Posted on 06/11/2010 12:41:38 PM PDT by AJKauf
leaving politics aside, the reason that soccer has not arrived (and may never rise) to the first tier of professional sports in America is tradition and timing. There is no American soccer “tradition” as there is in baseball and football. Even basketball enjoys a tradition far beyond any national memories we have of American soccer....
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The good news about soccer is that highlights can be summarized in about 30-45 seconds depending on how many goals are scored. Nothing else between matters. The whole World Cup could be summarized in a couple minutes once it is complete and there won’t be much missed outside the goals.
Soccer is like ballet.
Rough and grueling to perform.
Boring to watch.
No kidding...it seems every damn website I have visited today is pimping this borefest...
Curling could really take off if the female teams wore bikinis.
Americans don’t like Soccer because we aren’t as good at it as the rest of the world, and whatever we aren’t best at must not be worthwhile.
“Nothing. The rest of the world doesn’t have any other options...”
We have a winner!!!!”
Realize, for most of history, most of the world was poor as sh*t - that even includes almost all of Europe after WWII.
All you need for soccer is some semblance of a ball, and a bunch of people. The rest of the world has the latter in abundance, and can usually come up with a ball of some sorts.
But why would Americans want to invest any physical and emotional energy in a game that commonly ends in a 0 -0 tie, where the winner is decided by whether the goalie can guess what side a striker will put the ball in a shootout, when we can participate in any number of real sports?
Plus any game in which you have to pretend you’re paraplegic isn’t just wrong, it’s decidedly anti-American.
I feel the same way about football, basketball and hockey. I guess you need to have the natural interest to see the excitement.
I’m a baseball fan and recognize that it can be an exceedingly boring game. Baseball can be boring on one level while being exciting on another. The now famous Gallaraga perfect game was boring as hell because the opposing team wasn’t scoring at all but it was exciting because Gallaraga was inching closer and closer to a perfect game. Then an ump stepped in and made it real exciting. LOL
Much like golf, it is enjoyable playing, but like watching paint dry as a spectator.
IMHO, up until the Obamassiah administration, the rest of the worlds countries SUCKS AT EVERYTHING they attempt in competition with the US...military, economic and way of life.
Soccer is not an American game. Why we even bother to participate in it is nothing more than an attempt to get along and be apart of a sport that they have created into something they think is important because it's "not American".
Soccer to them is basically a "war replacement" competition. They have neither the economic nor intellectual means to compete with us or among themselves on the battlefield and use soccer as a replacement. The game is played out on field, they simply kill each other in the stands.
If they beat Israel or the US in a game of soccer, it makes them feel superior and they think that a soccer victory gives them some kind of "planet cred" as far as a justification for letting them continue their otherwise totally worthless existence and contributions to mankind and the earth in general.
Soccer sucks as a game. Let the rest of the world think it's important. I've got Marxists-Progressives-Socialists trying to persuade me to "like it", when in reality, if they had the chance, they would use me as "Taliban-Soccer-Stadium-Entertainment" on off days the "team" wasn't playing.
Screw them and their "soccer".
That’s okay. “Tradition” doesn’t matter anymore. All of our legendary sports stadiums, ballparks, and arenas have been torn down.
Well, it COULD have something to do with the fact that MOST Americans aren’t impressed with a couple dozen guys running around in circles and NOTHING happening!!! One friggin’ goal is scored in about 4 hours and it becomes an earth-shaking EVENT!! Good God...there’s more action in BOWLING!!
Nope. When the U.S. women won the World Cup a decade ago most soccer afficianados predicted the sport would then take off like a rocket. Didn't happen, not surprisingly. If the U.S. men won the WC the same thing would happen -- a bunch of initial overly-enthusiastic predictions, and then....nothing. We could rule the entire soccer world and it'd still be a minor sport here among sports fans.
The playing, yes. The watching, no.
Heh... I see they recorded it off of Nick at Nite, which means I would’ve seen that when it was taped... that has to be close to 20 years ago (well, 10 years after it aired).
This is how I felt reading the article. I couldn't get through the second half.
Soccer both sucks and blows at the same time.
It’s not even kickball. It’s just a glorified game of keep-away. Commie keep-away.
” Good God...there’s more action in BOWLING!! “
Bowling would be more interesting if the ‘championship’ tour were played in neighborhood 20-lane alleys, like the rest of us have to bowl on...
Wonder how many 300 games there would be if the ‘Pros’ had to contend with grooved/uneven lanes, and ‘automatic’ scoreboards that take 2 minutes to update... (And even then, having to wait for the pins to reset...)
Same thing for golf - I think the Masters would be so much more fun to watch if it were played on a Municipal Duffer’s Course, with gravel fairways and greens that are mowed once a month...
Just sayin’... ;)
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