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The myth that America doesn't like football
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| 2nd June 2015
| Nick Bryant
Posted on 06/02/2015 12:18:49 PM PDT by the scotsman
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To: the scotsman
Watching soccer players fall down and wince in fake pain is just to much to take.
Make the goal as wide as the field and add a few more goalies and it might be interesting.
I have friends that are into it and they try to get me into it but they have failed. I have no problem that they like it. It is their thing and that is cool.
To: MAKOTHEDOG
Make the goal as wide as the field and add a few more goalies and it might be interesting. or they could add another 10 balls, keep opposing teams on each half of the field, and throw the balls at each other. If you catch it the guy who threw it is out, if it hits you and you don't catch it you're out.
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posted on
06/02/2015 1:30:37 PM PDT
by
1Old Pro
To: the scotsman
Saturday I will watch the UEFA Championship game between Barcelona and Juventus. That will be enough soccer to last for the rest of the year....
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posted on
06/02/2015 1:31:25 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Let us now try liberty)
To: the scotsman
hockey is a more exciting superior product than soccer. If a person likes a game similar to soccer, why wouldn’t they just watch hockey? I doubt soccer will ever catch on in the united states.
To: the scotsman
Naysayers can whistle past the graveyard if they want. The fact of the matter remains that the USA/Portugal World Cup game drew 21 million viewers.
That’s more than watched the deciding game of the World Series (19.2 million viewers) and the deciding game of the NBA Finals (18 million viewers) — and baseball and basketball were aired by Big Four networks.
There are three million youth soccer players in the United States. Deride it if you will. The next generation sure doesn’t.
(I just wish we had played better against Motherwell!) WATP
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posted on
06/02/2015 1:34:41 PM PDT
by
Colonel_Flagg
("Politics is downstream from culture." -- Andrew Breitbart)
To: 1Old Pro
That sounds pretty exciting.
To: the scotsman
I love football, myself. Apparently the rest of the world has a different interpretation of the sport, and as usual, the rest of the world is wrong. I mean, look, we're an apex predator. What makes us an apex predator is an opposable thumb, which enables a grip, around a stone axe, a spear, a rifle, or the opponent's throat. And what typifies soccer? You can't use that! You are forbidden by The Rules from employing the single attribute that has turned man from a fur-lingerie-wearing prey into a fire-breathing conqueror tearing the beating hearts out of his enemies and thrusting them, howling, toward the exultant war gods of the sky. And that's what I like about football, real football, not the dainty mincing across the pitch by lace-panty eunuchs but the screaming ecstasy of of tearing the reeking vitals out of an opponent and burning them on a fiery altar of pure, machismo lust!!!
Now, about baseball...
To: the scotsman
Of course this is a myth.....I love watch my little grandkids play soccer, Keeps them in shape for a real sport later in life.
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posted on
06/02/2015 1:38:39 PM PDT
by
rrrod
(Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
To: Skooz
correcto..the games are fixed, players are encouraged to fake injuries and its BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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posted on
06/02/2015 1:40:07 PM PDT
by
rrrod
(Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
To: rrrod
Like zzzz baseball or gay rugby?.
To: Colonel_Flagg
Ok, I’ll deride it. It stinks.
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posted on
06/02/2015 2:08:50 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: "I should like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: cicero2k
There’s more concussions in soccer than football.
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posted on
06/02/2015 2:10:11 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: the scotsman
“Doesn’t like football”?? What are they talking about?>> Ah..., they mean soccer. They’re right.
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posted on
06/02/2015 2:11:19 PM PDT
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: the scotsman
Maybe it would be more exciting if they gave 7 points every time they score. That way a 3-2 game would be 21-14.
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posted on
06/02/2015 2:14:09 PM PDT
by
Starstruck
(I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
To: the scotsman
Misleading title much?
Soccer is okay as a screensaver when you want to watch TV and there's nothing on. It's also good practice when the games aren't in English and you're learning a foreign language. Also, if it's a really big game and the whole world is watching.
Otherwise, it's not that easy to get into.
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posted on
06/02/2015 2:17:27 PM PDT
by
x
To: the scotsman
You know why I don't like soccer, and why I think a lot of Americans don't like soccer? Because it's played by a bunch of effete wusses (yes, there's another word I'd prefer to use, but I try to keep it clean here on FR :-) Exaggerating contact or pretending to be fouled is flat out unsportsmanlike, but not in international soccer.
And tell me, what team of Americans would stand by and do NOTHING when an opposing player BITES one of their teammates? I am talking here about Luis Suarez, who has bitten opposing players no less than three different times. And in every instance, neither the bitten player, or his teammates, did anything about it. If Suarez tried that crap on an American, I would like to think he wouldn't have any of his horse-sized teeth left in his mouth as a result of the pummeling he'd receive.
The game itself isn't the problem, it's the worthelss preening peacock wusses that play it.
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posted on
06/02/2015 2:21:38 PM PDT
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: aomagrat
That only good thing about soccer LOL!
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posted on
06/02/2015 2:27:12 PM PDT
by
SevenofNine
(We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
To: NorthMountain
Not just the end zone North! The tattooed up thugs do their spastic looking ‘hood rat dances’ all over the field, even after the most average successful type play they might be part of.
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posted on
06/02/2015 3:18:40 PM PDT
by
bobby.223
(Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
To: Sans-Culotte
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/02/2015 3:24:19 PM PDT
by
Zeneta
(Thoughts in time and out of season.)
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