>>2142430You actually know less about freedomball than I know about soccer, I think. Which isn't surprising given that soccer's the international competitive sport and literally no one but the US cares about freedomball. The teams that make it to the finals usually pass close to if not more than 50% of the time, anyways, because running is such a slog. Running is sometimes successful but mostly just there to keep the defense from being certain whether or not the quarterback is going to pass, because if you always passed the game would just be about good coverage of the receivers.
The gold standard for American football is somewhere around 50% pass, 50% run yardage. This includes the yards a receiver runs after catching a pass, which is often quite a lot. The straight runs through the defensive wall are to add suspense or to try to get to another 1st down if you're close and don't want to risk a pass.
You get four tries to move the ball 10 yards up the field, which sounds easy but due to freedomball being such an extreme contact sport it's often actually rather difficult. You can lose yardage from sacks, fouls, or someone being pushed back or caught trying to run around behind the line of scrimmage.
When they do succeed at getting a new 1st down (over the ten yard line, chances reset), is when the action happens, because it's even odds whether they'll get taken down or run for some serious extra yardage and possibly a goal. The goals are huge and unguarded, so the sport isn't about constant movement, but rather about breaking away from the other team which tries to suppress all movement.
>>2142500Right, but Japan cares about soccer. The other anon was right, here it's a fun thing for girls to do in primary school, my sister played soccer for a year for instance. We have a large variety of genetic material in the US, and soccer is a decent sport by itself, but we're just the polar opposite of Brazil. We won't pay to see it or watch through the one commercial.
