Did Winfree Walk Away From A Promotion?

Show me another sport where a 6’5 240 lbs man who runs a 40 yard sprint in 4 seconds is allowed to get full steam and crush another man’s body and not only not be penalized but be rewarded?

American Football is pure strategy blended with pinnacle of various athletic skills. You have your match of size on the line, huge yet nimble monsters fighting to push the scrimmage line. Linebackers who embody pure acceleration and focused physical violence to assault the ball carrier or penetrate through to the backfield. A wing of defenders who could probably be professional sprinters in charge of defending equally fast receivers who must not only be fast, nimble but must be able to judge the arc of an oblong ball in full sprint while covered by another man who wants to take that ball away or at the very least crush his body.

Then you have your field general who must memorize a dizzying list of plays AND be able to read the defensive scheme on the fly to counter act them at the last second, that man must be able to avoid the defensive monsters that want nothing more than to send him home on a gurney all the while holding that ball to give his assaulting receivers an opportunity to free up in which he then has to throw that oblong ball in a trajectory that avoids being picked off and accurately reach a target that is in full sprint.

You then have your running backs who are usually either explosively fast and nimble or large and can accept tons of physical punishment, whose sole purpose is to grab that oblong ball and either run in between the mountains of men on the line or try and sweep around the corners looking for a split second of an opening, all the while every single man on the other team wants to inflict enough physical trauma that the runner drops the ball.

Football is a the zenith of pure physicality and complex strategy. It is the chess of men. Soccer is the sport of almost pure physicality, strategy has much less of an impact than the quality of players.