Posted on 06/28/2009 12:05:03 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
USA is winning the final of the Confederation CUP, shortly before half time 2-0!!
...And another idiot makes himself known on FR. And by the way, even my 4 year old knows that Obama is a huge basketball fan. Any more stupidity you’d like to add today?
Yes, you have your champions, but could you imagine the bottom three or four teams actually having to win at the end of the season so that they stay in the Major Leagues, NBA, etc?
As a benefit the "high draft picks for worst team" scenario would end. If you want to play in the top league, you better do your d@mndest to keep your team competive. Instead we have some owners sitting on their money. As long as fans come into the stadium, regardless of how bad the teams are, the owner wins (again, look at the Chicago Cubs over the years).
Promotion and relegation sounds odd to most people that are familiar with only American sports, but to me, it is much more capitalist-based than the way American sports are set up now.
I'm sure even ones who don't like soccer could see the benefits in a system like that.
I’m so very sorry I offended your sensibilities because you happen to disagree with me. I can imagine that you’re writhing around on the ground in pain right now, just like your metrosexual soccer heroes.
And in the very first clip, you see the other player getting upset that the player took a dive, which bolsters what I stated. Did you watch the clip?
Gay. . .fighting dirty means fighting like a woman.
Matches like this will elevate our game. Playing against world class players always pushes you to extremes. CONCACAF is not at that level so it often Mexico, T&T, and USA.
I agree on Azteca.
Do you know why futbol is a big success in the third world?
EQUIPMENT
I’d LOVE to see promotion/relegation applied to any of the major sports here.
Baseball and Hockey seem like the two sports that could incorporate such a system most easily—they both have very deep minor league systems similar to most Euro leagues.
Football and Basketball would need to develop proper minor league systems—colleges generally take that role now.
Literally, each village needs basically:
one ball
four tall sticks
two long pieces of string.
The rest is sportsmanship.
Look, I only watch futbol once every four years, but even though I don’t follow it, I get it.
I depends who is playing, A good EPL match between Manchester United and Chelsea, for example is as riveting as any NFL game.
But if they players on the pitch aren't particularly talented, it can be tough to watch. But I could say the very same thing about any sport.
LOL, I don’t really like baseball or golf, so maybe that is why I can enjoy soccer. :)
I agree that many matches can be terribly boring, but tournaments like this are great fun to watch.
Then again I am a rabid hockey fan, and other than motor sports, everything else seems like it is being played in slow motion.
I think eventually will happen with soccer. You’ve got the USL which could merge with the MLS, and give us essentially a First and Second Division. I think it will happen within the next few years.
It’s a bit fun that. Even in my old 8 division outfit here, we’re part of the fifa system. If we kept winning, given a few years we could contest the Champions League finals :-P
NFL is probably the most popular US sport, so I have never figured out why there is no minor league. There are certainly plenty of college players, and people love the sport itself. Heck my local college, a pretty poor Div I team (UConn), is able to pack in 50K+ at their stadium.
Maybe the NCAA wouldn’t put with the competition.
I could see where the UEFA Champions League has gotten so big, that it now transcends Europe, even here in the US the Final gets high ratings for soccer.
So I could see them potentially expanding it to include clubs from other continents, say having a home and home between the CONCACAF Champions League winner vs the Liberatadores Cup winner for a spot in the Group Stage.
Of course travel would be thorny, but I like the idea of having a true world-wide club championship.
I think the reason for that is the shortness of NFL careers, the average NFL career is only something like three years. So if a player spends only two years in the minors, they would be damaged goods by the time they would finally make it to the NFL.
No amount of talking will get through to them. They don’t want to enjoy it.
To all the non-fans who feel the need to express their non-fanship:
My family watched the game with me but my six year old girl was complaining about being board and wanting someone to play with her. I told her no, the game was on. Then she started to pout and cry. I told her to go upstairs to her room if she wanted to cry because she was ruining the game for the rest of us.
So let me say the same to all you expressive non-fans, if you want to cry, go somewhere else.
As a football fan, I love the game, but dislike the way the NFL runs. The owners keep the number of teams slightly below the available market in order to create pressure on local cities to make concessions. If the market demand were met, teams couldn't get luxury boxes by threatening to move.
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