What the Martz?

If there were any question of why I prefer Football over Baseball, TMQ sums it up perfectly.

In baseball, generally only a few players are involved per play; often as few as three. In football, 22 people are doing something on every down, executing complex tasks. Baseball has a few dozen strategies for pitching, fielder alignment and base running; football has hundreds of plays. Baseball tactics change a little from game to game; football tactics often change tremendously from game to game. Most baseball practice involves individuals honing their own skills; most football practice involves large groups of gentlemen learning to cooperate with each other. Some top college performers never make the NFL level because they can't handle the mental demands of football, whereas a baseball player cut because he could not remember the playbook is rare indeed. In complexity and intellectual challenge, football beats baseball many times over.

It's the strategy of football (which probably took me years of playing strategy computer games to appreciate) that finally got me to take a real interest in sport -- any sport.