Another pussy wussy crybaby:
Seriously, though, there sometimes are ridiculous theatrics involved. Don't care much either which way since I've stopped playing actively and gotten into motor sports. Real men don't play ball games. ;-)
Posted on 10/16/2009 8:58:45 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The Los Angeles Galaxy star came in the top ten of what one U.S. magazine called the biggest 'busts, choke artists'.
U.S. based Maxim magazine said Beckham's move to the Los Angeles team was nothing short of a 'catastrophe'.
After all the publicity about his £125m move, it said the former Manchester United star has failed miserably to make football - or soccer as it is called in the US - more attractive to fans.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Is there a soccer ping list?
I was a Fort Lauderdale Strikers fan back in the day of the NASL. Got to see Georgie Best’s first game as a Striker. I don’t think the bars in Fort Lauderdale knew what hit them when he came into town.
Oooh, good call. Tag, you’re it!
-PJ
You are a funny, funny guy(?). Nice try. If there isn’t one, someone who knows how to post, should get one going. Ok, I can, on occasions, be easy to get along with. I will start keeping a list and turn it over to who ever wants it. Me, FIRST on the list, you second. Others?????
Gotta go. I’ll check back later to see if there is ping thing developing.
Another pussy wussy crybaby:
Seriously, though, there sometimes are ridiculous theatrics involved. Don't care much either which way since I've stopped playing actively and gotten into motor sports. Real men don't play ball games. ;-)
Well those guys can legitimately cry. I’m talking about the 99% of falls that are witnessed during a game and they pop right back up after the theatrics. Makes me sick.
no magazine or tv show ever cared about soccer. hockey, as unpopular as it is compared to other sports, did have a loyal following back in gretzky's day. and he was the king of hockey.
like i said, if pele couldn't do it for US soccer in the 70's, no one can do it.
He didn’t really make the effort, period. I wouldn’t say nobody cared there was a LOT of coverage in the sports press of him coming over.
It’s not a question of doing it for soccer. He’s getting paid 6.5 million a year (plus whatever up front there was) to make the Galaxy more popular, he’s played in maybe a third of their games since signing, and their attendance is 25% lower. He’s a bust.
I agree with you about the theatrics in principle. 99% is greatly exaggerated, though. In fact, in what little soccer I watch these days in 99% of instances they just get up and keep on playing, and it’s the remaining 1% that makes for the theatrics. Perhaps it’s different in your region.
Google “soccer injuries” images and you’ll see lots of bad injuries. I don’t know how that compares to other “physical contact” sports.
There was a recent case where an Arsenal player got a two-match ban because of a dive he took to get a penalty. They really are trying to address the diving issue, and it's definitely much better than it was a few years ago.
A little advice to you, get a life that doesn’t revolve about an activity 99.99% of American kids lose interest in at the age of 10...
I’m just saying...
Do people like you REALLY believe the rest of the world is pansy ass and only Americans are tough?.
I’d love to see you walk into a bar in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland or Canada and spout such rubbish.
Eh?.
Sorry, but what is so dangerous about soccer?.
I love that Americans claim ‘soccer is socialist/communist’. If American sports drafts arent a model of socialism, I dont know what is.
Soccer is ‘the big teams have the money and buy the success’. Pure capitalism. Its American sports that are the socialist ones!.
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