Date: November 22nd, 2025 9:11 PM Author: Raul Mondesi circa 1998
Most sports (soccer, basketball, hockey) you basically just have a coach and maybe some assistants or whatever. Baseball has a manager and a batting coach, pitching coach, and a few others that do whatever. Now look at football. There's the population of a Faroese fishing village just standing on the sideline for the entire game. There's at least 100 players, including multiple kickers (because place kicking and punting requires different skills apparently). There's a coach for every position. There's support staff that towels players down and massages them and stretches them. And if that isn't farcical enough there's entire boxes above the game filled with 5 to 10 other men that are "offensive coordinators" or whatever, just yammering away into a headset for the entire game. What do all these people do?