This sport is stupid anyway
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I enjoy watching the US play in the World Cup and was quite let down when they failed to beat Ghana. I was as ****** as many of the hardcore soccer fans with how the US got absolutely jammed by the referees in 2 of their games. Now that they are eliminated my desire to watch the games has gone way down.
Sadly I think before soccer really starts to takeoff from a fan perspective in the US we will need to turn our national team into a perenial power like Brazil. As far as the MLS goes it is a far cry from the caliber of play in the English Premier League and I think most casual fans understand that which is why it hasn't really got the support it needs to become big in this country. Americans want to root for a winner and until the product improves you won't see soccer becoming huge here like it is just about everywhere else in the world.
It's really just their version of all the flopping in basketball. Unfortunately both have gotten worse and worse.
Just an awful World Cup as far as gaining fans in the US goes.
so much crap diving going on, scoring is down, the US gets blatantly jobbed, and the officials can't get any calls right at all. hard to market when even the most hardcore fans hate what's going on right now. Instead of fixing things, FIFA would rather just hide.
LOL - that made me laugh. My "serious" answer could be totally wrong... I enjoyed the intended reason for posting, though. :smile:
In soccer flopping gets yellow cards while in basketball it is called "having a high basketball IQ"
also the two worst flopping teams didn't even make it out of the first round, so it is starting to get outplayed. Maybe the reason people roll around hurt is because they are hurt, running full speed and getting hit does hurt, especially if you are getting ankles stepped on.
I agree not as much as Ray Lewis hitting you, but then again there is a reason that most football players suffer some sort of brain damage
Of course you don't get it, you spent a second trying to understand it and gave up and reverted to bashing it on the internet, just like with soccer. (BTW it's a headline about a completely unrelated story; check the wording above the headline) It's fascinating that if soccer is so irrelevant and unimportant why people must commit so much time to bash it.
Also, if it is so unimportant and irrelevant and not cared about in the US how did a Soccer game on an early Saturday afternoon get watched by more Americans than both the first 5 games of the Stanley Cup AND NBA finals, both of which air on primetime?!
I'm sorry you don't like soccer, but judging by your picture you're just another Iowa-based-Red Sox fan who wants ESPN to turn back into the east coast sports hub dedicating 40% of their summer coverage to Sox/Yankees games that take 5 hours and are more boring than 8 scoreless draws in soccer combined. It's one thing that you don't like soccer but stop trying to speak for the rest of the country when it's become obvious that it has found a hold in the mainstream- Euros in 2012 are gonne be huge! Get over yourself. Rant over.
The argument I love is when people tell you what a cultural snob you are if you don't like soccer. " Try embracing other cultures. Step outside the United States once in a while. What have you got against third world countries, where they all love soccer?"
I've actually heard these arguments made in all seriousness. Like I'm some kind of bigot or something because I don't care for a boring sport.
The soccer snobs bring every bit of this razzing onto themselves.
Exactly and this is why all baseball fans support the end of 2 and 4 game series from here on out, right?
The irony of soccer bashers bashing on the defenders of soccer. Pretty funny, yes there are those defenders that are a little off base, but the bashers seem pretty intent on continually bashing fans and the sport. Just look at most topics of the World cup on this site. Pretty ironic. I love watching soccer, but I'm not going to go overboard and and try to make people like it. Its just like types of music, some people like it some people dont. The ones who believe there opinion is the only opinion are idiotic ones, and there seems to be more bashers trying to talk down about the sport which creates more of these defenders.
Back on topic, The new york post is crap anyways.
Back on topic, The new york post is crap anyways.
Um, I think he was making a joke that he didn't understand why the picture was in the thread by pretending that he thought the IVF thing was the point.
We allow threads that are pro-soccer and try to keep the hate out of it; we can also allow threads here that are anti-soccer without the posters being hated on. Please keep things respectful.
So the sideline has magical healing powers that lets them jump right up and back in?
Agreed. There's nothing wrong with liking or disliking. If you watched the sport and just don't like it, there's nothing wrong with that.
Stating something like.. just because the US isn't great at it, it's a sport not worth watching.. then yeah, that's being a snob about it.
Otherwise, to each his own.
FIFA is by-far the worst thing for soccer. They seem to love the controversy, as it happens every World Cup. But I can't agree that it was a bad World Cup for fans, as it has broken nearly every ratings record. Plus, after Donovan's goals, that was about the only thing being talked about.
The worst baseball games (I'm talking any combination of the Royals, Pirates, Orioles, etc.) are more entertaining than scoreless draws in soccer. At least somebody has to win.
and 99% of the US doesn't care about soccer. They pretend to care when the World Cup is on. Poll people in a few weeks and I'll bet you the vast majority can't tell you more than 2 players off the US roster.
I'm not trying to win people over to liking soccer. If people don't like it, that is their decision. I just want people to respect it and respect the people who DO enjoy soccer.
There have been 2 in the last 12 years in the NFL. There were as many ties in the first 2 games of the WC.
Agree on FIFA. just terrible. I wasn't saying it was a complete fail, but I just thought the situation was set up for soccer to possibly explode if the US got to at least the quarterfinals, and there was a good tournament with lots of free flowing play..
Instead we see a ton of 0-0 draws and consistently awful reffing.
