Explain your passion for football

[Guest justsoyouknow]

I have to make a video package for my highschool's football team, and in the beginning, it'll feature the coach standing on an empty football field at night, with all the lights on, delivering a little speech about why he loves football. However, he's not too clever, so I have to write it for him. Unfortunately, I'm not the biggest football fan in the world. So maybe you guys could tell me, as passionately as possible, why you love football.

[Guest cartman]

I love Football because it is the ultimate warlike professional sport. Twenty-Two players are involved in every play, Twenty-Two men out to rip each other apart just to get possession of a weird shaped Pigskin. Twenty-Two men, doing what they love.

 

As a football coach, I have much control over these men, and they will do almost anything for me to make me respect them. Make me Trust them, and make me know just how important they are to the success of the team as a whole. Being a Head Coach of a football team is like being a General at the front lines of war. I make strategies, call plays, send in back up's, and always try to be two steps ahead of the enemy. Nothing is more rewarding than outsmarting opposing coaches, it's what makes this job the best any man could have.

 

(Lame I know but hey it might help ya lol)

[Guest Dangerous A]

My passion for football is best explained by Al Pacino in "Any Given Sunday".

 

Basically, I love the concept of a group of men fighting, tearing, struggling, and coming together for the sake of gaining yards and inches. You have men that are putting their bodies on the line so you can gain inches on a field.

 

Watch "Any Given Sunday" and listen to Pacino's speech before the playoff game near the end. Just an awesome speech about football. Gives me goosebumps everytime I watch it.

[Guest HungryJack]

My passion for football???

 

 

I moved here form Wales as a kid, ans had been only exposed to soccer. So i got here, and one of the first things we did was catch a Calgary STampeders game against the BC Lions when BC still had Doug Flutie. right away , I was hooked. Football was the greatest thing EVER to me. I guess then, when Calgary got Flutie, thingso nly got better. basically, I would play EVERY day with my brother and my neighbors, I had stamps merch EVERYWHERE, and then when I got into Junior High school, we got a bantam league in the city here, and that just made me football-nuts even more.

 

 

I think though. that football for me reached it's zenith for me in High scool, where I got tpo play highly competitive, highschool football, and I truly enjoyed my time playing. I played a DB position, essentially a nickelback. The best possible thing about football is just HAMMERING someone and standing over them, just looking at them...I love it. unfortunately, after dislocating my knee skateboarding in the 12th grade, I stopped playing ,and never bother trying pout for my university team. I am now content to be an armchair fan.

[Guest DrTom]

It's the potential for something explosive to happen at any time. Baseball is a lot of standing around, while football is all about the conversion of potential energy into the kinetic. Offenses and defenses are like coiled springs, waiting to uncoil and wreak havoc on the field, and on each other. Twenty-two men bruise, batter, and bloody themselves and others once a week, simply because the sport is too physically demanding to be played more often. Football only gives a team sixteen games to make a statement, so each game counts: losing streaks are crippling, star players in slumps are a cancer for the Wins column, and coaches age week to week as their wild card status changes. There's just nothing else like it in the arena of American sport.

[Guest alkeiper]

I would try and find osme of those NFL Films where Harry Kalas narrates.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

Why I love football, in a nutshell.

 

(Others on this thread already said some of what I would say, so I will try not to repeat that.)

 

Pro football is the closest thing to organized war you can get. Eleven guys on each side of the football trying to get it into the other team's end zone, each with a specific duty. If one unit fails on either side of the ball, the other team can exploit it and gallop to victory.

 

Not only is football and individual sport, but also it's a team sport. Think a quarterback can throw for 3,000 without a core of sticky-fingered wide receivers? Think a running back can gain 1500 yards without some big ol' hosses paving the way for him? Think a cornerback can get 12 interceptions without his linemen putting a rush on the passer?

 

Think again.

 

And that's one reason why I love football...

[Guest phoenixrising]

Football is the successful combination of strategy and action. On some levels, it's the ultimate chess game, with teams trying to outthink the other. Offensive and defensive schemes become more and more complicated as a result. However, with football there is something happening on every play. Even a little three yard run produces action - the battle in the trenches as linemen fight each other for control of the line of scrimmage, the tackle as the middle linebacker finds the running back and wipes him out. So much can happen on both sides of the ball. For the offense, there's always the potential for a running back to break a long run, or a reciever to catch a long bomb. For the defense there's always the possibility of a big-time hit, or an interception return. And we're not even talking special teams here, which produces excitement as well with kick returns and blocked kicks. Football appeals to the baser instincts (violence, the big hit, mammoth linemen doing anything in order to win the battle of the trenches) and to higher ideas and strategy (how the defense handles the offense's power running game, how the offense will counter the defense's blitz). kkktookmybabyaway made the best comparison: "Pro football is the closest thing to organized war you can get". You have overall strategies that become intense personal battles that lead to the quick, sudden action and violence that is football. And ultimately, it's the action that separates football from other sports. Where else does slamming a guy to the ground get applause? It's like a rush when you're watching when there's a big hit or big play. It's that rush, that sudden urge to jump in the air and pound your fist when your favorite player makes the big play that saves the game or wins the game that's unequalled anywhere else. I can't get into any other sport the way I can into football. This is why.

[Gert T 0]

The only identity is that of the helmets, individuals are more of a unit. Also I'd find some highlights of terrible weather, since I love that football plays in any type of weather.