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protokatie:
Wow, you guys are all talking about random sports but completely miss the best sport ever invented! Competitive tag-team sexual intercourse! (Or am I the only one to dig that? If that is the case, guess I will have to tag out; who's next in the "ring"?)

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: shmokes on June 24, 2009, 08:34:47 pm ---I never watch soccer, but I've watched a few games at the actual stadium and had a ball.  I think it's a great sport.  Tennis is my favorite to watch, though, both in person and on TV.

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Yeah, best tennis match i ever watched was on the telly in our new house. Wimbledon final, Goran Ivanisevic vs Patrick Rafter. Couldn't really root for one over the other. Both likable guys. Brilliant game  :)

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: massive88 on June 25, 2009, 09:23:12 am ---
--- Quote from: Level42 on June 25, 2009, 04:14:14 am ---American football is popular in the US because it's a great sport to put a ---Cleveland steamer----load of commercials on TV during a game, mainly because the play is dead after every couple of seconds. Talks about BORING !


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American Football is the best TV sport period.  It doesn't matter if you like it or not, no other sport has the same pacing and violence to make it appeal to the greatest number of people like football.

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Rugby, if you want pacing and violence. Or boxing i suppose...

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: massive88 on June 25, 2009, 10:34:11 am ---  Give half the world a rooting interest in the NFL, and it would blow away soccer's viewership.



Stoppage in play may not be your thing, but for TV its perfect.  It gives ample time to the lowest common denominator to digest what they saw, see it again from other angles, and have commentary on it.  And the violence in football cannot be matched by any other sport.  Those two together make it the perfect TV sport.

Watching live?  Id say Soccer is better, due to your reasons.

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I don't think you realise that many people around the world have charitably made an attempt to watch gridiron. But the constant stopping and starting every few seconds is a real hurdle. This has happened with cricket too. Many people around the world have made a charitable attempt at watching it, but the constant boredom is a real hurdle  ;D


--- Quote from: RayB on June 25, 2009, 12:36:16 pm ---What a stupid thread. Nearly every sport could be accused of the same thing some of you morons are calling on soccer.
 When you see a player almost backflip, manage to kick the ball in the process AND direct the ball where he intended all in one acrobatic move, you realize there's more skill than just kicking a ball around.


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 :applaud:

Dartful Dodger:
I bought FIFA 09 for the PS3 this weekend.

Even pretend soccer sux.

I didn't post this on Monday because I figured I'd do some Bing searching to see if we were playing it right.  We were.

I had soccer for my PS1 in college and we created full teams and there was one button to slide tackle/pass, another button to shoot and you would use a combination of buttons to perform bicycle kicks.

This PS3 version is like playing Mortal Kombat.  You have to memorize a combination of buttons just to make the ball go towards the net.

If I wanted a game to be overly complicated for no other reason than to make it overly complicated, I'd play real soccer.

It doesn't let you create new teams, but it had the county in Ireland my mom was from, although it would have been fun to create my dad's county.

Also I couldn't figure out how to create a league that consisted of teams from different leagues.


I paid 50 bucks for this game so I'll play it a few more times.  I'll post a retraction if by some chance after I get the hang of it, it stops suking.

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