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Originally Posted by Oswald
Here's a question about American sport.
Why does the NFL only have a very short regular season (September to December), when all the other American sports such as MLB, NHL and NBA have a season which goes on for many many months?
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The NFL season is not as short as you think, with preseason and the regular season it goes on for 5-6 months including the playoffs. Most NFLers work (?) one game a week and they usually take 2-3 days just to recover from the physicality of the game. This game requires every one of the linemen, offensive and defensive, plus most everyone else playing defense to go against some one just as big or bigger in a pushing, shoving, wrestling match every play they are in for. Imagine trying to push 300 pounds plus around for 30, 40, 50, even more plays a game. If the NHL wore as much protective gear as the NFL players they would probably not be able to skate. The NBA seems rough but it is not really that tough. Yes it does get physical but they really don't play that many games for such a long season (seems forever to me). Baseball has a long season because they need that many games to get to a consensus of who has spent the most money on their team. From what little I have seen Rugby may be the most demanding of the sports that involve physical contact bewteen teams. I leave out the MMA garbage and wrestling since I think they are pretty much fixed.
