Posted on 06/25/2006 2:30:42 PM PDT by RepublicanPatriot
Soccer is still happy...
call it a zed zed tie and pat yourself on the back for being such a team player.
Example of Soccer teamwork(4): 0 to 0 ties should disqualify any real sports teams from further competion as a pair of losers incapable of scoring. But in soccer it is considered a prefect game because nobody won and nobody got beaten so if no one wins and no one loses why play at all.
Look, I think soccer pretty much sucks most of the time.
But I do recognize it does take teamwork to win, as in all team sports.
The Miami Heat didn't win with Dwyane Wade only.
Succinctly well stated. It would be a little more entertaining though if they were handcuffed from behind since that's what the game looks like.
I'd put a mine field by the goal zone.
Not to be macho/chauvinist, but a big reason that soccer is not well-received in the U.S. is that kicking is just not seen as a "manly" act (unless you're talking martial arts and the like).
Americans more so appreciate the hard tackle, the crushing block or the solid body check, but just don't take to flailing away with the feet.
Having to tell your mother you're GAY!
Americans don't like soccer because we are bad at it. If Team USA had won the World Cup you'd see a slew of front-runner soccer fans who would claim to have been devotees for life. That's the American spirit--we like winners and contemn losers.
It surely was! Check this out: World Adult Kickball Association
Yes, Hockey is basically a much more entertaining and fast-paced variation of soccer.
Kickball is the greatest game ever. I was actually pretty decent too. At least at kicking. I can't catch. I should have been made the team's DK.
Thanks for that link. After I flunk the bar exam I'll have to check it out.
Good luck!
Thanks! Although the world would be better served if I did fail. But I like the sound of the "Law Offices of Cyclopean Squid and Associates."
I see you like the Brahms. When I was studying in Vienna, I went to a concert in the Musikverein to hear a performance of Dvorak's chamber music. Suddenly you could hear someone's cell phone go off, and the ringer was one of Brahms' Hungarian Dances. I really wanted to stand up and declare "Excuse me, but the music of Herr Brahms is not on the program!" I didn't go through with it though, and the thoughts of what might have been haunt me to this day.
Beats the tar out of Swindler Berlin, Dickstain Shapiro, and Pecker Redneck down there in D.C.
That would have been a Brahmsian gesture for sure. You may as well tell people you actually said it. You're gonna have to learn how to lie sooner or later.
In fact, if we're going to change the rules...
1. Enlarge the goal by like ten feet on all sides
2. Remove the off sides rule
3. Allow two players on each side to branish a huge hockey stick
4. Allow one player on each side to use his hands
5. Have two females added to the field for each side...and they have to play in the nude....
6. If you fake an injury during a game, you're kicked off the team for life.
I think then MAYBE... just MAYBE you might get someone in Hancock, Wisconsin to watch this pathetic excuse for sport..for more than ten minutes...
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