Posted on 08/08/2005 11:22:35 AM PDT by onja
If soccer is gay, then football must be really queer. Think about it: Football is the only game in the world in which play begins with one guy putting his hands into the crack of another guy's butt. Football is the only game in the world in which the men openly hold hands. Football is the only sport in the world where men are encouraged to spank each other in the rear as a show of appreciation.
Dude - they could assign 500 points for every goal - it's not going to make a difference. No one wants to watch 90 minutes of short, swarthy men kicking a ball around a field and jumping into each other's arms when they score the only goal of the game.
Sheesh - the only reason these crowds are chanting all game is so they don't fall asleep and wakeup with a metal pipe sticking out of their head.
Yeah, but how many pitchers are there ,on a team expected to throw a curve ball? Every sport is different. My opinion, how much skill does it take to play ice hockey vs, say, 3rd base? Maybe not as much specialization overall in Hockey, but everyone has to skate really well, so average it out and?. Not everyone in b ball has to throw a curve....
like i said - my dad is bigger than your dad, thats the summary of this thread
The reason soccerball is not for me is, I can't use the best part of my athleticism, my HANDS.
Would baseball be better if you had to bat one-handed, say?
What if, in football (the real kind) you couldn't use your hands and arms to tackle? Not even American football encourages you to head-butt the ball.
Face it, soccer is for people who are short, have no eye/hand coordination, but can run fast. Its for kids!
It's played like we fought Korea and VietNam.
The main goal is not to score a goal, but to prevent the other team from scoring.
Since pro teams so seldom score, their fans seldom get to release their emotions. They sit there and stew about all the dirty things the OTHER team engages in and finally explode into riots.
Soccer needs to tilt the field more toward the offense. Make the goal bigger, don't let the goalie use his hands or get rid of him all together!
There is also a generational difference. I was born in 1953, and when I was growing up in the city of Chicago, no one played soccer, except the foreigners. I never played soccer once, and didn't know anyone who played soccer. Baseball--and softball, and a schoolyard variant of baseball we played on school lots--that's what all the boys played.
"Sports suck in general"
Spoken like a true member of the chess club.
That is SO gay Tijeras. Snort!
Typical Soccer Game: 0-0 tie at the end of regulation. Penalty kick at the end of the game wins it!!!!!!!!
BORING....
"Don't knock Hockey players"
I'm still trying to figure out if that is some kind of a game or just a fight on ice.
actually Rollerball will kick everyone's a..
No, I really do think sports suck. And I think we waste tons of tax money on them when they should be funded privately.
Huh? Baseball is all about skill!
Soccer is gay and stupid PING
I like to say that baseball crams 2 minutes of action into 3 hours.
And you all ignored my plea. Oh, well. It is somewhat annoying how everyone disrespects soccer so. I don't go around calling football players stupid brutes(note-I'm saying I do not) Have you ever thought that not all soccer players are gay?
Pitchers and QB's do need skill and have it.
Because we spent three million years evolving hands with opposible thumbs, and it's stupid to have a sport where you can't use them.
Agreed. The average athletic male can only throw about 60-65mph. The average pro pitcher throws about 84. If you don't think it takes skill, try hitting a 97mph high hard one or a 88 mph slider.
Then go out in the field and run flat out toward the wall looking into the sun and catch a sphere the size of your fist hit from 370 feet way as it slices away from you.
Of the big three American sports I rate the greatest in need of athleticism to be Baseball, Football and Basketball. Football takes more brains. You have to learn multiple blocking assigments and defensive strategies. I might squeeze soccer in a head of basketball if it wasn't for the fact some players actually shoot outside 18 feet rather than dunk and that can be a trick shooting over someone 6'8" with a 37 inch vertical jump. All you need to play soccer is lungs and a sense of direction ( which kids don't get up until about 10 hence the confusion )
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