Better Football Game?

Better Match Up?

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Aztec Triogal

Aztec Triogal

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Which makes a more entertaining football game? A match up between two average teams or a match up between a great team and a mediocre team? Obviously, the best choices are between a favorite team or a match up between two good teams... but since those are obvious it's not the question I'm interested in.
 
My grandfather is a Darlington Supporter and i have been to a couple of games with him. the atmosphere in the stadiums of lesser teams is so much better, all the fans cheer and screech for their favorite teams and the football is good to watch as the players don't take it as seriously as Premiership players so it is really entertaining to watch two Weaker teams battle it out.
 
Definitely one better team against a lesser, and poorer team. That doesn't necessarily mean Liverpool v Luton, though. If one team completely out-plays and out-strips another, it's so much more entertaining to watch that team chew up and spit out the other.
When two mediocre teams meet, they often just cancel each other out and force out a result. A better team will flow through the game and the result will follow.
 
The Man With No Name said:
Definitely one better team against a lesser, and poorer team. That doesn't necessarily mean Liverpool v Luton, though. If one team completely out-plays and out-strips another, it's so much more entertaining to watch that team chew up and spit out the other.
When two mediocre teams meet, they often just cancel each other out and force out a result. A better team will flow through the game and the result will follow.
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Yup totally agree with you, im always routing for the underdog. Its much more fun to watch a lower league team smash a top club (QOTS beat aberdeen in the cup semi final 4-3) I wouldnt apply this rule to tournaments such as the world cup though, it adds to the excitement when you know 2 big teams are away to clash in the quarter or semi finals. France - germany for example.
 
Since you're American, Aztec...

I'm gonna say great vs. mediocre. Why? 'cause there's a chance the underdog might win and that always makes for a good story when it happens. Now Detroit has 2 games left to avoid being the first team to go 0-16 in the history of the NFL, and they're up against probably two great NFC teams in those remaining two games - New Orleans and Green Bay, so I'm gonna say they're pretty much screwed. But if they win everyone's gonna talk about like how they talked about Miami when they took down...I don't remember...last year.

Average vs. average is good too because it's a toss-up between the two team as to who wins or loses. Prime example is like Dallas or Chicago, they're good, but they're not that good.
 
That's what I was going to say too. It's the NFL. No team is ever "easy", regardless of their record. Some teams are incredibly stacked and work well together but no team is ever truly terrible. Hell, did you see the Lions game this weekend? They took it to the Colts. It was tied 21-21 with less than 5 minutes to go in the 4th... when Peyton finally decided to turn up the gas. They ended up winning it 31-21 but it was touch and go for awhile.
 
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