Re: Soccer sucks. I just don't get how people can love watching 20 men run around for an hour and a half and score what? 3 or 4 goals a game combined? Yes, football has a lot of breaks in it, but every play everyone has to do their job their best and hardest for that play to be successful. and even with all those breaks, I guarantee that if you put together a highlight package from 1 average NFL game and 1 average soccer game, the NFL game highlight reel would be more exciting. And thats with all the breaks you talk about. If a soccer player messes up or gets bested, it is extremely likely the same with happen to the opposing team. Just super boring to me. Meh.
Re: Soccer sucks. Sorry, I must have taken your post the wrong way. I thought your implication was that soccer is only the most popular sport in the world because of all of the poor people that play it, to which I was replying that even if you only look at first world nations, there are enough fans there to keep it the most popular sport.
Re: Soccer sucks. "average sized athletes" Come on. Soccer is a sport where technical skill, creativity, athleticism and endurance are king. It's the reason you don't find performance enhancing drugs in the sports like you do here, because corn-feeding your kid (or juicing yourself up) into the biggest genetic freak doesn't make you a better athlete, it just makes you a large person. If you are too big, you can't keep up.... wait for it... because your body can't handle the rigors of endurance + athleticism. It's such a lame American viewpoint that bigger is better, we need giant dumb cars, super sized fried foods and athletes that are 3x the size of a normal person. They way we approach sports here is driven more by oddity and entertainment than it is by actual SPORT. I think it's refreshing that you can have stars in the sport that range from 5'5 to 6'7, and that the sport isn't full of fat asses.
Re: Soccer sucks. For me its because it truly is a Beautiful Game. You Have 10 Men (minus the Keeper most of the time) who are out there, and so in tune with eachother. It absolutely amazes me how someone can use his FOOT to bass a ball to someone 30-40 yards away, and that other person be in the exact right spot, all without saying a word to eachother. To score you have to be so precise and basically clutch, because when you get that opportunity to score, you better finish... because you might not get another chance that game. I liken it to being 4th and Goal in (American) Football... Its that exciting play where you do or dont get the Score. But you dont get those 3 other tries in that sequence to score. (Usually)
Re: Soccer sucks. Pointless post. You clearly don't understand the history of the sport. It was invented at Cambridge (do you know what that is?). I would say they were neither poor (as if that mattered), nor had lots of extra land. I assume this is a tween attempt at humor. There is a lot more you can do with a single soccer ball than with a single basketball. Keep trying. Edit: Did more research, it was the rules/organization that was developed at Cambridge, not sure anyone can point to the invention of the sport, but the sport as we know it was organized at Cambridge, and the English are considered to be the founders of the "modern" game.
Re: Soccer sucks. hahha how Kent Brockman seems to be reacting to the game (I dont have sound at work) is exactly how I seem to feel watching the Simpsons for the last 10 years.
Re: Soccer sucks. Well, if the SIMPSONS used it for satire, then it must be a stupid sport. I mean, it's not as if you could make the same sketch about ANY other sport. "the pitcher looks for the sign. waits.... looks again... waits... looks at first base... waits. steps off the mound... talks with the catcher... looks in for the sign... waits... pitches.... ball way outside... pitcher asks for a new ball... waits... looks for the sign... waits... looks at first base ... waits ... throws a pitch ... no swing, strike 1 .... pitcher looks for the sign... waits .... looks at first base ... waits ... winds up .... wait a minute, the batter has asked for more time.... batter looks down third for the sign .... waits ... adjusts his cup .... waits .... step back in to the box ... ball two." "the team is huddled up discussing the play ... they are still huddled up ... now they start to get into position ... more waiting ... HUT .... wait ... HUT ... wait ... HUT ... there is a flag on the play, apparently someone moved their hand ... the players all stand up and go back to their huddle while the ball's position is moved ... wait 20 seconds while they discuss a new play ... they get into position .. HUT .... wait ... HUT ... wait ... the quarterback wants a new play, the players all look at him to be told what to do.... HIKE ... hand off, they gain 1 yard on a run up the middle .... back to the huddle for 30 seconds..."
Re: Soccer sucks. Yep. Me dumb American. Me can't grasp magnitude and nuances of guys kicking ball in net. Me like gas hogging cars and steroids. Dumb American. Me. Go Eff Yourself.
