TheKaeptain
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It depends on how active the two guys grappling are.
Edit: This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yms7uXyqDZ4 >>>>>>> boxing
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What Sport Generates The Best Looking/Most Exciting Highlights?
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It depends on how active the two guys grappling are.
Edit: This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yms7uXyqDZ4 >>>>>>> boxing
Zapperkhan
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Good points.
Even though I picked baseball homeruns are overrated unless they come at a critical moment in the game. I would replace homeruns in your statement with great, diving outfield catches. You could also include throws to home from the outfield.
You make a great case for football though
ReturnOfTheRAT
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European Football and Basketball.
soundscream
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Well, of course, all sports have the capacity for amazing highlights if you can appreciate the nuance/context of the sport and what's going on in particular moments, and I think baseball and soccer/football really benefit from this... but really, I think American Football/Basketball have that amazing combination of athleticism/flair that can appeal to any most any casual viewer.
You don't need to know much to appreciate
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You don't need to know much to appreciate
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Dubbedinenglish
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Hockey, no question. Fights, hits. goals.
TheKaeptain
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Suplex isn't anything special.
soundscream
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He was drafted by the knicks! He was destined to have great players embarace him.
Basketball.
It's the only sport (except maybe soccer penalty kicks) where the game can come down to the last second, and each team actually has a very high chance of scoring a game winner or stopping it. This can be insanely exciting or stressful as hell if you're a fan of either team.
It's the only sport (except maybe soccer penalty kicks) where the game can come down to the last second, and each team actually has a very high chance of scoring a game winner or stopping it. This can be insanely exciting or stressful as hell if you're a fan of either team.
American Football. Basketball has cool alley oops and dunks but that gets old. Football has insane running backs doing matrix-like shit or just bowling balling their way through, great QBs throwing HUGE plays to WRs with triple coverage, defenses intercepting and running it back for the win.
Damnit I want football back.
Also while I can appreciate the great athleticism involved in it, MMA has got to be the lamest sport out - like WNBA level.
Damnit I want football back.
Also while I can appreciate the great athleticism involved in it, MMA has got to be the lamest sport out - like WNBA level.
What about elbows, friend? They seem to be a hot topic on the SportsCenter for days on end.
TheKaeptain
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How is MMA lame? It's the rawest sport out there.
vincent vega
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^ninja
B_Rik_Schitthaus
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I have personally never enjoyed watching it. Watching two people beat on each other is not my type of entertainment.
I do not enjoy watching people get injured/hurt
Soccer, football, ice hockey...
Basketball is the worst of the major sports, it's 90% dunks and shots that any kid in a gym could make that are only top plays because they are important given the context (end of game). Dunks are the single most overrated sporting highlight. The defender is at a total disadvantage based on the rules of the game, so how is dunking on someone in any way impressive? And of course breakaway dunks are even dumber. That's like being impressed by some football player (eg DeSean Jackson) acrobatically diving into the end zone when there is no opposing player within ten yards of him... who cares? Plus scoring in basketball happens with such frequency (~200 points between the two teams) that most individual goals are practically meaningless... when each shot is worth 2 points but 70% of games are not even within single digits, what is the point?
Yes anything A's related is also great.
Basketball is the worst of the major sports, it's 90% dunks and shots that any kid in a gym could make that are only top plays because they are important given the context (end of game). Dunks are the single most overrated sporting highlight. The defender is at a total disadvantage based on the rules of the game, so how is dunking on someone in any way impressive? And of course breakaway dunks are even dumber. That's like being impressed by some football player (eg DeSean Jackson) acrobatically diving into the end zone when there is no opposing player within ten yards of him... who cares? Plus scoring in basketball happens with such frequency (~200 points between the two teams) that most individual goals are practically meaningless... when each shot is worth 2 points but 70% of games are not even within single digits, what is the point?
Yes anything A's related is also great.
TheKaeptain
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So you don't watch Football either?
I love football, but injuries are a side effect and are not intended. In MMA every action is an intent to deliver pain. In football you wear pads and try to minimize injuries.
What the hell.
Also, basketball hands down. Aside from dunks, some crazy passes can make the top 10 plays, although a crazy pass is much rarer than a monster jam.
edit: blocks too
AgentChris
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Basketball and NFL/NCAA football. Look you some Reggie Bush highlights from his days at USC.
ChiTownBuffalo
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HD tv made hockey exciting for a TV audience. Rightfully so. But I still go with American football.
MMA really isn't exciting for people when its on the ground unless you know whats going on.
MMA really isn't exciting for people when its on the ground unless you know whats going on.
I'd love to say boxing, but these days the highlights are the only things worth watching in the heavier divisions.
tbh, most sports have amazing highlight potential. If I settled on one, I'm sure something great would happen in another sport the next day that makes me change my mind.
tbh, most sports have amazing highlight potential. If I settled on one, I'm sure something great would happen in another sport the next day that makes me change my mind.
sasimirobot
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Skateboarding has some beautiful tricks out there.
Flops and missed shots aren't highlights
hawkshockey11
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answer is hockey. So much variety in highlights.
bloodydrake
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Forceatowulf
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Football and Basketball, no contest.
Game winning buzzer beaters never get old. Ever.
Game winning buzzer beaters never get old. Ever.
Damn. Like a motherfuckin' boss...
KrymynalChylde
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Skateboarding has some beautiful tricks out there.
Yeah you guys are right.
Also Hockey
gutter_trash
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Hockey and Soccer
nice passes, goal scoring and saves trump the rest
nice passes, goal scoring and saves trump the rest
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