Johnny Canuck3
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I agree that rugby is more of a real sport.
But we're talking about freakin' boring soccer.
Do you ever want to smack armericans who call 'soccer' boring?
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I agree that rugby is more of a real sport.
But we're talking about freakin' boring soccer.
but only because you grew up on a culture that doesn't give a shit about it...I know, I know. But soccer will be getting exactly zero of my revenue.
Johnny Canuck3
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but only because you grew up on a culture that doesn't give a shit about it...
True, but to repeat: I played soccer for years. I know a little bit about it.
Johnny Canuck3
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Also, I'm not sure it's right to say that my culture doesn't give a shit about it. This is Canada, not the US. There is an extensive soccer program, both in schools and through leagues, for kids ranging from 5 - 18, as well as adult leagues. I know a number of fathers whose kids are in soccer, and a number of these men coach as well.
Lots of people here like to play soccer, but there isn't that much of a demand for it as a spectator sport, other than in certain ethnic communities, like the Italians, Croatians etc.
Lots of people here like to play soccer, but there isn't that much of a demand for it as a spectator sport, other than in certain ethnic communities, like the Italians, Croatians etc.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
pussy Canadian soccer yeah. The tradition in British soccer is to attempt to break the other players leg with a savage foul when the ref aint looking.
i dont think soccer is boring, i dont think football is boring....
i dont see why someone cant like both. (not aimed at you jc2)
also, the US womens soccer team are pretty fuckin good.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Don't be silly. I watch Ice Hockey soley to see the brutal fights. You get none of that semi-condoned brutality in other sports
Johnny Canuck3
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Is that why they fall down sobbing like babies, then get up five minutes later and are fine?
Grow a pair, british football!
Johnny Canuck3
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[Man in blue]: "Waaahh....he hit me!"
[Other man in blue]: "There, there, that's a good boy...."
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Is that why they fall down sobbing like babies, then get up five minutes later and are fine?
Grow a pair, british football!
They do that when the Refs looking. When he isn't its brutality ahoy!
same goes in the US...I played soccer from the age of 11 to 17. It is HUGE here among the kids.
Problem comes when you try to televise soccer. You can't get any bleedin' commercials in because there are few breaks.
Ergo, TV revenue = $0
I am not sure about that so much. I understand the revenue issue. I think it is more about why football is popular in the places that is popular, not just as hte only sport, cricket, rugby etc.
It is a higly terriotorial game. Much like Basbeball in the states. This is what gives these games their impetus, the fact that people are really supporting 'their' town over other towns which think they are better.
Once you remove that aspect from football, it becomes meaningless really.
Which is why a lot of older football fans look at the game today and think it is more about designer lifestyles then it is football. Football perhaps cleverly given the climate for people to move around, changed direction from being a spotr driven by terrority to some sort of advert in itself, if that makes any sense to you.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Sport is always sublimated war, dress it in noble olympian ideals if you will, but its essentially psuedo-war for knuckle dragging eejits
*ducks*
*ducks*
Any nation that's into baseball in a big way has pretty much lost the right to accuse sports in other countries-even cricket- of being boring.
The only big North American sport I can get into watching is ice hockey - it's often a lot more entertaining to watch than 'soccer'. The sport's governing body changed the rules around recently though in an effort to make it more interesting to new audiences - ditching tie games in favour of penalty shootouts, etc, maybe something similar would need to be done for Americans to get into 'soccer' in a big way.
The only big North American sport I can get into watching is ice hockey - it's often a lot more entertaining to watch than 'soccer'. The sport's governing body changed the rules around recently though in an effort to make it more interesting to new audiences - ditching tie games in favour of penalty shootouts, etc, maybe something similar would need to be done for Americans to get into 'soccer' in a big way.
i LOVE ice hockey....that IS a good sport it has to be said.
i LOVE LOVE LOVE boxing too.
revol68
what, fucking what?
haven't you got some lumpen alkie slappers to be defending?
Life is fucking sublimated war!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
sport being the least well sublimated aspect of the war urge. Funny how male the top viewed sports are. Course thats just cause men are bigger and better at pyhsical contents. That must be the reason. Nowt to do with war or gender. How silly of me.
You know what they did to the first high-division black player ( a Hammer irc)?
they threw banannas at him.
Don't try to pretend that sport doesn't provided a release for bigoted militarist types, even if they don't realise how their sacs are being milked YOU bloody well do.
Johnny Canuck3
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Baseball is a game of nerves.
kained&able
Here for the football.
Okay i used to play a bit of american football. I have never been more battered and bruised from a game then playing nfl type stuff.
Its mental. The pads just mean you dont give a shit how hard you go into tackles and hits you may not break bones beacuse of them but fuck me do you get winded and brusied and killed. Tis great.
I used to watch a afir bit as well but IT IS BORING! 3 hours to play and hour long game is far to long. But when there is a play going on its great(unless its just a running back makinga couple of yards) its so tactical and theres always lots of fairly unexpected things happening. Wathing american foootball highlights is quite cool, but fuck full games.
If you understand exactly whats going on its great if you only get ball in end zone = touchdown then it wont be very rewarding.
Baseball is the one that i dont get the point of. The most boring fucking thing ever so long, so similer at all times i understand the americans get to get plastered and thats more what its about but why oh why watch it sober on tv? It makes no sense.
Gimmie basketball anyday.
dave
Its mental. The pads just mean you dont give a shit how hard you go into tackles and hits you may not break bones beacuse of them but fuck me do you get winded and brusied and killed. Tis great.
I used to watch a afir bit as well but IT IS BORING! 3 hours to play and hour long game is far to long. But when there is a play going on its great(unless its just a running back makinga couple of yards) its so tactical and theres always lots of fairly unexpected things happening. Wathing american foootball highlights is quite cool, but fuck full games.
If you understand exactly whats going on its great if you only get ball in end zone = touchdown then it wont be very rewarding.
Baseball is the one that i dont get the point of. The most boring fucking thing ever so long, so similer at all times i understand the americans get to get plastered and thats more what its about but why oh why watch it sober on tv? It makes no sense.
Gimmie basketball anyday.
dave
suck on that Dravinian!!
TrippyLondoner
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All i will say is, i find our football way more entertaining/far less complicated. NFL just has too many stoppages during the game, too many stupid rules/stats, and it becomes annoying more often than not to watch.
T & P
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Yes. To be precise, 'how did they have the nerve to call this borefest shite a sport?'
As for American "football" (someone should look up the definition of 'foot' and 'hand' in the dictionary) if your definition of what makes a sport entertaining is blokes colliding with each other wearing shoulder pads and where the only 'skill' required appears to be pushing your opponent to the ground, I guess American football is pretty entertaining, yes.
TrippyLondoner
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^ Great post. Never understood why they call it football when they use their hands most of the time...
Never understood why they call it football when they use their hands most of the time...Have you ever watched an American Football game?
2nd and 10, they make a move, it fails, they stand around setting up again for 5 minutes.
Then every 15mins they stop for a break.
A game with 15 min quarters, which should technically take an hour, can last anything up to 3 hours!!
Yet they have the cheek to call Football boring...grrr
More to the point, have you ever watched baseball?
Now that IS a sleep-inducing experience. It makes county cricket look like a cheap dirty mindless thrill in comparison.
Gym Beam
Born Again Non-theist
Football is rightly regarded as the beatiful game. The skill level required to play football is unbelievable. Spatially it's played 360 degrees, not just in one direction. You are not holding the ball in your hands, but controlling, distributing it (the ball) and beating opponents using your feet and other parts of your body. It extermely demanding of your spatial awareness, your awareness of other peoples positions, your coordination and your athletic ability, your intelligence and your nerves. And, you can't stop every 30 seconds to decide and plan what your next move is going to be. The average midfielder runs about 13kms in match. Watching highly skilled footballers (Zidane, Kaka, Maradona, Torres, Messi, Roger Milla etc) do things that most of could probably not do in the limited time and space that they have is awesome. Gridiron is so boring they have to have dancing girls on the sidelines to keep punters entertained. Everything seems to revovle around the QB, with very little skill required by other players (lotsa bravery tho). In fact you often hear of athletes from other spoting codes (athletics) taking up gridiron and having reasonable success. Footballers take years to develop and hone thir skills, and even then the vast majority do not become top level players. Football is just the most aesthaetically pleasing sport. However, I must admit, diving cry babies, Ronaldo, Drogba et al are infuriating to watch.
T & P
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Reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons when Homer is trying to be teetotal for a month, and during that time he goes to watch, stone sober, a baseball game. He sat there and said 'I'd never realised before how boring this game is'
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