[Right Wing Assault]

Unredictability of outcome makes a sport exciting? Coin flipping should be the top rated sport in that case.

[MikefromOhio]

American football, basketball and baseball have millions of followers, but they can't match soccer for sheer excitement, says a team of scientists.

Oh yeah. Gotta love those RIVETING 0-0 games where the ball get's bounced around midfield for 90+ minutes..../sarcasm

[AzaleaCity5691]

There is no sport in the world more exciting than Crimson Tide football.

[RippleFire]

I hope this research wasn't government financed.

[mallardx]

Soccer - dullest sport ever? Unless you are 12 and playing it, it absolutely stinks. These must be the same "scientists" that insist the Kyoto Protocol is brilliant.

[Right Wing Assault]

researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US.

This is scary if these are the guys doing our weapons research. Anyway, why are they studying sports excitement? Can't we find something a bit more useful for them to do?

[MARKUSPRIME]

Soccer is gay.

[Xenalyte]

What's to understand? If you like soccer, you are Latino, European, or gay.

[Choose Ye This Day]

ping

[Stu Cohen]

Soccer is a game for people who are skilled enough to play sports.

Why do you think they have soccer leagues for 5 year old girls?

[Lexington Green]

Soccer ia a socialist game. You gotta play with both hands behind your back.

[Kimmers]

First of all I love football but Lacrosse comes a close second for me......

signed,
proud lacrosse mom

[opinionator]

Soccer - the sport for guys too small to make the football team.

[Rennes Templar]

I have never understood the appeal of soccer. What a bore.
And I'm a former athlete adept in many sports.

[Chode]

bout the only thing MORE boring than sucker, is womens sucker...

[Yardstick]

Soccer's unpredictability means that the better team is less likely to win than in other sports. In other words, soccer punishes the strong and lifts the downtrodden. What perfect social justice!

[DManA]

Be interesting to match $amounts gambled on games with that list. The results of the analysis showed that the "upset frequency" was highest for soccer,

[OldPossum]

These "analysts" could never understand the very detailed logistics involved in baseball, real football, and basketball. Not that there isn't some degree of logistics in soccer but I doubt that it rises to the level of a situation in baseball in which it's the bottom of the ninth inning, with the home team at bat with runners on first and third, one out, leading by one run. The visiting team has to take into account so many variables: who's at bat, can they get a double play? where do you post the outfielders? Etc.

Why anyone would want to go watch a bunch of men poke a ball around a field without the use of their arms (no other "sport" that I have ever witnessed takes away one's arms and hands in its execution) is far, far beyond my comprehension?

This joke of a sport has failed at least four times in the USA. Lack of interest.

I honestly believe that the reason that soccer is so popular worldwide is not because of its being an interesting game; it's because it doesn't require much in the way of equipmet. Consider its requirements, especially as opposed to those of baseball, with its multitude of baseballs, bats, batting helmets,gloves, catcher's equipment, fences surrounding the park, bases and home plate, a pitcher's mound that must be maintained to certain specs. It's the ideal sport for a third world country. Four goal posts, some netting, one soccer ball, and you're in the business.

[fso301]

Soccer has all the excitement of a chess tournament

[woofer]

...but they can't match soccer for sheer excitement, says a team of scientists. The reason is its element of surprise...

Surprised that one side actually scored a goal.

Surprised that Australian Rules Football didn't get a looksee. Now there's excitement.

And more blood than any televised slugfest that turmed into a pHockey game.

[eyespysomething]

IN SOCCER
There Are No Timeouts
There Are No Helmets
No Shoulder Pads
No Commercial Breaks
No Halftime Extravaganza
No Cheerleaders
So If That's What You Need
Go Play Football you big wuss.