In my opinion, two of the toughest sports to play today are football and basketball. Since I play both sports, I know that both require time, effort, and dedication. Football and basketball are very similar and very different in many ways. Both sports are physical, the drills for each sport are back-breaking, and hearing the crowd roar is amazing. To me, the better sport to play is football, but that is my opinion and your opinion may be different from mine. Let me tell you why football is the better sport.
Let me begin by telling you why football is the better sport to play. Football is the sport where you get to be physical. Playing football allows you to get your frustration out on someone else. The feeling when you pop somebody on the field is amazing. Tackling or hitting somebody puts you in a different place. Whenever I would hit somebody on the field, it made me feel like a completely different person. When being physical, you have to show your opponent that you are the better player on the field. The only way to show your opponents is to play physical. Another reason why football is a better sport are the drills you do for football. When it comes to the
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Being physical in basketball is different than football. In basketball, you can’t be as rough because you get called for a lot of fouls. Basketball involves a lot more bumping and putting your shoulder into someone then tackling them to the ground. The physical contact in basketball can be rough at some times, but not as rough as football. You will get beat up in basketball, but you will not get the bump and bruises you would get in football. For being an athlete of both sports is hard to change your physical level. In football, you are used to just tackling someone to the ground to stop them, but in basketball, you have to stop an opponent without being rough. It’s hard to adapt to both, because of the physical