I like win or lose games with a mountain of stats and averages.
Google has gone absolutely berserk trying to ram this down our throats for the last - it seems like - month and a half.
Today they’ve stopped, for some reason.
Anyone have a link to the Thiessen column? Is he an economist?
Soccer and the metric system. Both communist plots. Obviously.
I am by no means a soccer fan. But wouldn’t it be absolutely fantastic if we could over the next decade or so become one of the top soccer nations, and Americanize the sport with cheerleaders, Budweiser commercials, stadium rock, etc. and see the libs cry about how the ugly Americans have taken over this “beautiful sport”?
I love soccer, and really enjoy the World Cup, but I don’t care whether or not anyone else cares about it, as long as I am able to watch it.
I also love to watch most other sports. I don’t care if someone doesn’t like those. To each his own.
I say live and let live.
Huh? Girls play soccer alongside boys up to about U-10, and later in some coed rec leagues, but competitive soccer differentiates just as rapidly as do other sports. Boys and girls are different, as even Ann may have noticed. A WNBA team would lose to a good boys high school basketball team, and the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team would lose to a good men's college team. I'm glad women's sports have gotten much more competitive, but they are a different game.
-Rush-
Olbermann had a hilarious rant on soccer yesterday... Yes he’s a putz, but you still should watch it.
I think you need to be drunk when watching it. It numbs the pain the boredom inflicts on the viewer. My husband likes it because he can go to the bathroom and not miss anything.
I played soccer in high school. Goalie. Fun to play, boring as all get-out to watch!
Whether you are a soccer fan and/or an American football fan, please:
Give the painted hair and face A REST!
Typical American take. Not enough scoring as if that was the only thing to watch for in a sporting event. Ignore the flow of the play, the improvisation, the athletic skills and physical prowess of the players. Just ram the ball, puck, or whatever into a goal over and over again. Seven foot tall physical anomalies shooting at a ten foot high target. Two hundred or more points per game. Time out after time out, substitute after substitute, Deliberate fouls in BBall OK. Soccer..oh my criminal. Football 300 pound goliaths covered in everything short of armour plate ramming into one another for a 15 minutes of play that drags out over three hours spiced up with seemingly endless commercials. Then after the final 2 minutes which take in some cases 20 minutes to complete, the game is won by a European soccer style kicker with a spotlessly clean uniform and a kick from 25 yards. Point difference 1,2, or 3. Big deal. Soccer (football) is the most popular game for a reason. It is exciting in all phases. BTW the highest paid athletes in the world...Soccer players. Just saying.
Mark Davis applying the pejorative, “tedious,” is the apotheosis of the pot calling the kettle black.
The inevitable questions came about why Americans don't support soccer despite it being "America's fastest growing sport", and I answered "To say Soccer is America's 'fastest growing sport' is something I've been hearing in America for thirty-plus years and it's akin to saying 'I own America's fastest growing goldfish in this here little fishbowl'. If America actually enforced our immigration controls, Soccer would be America's #1 fastest diminishing sport.
Euros can watch Association Football matches in their own language, but the USA is in the Central American league and you'd have to watch the match in Spanish on some Mexican channel like 'Telemundo!' or Noticiero eSporta, or whatever. Americans just aren't tuning in to hear 'GOOOO-LO-LO-LO-LOOOOOLLLL!' being shouted when some team scores. Just can't get excited about Uruguay versus Latvia. There's no compelling draw for a contest like that in the USA.
Besides, I said, our American football gridirons are too small to be used as soccer fields. The biggest US football stadium is rinky-dink compared to a typical soccer stadium in The Netherlands. You could take off and land a C-130 on the field in one of those enormous stadiums. The first time I saw one, I couldn't believe the magnitude of their soccer stadiums. When the Euro NFL played their games inside them, the teams looked like they were playing croquet on a postage stamp.
But I like the spectacle of the World Cup and don't get snarky or jingoistic about it. I think it's neat. I'm glad the US team isn't made up of real professionals like all the big Euro teams have. Our guys are college students that nobody in America would recognize by name or face to the point you'd have to ask a Mexican day laborer hanging around outside of Home Depot to identify them for us as to who the hell our national team players are. Even Americans who've watched all three US World Cup games so far would be hard pressed to give the last name of any player on the US team.
Meh.
Sorry, Mark, I just don’t care about soccer, no matter who might be playing. It’s pro football for me.
No thanks. It’s baseball season and the Nationals are in first place in the NL East. I’ll stick with American sports.
Wow. Talk about trying to have it both ways. I would suggest that if this clown’s interest in soccer is that superficial, he should go back to watching his trained gorillas beat each others’ (minimal) brains out in between Miller and Budweiser commercials.
Soccer sure as hell doesn’t need him.
The World Cup is getting much better ratings than for the NBA Finals.
The MLB World Series gets lousy ratings.
Don’t think the ratings are great? The U.S.A. v. Portugal match was the highest rated non-football event, EVER, on ESPN.
I don’t care enough about Soccer to hate it. That said, I am happy that the US has advanced this far.