FIFA 12 Video - Pro Player Intelligence: Vision

[lnin0]

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I hate the 'score' argument Americans tend to make against soccer when America's #1 sport - the NFL - consists of 93% stoppage, huddle, commercial and break time over a 3+ hour broadcast. A country that stretches 11 minutes of playtime into a 180 minute broadcast has little room to criticize other sports for being 'slow'.

America's past time - baseball - doesn't fair much better with only 6% of the total viewing time being spent with the ball in play. If you break down scores per game the MLB comes out slightly ahead of the NFL in 'action' as well (who would have figured). MLB averages around 9.5 scores over a typical game while the NFL only sees around 7.2.

So America does offer some of the most action packed sports in the world with a score being made, on average, every 1.3 minutes over their 11 minutes of game play. However, they also managed to pack another 20+ minutes of absolute nothingness between those action packed scoring moments and that, unfortunately, is bordering into soccer territory.

Are you the type of fan that goes to appreciate the race or just to see the wreck.

[Whammer]

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EA should shut down Tiburon and have EA Canada build Madden and NCAA. EA Canada knows how to make sports games. They is no question they are the world leaders at it.

[Ermolli]

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EA should shut down Tiburon and have EA Canada build Madden and NCAA. EA Canada knows how to make sports games. They is no question they are the world leaders at it.

NBA Live/Elite says hi

[Mikey88]

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Add me to the list of guys who hated on soccer and now see it as my number one sport (by far). I actually see American sports soo watered down and a lot of fans almost toolish (prob just the ignorant fans i talk to).. I think the main reason people dont appreciate soccer is because they don't realize how difficult it is to play at a high level. Professionals make it look so easy just to trap a ball coming at them from 40 yds away. I dont wanna get in a huge debate.....but this is how I see it...

Football- way too much dead time, way too many timeouts/commercials, field goal kickers are more valuable than every player except the qb.

Basketball- great sport, but game is pretty much irrelevant until the last 6 minutes or soo.

Baseball- waaay too much dead time. I think I read the ball is only in play 6 minutes in a 3 and half hour game...crazy.

I usually despise women's sports, but I have found myself watching the Women's World Cup on occasion because these girls are soo technical...its awesome.

Hockey says "Hi!"

[Whitesox]

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Hockey says "Hi!"

No sport is perfect. The point (of my post, anyway) wasn't to show you how Soccer is superior to any sport, but rather to show that ignorance plays a part (at least in my circle of friends) in American dismissal of the sport.

Honestly, I'd be hard pressed to come up with a sport I wouldn't like to watch on TV or play. It's not about which one is better, every game has it's pros and cons, and every individual prefers different things. Person A may prefer the high paced action of Hockey, while Person B prefers the more methodical, cerebral game of Soccer.

[sva91]

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No sport is perfect. The point (of my post, anyway) wasn't to show you how Soccer is superior to any sport, but rather to show that ignorance plays a part (at least in my circle of friends) in American dismissal of the sport.

Honestly, I'd be hard pressed to come up with a sport I wouldn't like to watch on TV or play. It's not about which one is better, every game has it's pros and cons, and every individual prefers different things. Person A may prefer the high paced action of Hockey, while Person B prefers the more methodical, cerebral game of Soccer.

Hockey's downfall is how hard it is to follow on tv. Its so hard sometimes to even know when a goal is being scored. Also, its waay to regionalized for my liking, Im from Texas, so I can't really relate to Ice Hockey all too much. But I will say the games are great in person.