Name your fav sport
Also is vlr athletic
Its very different standards. Your argument would have marathoners like Kipchoge be the pinnacle of athleticism and it would leave people like Usain Bolt as mere footnotes. Athleticism is not just how much you can run... it is a mixture of speed, endurance, strength etc.
An NFL player could crush almost any soccer player like a doll and NFL players probably spend a lot more time on conditioning and strength training than soccer players do, they train for different jobs so their athleticism expresses itself in different ways.
TLDR: Running != athleticism
nfl players spend more time conditioning than football players??
just stop embarrassing yourself please
nfl players on average spend 11 minutes running plus all their breaks and timeouts, not 90+ minutes of nonstop action besides only one halftime break. There's no denying that real football is FAR more physically intensive than the american brain damage version.
Also when did I say running is the only determining factor for athleticism? Swimming, close combat fighting like olympic martial arts, etc.