Posted on 06/17/2014 5:36:33 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
Finally we will be able to see fruity NFL celebration dancing by a player and know for certain that the guy is gay.
Freegards
This was the worst looking US World Cup effort that I can remember. Yet they won. Scoring has always been a problem. Yesterday they scored two legit goals.
Hopefully the sloppy play was nerves. They’re not accustomed to defending an early lead in World Cup play.
Baseball??....coming up on all star break
Football?? coming up on training camp soon
Shooting?? Americas pastime and always will be.
Soccer?? Cute when little tiny kids run around like nuts playing it otherwise who gives a damn.
That would be funny in normal circumstances, but the Ghana players were in better shape than the US players. So maybe they should have tossed us sandwiches.
Exactly. If NFL is going to allow showing off like that, might as well get a guy who understand choreography.
But whining about soccer on a soccer thread is timeless.
The USA / Ghana game was the very first time I ever watched soccer on T.V.
For being the most popular sport on the planet....I have no idea why...
I’m glad we won....I would never have described the game as “Dramatic”...
Its a gift that the U.S. doesn’t dominate at soccer.
If we did, then entire world would ally against us.
Did they stop fixing matches? I heard that some statistician looked at the records and figured out that there was ‘nudge-nudge wink say no more’ going on between the Sumo dudes when they matched off against each other more than once in certain situations. I do think it is one heck of a spectacle.
Freegards
Ok, you may have to sit down before you read the following. We (the USA) suck. We steadily are getting better. If you are looking for excitement, best look elsewhere for another decade.
Michael Bradley did not have a good game.
What the US did well was defend the crossing passes so that Ghana could never get anything going in the box.
Watching how well Mexico played against Brazil today, I had to wonder how the heck do we beat Mexico on a consistent level as we do, they have so much more talent than the US.
Not soon enough. Late July.
I think the early goal made the US a bit complacent afterwards.
All the jerk wad prancing and chest pounding that goes on in the NFL is because there is no self policing in the NFL, the nature of the modern game doesn’t allow the cool players to do it. So the jerks run rampant, except for some arbitrary rules that are suitable for 1st graders.
I didn’t care for the celebrations I saw in that game last night with Ghana, but I can see that its not going to happen 30 times a game. Still better if it only happens at the end of the match or whatever you call it. Let the fans go nuts when you score. I think the flopping is actually a bigger turn off. But man it’s hard to beat those big meaty blocks of no-commercial breaks, very refreshing.
Freegards
-— I think the early goal made the US a bit complacent afterwards. -—
Tbaf could be it. The Portugal game should tell us more.
You bring up an interesting point: the reason there is no “jerk wad prancing and chest pounding” in MLB is because someone will get drilled the next inning.
Face it America “soccer isn’t an American sport”
Doesn’t even have to be the next inning, it could be a game 3 months down the road. That’s one of the benefits of having a 162 game regular season, self policing still works even with umps warning benches. No one wants 90+ anywhere much less in the eye socket. Same thing with a lot of pitchers not hitting. They’ll just stick your hot hitter.
Here’s the Sumo match throwing thing, I guess the guys who are 7-7 in a tournament win their next match a ridiculous amount of the time, or at least they did at one time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match-fixing_in_professional_sumo
Freegards
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.