> NFL is the biggest sports in the entire world by revenue by far
Source on this? I can't imagine this being true compared to soccer.
Source on this? I can't imagine this being true compared to soccer.
NFL had €11,394 million (over eleven billion Euro) in revenue in 2017 whereas the Premier League had €5,340 million (over five billion Euro) in revenue for 2016–17.
MLB and the NBA also beat out the Premier League in revenue.
EDIT: OK, OK, I thought the GP was talking about sports LEAGUES not NFL vs sports as a whole. I read "sports league."
Now, you may call something very similar the same sport, but a 100m vs 400m sprints are really different races even with just one slightly different number.
NFL and NCAA Football are different events, but the same sport. 100m and 400m races are different events, same sport.
People discuss the “NBA’s” 24 shot clock vs the NCAA’s more leisurely 35 seconds which among other things has a dramatic difference in how the two different games are played. Which was my original point, when the only people using a set of rules are in one org the names become interchangeable.
If you never compete it’s not clear how seemingly subtle rule changes have dramic impact. This changes not only game strategy but also things like how far people travel over the course of the game. 400m at a full sprint takes real endurance where 100m is mostly about acceleration.
Top athletes may have many skills that crossover to different sports, but these are very different games.
Football is football if you touch one foot inbounds or two.
You're clearly trolling, please leave me alone.
Is flag football still football becase it’s got a similar name?
Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling are separated at the olimpics. Even though they share the “wrestling” tile and just have different rules.
Clearly, people have different full names for the different types of football becase they are different sports. Which need somewhat different training and different reflexes.
I left Reddit to avoid this kind of drivel, go back there if you want to continue to perpetrate it.
The difference between HN and Reddit is not just being polite, it’s about productive arguments backed up by evidence rather than simply relying on believing something to be true.
No one, and I mean literally no one, thinks of NCAA football and the NFL as two separate sports; they're both football, with different rules, a fact you already know but are refusing to acknowledge because you're trolling.
Your insistence on some kind of "evidence" for what the word "sport" means is just you trying to get me to do work that you yourself could do, because that's what trolls do -- they waste the time of others for their own amusement.
“an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.” The first thing google returns. Which does not support your argument. Saying some arbitrary dictionary is enough is not evendence when they don’t actually say what you want.
I could go off and find quotes relating to the NCAA vs professional sports saying thing a like ~”Rules define the game, different rules different games.” But doing so is a waste of time when they don’t counter an argument.
As you need to be specific before I can counter or there is no way to move forward. Specific examples like the overtime rules are never going to counter your vague and baseless assertions so it’s pointless for me to keep responding to someone either trolling or just rather confused.
If you look at the wikipedia page for "Sport", you see all kinds of instances of the word "sport" being used in a way completely incompatible with your view. Please go away now.
This article's 5 years old, but still relevant: https://mic.com/articles/91009/soccer-s-global-dominance-of-...