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rechedelphar
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Mar '04
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Date Posted:
1/26 7:53am
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Playing on the road
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In which sport do you think its the hardest to win a game away from home? College Basketball, College Football, NFL, English Premier League, NHL, etc etc.
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s65horsey
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RE: Playing on the road
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I'd say football because you're dealing with possible different surfaces and the element of weather (in some cases).
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Trika_Kenobi
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I can't really say except that in my own experience, playing basketball on the road at other crappy high school sites was sometimes hysterically ridiculous. One school couldn't afford to keep its gymnasium up to standards and never repaired "dead spots" in the floor. So, imagine you're dribbling the ball down the court, setting up a play, when all of the sudden, the ball flops sideways on the floor and doesn't come back to your hand. 
The home team knew exactly where the dead spots were, too, and specifically targeted players in those areas in order to steal the ball. Bunch of jerks.
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Grand_Admiral_Grant
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Premier League (or any football (soccer, the only real football) league).
The atmosphere can be quite intimidating to be surrounded by 40000 lunatics all singing for your opponent and who are a hell of a lot closer to the field than in most other sports.
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imperial_dork
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1/28 4:29pm
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Two words: Qwest Field 
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solo77
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1/28 4:55pm
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Playing on the road can be painful........
It is usally very hard and cars hurt when they hit you
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Grimby the Hutt
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I think the easiest sport to play on the road is Hockey. Though a road game for an NBA team in the exact same building could be just the opposite.
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Thrawn1786
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1/29 2:43pm
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s65horsey posted:
I'd say football because you're dealing with possible different surfaces and the element of weather (in some cases).
Not to mention fans and their location. Though all fans are gonna be against the visiting team, there are some stadiums where they're worse than others. People say the Tiger Stadium crowd at LSU can be pretty harsh, though I wouldn't know; the two games I attended there(both Florida) they didn't seem too bad(on a fan to fan related note, some Tiger fans actually asked my family if we were being harrassed too much!  And after both games, both losses to Florida, they were very gracious losers).
On the other hand, Mississippi State's fans were awful. Went there for one game, I'm never going back to Starkville because they were so ugly.
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