Posted on 06/11/2010 5:23:41 AM PDT by markomalley
But now that I think about it, you have the “tribal” part correct.
George Will said that football promoted the two worst aspects of American life in that it was violence punctuated by committee meetings.
It’s also great for little kids that can’t get the ball up to the basket, and have trouble dibbling. It’s just an inherently easier sport.
My plan for making soccer more interesting:
Assign a sniper for each team. Give him three bullets.
Allow them to roam anywhere in the stadium. They can shoot any player on the field, but cannot shoot the other sniper.
Players would move faster.
And eventually the sport would die our completely.
Yep, makes them run around for an hour, tires them out, they go to sleep. It's great.
Once they're past the age of nap-taking and/or an 8:00pm bedtime, though, it's time to look for other pursuits, IMHO.
The person that invented T-Ball should be flogged in the public square.
True Story: I called my mother after watching my kids first T-Ball game. I apologized to her for making her sit through all of my crappy sports for the first sixteen years of my life. She accepted, but said watching football in the rain in November was her all time least favorite.
And I dread the field goal just before the half. If you do an instant replay (say to call the touchdown out-of-bounds), run a play, call timeout, kick and score, kick off, time expires . . . you can literally watch three or four plays and what seems like 25 commercials.
“He’s right. America needs to adopt a REAL man’s game: Rugby.”
How about AUSSIE RULES football? Now there’s a mans game.
Saturday 2:30PM EST, I think...USA vs England! I hope for the best but prepare for the worst. If we somehow pull it off...we’ll never hear the end of it.
T-ball is just wrong. There’s no other way to put it.
Will there be any love world cup threads this year?
The opening ceremony was just finished and we have kick off in the opening game in 40 minutes or so :-)
South Africa - Mexico
I can't imagine an American kid not knowing how to play baseball.
I guess you’ve never suffered through a game played by six year olds, then!
I’ll post some news articles if I find them interesting enough, but I don’t plan on being very sober.
That would be scary.
I loath soccer. The only way it could be interesting is if they shortened the field by 1/3 and added multiple balls in play. Otherwise. SNOOZVILLE.... I believe most sports are snoozeville anyway.
The fastest growing sport in America is Lacrosse, not Soccer. Any coincidence that it is totally reliant on hands?
Anyone who watches a lacrosse game can see in ten minutes why it is booming with American kids:
The running of soccer
The physicality
The higher scoring
I loves me some football as well, but you forgot to add oxygen tanks on the sidelines.
Keep Our Own Kids Safe (KOOKS)
Which is why we, as the most powerful nation in the world, with the best athletes in the world, have never won the biggest and most prestigious sporting event in the world. Sad, really. Nobody else in the world cares who wins at basketball or American football. The rest of the world looks at our power and says "So, you've never even come close to winning the World Cup."
You want to seriously screw with everybody's heads? Have us win the World Cup.
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