Quote Originally Posted by LeftPeg_Pie View Post
...to compare amateur football ... to professional football is like comparing apples and dish washers.
That analogy made me laugh! It also reminded me that there's a similar gulf in most sports. Years ago, as a keen amateur cyclist, I could turn out 200 watts for a (not very long) while. Top pros were from a different planet, churning out 600 watts for hour after hour. (Maybe not quite so much without pharmaceutical enhancements, but still with a totally different class of engine.)