"Soccer isn't a real sport."
You win my vote for most ignorant post of the year. Soccer is a very real sport. It takes tremendous amounts of stamina, quickness, balance, and coordination. It is a lot more demanding than something like baseball or golf.
I agree soccer is a real sport, but they need some changes to make the game more exciting. My son played from the time he was five through high school. Now, he won't watch soccer if it's not the World Cup ... too boring. Typically if a professional team gets a 2-0 lead, the game is over.
Some good changes would be additional substitutions. It's dumb to carry 22 players and only allow about four substitutions. The game would be much more exciting if there were rested players on the field more of the time.
Also, given modern scoreboards, why not keep official time on the field? It's dumb when only one man actually knows how much time is left.
Soccer is a communist game that doesn't let people use their hands - it's un-American. ;-)
I've always wondered why they would interrupt a perfectly good 10K by putting a ball in the middle of it.
I mean, pick the ball up! You have opposable thumbs, use them! We have evolved, people. Children kick balls around. Real men hit things with sticks and throw things as far and fast as they can. In short, soccer is a perfectly nice game, but a sport requires upper body strength or a proper finish line.
You ever play catcher there pal?
Soccer is very demanding and a great sport but don't think catchers or pitchers aren't out there working.
Try it.
"Soccer isn't a real sport."
Yeah. Watch Shaq butt his way all the way under the basket and then dunk it. Yep. That is athletic prowess, all right.