Soccer World Cup

[dd74]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

I tried watching and the hours of guys running a few feet in pads carrying a ball back and forth, ending in a 0-0 or 7-7 tie, killed it for me.

Rika

LOL! Their run lasts, what, ten, fifteen seconds at the most to cover 100 yards, at the most.

And please, no one can tell me the usual pro linemen protecting a QB is "healthy." Sure, three hundred pounds but with 30% body fat. Oh, but the point is they have quick feet and hands.

Uh huh...

[McLovin]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

I tried watching and the hours of guys running a few feet in pads carrying a ball back and forth, ending in a 0-0 or 7-7 tie, killed it for me.

Rika

What sport was that, and when??

[McLovin]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

You have to actually watch the entire game, because you will miss the important play otherwise.

No you don't. That's why god invented ESPN.

[URY914]

Originally Posted by pazuzu

tell me, why exactly do people always feel the need to come into a soccer thread or story and explain how they "just can't get it" and it's "boring"?
Why? What's going on in your head that you think "hey, there's a specific thread about a very specific subject, likely filled with people who want to talk about that specific subject, so i'll wander in and explain to all of them that it's boring and i don't like it".

Really. Come on. It happens here. It happens on other forums. It happens in every blog that has written about soccer. It happens on soccer forums, where people like you are considered trolls. It happens in the comment sections of newspaper and magazine websites.

Why? I mean, really, what is wrong with you? Soccer fans don't go wandering into football or baseball forums and start acting like that, so why the hell do you do it to soccer stories?

Honestly, there's got to be a reason, lay it out for me. Make me understand. You guys aren't normally such jerks, why does the word "soccer" suddenly make you a flaming idiot?

a+

[McLovin]

Sounds like somebody needs a nap.

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by McLovin

I tried watching and the hours of guys running around in shorts kicking a ball back and forth, ending in a 0-0 or 1-1 tie, killed it for me.

I once watched a baseball game in which Bobby Bonds led off the bottom of the first with a homerun. (Yes, it was a long time ago.) The Giants only got one more hit, and Juan Marichal one-hit the Dodgers for a 1-0 victory.

It was one of the most exciting baseball games I ever saw, and I bet a lot of baseball fans would agree. But these same fans don't like soccer because of low scores. Go figure.

[mca]

We watch the games at work. Projected in HD on the big screen. We also had a kick off breakfast last Friday. One of the partners made omelets, pancakes, bacon and smoothies.

Yea, just bragging a little. Pretty cool place to work I suppose .

[Tim Hancock]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Tell me, why exactly do people always feel the need to come into a soccer thread or story and explain how they "just can't get it" and it's "boring"?
Why? What's going on in your head that you think "hey, there's a specific thread about a very specific subject, likely filled with people who want to talk about that specific subject, so I'll wander in and explain to all of them that it's boring and I don't like it".

Really. Come on. It happens here. It happens on other forums. It happens in every blog that has written about soccer. It happens on soccer forums, where people like you are considered trolls. It happens in the comment sections of newspaper and magazine websites.

Why? I mean, really, what is wrong with you? Soccer fans don't go wandering into football or baseball forums and start acting like that, so why the hell do you do it to soccer stories?

Honestly, there's got to be a reason, lay it out for me. Make me understand. You guys aren't normally such jerks, why does the word "soccer" suddenly make you a flaming idiot?

The reasons people post negative responses is because it IS A BORING spectator sport compared to American football plain abd simple. On a side note, many small schools in our area that were once football powerhouses often turn into losing teams due to some of the athletes choosing to play soccer instead of football. The community who once supported the football teams could care less about soccer and the end result is no support for either sports.

[McLovin]

OK, let's be honest now, there's only one reason:

Homophobia.

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by Pazuzu

Tell me, why exactly do people always feel the need to come into a soccer thread or story and explain how they "just can't get it" and it's "boring"?

If you didn't grow up with it, I think you have to have a personal connection to it somehow. For me it was the '98 WC. I was in grad school with a bunch of Brazillians and Spainards. All guys (this was a metallurgy department after all) but they all had their wives with them (they don't seem to export ugly Brazillian women). Every night was a futbol party, every day was spent recovering and rehashing the previous day.

I was hooked. One of my most enjoyable 4 weeks, ever.

Still hate set pieces - the goals seem cheezy. If you don't get the net from play, on the run down the field, you should only get 1/2 point.

I'm heading to Glasgow and London 2-18 July, so I hope to find some great places to view the matches.

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by dd74

LOL! Their run lasts, what, ten, fifteen seconds at the most to cover 100 yards, at the most.

And please, no one can tell me the usual pro linemen protecting a QB is "healthy." Sure, three hundred pounds but with 30% body fat. Oh, but the point is they have quick feet and hands.

Uh huh...

Sounds like Kalifornia talk to me! Dem words would go over like a check book at a yard sale in these parts. Soccer players are in some great aerobic shape yet me thinks you haven't played ball. Even scrimagging with my Sons team took something out of me. It is truely a battle - each down. It doesn't last long but it doesn't stop. World class soccer players wouldn't last 4 downs in a div 1 college football game - they would cry after the first hit or block in a pro game.

[McLovin]

Ya think?!?

[rob justice]

Spotted just along the road last week

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by McLovin

I tried watching and the hours of guys running around in shorts kicking a ball back and forth, ending in a 0-0 or 1-1 tie, killed it for me.

Me too...but then never did like watching the game...sorry.

[dd74]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

Sounds like Kalifornia talk to me! Dem words would go over like a check book at a yard sale in these parts. Soccer players are in some great aerobic shape yet me thinks you haven't played ball. Even scrimagging with my Sons team took something out of me. It is truely a battle - each down. It doesn't last long but it doesn't stop. World class soccer players wouldn't last 4 downs in a div 1 college football game - they would cry after the first hit or block in a pro game.

Hit or block? Yawn!

You take a pro linebacker and pair him up against a top-level midfielder, and I guarantee you after one scrimmage, the linebacker will be coughing up lunch, breakfast and internals if he doesn't have a stroke first.

It's a different sport. You best understand that.

F-ball doesn't and never will compare to real football. It is only the same in name and nothing more, which is a disservice in its own right to true football.

But even with that, it's ridiculous to think a game about 4 downs with a 30 second break between each, timeouts, 2-minute warnings and commercial breaks to sell fried chicken, burgers, beer and antifreeze is somehow more physical than a 90+minute competition where for each half of 90 minutes (45), there is no true rules-oriented stoppage.

Soccer is a sport of endurance. Football, hardly. It's day camp with designer drugs, pads and helmets. I don't care what anyone says. Hell, tennis is more grueling than American football when true physical agility and endurance are called into play.

"Hittin'" means nothing, IMO. I can hit a door with my hand. So what! But I can't dribble like Messi or fire off a goal like Cacau. That's real skill.

[livi]

Originally Posted by JeremyD

Hard not to like brazil...


as far as the game goes - Mexico and Italy looked pretty flat - Germany dominated.

I did not think Sweden qualified to the games. Obviously Swedish girls take every opportunity to party, whether their team are there or not.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by dd74

Hit or block? Yawn!

You take a pro linebacker and pair him up against a top-level midfielder, and I guarantee you after one scrimmage, the linebacker will be coughing up lunch, breakfast and internals if he doesn't have a stroke first.

It's a different sport. You best understand that.

F-ball doesn't and never will compare to real football. It is only the same in name and nothing more, which is a disservice in its own right to true football.

But even with that, it's ridiculous to think a game about 4 downs with a 30 second break between each, timeouts, 2-minute warnings and commercial breaks to sell fried chicken, burgers, beer and antifreeze is somehow more physical than a 90+minute competition where for each half of 90 minutes (45), there is no true rules-oriented stoppage.

Soccer is a sport of endurance. Football, hardly. It's day camp with designer drugs, pads and helmets. I don't care what anyone says. Hell, tennis is more grueling than American football when true physical agility and endurance are called into play.

"Hittin'" means nothing, IMO. I can hit a door with my hand. So what! But I can't dribble like Messi or fire off a goal like Cacau. That's real skill.

Hey, when I'm watching my TV, I'll watch what I like...and when you watch your TV, you watch what you like, fair enuf?

[dd74]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Hey, when I'm watching my TV, I'll watch what I like...and when you watch your TV, you watch what you like, fair enuf?

You didn't really have to write that, did you?

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by Tim Hancock

I watched Saturday. It reminded me how much I hated playing soccer as a kid.... too much running back and forth with too little scoring. I truly do not understand the attraction to the game by so many.

Of course as an American, I want the USA to good against the world no matter what the sport, but soccer ranks pretty low in my mind compared to American football, baseball, basketball and hockey.

+1, my feeling exactly.

Soccer has got to be THE most boring sport on earth to watch.

Edit: Correction, 2nd most boring. NOTHING matches golf for pure zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz factor.

[flatsixjunky]

Hey, when I'm watching my TV, I'll watch what I like...and when you watch your TV, you watch what you like, fair enuf?

from pwd72s

Good point.

Why can't people who like the sport talk about it without having some opinionated individuals bash the game every two posts?

This other thread was started also, same results:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/search.php?searchid=5416858

BTW, the thread's name is not "Do you hate soccer and why?".

If anybody wants that discussion then why doesn't someone go ahead and start a new thread about that.

Makes sense to me.