The myth that America doesn't like football

BBC News ^ | 2nd June 2015 | Nick Bryant

[bramps]

Every soccer thread seemingly has a built in soccer ignorance ping.

[Goldsborough]

Sorry, but soccer is crap-worthy. Any “sport” that women can play pretty indistinguishably from men doesn’t require much of anything in the way of guts or true athletic talent.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Point well taken, lol.

[katana]

Frankly, if I’m traveling and relaxing in front of a TV I’ve found cricket and rugby or sumo more entertaining to watch than soccer. One has the leisurely pace of baseball but with tension as the side batting second tries to surpass the score of the first. And the other two have some of the violence of American football. Can’t watch more than five minutes of soccer without becoming bored.

[mn-bush-man]

I'm not sure which is more wretched: them, or the ghetto thugs gesticulating and gyrating obscenely in the end zone.

Here is the answer:

Them.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Every soccer thread seemingly has a built in soccer ignorance ping.

Why are you pinging me to this thread?

[dalereed]

Socker isn’t football, it’s 3rd world crap!!!

[discostu]

Actually nobody co-opted anything. There’s a number of games that spawned from the same root, and whichever one is most popular in a given region is called football. So soccer, rugby, Gaelic, Aussie Rules, American and Canadian are all just football somewhere.

[bramps]

Thanks for immediately proving my post #41.

[bk1000]

Got into a discussion with a fan many years ago. He mentioned “football”. When I determined what he was actually talking about I said: “Oh! Soccer. Yeah, my little girl plays that.” (He didn’t find it amusing in the least.)

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Soccer is the sport of gays, lesbians, and terrorists.

[showme_the_Glory]

Hmmmmmm, let me see, Soccer or Oprah. Can’t watch either.

[miss marmelstein]

These are hilarious!

That said, I can’t stand watching hairy, undersized Spaniards running around playing “futbul.” I’m concerned a certain somebody on FR is going to show up now and use that foreign lingo in a serious manner. He knows who he is!

[Goldsborough]

It's quaint that you equate mostly inconclusive running around to "action." It's as if you had said that slobbering on a woman's ankle for two hours was "lovemaking."

Never before in the history of televised physical activity has so much slow motion analysis ever been aimed at "action" where nothing actually happened as has been done with soccer..

[BenLurkin]

I don't know much about rugby -- how many pages are there in a professional rugby team's playbook?

[Goldsborough]

Contempt isn’t ignorance.

[st.eqed]

I played soccer, football, basketball, baseball, wrestling in high school.. the only time I had butterflies was at the beginning of the football game. Wrestling g was second in intensity.. football is the best organized sport.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I will admit, I have found the English Premiere League compelling, as it has the best athletes, and the quality of play is extremely high.

Plus it’s on at 8AM when it has no competition.

The AA Pittsburgh Riverhounds.....not so much.

[Skooz]

It's as if you had said that slobbering on a woman's ankle for two hours was "lovemaking."

Don't knock it till you've tried it, Gold.

[Goldsborough]

I suppose that all that slobbering would take “endurance.”