Posted on 06/11/2010 5:23:41 AM PDT by markomalley
“Actually it’s 2 45 minute halves which total 1.5 hours.”
Ok, so it just FEELS like 3 hrs.
“We must beat moose & squirrel”
:-) I feel that way about baseball. And I never watch the NBA.
My fave is college football, but I’m gonna watch some WC games because I’m rooting for the USA!
I’d love for them to win and prove we are the best in the World! It’s a little hard to do with all the rest of our sports as only US/Canadian teams are involved.
USA! USA! USA!
What are “relegation” rules? Did you mean regulation rules?
I like bacon with my bacon.
The offsides rule is bad, but the main problem is there’s simply too many players on the field. Too many players means it’s easy for any team to stop a talented individual. That’s why most soccer games seem to end up one-nil.
The cup was broadcast in primetime on NBC.
I agree. Chinese is only important in China, few other places. English is important throughout the world.
Likewise, American football is only important in the US, few other places. Soccer is important throughout the world.
The Superbowl attracted 30% of 5% of the world's population, while the last WC final attracted 11% of the total world population. Now let's consider who actually had the ability to watch the games. Pretty much 100% of Americans had access to a TV, while about one-third of the people in the overall world do. IOW, of the available audience, the World Cup had as high a percentage viewership worldwide as the Superbowl did here.
Sorry, the Superbowl doesn't even come close.
What most Americans want to see in a sport is action with a result. The problem with soccer is not unskilled players but the large pieces of action with no result. If you tell me an American football game is going to end 3-0, I'm not going to watch it. Ditto for lowscoring games in other sports. With soccer you wait for what seems like an eternity for one team to even mount an attack where there might be a shot on goal, and invariably at the last second one defensive player kicks the ball away and they go to the other end of the field to repeat the process. Lots of action, no result. I could stomach low scoring games, if there were more shots on goal. There aren't.
And the goal was doused in gasoline.
That would be cool.
I CAN HAS DANISH?
I have a wrecked hip that would like to discuss that point with you.
But, overall I agree. Football is way better to play and watch than soccer.
Great points. I agree with them all.
I can't get over how biased these English announcers are.
They hate SA.
Now that I think about it, the reason English is the most important language in the world is because of Britain, who exported it to all of its colonies, the same way it did soccer. I read a very interesting book by a couple of sports economists how American baseball had a shot at being the “world sport,” but that the fledgling American baseball leagues were more interested in putting each other out of business and protecting their individual markets, whereas the Brits took the “more is merrier” approach.
And landmines.
The girls are prettier.
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