American culture, which stresses individual achievement, produces more Nobel Prize winners than Japan's culture. It produces ground-breaking innovators like Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Bill Gates. Japan's culture, however, is very successful in a factory environment. Not everyone can be the quarterback. The sports media has a fixation on player statistics, especially quarterback statistics.
Reporters talk about pass completions, interceptions, and incomplete passes.
They forget that a completion requires more than a good throw from the quarterback. A receiver has to catch the ball, and blockers have to keep the defenders from sacking the quarterback before he can throw. The games are less exciting than we might expect, since the players have never worked with each other. They have also practiced under different coaches, each of whom has his own style. It might be interesting to pit one of these all-star teams against a team of merely good players who have worked with each other for a long time.