[Fighting Irish]

Which part of "I hope the thread title is clear enough. If the subject isn't of interest, please stay away. This is a World Cup discussion thread, not a "which sport is better" discussion thread" don't you understand?

Which is exactly why I hate this sport. You fans are the touchiest, crabbiest people on the planet. The girlie pics are at least making me reconsider my stance ...

[Theoden]

We wouldn't be all that touchy if it were one or two people, the fact that it is many people, day after day that bothers us. We don't go into football threads striking at the masculinity of football fans for them loving to watch large, fat, and hairy men tackle each other in the dirt, or liking to watch dumb oafs running into each other.

BTW, I like football too, just pointing out the pendulum swings both ways!

Now if you want to talk about a crappy sport, one that shouldn't ever even be considered being called a sport, that would be NASCAR. The drivers are "athletes"!?!?! It doesn't take much athleticism to steer a car in one giant left turn for 3 hours, in fact, all you really need to do is watch the last 3 laps, watching the whole race is pointless. Most of the drivers stay in basically the same position the whole time. LOL, look what you did, you turned on my NASCAR rant!

[winner3000]

That's because we're one of the few sports that get criticized by people who know nothing about it. If you want to give watching the sport an honest shot, wait till Brazil plays another good team...or on the internet look for highlights from Ronaldinho. To us soccer fans, those clips are Jordanesque.

[propertius]

you have to understand how tedious it is to see all the snarky and supercilious comments by freepers who come on to these threads and make their oh-so-witty comments. The first 50 are just about tolerable, after that it starts to wear. If you could think of something original and funny to disparage football, you're likely to get a more receptive welcome.