I love FR and its members, except when the “soccer topic” arises. I can’t understand why anyone would mock something that others love just because you have no love for it.
It’s a GAME, just like any other. If you understand it and played it you probably enjoy it. Calling it “socialist” or “globalist” is just nuts. Laughing at the players for wearing “shorts”? ...and not in every league do the players flop like fish, it’s a cultural thing. You’ll get ridiculed for it in English football.
Fyi...people that follow rugby think NFL players are pansies. Wearing pads? A helmet? Tights? Just sayin’
Baseball - snore....imo, but then I never played it or grew up around it so I’ll say no more.
There’s a saying, if you’ve nothing nice to say.....
Great points.
You were fine until the last sentence. If that was a general rule here there would be no here here.
El Clasico SUn @7am. I feel for anyone that cheats themselves out of witnessing the genius of Leo Messi.
https://youtu.be/FxiAnkeE_3o
I think the mocking of soccer stems from having it forced down our throats, similar to low flush toilets and crappy CFL light bulbs.
I hear ya!
As a soccer fan, I’m astounded by the ignorance of the sport that Americans have. It also makes it easier for me to root against “Team USA” whenever they play miserably against a third tier team like Trindad & Tobago.
I think most FReepers are cheap beer can drinking, couch-sitting blowhards well over the hill who cannot even fathom a sport being more popular than gridiron American football. That mentality is quickly fading away with the younger and more impatient youth that is filling up soccer stadiums. Try making them watch a 4 hour American football game?
And I second your opinion of Baseball. To each his own.