I watch both sports and enjoy both sports, even if not equally. I concede both y'all and my own mutual biases, obviously y'all are going to say futbol is better, and obviously I am going to say football is better. Crush and destroy is a huge aspect of NFL fandom, this is true, but its also truly about the FINESSE plays that sneak in between all that mass violence. When a QB threads the needle on a pass between two scary ass linebackers who we all know hit hard as fuck (e.g. the Sherman-Chancellor combo in Seattle or the Webb-Suggs-Lewis combo of prime Baltimore Ravens) THAT is the skill, that is the magic of NFL. Its not merely the hits, its the ability of these athletes to work finesse plays facing those hits! Simply throwing or catching the ball is 100% guaruntee to result in a hard hit. Yet throwing and catching the ball is the basic element of the game, indeed teams have to do this every 30 seconds or face penalties! I've seen plenty of futbol games where scoring came way to easy, where moving the ball around for 70% possession was to easy, where defense was practically non-existent. And hey, that is fine, but with NFL even if you get an epic offensive beat down like the one Germany put down against Brazil, that shit team that got stomped on at least gave a lot of hard hits in the process so that it wasn't as easy at it looked for the team that wins!
When the Denver Broncos put up 50 point games like candy last year, and were blowing out teams by an average of 3 scores (the equivelant of a 5-2 average in futbol) you can believe that it wasn't as easy as it sounded, dudes were getting HIT to make those points every time.
Again then, its not the hits themselves that is the game, but how beautiful it is to watch a great scoring TD or a long pass, or a crazy rush breaking three tackles through ALL that potential of hits and violence in the NFL.
I mean watch Julio Jones break through FOUR TACKLES sliding in between huge guys trying their damnedest to bring him down and tell me its not finesse at its highest order!!
Me? I think of futbol as something like NFL and Basketball combined, all the players are two-way players like in B-ball and the strategy to score requires constant moving, screening, blocking, passing to move the ball successfully to the goal. Its like NFL in the sense that there are tackles, hits, falls, and low scoring opportunities. Its why I really like it, it seems to combine all of my favorite elements from all my favorite sports, but I must be brutally honest, when I've never had the kind of 20 minute boring scoreless, playless lulls that I've seen in DOZENS of Futbol matches when watching even the shittiest NFL teams hence why in the end I like NFL better. Basketball is my passion, but NFL is something special that I enjoy once a week for a few months with enthusiasm.
The one thing that makes the NFL better TO ME is that when you watch an NFL game that went scoreless and finished something like 6-3 all field goals it was WAY MORE exciting because of all the hits than watching a 0-0 draw in futbol
