Posted on 05/26/2016 2:03:13 PM PDT by ghosthost
Saturday afternoon much of the World will stop to watch the UEFA Champions League match. Not all of these folks, myself among them, are illegals.
(The guy I think is the best active player in the World, Cristiano Ronaldo, plays for Re-al Madrid. He will be playing. I think the game starts at 2:45 PM EDT on FOX, with pregame BS before that. If you're one of those who thinks soccer is boring, just watch Ronaldo. He might change your mind.)
ML/NJ
Who the heck is Francesca?
To me, soccer is like veeeerrrrryyyyy slooooooooow hockey with no intentional contact and totally indeterminate timing constraints.
A very self-important NYC sports commentator and all around legend in his own mind. He was also part of some CBS football analysis show but didn't last all that long.
It’s a column inches thing. SI has so many pages to fill no matter what. And the fact is this is one of the deadzones in the sports calendar. NBA playoffs usually aren’t that interesting (though the western conference final have developed in an unforeseen direction), as beautiful as the NHL is it’s a niche sport, the baseball season doesn’t become interesting until the All Star break, no football. But they still have pages to fill with something. And so they found some soccer tournament, which at this point is at least as popular as the NHL.
Soccer is too. You're right. It is slower than hockey. But at almost any point, except when one side is trying to kill the clock, either side might score within ten seconds. (And no commercial breaks!) Shots on goal in soccer rarely depend upon a hoped for lucky deflection. Goals are almost always artistic.
Give it a chance. Watch Ronaldo on Saturday. He won't leave the field after 60-90 seconds. He'll probably play all 90 minutes.
ML/NJ
I started getting free issues then the please subscribe pitch.
I was shocked at how THIN it is now. Maybe 1/2 the size I remember.
We’ve conversed about hockey before. Pens have a game 7 tonight.
Soccer just doesn’t do it for me. I once worked with a couple of crazy guineas who dragged me to the Stadium to see Santos with Pele against Inter Milano in (I think) 69. The train ride back to Queens was not much fun considering all the beer we drank and Milan lost 1-0. lol
I watch it on occassion, but then again, I’ll watch golf too. };^)
If Mexico’s so great, why are you HERE?
Incredible individual skill, but not the best player. Messi is tops in my book.
Soccerrrrzzzzzzzz............
Good people do differ about this.
ML/NJ
Obviously, a racist! /s
Just last night as I was getting my hair cut, the hairdresser, who is also the owner of the shop, said she has noticed changes in what kind of magazines people read in the shop. One she specifically mentioned was that men no longer pick up the Sports Illustrateds and she said she might dump that subscription because nobody reads it. Most popular, in addition to People, were food magazines.
Didn’t Verlander already have naked pics of him and his squeeze get out into the wild? Maybe he figured the world had enough.
My point was that of all people, we get Prince Fielder? That’s the typical MLB player physique? Why pick something so off the wall and out of the norm?
FReegards
It’s like watching a ping pong game.
Watching kids play soccer is fun. I’d sooner have a colonoscopy wide awake than watch higher level soccer.
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