The thing I personally despise about football is that it is basically "made for TV". The constant stoppages for commercials make it terrible. I watched a rugby match the day before an away game and it was just so much more exciting because it didn't stop every ten seconds. Football just stops like every ten seconds, if it had a little faster tempo it would be more exciting, and it feels like the reason it's not is so they can cram in more commercials.
> Stadiums and Cities Matter - Even the stadium and climate in a city factor into a football team’s strategy.
The air force academy is a fair bit higher than Denver or even Colorado Springs itself (the cadet area is 7258 feet above sea level). I'd have to check but it's probably one of the highest stadium altitudes for any college.
Physical exertion at those altitudes is significantly more difficult if you're not acclimated to the altitude, ideally living up there but the first week can be tough if you aren't extremely cardio-fit. So Air Force had a built of an inbuilt home-field advantage, and when they went down to lower altitudes we had a bit of an advantage there too (living at altitude and coming back to sea level was wild, I could rock aerobic activity at sea level, you just didn't get out of breath much at all).
The crowd would heckle the away team in the gates, chanting: "the air is rare!"
Didn't stop us from sucking though, the football team was terrible.
> Stadiums and Cities Matter - Even the stadium and climate in a city factor into a football team’s strategy.
The air force academy is a fair bit higher than Denver or even Colorado Springs itself (the cadet area is 7258 feet above sea level). I'd have to check but it's probably one of the highest stadium altitudes for any college.
Physical exertion at those altitudes is significantly more difficult if you're not acclimated to the altitude, ideally living up there but the first week can be tough if you aren't extremely cardio-fit. So Air Force had a built of an inbuilt home-field advantage, and when they went down to lower altitudes we had a bit of an advantage there too (living at altitude and coming back to sea level was wild, I could rock aerobic activity at sea level, you just didn't get out of breath much at all).
The crowd would heckle the away team in the gates, chanting: "the air is rare!"
Didn't stop us from sucking though, the football team was terrible.