Posted on 11/28/2022 1:15:09 PM PST by Rummyfan
For the last 10 days, moral superiors have pressured everyday Americans to heed attention to “football,” or as we deem it, soccer — so as not to be confused with the more popular sport.
Americans Still Don’t Enjoy Soccer
On Tuesday, the United States men’s national soccer team’s brief run in a Persian Gulf nation riddled with anti-Semites and misogynistic policies will end if the team doesn’t beat Iran, a squad with braver men than ours.
If you live in the Twitter cesspool or an urban bubble, you likely are under the erroneous impression that most Americans enjoy soccer, but as in so many other areas, Twitter and large cities do not represent real life.
I frequently travel the country by car and therefore meet a massive cross-section of people in various regions; no one I know is following the World Cup, even those whose children play soccer on weekends. No blue-collar or rural guy or suburban family is sitting down tomorrow afternoon to watch 90 minutes of dullness on the pitch.
A poll from earlier this year found that barely 7% of our countrymen consider themselves avid soccer fans, well behind football, baseball, basketball, and even hockey. This is the same percentage as those declaring they’re avid golf fans, a sport whose popularity is actually growing.
Again, despite the best efforts of corrupt FIFA and assorted soccer boosters in the last few decades, the sport will not catch on here, mainly because once some Americans watch “the beautiful game,” they realize its banality.
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And having an advert where Megan Rapinho tells us that the beautiful game belongs to all of us doesn't help. Megan Rapinho hates me and hates this country. Why should I listen to anything she says?!
Tooooooooo much running ,LOL
Purple haired dykes are the wisest people on Earth.
Put some sticks in their hands, let ‘em score some goals and make it fast paced and exciting…..lacrosse.
My husband sees no sense in soccer. He can’t understand a game that can end in a tie...
So consider me skeptical that Team USA’s two ties this month can augment the sport’s popularity. Four years ago, this group didn’t even qualify for the World Cup after embarrassingly losing to an island nation with a population smaller than Nebraska’s.
Every World Cup that the US qualifies for, we hear this is it, this will be the breakout for soccer in the US. Then the game promptly returns to dormancy.
I do wish we would win the World Cup once, because the reaction from the majority of Americans would be 'Huh? What?'.
Watching paint dry is far more stimulating.
Low scoring, and low excitement with a bunch of floppers…
Why would folks not want to watch that for 3 hours.
Hoping that the US has a big win over Iran tomorrow. I'm old enough to remember the hostage crisis of 1979-1981.
“Watching paint dry is far more stimulating.”
Same for watching the paint long after it IS dry.
Now you’re talking! My son played both football (REAL) and Lacrosse in high school and had so much fun with both! It was a blast to watch those kids, too!
Yep! LOL
Watching grass grow tales a place in there as well. Now kudzu, that can be dangerous.
A 90-minute game takes a few minutes more than 90 minutes to play (plus the intermission)--not as bad as American football which is supposedly 60 minutes but takes much longer.
I don’t have problems with 0-0 games, if they are well played. In baseball, such games are called pitchers’ duels. In football, defensive struggles. Maybe soccer is an equivalent, I dunno.
Anything soccer has to offer, hockey has at three times the speed and 10 times the toughness, Even WITH all that gear, hockey players STILL lose their teeth. I used to watch the Triple Crown Line on the LA Kings hockey team (Dionne, Simmer, Taylor) and the athleticism and grace was stunning. The same team had no defense to speak of, so poor goalie Rogie Vachon would get 40 shots on goal quite often. That’s exciting even if all of them get blocked, there’s real action even with no scoring. But I don’t know of 40 shots on goal in soccer ever happening.
Soccer explains this:
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34271132/nfl-overwhelmed-demand-germany-tickets
And you can light people up in lacrosse.
I generally find soccer excruciatingly boring, but occasionally one can come across a match that’s not only interesting but even thought-provoking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfduUFF_i1A
Our replacements from central America like it. That’s who they’re grooming...
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