American football is so weird

I mean look at it! There's no real competition there, just a bunch of choreographed dancing. The ball isn't even shaped right!

See?!?

Comments

[MrZJunior]

Now that would be a game worth watching.

[Odd_Sarge]

This seems... familiar.

Nah, who would watch that?
i would

[Lurks-no-More]

It's a sport optimized for television. Of course it seems weird.

[OleGrayMane]

I thought the ball was shaped right, or at least pleasantly.

[Jordan179]

It's stylized warfare. Think linear melee tactics. They basically are having a battle, under rules and wearing equipment designed to minimize the chances of any of them getting severely wounded.

[FanOfMostEverything]

Yeah, the Hollywood Bowl uses some novel variations on the usual rules. Playing out of sync with the music is a 10-yard penalty, which is really crippling when the set isn't thirty feet across.

(Also, I can't help but find it odd that attractive humanizations of mundane objects are something I'd expect from modern Japan as much as from the mid-century US.)

[Majin Syeekoh]

Godammit arch you posted it

[Titanium Dragon]

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(Also, I can't help but find it odd that attractive humanizations of mundane objects are something I'd expect from modern Japan as much as from the mid-century US.)

That's because the Japanese inherited 1950s American pop culture and mutated it. Japan is the bizzaroworld version of the evolution of 1950s America to the present day.