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Message: <blockquote data-quote="grimwell" data-source="post: 3111695" data-attributes="member: 3694">The biggest draw of American football over other team sports is the tactical element (as noted above). It's a bit like chess with athletes instead of tokens. The combination of raw athletic talent and the tactical goals of the play caller (a coach, designated assistant coach, or very talented quarterback) working in unison to score by reaching the opposing end zone is a huge core for football.Since the play is very structured with downs, positions, and many specific rules, the game is more about not just overpowering the other team with better athletes (though that counts for quite a bit), but also out thinking the other team with your play calls. It's a sport that everyone can feel that they could be involved in, even if they are fat and out of shape. You can be a coach of a football team and be in poor shape -- and yet do very well because you really understand the tactical and strategic elements of the game.Many other games have tactical elements, but the play of the game is very fluid and fast so the tactics have to be more general, and in the hands of the players. With football, the play stops for each and every down, and there is (usually) time for tactical and strategic evaluations before each play (where do we have the ball? Who does the other team have on the field? What do they tend to do in this situation from prior games? etc.)</blockquote>