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Now imagine football, it's fun, social, great excercise, collaborative and you feel good afterwards.
Different people find different physical activities beneficial. Some people love team sports, personally I'm not a fan of competitive activities or of games where I feel my physical abilities could let others down. Some people love running, many find that while they don't love it, they love the physical and mental effects of it; both of which are hard to deny, there's a reason every competitive sports team makes its players run as part of practice.
Personally I'm a cyclist, because it's like running, but without the parts that make me not want to run and with added benefits like equipment to mess with and upgrade and the ability to use it to run errands. I also enjoy hiking for exercise because it's just a long exhausting walk in a beautiful place that I can spend chatting with my wife.
For some people it's basketball or soccer/football. I have a friend who's really into gridiron flag football (she actually used to be a runner when she was younger). Sports are great for people who don't derive meditative effects from solo cardio, but don't discount those effects.
Some bike rides are me just listening to a podcast or audiobook, but personally I struggle to process my emotions if I'm not taking a walk or a bike ride, and so regularly doing these things is invaluable for my mental health. Runners are often the same way, the act of running can make it difficult to hold on to a thought or to avoid it, which makes it a shortcut to meditation as you just kinda have to observe your thoughts and let them go.
I think this is a misconception. There are so many groups that just gather and play amongst each other. And if you screw up, it truly does not matter. Last Sunday I was playing football with my hobby team, there was an own goal and nobody really cared.
I don't think this is getting anywhere though. I did a lil trolling and lost the goodwill of the running evangelists.
With a side helping of traumatic brain injury.
oh no i was talking about actual foot ball not whatever they do in the US
Ah yes. Whatever they do in the US I guess your version would be rugby, whatever involves chasing a ball around & mercilessly tackling each other. But I don't even know the rules for rugby, is tackling involved? I don't know. It's a man's sport, men invented it, they have a primal instinct & desire to fight & clobber each other.
I am talking about the most popular sport in the world, wtf are you talking about
I know what soccer is but there's no tackling in soccer. Is there tackling in rugby? So I was talking about rugby. Because your "fútbol" is our "soccer," but our football is some weird hybrid of rugby & fútbol. So I'm trying to compare our football with whatever sport you might have that involves a ball and men tackling each other.
I never said anything about tackling?? Anyway, here's the comment you replied to, localized to your dialect:
He said football so I pictured this 🏈 (American sport that involves tackling) then my first thought was traumatic brain injury, then someone said, no not that kind of football. This kind of football ⚽ and I said ok I wonder if there are any non- American ball sports that involve tackling which cause traumatic brain injury. Rugby, perhaps? Does rugby involve tackling? Which nobody answered my question but only insulted me because you're all still hung up on the misunderstanding & you're still thinking I don't know the difference between ⚽ and 🏈 .