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Why so serious?Why so serious? Posts: 48
edited June 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
What a stupid game!

Why does this get shown on tv in the states,noone likes it!
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  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,690
    Noone is actually two words.
    Despite that, I think you're quickly approaching Dunk in your eleven posts for my favorite board member.

    I don't care for soccer.
  • Why so serious?Why so serious? Posts: 48
    Rygar wrote:
    Noone is actually two words.
    Despite that, I think you're quickly approaching Dunk in your eleven posts for my favorite board member.

    I don't care for soccer.

    Do you like Hockey?
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,690
    Why so serious? wrote:
    Do you like Hockey?
    I believe it is a requirement for citizenship in my country.
  • booomm11booomm11 Posts: 865
    Why so serious? wrote:
    What a stupid game!

    Why does this get shown on tv in the states,noone likes it!

    What don't you like?

    This is gonna bring out the Euro members..:)
    being so KiND.. tO LEt me RiDe!!!
  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    lol..yeah this thread will go over big with all the European fans...I don't know Im not a big sports fan but I don't think it will ever take off here. We are all about football and baseball.
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  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    Rygar wrote:
    I believe it is a requirement for citizenship in my country.
    that, and curling ;)
  • Why so serious?Why so serious? Posts: 48
    on another note.why does Florida have so many baseball teams,the stadims are always empty for games.
  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    Why so serious? wrote:
    on another note.why does Florida have so many baseball teams,the stadims are always empty for games.
    location location location
  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    and do you really think 2 is 'so many'?
  • Why so serious?Why so serious? Posts: 48
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. wrote:
    and do you really think 2 is 'so many'?

    Yes,for the amount of pro teams in the state(at any sport),there never seems to be big crowds at anything.
  • pearljammin41pearljammin41 Posts: 465
    The rules of soccer are very simple, basically it is this: if it moves, kick it. If it doesn’t move, kick it until it does. - Phil Woosnam
  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    libragirl wrote:
    We are all about football and baseball.

    Ahh yes Football, that game that is played 95% of the time with the ball in players hands.;)
    Soccer is called Football in Europe and the majority of the world because it is played primarily with the ball at the foot hence foot-ball.:)
    And dont worry I'm a big fan of both sports the Packers are my team and have been since I was 9 or so and Brett Farve is a hero of mine, I just find it odd that you call it Football.:)

    When you look at it though, Ice Hockey has a largely diminishing interest in the states as well these days, another sport I love, yet obesity is becoming for lack of better wording a bigger problem, do you think there is any correlation in this?
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,631
    I like how the players go down like they've been shot by snipers and out comes the stretcher. Yet, I've never seen the "medics" take c-spine precautions...
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  • AndyMandersonAndyManderson Posts: 167
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. wrote:
    that, and curling ;)


    speaking of which, i'd much rather watch curling on tv than soccer, why can't they show more curling on tv?
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,690
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. wrote:
    that, and curling ;)
    No no, that is a misconception.
    Most of us don't really like curling, but it is one of 2 or 3 sports in which we have some successful participants so some of us (them) pretend to like it.
  • Atomic PunkAtomic Punk Posts: 2,941
    I love soccer, but it is one of those things where if someone doesn't get it I won't bother explaining it because they'll never get it.
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,690
    Atomic Punk wrote:
    I love soccer, but it is one of those things where if someone doesn't get it I won't bother explaining it because they'll never get it.
    How can someone 'never get it'? They'll never get it only if they never want to, in which case they didn't want you to waste their time trying to get them to get it in the first place, and are probably wishing you'd change the channel.
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    libragirl wrote:
    lol..yeah this thread will go over big with all the European fans...I don't know Im not a big sports fan but I don't think it will ever take off here. We are all about football and baseball.

    Only Americans call it soccer. Everyone else calls it by it's real name.
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Only Americans call it soccer. Everyone else calls it by it's real name.

    yeah.... fitbaw
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    The MLS is easier to watch this year. It looks a little less like the kick and run soccer that 3rd graders often participate in. :)
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  • ThecureThecure Posts: 814
    i don't want to insult people here but i find that americans don't really like a sport that they are not good at and don't have alot of players who play at a high level.

    just liek in canada, we don't really watch baseball as we are not that good at it and there is not alot of canadians who play in the MLB.

    for me, i LOVE FOOTBALL! PORTUGAL VS GERMANY TODAY!
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  • South of SeattleSouth of Seattle West Seattle Posts: 10,724
    Thecure wrote:
    i don't want to insult people here but i find that americans don't really like a sport that they are not good at and don't have alot of players who play at a high level.

    just liek in canada, we don't really watch baseball as we are not that good at it and there is not alot of canadians who play in the MLB.

    for me, i LOVE FOOTBALL! PORTUGAL VS GERMANY TODAY!

    Actually that's why Americans don't play Hockey. ;) You just can't go out and ice skate anywhere :)

    I think the real problem is money. 9 out of 10 kids want to be pro athletes. They see baseball, basketball, football, gold, skateboarding/snowboarding/motocross as the sports they can make money in. So after grade school (where everyone plays soccer) they move to the other more "american media" friendly sports.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Only Americans call it soccer. Everyone else calls it by it's real name.
    False! We have our own football here... I believe the aussies have their own also. We call association football 'soccer' because football is gaelic football :p
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Rygar wrote:
    How can someone 'never get it'? They'll never get it only if they never want to, in which case they didn't want you to waste their time trying to get them to get it in the first place, and are probably wishing you'd change the channel.
    I don't know either... I mean it's not the same as 'understanding' it... cos the reason it's one of the most popular sports in the world is cos there's nothing to it.... try to get the ball (without using your hands) down to the other end of the field and into the net... SURELY even an American could understand that? :eek:
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Flannel ShirtFlannel Shirt Posts: 1,021
    I dont think its because we arent good at it here in the states, its just that we werent raised on it.

    Kids in our high schools would much rather play football (our football), baseball, basketball, hockey, track, basket weaving, detention, and after hour studies than play soccer.

    That said and all kidding aside, it is definately gaining in popularity. There are more and more soccer fields being put up, more attention is given to soccer on our sports channels (ESPN, FOX has their own soccer channel, etc), more kids are playing at earlier ages, etc. We are simply playing catch up with a world that has had hundreds of years as a head start. One day we will dominate that sport as well, so enjoy it while you still have it :) . Currently, all our best athletes play all the other sports. Once they start playing soccer, watch out world.
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  • stu geestu gee Posts: 1,174
    Rygar wrote:
    How can someone 'never get it'? They'll never get it only if they never want to, in which case they didn't want you to waste their time trying to get them to get it in the first place, and are probably wishing you'd change the channel.

    I agree, but i also dont understand why someone with apparently so little interest in it as this thread starter appears to have would start a thread about it.

    I'll never 'get' baseball, or 'get' American 'football', but i dont need anyone to explain it to me so that i do 'get' it, because i dont want to 'get' it, and i dont feel the need to start a thread to question what baseball is all about, or why its so popular, no matter how utterly shite it most certainly is.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Flannel Shirt wrote:
    Currently, all our best athletes play all the other sports. Once they start playing soccer, watch out world.
    :confused: I don't recall being beaten by the US in gaelic football, hurling or rugby! Wanna remind me? :p
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,690
    stu gee wrote:
    I agree, but i also dont understand why someone with apparently so little interest in it as this thread starter appears to have would start a thread about it.

    I'll never 'get' baseball, or 'get' American 'football', but i dont need anyone to explain it to me so that i do 'get' it, because i dont want to 'get' it, and i dont feel the need to start a thread to question what baseball is all about, or why its so popular, no matter how utterly shite it most certainly is.
    Apparently you are unfamiliar with the thread starter ;)
    I'm sure it's a joke, but if it was so serious I think the point isn't complaining about soccer so much as it is complaining about soccer being on tv all the time...
  • Flannel ShirtFlannel Shirt Posts: 1,021
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :confused: I don't recall being beaten by the US in gaelic football, hurling or rugby! Wanna remind me? :p
    My bad beer lady.......all the other REAL sports. Hurling is stupid. Period. Gealic football is just that...GAY! and rugby is for wanna be american football players who cannot comprehend strategy so they get sent to play that retarded sport.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Flannel Shirt wrote:
    My bad beer lady.......all the other REAL sports. Hurling is stupid. Period. Gealic football is just that...GAY! and rugby is for wanna be american football players who cannot comprehend strategy so they get sent to play that retarded sport.
    Ahhhh... thank you for proving your ignorance :) so you've obviously never seen any of the 3 :D
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
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