[LinusKS]

The difference is in football the team with the better score wins when the time runs out. In poker, the time never runs out. You don't win until you have all the chips.

I'm not sure how much an advantage the big stack has when the blinds are bigger. (It's an interesting question, though.) My gut instinct is that it's not much of an advantage.

Very large blinds do tend to make the outcome more random, though. In other words, they tend to decrease the advantage of better players.