Posted on 05/31/2002 9:28:33 AM PDT by xsysmgr
The most eloquent defense of commercial breaks I have ever read.
Now that's class. Why would anyone want to watch boring ol' soccer when you can spend seven hours hanging out with people like this?
Like the story stated ...it a Liberals kind of game
But seriously, I have never seen them play a game and probably won't.....I don't have much of an interest in sports. Hockey perhaps is the one sport I like the most.
I think that reveals a poor understanding of modern American football. Players have to constantly learn how to read defenses or offenses as a play is unfolding and memorize a large number of plays. It is true that coaching matters a lot in football, but that is because the game is so complex that a huge division of labor has developed among players and coaches. Often, for example, the quarterback is given a set of options to choose from and only selects on after surveying the defense.
I don't know much about it, but I would be surprised if soccer were more complex than football. (That says nothing of course about whether it is better or worse.)
Brilliant retort. I'm overwhelmed and speechless.....
Signed, Football Fan
Basically, I think it's a generational thing. Kids who grew up playing football and baseball in the 1950's and 1960's (like me) don't like soccer because they've never really played the game. We tend to like what we're familiar with.
With the nouveau vogue of soccer in America in the 1980's (largely introduced and driven by Euro-worshiping Yuppies), more and more American kids took up the game. Thus, they have a different take on it than us oldsters do -- they grew up playing it, appreciate the game, and like to watch it, fantasizing themselves on the field in a close game, just as we older types do in the Super Bowl or World Series. My sons-in-law, kids in the 1980's, both love soccer. But they like football and baseball too. Go figure.
You're correct. In terms of playcalling, football is probably one of the most complex sports in the world.
I don't understand the position of people putting down one sport to prop another. It's inane...
Uh . . . basketball? It might (sorry, it will) come as a surprise to you, but you can knock somebody on their a** at full speed as long as you touch the ball first.
Exactly why it's more fun to watch. You can second-guess the coach. A much more cerebral game for the spectator.
Golf isn't a sport; it's a hybrid sport-skill-game like pool or darts, more game than sport.
Basketball, Football, and Baseball are very popular around the globe.
Basketball, yes; American football and baseball, certainly not.
If they had a league in their countries with the number of teams that we have, how would their teams stack up against ours? Pretty poorly I would think.
I'm talking about their national teams. And the influx of foreigners into the NBA in recent years has been staggering.
If that is the case, then why do they play most professional soccer games in stadiums where they close off the upper deck because the crowds are so small?
The ironic thing is that soccer was probably poised to become much more popular here in the U.S. when this country hosted the World Cup. I truly believe that the incident in which that Columbian player was shot to death back home after he mistakenly scored into his own net did irreparable harm to soccer -- it confirmed the nagging suspicions of most Americans that soccer is nothing more than a Third World sport.
(yawn)
They have that it's called Hockey
What they need is to play on the small enclosed field
(kind of a cross between an arena football field and a hockey rink)
and let them play shots off the wall
...Then...ta da..Human pinball!!
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