Posted on 06/09/2006 8:56:48 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
Yep, liberals don't like the merit based world of clearly defined winners and losers, people's feelings get hurt you know ;)
BTW, Dubya is pretty interested in soccer too. :)
Well, I'm conservative and I love it, its a great game.
Better than Steroid baseball, where nothing, absolutely nothing of any kind happens during the majority of the game.
Spend a few weeks in Argentina or Africa or E.Europe, you will get a better appreciation for soccer.
Correct.
LMAO. Bravo.
I'm not a big soccer fan, but I really enjoyed the British movie "Football Factory" and the Czeck film "Ups and downs". Hooliganism at it's best. Sparta Prague, Sparta Prague, oye oye oye.
redundant...
Happens. Its human nature to over generalized and shove things into categories even if the category is "circular hole" and the object is "square peg".
Bingo.
"I'd like to see an NFL player run nonstop for 45 minutes."
Jim Fixx was an awesome football player....
Ditto. I'm not athletic or sporty in general but I do like to play sports if given the opportunity or inclination. Soccer is huge in Thailand. And although I'm never much of a soccer fan, Man U is still the most kicka$$ team around. :)
You would have about 8 dead Defensive Ends per NFL game if you made those pigs run.
Same goes for rugby, great game, much more athletic than NFL.
I know Thailand quite well, been there a lot, including a full month last year.
One of my favorite places in the world. If you get a chance, shoot up to Vietnam, another wonderful place.
Thais will never excel in soccer, they are too small.
Seriously, the NFL is worried that what happened to baseball -- youth turning to play soccer in the spring instead of baseball, growing into adults that don't watch professional baseball nor buy tickets -- will happen to football next, if fall soccer encrouches.
NFL, NFL Players Association put up $2.5M four years ago to start USA Football, a non-profit to promote/support amatuer football in America. Check out their web site, usafootball.com
My worry is that as high schools get bigger in terms of student body population, and as America continues to urbanize, fewer boys will every learn to knock the crap out of each other and keep going. Football unfortunately is becoming a sport of behemoths, discouraging young men from playing a phyically adverse game that involves hard contact. Maybe lacrosse will become our next teen national physical contact sport and save our national manhood -- soccer sure as hell won't.
I'll grant you soccer is a sport, and is physically demanding, but it does not involve near-fighting conditions, complete with hitting, intentional physical and physcological intimidation -- and bell-ringing and bloodletting.
We need men that can fight, not dance around a ball.
Poland shots on Goal 1st half: 0
Yeah, but no one gets hurt in baseball unless there is a fight, and NFL guys are weenies compared to Rugby players.
Nothing happens in baseball, hell, the players either sit on their asses half the game, or stand still in a field for the other half. Occasionally, they hit then run,but then they just stand there, waiting. No thanks........
Soccer's grace is that anyone can play it, nearly anywhere you have enough room and a ball. I am constantly amazed at how many freepers feel threatened by a sport, its so childish.
This is a good idea as it will keep all the fat American baseball fans, who feel it necessary to tell us how much they hate soccer, off the World Cup threads.
I've coaches kids' teams and am formerly a FIFA level 8 qualified referee (my payback for having had kids play in youth leagues).
I'll even watch the World Cup.
But soccer is and never will be a game that captures the American psyche, unless we become a nation of Alan Alda's (God forbid).
Rugby maybe -- that's a pretty good blood-and-guts game, although simple in it's execution. Seemingly little strategic development to it.
Ta-da, and enjoy the Cup!
Or the ultimate fake "sport" NASCAR.
Bunch of goobs watching a car go around in circles for 4 hours, wow, what athleticism.
They feel threatened by a few Mexicans "invading" their borders so it is hardly surprising.
"And I officiate youth and high school football. "There are rules in life son. There are rules in football too. And if I catch you, there are penalites for breaking those rules. And yes, the guy across the line from you will bust you in the nose if you let him. You might want to hit him first. Now shut up and play ball!"
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