BWAHAHAHA!!!!!
Right!
It is a lot like the Olympics and figure skating or gymnastics...once every 4 years some people get into it as an event...then immediately forget about it and go back to College Football, NFL, MLB, NBA, Nascar, Hockey, Rubik’s Cube, napping...etc etc.
Watching soccer is like trying to play pinball without touching the flippers.
I wish the haters would stop being so gleeful over a loss by an AMERICAN team.....almost obamalike....
I tried to watch... but I couldn't understand the off sides thing. Maybe if they allowed the goalie to be tackled or something. Or give them bats to hit the ball instead of just using the feets.
That’s WHY Obama likes SOCCER!
It’s not an AMERICAN game!
It’s more European.
Methinks this guy is mentally ill. Americans don't hate soccer. We have a team in the World Cup final 32.
The United States Youth Soccer Association boasts over three million players between the ages of five and 19, while American Youth Soccer Organization has more than 300,000 players between the ages of four and 19. Finally, the USL offers a number of youth leagues, including the Super-20 League and the Super Y-League, which have almost 1,000 teams and tens of thousands of players from the ages of 13 to 20. This makes soccer one of the most played sports by children in the United States.
“As you know, we are all in the grip of World Cup fever.”
We are? Nobody told me until now. Did I miss something like an announcement that I was supposed to care about a “World” event?
Soccer is about as boring as reading about pit bull attacks on FR. TO liven the game up, they should implement land mines. Even the UN agrees..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRF7dTafPu0
“soccer fever will pass”
The article is obviously more than 5 hours old. It passed.
Totally true. I find soccer mildly boring and tedious, but not excruciatingly boring. So, combined with the spectacle of the World Cup, and how most all other nations take soccer so seriously, I will watch most of the US team's games, and a little England and Brazil, and generally keep up with who's winning, who's advancing, etc., and usually watch most of the championship game.
And then four years later, I do it all again. (And the internet has made so easy to keep up with World Cup and all major sports, however much or little you care to.)
(But, this year, I do find that if I don't tune in for at least a few minutes of some game each day, I began having vuvuzela withdrawal. Guess I'll have to record a game or two so I can enjoy that wonderful sound after WC is over.)
“...just below horseracing and just above lacrosse.”
I think horseracing has slipped well behind lacrosse and soccer, and is now in the curling range.
I never got the fever I am an American I’m immune
What soccer? Go SF Giants.
She was always running away from the ball.
I’d prefer anthrax to soccer fever.