[sevinufnine]

“I think the tranny is right on that soccer is boring”

Hardly boring at all. MUCH better than American football where it takes 4 hrs. to play a 60 minute game. Or baseball where all they do is pick at their groins and spit tobacco juice everywhere.

[needmorePaine]

Hardly boring at all. MUCH better than American football where it takes 4 hrs. to play a 60 minute game. Or baseball where all they do is pick at their groins and spit tobacco juice everywhere.

Soccer is boring, dreadfully boring. Fans of it talk about how there is continuous action, but they are wrong. There is continuous movement, not necessarily action.


Football is stop and go, which can be frustrating, but that is because each down is a mini-conflict within the larger conflict of the game itself. While individual plays can do very little, they are a step in the process toward some goal, and there is the potential during each play for a breakout moment that doesn't necessarily need to be a score: a big gain, a big penalty, a big stop, a fumble, an interception, a sack, etc. If there isn't a score, then a big play can set up a score.

With soccer, if there is a rush to the net and no goal, then oh well, back to kicking the ball in a circle somewhere in the midfield...

Baseball is slow, but not boring. It is built on anticipation. Instead of having to watch a bunch of ants milling about until something happens, you again get to watch a mini-conflict between pitcher and hitter, and there are definite and potentially game-changing outcomes each time.

But of course, it's all a matter of taste, so we all should just lighten up a bit.