Posted on 07/06/2006 8:55:05 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
It's a little late in the tourney, but I've been listening to a lot of games on XM radio channel 148, which is exclusively dedicated to the World Cup. Their commentators are doing a fine job!
A sports columnist wrote years ago that American football was a game where 15 minutes of action was compressed into 3 hours.
Personally, if I score once in an evening than it's a good evening.
*Sigh*... such low standards... ;)
Obviously, your a soccer fan. Sorry, I'm not. As I said, it is fun to play, but boring to watch.
I used to be the same way. I loved to play it, hated to watch it. In the last 4 years though since college I have begun to enjoy watching it very much.
My point is that anyone can take any sport or activity and ridicule a strawman version of it. I actually enjoy American football and some other American sports, but it pisses me off when a soccer thread is posted here and, without fail, some idiots come crawling out of the woodwork with their lazy, dumb, "soccer is anti-American" type of comments (I wont call them arguments, because most of the time there isn't much logic or analysis involved).
The Kraft family, who own the Patriots, were being spoken of in a possible takeover of Liverpool FC. The Glazers, owners of the Tampa Bay Bucs, own Manchester United since last summer.
Wow, I bet you feel you are real tough by using that word...how old are you, by the way?
Forza Azzurri!
First, I'm no idiot. Secondly, what is a strawman argument in your opinion are legitimate reasons which I do not find soccer entertaining. If soccer were as big in America on the professional level as football, baseball, or stockcar racing, then there would be Monday Night Soccer, or other national telecasts on a major network on a regular basis. Now, I know that many people like soccer. That's great too. My opinion of soccer certainly won't take away from their enjoyment of the game. Hey, I like a lot of TV shows that never were very popular. I don't expect everyone to like them. So enjoy your soccer. I was just putting in my two cents worth on a public forum.
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