Which is more exhausting: 16 football games or 162 baseball games?

Question

I had asked this question in the baseball section a while ago, and there seemed to be a bit of biased there where most people answered 162 baseball games. So I thought I'd try asking here to see your take!

Answer 1

Depends on the position.

Football kickers could probably play 1000 games a year and not get tired.  Pitchers work much harder than kickers do.

In general. baseball is more of a grind but football is much more intense.  Football injuries are almost always worse than baseball ones.

I'd say baseball is more mentally draining but football more physically exhausting.

Answer 2

I would rather watch pre-season NFL than playoff major league baseball.  That answer your question?  

Answer 3

Football is a high impact, collision sport.

The American Medical Association's department of Sports Medicine equate a tackle to a car wreck. A player can sustain a dozen tackles in a game - which do you think is more exhausting standing on a grassy field, occasionallyrunning in a circle, or surviving  192 car wrecks a year.

Answer 4

Depends on what you mean by exhausting...If you mean DULL, BORING, GONNA RIP MY EYES OUT exhausting, then 162 BASEBALL GAMES

If you mean which is more physically demanding,  obviously, 16 football games

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Answer 5

Football thats why the average career is only a few years long while baseball players can play well into their 40's and there is so many games that the best players on baseball teams can take a couple games off because of the briefness if an NFL season the best players must play every game. Plus MLB dosen't have the grueling off season the NFL does mini camp, training camp, etc.

Answer 6

While playing 162 games of anything would be exhausting, baseball is played in the heat of summer, more chances to injure yourself. While football is played in the cooler fall months, there are some cold weather games, it is a more physical game you do get 6 days to get ready for the next contest. I think the baseball season would be more exhausting, while football is a more physical activity.

Answer 7

Of the 2 I'd say football. The players (unless injured) play every game, and  practice all week in between games. Baseballers don't play every game, and if you watch the field, the only people active for the entire game are the pitchers and catchers. How often does an outfielder really move around in that long game?

  I'd would have answered hockey if you'd put it up as a choice. Those guys get hammered like football players (more speed x equal mass = lots of force) they play 82 games, and like baseball they might play games 1 day after the other. They play more often than football, with a longer season and more traveling, and they play harder than baseball with alot more hits and injuries. Plus they make less than their the other leagues.  

Answer 8

I like either game a lot, but I have to say football. There's a very good reason why they only play once a week. It takes days to get over the bruises, and then you have to go get beat up all over again. In baseball, you play 6 times a week, but you don't have a 350 lb man punching you in the ribs for 3 hours every Sunday. And like the other answerer said...there are very few 40 year old footballers, and the ones you do see are mostly kickers and a few WR's. The occasional QB slides in there too, but usually retires after the first good hit. In Baseball the Braves had a guy last year that was almost 50, and he played every day, unlike Mortenson (the PK for ATL) who just had to go out and kick a FG once a quarter.

Answer 9

I'll take 162 baseball games. It's a 5 or 6 month season where you have to play hard every game.

Answer 10

16 football games  

Answer 11

Baseball = getting drunk, high, wasted and sitting in the son watching a guy throw a ball all day to a guy who might hit the ball and when he does, you might move to get the ball IF if gets close to you, someone throws it to you and you throw it to whoever....wow, tiring...I know many people who get drunk and play the sport...I have never gotten tired playing this game....EVER!  AND it's the biggest waste of time in my life, the game is SOOOO boring and blah!  Hate it!

Football = more physically hit, can't be drunk or you get knocked the **** out, then you have to actually learn how to run routes, take a hit run, run and run some more and take more hits, and learn more stuff on how to block, tackle, cut, run a route, throw and learn a whole play book by heart and hand signals, and one part of the season you sweat your balls off in hot pads, and then freeze your *** of in pads that don;t warm you up.  Then you take that physical beating every day for six months when you finally get to rest.  If you rest a week in football....screwed for a game...baseball if you rest a week....no big deal.  I'd have to go with football just because of the more physical effort you have to put into the game.  That's just my own personal opinion though.  Don;t agree with it fine, this is America, and I am entitled to my free speech thank you very much.

Answer 12

football.  that game is incredibly punishing on your body.  football players have a much shorter career and seem to die a lot younger than baseball players as well...

Answer 13

football more contact longer hard practices. It's alot harder then baseball

Answer 14

Which is more tiring, the marathon or the 100 yard dash?

Answer 15

Depends on the position.  A pitcher could not start 162 straight games (even at 5 innings per game) but on the other hand, a punter or kicker could probably go for seasons and be alright.  But with that being said, baseball in general is not as physical as football.  There aren't collisions and tackles.  To me it seems like baseball is more of a finesse sport though it can get physical at times, it's not a constantly physical thing like football is.  If that doesn't prove that football is more physical, take a look at the average career of a baseball player vs. a football player.  A baseball player's average career is 5.6 years and a football player is 4 years.  (Sources below.)  

Answer 16

i cant even see how you 'play' baseball, most of the times spent sitting down or waiting for someone to actually hit the ball.

They only use steroids because they cant get they're obese arses of the bench!