Posted on 06/16/2014 2:02:23 PM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles
Feels like this soccer crap is being forced on us on ESPN, etc. Yes, just change the channel but why is there this effort to make believe that Americans love soccer and love the WNBA? They are two artificially created.
Good read
i’m still trying to figure out why conservatives can’t dig Brazilian babes....
Game clocks going up is the international standard, we’re the outliers there. International hockey does it too. In some ways it makes sense, especially when you start looking at the stats sheet. Our game clock goes down but the “events” (scores, penalties) are recorded with an upward moving clock (that LA goal with .7 seconds left is recorded as happening at 19:59 in the period), so an upwinding clock actually makes the live game match the stat sheet. Thanks to the NFL though we’ll probably never switch, because a “13th minute warning” would just sound goofy.
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I had the TV on mute, so I missed the commentaries.
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And for the record, the first games in pool play have been quite good:
* Most goals through the first 15 matches since 1958
* 13 of 15 matches have had three or more goals
* 27 of the 47 goals in the tournament have come in the second half with 12 of them coming with fifteen minutes or less to play
* Six of the games have featured come-from-behind wins
* only one draw in the first 15 matches.
Give it a chance. Like any sport, it needs to be appreciated before it can be fairly judged.
After graduation on vacation in Greece he played some pick-up soccer with some Euros and asked if he played football in school. He said yeah but not that football.
8 goals have come from substitute players.
I guess the 100 million or so people around the world who love the sport must not have your level of sophistication. Jeez, what a buncha rubes, huh?
Mexico is holding their own so far.
Soccer is pure capitalism.
Biggest clubs get the best players, get the biggest crowds, which gets them more money, which gets them the best players and on it goes. Little clubs who don’t make enough money die off. The big boys survive and thrive.
How can Americsns not notice their sorts are pure socialism: the draft system. So the worst team gets the best player, ergo everyone is equal.
Sounds like socialism to me!.
American sport is socialist, not the capitalist British/Euro/world sports!.
No, American sport is a FRANCHISE system designed to increase the value of the whole by maintaining the highest possible level of competitiveness, which spawns the highest possible level of fan interest, and therefore the highest possible level of TV ratings and fan spending. It’s a system that understand 1 bad McDonalds devalue all of them.
Actually this world cup has been a cracker. Tons of goals, and all bar one match has been end of the seat stuff.
Football?.
Rugby for cowards.
No, the sleep-inducing crap that is baseball should be. A sport Americans didn’t even invent btw.
Girdiron should be legal if only so we can compare it to its superior father, rugby. And laugh.
Great to see a rugby fan here.
I suggest NFL players/gridiron players run without any of their padding at 15 rugby players nonstop for 80m, then we can talk about REAL toughness and cowardice.
Soccer is pure capitalism.
No drafts, big clubs get big players and big crowds and big money, little clubs sell or die.
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