...well maybe it wasn't entirely with curling...
Posted on 06/11/2010 5:23:41 AM PDT by markomalley
How can "raw numbers [not] do it," when the premise of your argument is numbers? In terms of money, the NFL is probably ten times more popular than the World Cup in the U.S.
That's completely fine, but you can't turn around and claim "them's just numbers" when you are using them.
Its a fantastic sport and will be in danger of being wussified as well if we continue to allow liberal sissies to influence it.
I’m actually getting ready to go to the bar and watch the Cubs play the White Sox. That should be boring, because both teams suck.
I like soccer on Univision. I don't like sportscasters, a bunch of blah-blah-blah interrupting the game, trying to show how smart they are, throwing in their opinions instead of just reporting on the game, trying to earn their paychecks by annoying me. It's like they think their pay will be docked if they close their mouths for two seconds.
At least with Univision I (rather proudly) don't speak a word of Spanish, so their rambling tripe is less distracting from the game.
...well maybe it wasn't entirely with curling...
“I’m actually getting ready to go to the bar and watch the Cubs play the White Sox. That should be boring, because both teams suck.”
Finally I can agree with you.
;o)
American football was forced to adopt "armor" as you call back in the early nineteen hundreds simply because too many players were ending up dead. In fact, Teddy Roosevelt was among the people who raised an outcry and called for making the sport safer. How many rugby players die each year from playing their sport?
“It’s like they think their pay will be docked if they close their mouths for two seconds.”
If they stop talking then a lot of people will get to concentrate on the game for once and realize just how boring it really is and they might stop watching.
They are not American commentators. ESPN hired the best 5 English. They are completely biased toward Mexico.
Not once have they mentioned the long passes that SA just missed.
Notice they are avoiding the statistics of corner kicks, etc. Wonderful first half if you understand and love true football.
I only watch select soccer games outside of the world cup, since the level of play just isn't there for me most of the time. But this is one of the fun ones to watch.
it's just what it sounds like...
But, why did he support RFK and Gaylord Nelson (the guy behind Earth Day)?
Actually it’s 2 45 minute halves which total 1.5 hours. Now some baseball games can last 3 hours plus and still end up in a tie!
i could understand it if it was used as a distraction like crowd noise in football during the snap, but, this never stops... but what can you expect from SA...
I kinda had a thing for the Redhead on the Canadian team
But yet, they still over charge for tickets.
Soccer would be an interesting game with less players...like say only eight. And allow the players to bat the ball with their hands. The more players on a field or a court in any sport, the less offense. That's why soccer has such low-scoring games. Ditto for other sports. If basketball had more players on the courst, the scores would much lower. Less room for individual players to operate. American football would also be higher-scoring with less players. Baseball is different, because the amount of players does not affect the score. Three balls rather than four would make the game higher scoring.
Thanks for the update. I hate liver.
try it with bacon!!.....(but soccer still sucks, no matter how much bacon you use)
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