Sunday, March 8, 2009

Football, the ultimate team sport

Most popular sports today involve teams and teammwork. But what sport is the "true team sport"? I believe that football is one of the only true team sports today.
Many sports today that do have teams involved like baseball and basketball aren't true team sports. Take baseball for example; a team can have a dominant pitcher and whenever it is their day to pitch he can basically single handidly win his team the game. Take C.C. Sabathia for example, last year he for the most part won the game every time he went on the mound for the Brewers.
Basketball also isn't a true team sport. Basketball can easily be dominated by 1 or 2 players on a team. Take Lebron James for example, he is the heart and soul of the Cavaliers and without him I don't think that the Cav's would have anywhere near the number of wins that they do now.
Football on the other hand is more of a team sport than almost any other sport out there. No one player can win his team the game. Even if a team has a dominant quarterback, he still has to have at least 1 good wide reciever to throw it to and have a good offensive line to protect him long enough the throw it. Football also has a group of players for offense and another group of players for defense which not many sports do. This makes it so that even if there is one dominant running back or quarterback on a team, they would also need a pretty good defense to stop the other team. Also, everyone on the team has to be on the same page throughout the whole game. If someone on defense blows an assignment it very well might end up with the other team scoring because of it. In football everyone has to work together and know what not only he has to do, but also what their teammates are doing to in order to win. And that is why football is the ultimate team sport.

1 comment:

  1. You might be interested in this book:

    http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Side-Evolution-Game/dp/039306123X

    It argues that the left tackle is the most important person on the field.

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