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Rate the 4 major sports leagues 1 to 10

MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
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Not as you remember them as a kid, but today. Criteria is your own. I considered speed, athleticism and entertainment value most.

NHL 8
NFL 6
NBA 4
MLB 1


NHL seems steady to me. NFL is going down hill fast. Would have put them at the top of my list 5 years ago but not now. NBA has the athleticism and speed, I just don't like watching the games until deep in the playoffs. Baseball was not only my favorite game as a kid, but really the only game. They have become slow, muscle bound and to me, boring.

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  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
    Baseball
    Hockey
    Football
    Basketball


    Baseball involves so much more strategy in so many aspects of the game than the other three.

    Sorry, but I couldn't put a number to them.
  • UnwoundSageUnwoundSage Posts: 496
    My own criteria right? Watching on TV:

    NFL 9
    MLB 7
    NBA 4
    NHL Unwatchable
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NFL 10
    NBA 7
    MLB almost unwatchable until WS
    NHL totally unwatchable
  • TabeTabe Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Never understood the complaint that the NHL is unwatchable on TV. I didn't think it was unwatchable on my parents' crappy 19" TV over the air in 1977 and it sure isn't unwatchable on my 50" HD plasma. Not liking the sport, I get. But "unwatchable"? That doesn't compute for me.

    For me:

    NFL - 9
    NHL - 7
    MLB - 3
    NBA - 2

    For MLB, I find the pace-of-play for TV games to just be unbearable. I love the sport. I have season tickets to a local minor league team. But on TV? The play is just so. freaking. slow. And that is multiplied by a factor of 20 in the playoffs where hitters and pitchers are both terrified that the next pitch will actually occur.

    For the NBA, I just have grown to not like the game all that much anymore. I was a big fan when the Pistons were winning a lot in the late 80s. Today's game just doesn't have the flow or the skill that the game seemed to have back then. And I think the NBA is borderline corrupt with their different rules/standards for superstars, the incredibly biased officiating in some games (LA/Sac in the playoffs? Dallas/Miami in the Finals?), the fact that they allowed Joey Crawford to keep refereeing Spurs games after he tried to fight Tim Duncan, and so on.

  • soundgardsoundgard Posts: 650 ✭
    NFL 9
    MLB 6
    NHL 5





    NBA 1
  • thehallmarkthehallmark Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Baseball involves so much more strategy in so many aspects of the game than the other three. >>



    Are you being sarcastic?
  • soundgardsoundgard Posts: 650 ✭
    I'll take college football and basketball anyday over pro sports.
  • MGLICKERMGLICKER Posts: 7,995 ✭✭✭
    Grew up watching Hockey Night in Canada on frigid Winter Saturday nights in Detroit. It was a refreshing respite while waiting out the long months for Tiger Stadium to thaw and MLB to start. Hockey is still a regional sport, fan wise so I get the mixed responses.

    Baseball is still my favorite sport, but not at the Major League level, for many reasons, both on and off the field. I follow the University of Arizona games. Just wish they would switch from aluminum to wood bats as the radio casts would sound better to me when contact was made.
  • jay0791jay0791 Posts: 3,528 ✭✭✭✭
    nfl 8
    mlb 7
    nhl 7
    nba 1
    Collecting PSA... FB,BK,HK,and BB HOF RC sets
    1948-76 Topps FB Sets
    FB & BB HOF Player sets
    1948-1993 NY Yankee Team Sets
  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    >>Never understood the complaint that the NHL is unwatchable on TV. I didn't think it was unwatchable on my parents' crappy 19" TV over the air in 1977 and it sure isn't unwatchable on my 50" HD plasma. Not liking the sport, I get. But "unwatchable"? That doesn't compute for me.<<

    I meant it as "not liking sport". It would be punishment for me to have to watch a game. Almost as bad as being tied to a chair and locked in a room with a John Denver album playing!image
  • 1985fan1985fan Posts: 1,952 ✭✭
    NBA is hands down the most enjoyable sport to watch. Best pacing, small teams so is easy to watch everything going on, and some of the best athletes in all of sports. Definite 10.
    MLB is a great, steady sport but the unending number of games and no salary cap has turned the sport into the haves and have nots. What was once my favorite sports is a 7 now.
    NFL is, for me, only really watchable via Red Zone channel. The unending TV timeouts, the mindless jocks announcing it, and the total and complete proliferation of advertising into every aspect of the sport makes it a 5.
    NHL is a sport that I never really have felt the pull to get into watching. While I have no doubt that it's a great sport, there's no compelling reason for me to watch. 3

  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NFL 8
    MLB 7
    NBA 7
    NHL 2
    Collecting 1960 Topps Baseball in PSA 8
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    Ralph

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