Thread: People act like they are all "ZOMG I LUV SOCCER" because the world cup is on

Originally Posted by flame

Soccer players are no doubt tough athletes. They run and run and run, back and forth and back and forth. The thing about soccer is you can watch the 3 minute highlight reel and see the whole game. Team A almost scored a goal, team B almost scored a goal, team B scores goal celebration... end game. I watched a game, almost the entire thing, its ok just not something I would get into and keep up with.

I dont know the rules at all... All I know is that scoring just one goal is epic and everyone goes crazy, guess if your watching 90 minutes of this, someone better score at least once.

Enjoy it all you soccer fans. Go teams... yeah!

Agreed.

They are badass athletes and their cardio is above par. For that I respect their sport more than American football.



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Originally Posted by flame

Soccer players are no doubt tough athletes. They run and run and run, back and forth and back and forth. The thing about soccer is you can watch the 3 minute highlight reel and see the whole game. Team A almost scored a goal, team B almost scored a goal, team B scores goal celebration... end game. I watched a game, almost the entire thing, its ok just not something I would get into and keep up with.

I dont know the rules at all... All I know is that scoring just one goal is epic and everyone goes crazy, guess if your watching 90 minutes of this, someone better score at least once.

Enjoy it all you soccer fans. Go teams... yeah!

Name ONE sport that is NOT true about. Did you know that the NFL now has a network where they show every play from an NFL game in 30 minutes? Yes, a 3 hour game actually has 30 minutes of live plays. 3 second play, then 30 seconds of waiting for the next one sounds so exciting.

Don't get me wrong, I love football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer as well, but every game is boring if you don't understand it.

Originally Posted by CivilWars

3 second play, then 30 seconds of waiting for the next one sounds so exciting.drinking beer

fixed that for you.

What I am saying is you know there are plays going on in football. Possessions and scoring drives. Innings in baseball and basketball they score almost every trip down the court. With soccer you have no idea when its coming. The possession goes back and forth and then Bam! someone scores. They try and setup so that the other team breaks down so they can get a scoring opportunity. And even then with that big ass goal its still hard as hell to make it. Maybe its one of those sports that would be much better watching live, just like baseball.

And again, the same can be said about hockey, football, and baseball. Yes, basketball is different, but I can watch the last 3 minutes of a basketball game and know everything I need to as well.

This just goes to show how young America is. I used to be bothered by comments such as those in this thread when I was younger, but I laugh now. The comparison of football, (yes, football), to other sports is just as absurd as most of you that bring various other forms of nonsensical arguments in other threads; the whole comparing apples to oranges. To those that play the game, not just watch it every 4 years or during the Olympics, it IS football. It's just like all the American sports, baseball, basketball & American football, in the fact that kids grow up watching/playing them from birth, football is still "young" here, so it finds it's fan base (both players and watchers) at the higher age groups. Granted it's gotten better, in places, but it's still very young here. Another thing that i've noticed, is the fact that it seems to be a mid-high level income sports here, where as in all the other countries around the globe, it's the poverty sport, it's the sport you find being played in the slums and ghetto's. Much to the likes of basketball and American football here.

Thing is, people always bash what they don't understand, shows you're immaturity and lack of respect for a sport that has been around far longer than your other most loved "easier to understand" ones.

<-- footballer for 27 years, played in organized football since age 6, all through prep school, high school, played for Auburn University in college, i even played for a short period for the Atlanta Silverbacks. Now I play in a local men's league. I'm German/Italian, so it's kind of heritage, in the blood type stuff