Posted on 03/11/2009 8:56:05 AM PDT by AreaMan
12 NFL teams make it to the post season tournament. And yes the eventual winner is the WORLD CHAMPION. Deal with it.
What’s funny is that all of these people dissing soccer, will be right there waving their flags and shouting ‘USA!! USA!!!” when we make it to the World Cup Finals, just like back in 1980 with the Olympic Hockey Team. (And I can see it happening in the not-so-distant future)
Thank you very, very much.
May God bless William Webb Ellis.
RD
Kids who bowl can bowl into their 60s, 70s, 80s. And at 53 I’m a better bowler than I was at 25.
Guess what... I am a conservative and LOVE SOCCER!!!
Don’t tell anyone...
American Football isn't a sport either. They are both GAMES.
Sports have consequences, such as sword fighting, jousting, motor racing, bull fighting or mountain climbing.
In a sport you wager your skills against a tangible risk to your well being. Bow hunting a bear is sport...
Sure, you can get hurt playing games, but if Football was a sport the losing team would be put to death..
Join the club, we’ve got jackets.
That actually did happen in soccer, to the Colombian player who put the ball into his own net against the US, back in the 94 World Cup.
“It’s the sport where everyone is ‘a winner’. “
Oh please. All little kids’ sports in the U.S. are that way. But by the time you reach a certain age in soccer, it’s all about scoring goals and winning the league or district or whatever. The best players get most of the playing time and your benchwarmers warm the bench, except in a blowout.
Women’s football (soccer)
“Association Football (soccer) is the most prominent team sport for women in many countries, and one of the few women’s team sports with professional leagues (the other global one being basketball).”
Women’s football first became popular on a large scale at the time of the First World War, when employment in heavy industry spurred the growth of the game, much as it had done for men fifty years earlier. The most successful team of the era was Dick Kerrs Ladies of Preston, England, who made up most of the England team for the first Women’s International (playing Scotland in 1920, and winning 22-0).
Despite being more popular than some men’s football events (one match saw a 53,000 strong crowd), women’s football in England suffered a blow in 1921 when The Football Association outlawed the playing of the game on Association members’ pitches, on the grounds that the game (as played by women) was distasteful. This led to the formation of the English Ladies Football Association, and play moved to rugby grounds. The English Women’s FA was formed in 1969 (as a result of the increased interest generated by the 1966 World Cup), and the FA’s ban was finally lifted in 1971.
In the 1970s, Italy became the first country with professional women’s football players, albeit on a part-time basis. The first full-time professional team was the United States national squadThe United States women’s national football (soccer) team operated by the United States Soccer Federation, is the first women’s team in the sport made up of full-time professionals. It is also one of the most successful women’s national football teams, Japan was the first country to have a professional women’s football league.
http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Women:s:football:soccer.html
get Setanta for $15.00 a month on your cable and you won't miss a game.
The dumbing down of America and the arrival of soccer were simultaneous, around 1972. Missed me by about 3-4 years
I’ll be stuck with going to BBC Sport to get the commentary.
Soccer has been here as long as in the rest of the world.
Read up on 1950, when we beat England in the World Cup.
Could happen. They're both amazing sides, guess I just have a preference for the one that has some actual Englishmen on the team. :-) I enjoy the skill and speed of EPL soccer. The Mexican game bores me to tears, except Super Classico. I've seen half a dozen international matches and enjoyed them.
About a decade ago, I watched Mexico beat Brazil in the Gold Cup competition at the Coliseum in L.A. US took third the same day. Rain pouring down, 60 thousand soaked fans, and everybody having a great time. Took me several days to get dried out and warm through again.
Best fun ever was seeing Trinidad and Tobago play. They travel with their own steel drum corps. Well, that, and Brazil's memorable Samba girls.
I won’t. Even though I don’t hate soccer I do hate the World Cup (I think the round robin rules encourage boring soccer) and don’t care who wins. I was born a hockey fan (almost literally), I kind of liked all those band wagon fans. If the US team wins that’ll be nice, but I ain’t gonna be watchin.
ESPN 360 has the video feed free.
There's nothing to deal with!
I can declare myself as World Tiddleywinks Champion of my street but it it would be meaningless and hollow, just like the NFL's hype is.
Being "World Champion" of a purely domestic tournament that has no International component?
So what?
I guess it fools the dupes, doesn't it?
Read up on 2006, 2002, 1998, 1994, 1990...when everyone and their brothers beat the US. Outside of the World Cup I watch exactly zero minutes every four years of grass fairies feigning "injuries". Got to admit though, it is damn hilarious when an "injured" grass fairy is carted off the pitch only to jump off the stretcher 10 seconds later to rejoin the "action".
That's right!
And back in 1969 El Salvador and Honduras went to war over a World Cup Qualifying result..
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