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To all the Asian guys in the world: basketball season is fast approaching...but so is football season. I'm sorry guys, but football is a better sport than basketball. I'll tell you why...

It's a real man's sport - What's the roughest thing a basketball athlete goes through during the game? Maybe a hard foul by Ron Artest? Once in a while, maybe you'll get undercut. Big deal. Scientists did a study on football and they said that it was the equivalent of driving a car at 10 km an hour, hitting a brick wall, backing it up, and doing it over and over (as many times as you get hit during the game) This game literally kills you as many retired football players live unnaturally shorter life spans than regular folks. 

Big Hits - Continuing the theme on violence, last week's Sports Illustrated article investigates the "big hit" of football - that one hit that makes/breaks an athlete's career. Tough guys like Jeremy Shockey confess that its a regular occurrence to blank out during a game and not remember parts of the game. You literally get knocked out of your wits. This is also the sport that created the famous phrase "Jacked up".

Best sub-plots ever - Sure, the NBA has Rasheed Wallace and Lebron James, but football havethe best player sub-plots like Terrell Owens calling Jeff Garcia gay, calling out Donovan McNabb etc. Chad Johnson has the best touchdown routines and demands to be called "Ocho Cinqo" from now on. You have the Manning brothers trying to top each other for poppa's love...Ray Lewis is out to murder anyone not wearing a Ravens uniform...what more do you want?

Tough ass league - NFL is the only league that takes a tough stand on their players. This is one league where everyone is expendable. If you screw up, the owner and the league will ship you off to the CFL, like what they did with Ricky Williams. The reason is that star players come and go, it's no big deal - every training camp, some hot shot rookie is trying to take your job. In football, there's a lot of "What ever happened to...?" The league runs the players, not the other way around, Kobe.

It's an Art, man - For those who don't know the game, they think football is very simple. Run with the ball. For those that watch it, they know the complexity and the beauty of each play. There's so many things that have to work for something to be done correctly. It really is like war - the QB has to really be a good general. In basketball, you can give it to Kobe and let him drop 88 on the Raps. 

Bloodlust - Football is the best outlet for people like me, who have a lot of anger and frustration inside. Watching grown men hit each other as hard as possible is eerily satisfying to me. No wonder Americans love it. 

Finally,

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders - I'd take them over the Laker girls anyday.