Do we have any Soccer fans on here?
- Thread starter weevilcatch
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Any fans of prissy men being paid hundreds of millions to roll around on the ground and pretend their leg has been shattered in 46 places after they trip over a blade of grass?
No bruh....
No bruh....
I enjoy rooting against team Mexico because they are such unbelievable cry babies.
So is Brazil, Columbia and a few others. I root against those countries knowing how they nut up when they lose and threaten to kill people over it, lol.
I must admit a guilty pleasure..... please don't judge me...
When I read that soccer fans run out onto a field and assault, lynch, kill, decapitate, or otherwise act like total fvcking idiots over a soccer match..... I do laugh a little.
My favorites were--- Pablo Escobar killing a player that got them booted from the world cup for scoring a goal on their own team.
The Brazilians that were so pissed at the refs for a sh!tty call that they cut off. The poor refs had their heads stuck on a pike at midfield.
Saddam hussein taking his soccer team and putting them in cells that were too short to stand up in and too narrow to lie down in.
Anyone that resorts to that sort of violence is fvcked up and deserves to be mocked.
You mean kickball? Nothing more riveting than a tie or 1-0 kickball game.
I always find this thinking funny. If you think every game is 1-0, not much I can say, lol.
Football - more commercials than actual game time.
Baseball - strikeout 10x a game and hit a homerum and a bunch of weak flyouts
Hockey - exciting but can't follow the puck
NBA - 60 free throws a game
Yep, those are WAY more exciting.
Champions League Soccer is extremely exciting...especially the 2nd leg
World cup and Olympics is about all you'll get out of me. I may go to a FC Dallas game once a year bc I get free tickets or something.
Honestly though, I've never understood people that can watch football, baseball, golf, nascar, etc. on tv and then say soccer is boring. Makes zero sense.
Tell you something I loved during the Olympics...Rugby 7's. That was some exciting tv.
Tell you something I loved during the Olympics...Rugby 7's. That was some exciting tv.
You can try all you want to sell me on kickball, but I ain't buying. Watching the grass grow is more entertaining than kickball.
My comment was tongue in cheek, but I kind of agree. If you were to objectively list what makes a sport good TV, American favorites would probably be down on the list. I'll watch the Saturday soccer games on NBC, but don't follow the teams or leagues in general.
I rarely watch football games without a DVR delay. The typical college game being 4+ hours is a beating as well. Remove the emotional investment and a typical college or NFL game is really just background noise in my house.
Not trying to sell you anything. I'm saying it is borderline ignorant to say soccer on tv is boring but football is exciting. *Clarify, just your regular NFL/College game...Browns-Bengals or Northwestern-Indiana game.
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I would say emotional or financial investment is about 90% of any and all sport watching on TV.
LOL.
MLB has revenue sharing
NBA, NFL and NHL have salary caps
All of these leagues have a draft.
Taxes pay for stadiums, not billionaire owners
If you don't have billions, you have 0.00000000000000001% of owning a professional sports team.
Leagues make you pay an expansion fee rather than use promotion/relegation system
Football and Basketball had leagues merge to give the monetary power to the owners and league rather than the players.
Are those the "good American sporting values" you were referencing? Freeper, hate to tell you but American sports are socialist.
To some degree, I'm a football (soccer) fan. I don't follow the leagues, though. I just enjoy watching a match now and then. I coached kids, when mine played, and I love to see brilliant play.
I was listening to satellite radio and one of the host on the radio was having a segment about feel good Friday or what are you thankful for something of that sorts. Well a guy had called in from Alabama and was talking about his 15 year son just got picked up to play soccer in Germany and was about to get paid to the sum of 350k a year I was like why didn't I kick a ball earlier.
Weevil everything you say is true, but I was talking about the actual gameplay on the field. I absolutely agree that the BUSINESS of American sports is hardly an advertisement for the free market.
German clubs are all over the US looking for players.
Christian Pulisic
McKinze Gaines (from Austin)
Weston McKennie
Haji Wright
Josh Sargent
Those are some u20s that come to mind that German clubs have found and signed from over here.
Even there, soccer is one of the most free of the sports. Anyone can play the ball, and the flow of the players on the field is free (unless you're Italian, jk). Players have to work things out on the field themselves. Players are taught concepts and then have to rely on each other to control possession, attack, defend, etc.
Football - Coaches control EVERYTHING...players are told what to do and that they need to execute it the way they are told.
Baseball - One player controls the ball and tempo.
Basketball - very similar to soccer, but you have a clocks that force what you do and you can't go back court
And just so I'm clear, I love every sport. I'm a sport freak. I watch them all, including NASCAR and Golf. I'm just saying, soccer has these fallacies about it that are just flat wrong.
