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Which professional North American sport has the best playoffs? (pg. 2)
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| Laszlo |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
can you belive that Saturday night when the Canadiens won, people were chanting and partyig in the streets till late in the night (3am)??!?!
and its not even the stanley cup finals,... its just the 1st round! :) |
Well - you can bet your ass I'm gonna get drunk tonight as well! :D (The game ended 4 am over here, so I have to wait a another few before I can open my first beer of celebration :D) Would have been so much sweeter to be in Montreal though :( |
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| pagoda |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
can you belive that Saturday night when the Canadiens won, people were chanting and partyig in the streets till late in the night (3am)??!?!
and its not even the stanley cup finals,... its just the 1st round! :) |
That's exactly the enthusiasm that makes Montreal great. God, I'd give almost anything to be at game 7 of Toronto and Ottawa, you think Montreals funny lol....both towns will be in riots me thinks, no matter who wins.:D
BTW go Canadian teams this year!:thepirate |
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| th0m |
| I'm gonna go NBA all the way here. Having just one game in a play-off round for basketball would give very skewed final results. |
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| dj-rob |
| Basketball is extremely FUN during the playoffs when you are actually there, and rooting for your favorite team. Baseball can be fun, and hockey can be as fun as basketball because of the contact and fights that happen. |
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| halexander837 |
The NFL I think is most nail-biting.
"One chance
One opponent
One play at a time
You win your the best
You lose your not."-Joe Thiesman
The NHL is as unpredictable as anything. A team's down 3-1 and they roar back to win in seven.
MLB is so so, but you never know what might happen. |
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| BadBadNeil |
Obviously this thread isn't what sport has the best playoffs, its more like "what is your favorite sport and that is the best playoffs".
Of course we are gonna find the sports we don't like to have good playoffs because we don't like the sports.
For example:
I hate hockey so of course im gonna think they're playoffs suck no matter if their playoff system is great(i know nothing about their playoff system).
My favorite sport is basketball but I think it shouldn't be a 7 game series I think it should be more like the college basketball system where you have a bracket. Best teams get the highest seeding.
Sometimes I can watch football and their system is the simplest, you lose and your done. However this doesn't really show who is the best team. It just shows who is the best on that one day.
Baseball to me is very boring because it takes so long between pitches and the players just seem out of shape and lazy to me and the whole strike thing in the 90s really turned me off. They're playoffs are way too long as well, do you really need 7 games in any sport to determine who's better? Maybe 5 but even thats pushing it, I'd say 3 games. |
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| Omegasox |
| quote: | Originally posted by BadBadNeil
Obviously this thread isn't what sport has the best playoffs, its more like "what is your favorite sport and that is the best playoffs".
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Exactly. Even though baseball is my least favorite sport out of my big 3 (NFL, NBA, MLB), I still believe the playoffs are the best, mostly due to last October. I've never had so much fun and got so wound up watching the playoffs than I did last year. |
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| biznology |
Of course I am biased,
But I still contend that the NHL is best. ANY hockey playoffs are great, including the World Championship - tho the US doesnt really take that very seriously even in hockey circles.
Why?
Because people who havent watched a single regular season game will come watch the playoffs - its a whole new season and game when they begin.
Baseball? If you have an allegiance to one team perhaps - but then again the Yankees will prolly win, and the strongest allegiances are with teams that almost never get all the way (Boston, Cubs).
Football? Again you largely have to pay attention during the regular season, and playoffs are nailbiting due to the one loss thing - but theyre also really short compared to other sports unless your team goes all the way.
Basketball? Likely the sport other than *football*(soccer) here even MORE popular outside of the US than inside - just check sales revenues and the flood of foreign players into the league. My issue? NBA players are the top of the heap - but most of them wont even run up and down the court until the playoffs! March Madness is a better indicator of a real competition with hungry players that scrap and fight for wins.
I think its odd that soccer/football and hockey are two pretty popular sports around the world - the play is largely similar, and yet the US shuns both. It doesnt really make any sense as American's are supposed to be competitive and confrontational. I guess we just get to make up other professional sports by which we set the rules...I dunno| |
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| GQMr2 |
baseball is NOT a sport.
repeat:
baseball is NOT a sport.
no other sport besides Fotbal (Soccer, for the twits out there)
can even compare to Hockey.
Basketball is for puss. draw the foul? wtf? how about drew blood? = 4min double minor. the guy with the ball gets away with murder in that sport nowadays. can't play defense because you cant touch the guy = puss.
American Football: take off their helmets that they so often use as weapons to crack spines, and then we'll see how hard those "though guys" hit eachother. + it's been done: its called Rugby |
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| A.T. |
| I prefer watching Hockey over any of the other sports.. :D |
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| BadBadNeil |
| quote: | Originally posted by GQMr2
baseball is NOT a sport.
repeat:
baseball is NOT a sport.
no other sport besides Fotbal (Soccer, for the twits out there)
can even compare to Hockey.
Basketball is for puss. draw the foul? wtf? how about drew blood? = 4min double minor. the guy with the ball gets away with murder in that sport nowadays. can't play defense because you cant touch the guy = puss.
American Football: take off their helmets that they so often use as weapons to crack spines, and then we'll see how hard those "though guys" hit eachother. + it's been done: its called Rugby |
please include your reasoning why hockey and soccer(yeah im a big twit) are the best sports in the world? I need a good laugh today. |
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| j_spot |
I love football(NFL, CFL) but I dont like the 1 game go home way.
NHL playoff are the best, and I dont even like hockey. |
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