Will the NFL become the 'modern NBA'?

Here is another example that demonstrates it is more culture, economics, and access to resources than what people think of as genetics.

When the doughboys got off the transport ships in Europe and moved from the assembly areas to trenches on the WWI western front...the armies of both sides were staggered by the size and fitness of the Americans. They figured they couldn't fight a proper war worth a darn...but they sure were big! Same reaction in WWII.

Why? The average American....whose genetic ancestry is from the same places as the European combatants in WWI and WWII...had access to far more nutrition at a younger age than their European counterparts. The beginnings of industrialized agriculture were taking effect in America...while Europe was still farming in ways similar to the medieval period.

Epigenetics and nutrition.

 

You are off base. Back then in the origin of basketball 1891-1950 most African Americans hardly played. In the USA players who did were of UK descent ( watch or play with a man from the UK in basketball for a chuckle ) or short Italians ancestry men on the east coast of the USA. The Jews had some small and quick men back then. But the way basketball is now, with the average height being 6'6" tall, a high very few jews reach height hence they are not likely found in the NBA.

I see you don't belive in NFl bloodlines. I do.

YES. Eastern Europeans are doing well in the NBA now but the # was very few of them back from 1891-1950 in the USA. But men form France, or the UK far from it.

West Europe has had there chances to play USA football. East Europe nations boys age 14-18 have generaly not.

 

I thought this post meant is the NFL going to stop using the rule book like they have done in the NBA.

 

Here: https://www.npr.org/sections/codesw...eotypes-explain-everything-and-nothing-at-all
And here: https://theshabbatdrop.com/p/when-jews-ruled-basketball

Red Auerbach was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants born in the tenement slums of NYC. It was a way out of the ghetto.

Take, a look, it's in a book....the more you know....

And bloodlines isn't really a thing in people. It isn't really even a thing in racehorses...but...that's a bit off track (get it?).

 

Thanks, but I am talking about 2026 football, not a man born in 1917. I am talking about the impact of athletes that did not get a chance to play football until very recently.

Having said that I respect your knowledge on genetics.

The term ghetto was slang by the way. Fairly aware of the history of sports, I am.

 

Was just going to make this point. Digging even deeper, a QB is one of 11 guys playing the side of the ball that is on the field approx 50% of the time. Even saying that the QB is the most important player on the field, average run plays is 45%, and a successful pass play involves blockers and receivers. The overall percentage of influence the QB has is low. By comparison, top NBA players play 30-36 minutes a game and as you mentioned are one of 5 players on the floor. Even if you factor in that no one player is as influential as a QB, you can still build a championship NBA team around 3 great players, you can't even build an NFL playoff contender like that.

 

Exactly. I know many a Asian family that have moved to the States, and the kids that weren't even born here, but were raised here since way young are bigger than than anyone in their family, and yet they are all of the same bloodlines. Nutrition, and ways of life have a lot to do with it along with genetics.

 

It (Football)also is simply, like someone else pointed out, one of the most expensive sports to play, and actually practice correctly.
Anyone can set up a goal, have a soccer ball, and practice, and play.
Same with basketball. Look at how many basketball courts, and goals are up all over the USA, that's not counting the world. It's cheap.
It cost money to have full pads, uniforms , helmets, and a place to actually play, and then enough kids/people to actually play, also medical for injuries that you will not get in other sports as often.
This is why you will see even in America some small schools will not even have a football program, but they will have soccer, basketball, and baseball.

 

A friend’s son was in high school and came home one day and said he wanted to play a school sport. My friend thought great I can afford a swim suit. His son said he wanted to be a hockey goaltender.

 

Also an expensive sport to play, it would seem, although I've never played the real thing.