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Why Soccer Is Better Than Football
The Wall Street Journal ^
| May 18, 2012
| BRUCE ORWALL
Posted on 05/18/2012 2:47:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Would anyone buy this argument if it was phrased:
Why Soccer European Football Is Better Than American Football
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:51:51 PM PDT
by
kosciusko51
(Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
To: MinorityRepublican
The author’s name is Bruce.....whaddya expect?
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:52:15 PM PDT
by
03A3
To: MinorityRepublican
There is Football and then there is Futbol.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:52:41 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Soccer is incredibly boring. The writer is welcome to it.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:52:41 PM PDT
by
saganite
(What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
To: MinorityRepublican
Soccer. Most boring game ever created. Watching a Chess match is more exiting.
Hell, I’d rather watch two old men at a retirement home play checkers than watch the finale of the World Cup.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:54:04 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(Virgil Goode! Because everyone else is Bad!)
To: MinorityRepublican
There is actually a game tomorrow MORE important than Chelsea-Bayern Munich....it’s the “Richest Game in Football” between West Ham and Blackpool to determine the final team to be promoted to the Premier League next season, it literally is worth about 100 million dollars to the winning team.
BTW, Go Bayern!
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:54:49 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: MinorityRepublican
I would rather watch Sumo wrestling or Women’s LaCrosse or Curling than watch soccer.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:55:54 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: saganite
Soccer is incredibly boring. The writer is welcome to it.Yes, but the street riots after the games are always quite exhilarating.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:56:30 PM PDT
by
Maceman
To: P-Marlowe
OTOH, for the vast majority of people, Soccer is a far better participation sport than football. Flag, or touch football (no contact) comes close for participation — but, it is at least as boring to watch as soccer.
To: MinorityRepublican
I prefer baseball to either.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:56:42 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: MinorityRepublican
soccer is a hopelessly stupid little game that is so completely clueless, it doesn’t even know when it ends.
the time on the clock expires, but the game continues for some secret period of time until all of the unannounced penalty seconds tick off the REAL clock, which is apparently somewhere in the ref’s knickers.
THAT is a stupid game.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:56:42 PM PDT
by
JohnBrowdie
(http://forum.stink-eye.net)
To: MinorityRepublican
Soccer is catnip for socialists!
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:57:04 PM PDT
by
DaveyB
(Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. -John Adams)
To: MinorityRepublican
Soccer could be very entertaining if they would adopt three changes, allow the use of the hands, institute the forward pass and permit tackling.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:57:59 PM PDT
by
CharacterCounts
(A vote for the lesser of two evils only insures the triumph of evil.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Nothing like watching grown men in silk shorts prancing around so their hands won’t get cooties by touching the ball.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:58:45 PM PDT
by
Hulka
To: P-Marlowe
The EPL blows away World Cup soccer. The problem with the World Cup is that the teams are not very cohesive since they don’t play that much together, whereas in club soccer the game flows much better because of the familiarity of the players with each other.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:59:31 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: MinorityRepublican
Adult thrill seeking via pictures.
![Photobucket](http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk285/rackitt/22663b1b.jpg)
'Nuff said.
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:59:31 PM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: CharacterCounts
To all
One Word!
Rugby!
Rugby players eat their dead!
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posted on
05/18/2012 2:59:42 PM PDT
by
Reily
To: MinorityRepublican
Of course soccer is boring and a pansy sport to boot. However, the aforementioned is not the point! The author's unstated premise being “soccer belongs to the WORLD, THE COSMOS, IT IS UNIVERSAL. Baseball, football and basketball are so narrow so nation bound.
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posted on
05/18/2012 3:00:53 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: MinorityRepublican
I accidentally caught part of a Premier English soccer game one day while I was surfing channels and I have to admit that it was unlike other soccer games I've watched in the past. It was definitely more aggressive play. The Brits were always driving hard to make goals rather than constantly passing back and forth amongst themselves.
I'll still take American football any day, but this wasn't hard to get into.
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