This is for fun and just to see which is better. Show evidence and I know that good is based on opinon so one of these truly cant be better. It still will be a fun argument to show why we believe so.
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I would like to thank LP for setting up this debate. I really don’t do debates on subjects like this, so I hope to have a little fun with it. I will begin with three main arguments.

Argument 1: Equipment Basketball can be played with a minimal amount of equipment. All that is needed is a ball and a hoop [1]. In fact, a hoop can be an old laundry basket or even a box tied to a wall. In contrast, in football, aside from the large space and the ball, you will need expensive bulky equipment such as helmets and shoulder pads [2]. The additional equipment needed can increase the cost prohibitively, making basketball the obviously superior choice.

Argument 2: Fewer Injuries Simply speaking, football is more dangerous. Compared to many other sports, especially football, basketball is a low contact sport. The contact that does occur is minimal and incidental [3]. Injuries are not life threatening. In contrast, football is a full contact sport. The object of everyone on the defense is to grab the guy with the ball and wrestle him to the ground. There is a whole section of the offense designated just to be bodyguards for the quarterback. Bleacher Report posted an article ranking US professional sports according to dangerousness. Basketball was #10, Football was #3, behind only Hockey and Boxing [4].

Argument 3: That Ball Balls are round. How any “sport” can look at itself in the mirror each morning with a ball shaped like that is amazing to me [5]. Really, this should have been my first and only argument as to the obvious superiority of basketball over foot “ball.”

In conclusion, I feel I have adequately presented the obviouscase that basketball is a far superior sport than the odd-shaped-ball-gridiron-sport so many of my countrymen are obsessed with.
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I would like to thank Oye for taking this. As his topic focused around some of the benefits of basketball,I will provide some points of my on. Since we are saying better, I will show why I believe it is a better sport all around

First- As Oye state, most of the nation watches this. It is significantly more popular than basketball. If we were to argue in terms of which sport just purely generates the most revenue all around, this is football by far. Even as far as the NCAA they generate close to the amount the NFL does. It is a billion dollar industry itself.

Second- I will actually build this around his statement that there are injuries. I think that is what makes the sport a physical high impact sport. These players are taking this with that knowledge. Sign contracts around it and prepare for it. They are taking steps to limit concussions and other forms of injuries as well, by making helmets and gear more secure. They have even put in rules, that prohibit unnecessary hitting of the quarter back. It is a penalty now as we know.
Late hits work the same way.
The point to showing that they all agree to these terms is that physical impact sports are more fun o watch than a sport with hardly no contact. Look how popular hockey is in Canada. Why football takes on this roll for us, it works the same way. We enjoy watching people tackle and hit each other. It is entirely more entertaining to watch. This is a personal belief, but backed by a majority of the nation.

Third - It also offers more money to players overall. Due to the sport being popular and so many people watching it, the base player salary is way more high than a base player in basketball. Even the practice squad makes triple digits. It is a good sport to strive for, and a majority of people do for that reason. I would also like to address Oye's point about the shape of the ball. It is made for aero dynamics. If you were to take a football and make it round and tried to throw it on a football field, it would not go as far. Due to the design of it. Why this is acceptable in basketball, the size of the court is built with that in mind.

In closing I have shown why football is better than basketball, and why a majority of our country thinks that as well.
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>>>Lord PHAT
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