peoples and one of you has to get the ball across the line. If you get tackled or drop the ball, you lose a chance. Lose all your chances and possession changes. If an opposing player gets the ball in his hands, possession changes.

Baseball is weirder. You need a conception of the strike zone and also when runners can and cannot advance without 'tagging up,' and also fouls, otherwise very common events don't make any sense. But I did kinda float through baseball by always sneaking to the end of the batting order whenever an inning changed, so.

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I casually watched and PE-played baseball for years and it wasn't until I started seriously watching that I realized I was missing a ton of key nuances, like how sac flies work or starting pitchers v relief pitchers. It's very simple on the surface but takes a lot longer to master.

I gather it's the same in football, because I have a simple Sunday afternoon understanding of the game, but stopped watching because I was constantly getting confused. However, that's because there are NINE MILLION SECRET FOULS that get totally randomly and arbitrarily called, so basically no play ever feels safe because "holding" or whatever.

I understand most of the rules of baseball, but none of its strategy, and I couldn't distinguish a curveball from a slider with a gun to my head. I've also spent a very small amount of time watching football to the point where I understand the general rules of gameplay and scoring (but again, none of the strategy).

I think we tend to overestimate how much the average sports fan actually understands about their sport, and I think it comes from a bit of imposter syndrome.

Yep, agreed on that last sentence. I also have to say that the 'omg, it's all so complicated' hits a very gendered note for me, as a female sports fan, because I can tell a curveball from a slider, but get to experience dudes next to me trying to explain them (incorrectly, often) anyway. So like, American football, like all sports, is hard to understand if you don't watch it, but there's a certain amount of 'oh, gosh, it's just so complicated' that grinds my gears.

How enlightened of you to be annoyed with the way other women express themselves. If only they could be cool sports fans like you.

Wow yeah it's totally unreasonable to be frustrated by the amount of internalized misogyny that gets acted out in relation to sports.

na It's funny, but the reason offsides in hockey was so easy for me to understand is because to my mind it's exactly like tagging up in baseball.

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