Author Topic: Soccer sucks, but.... (Read 19066 times)

LLUncoolJ · « **on:** June 24, 2009, 04:26:03 pm »

That Hope Solo is some primo stuff.

I just found out she plays for some team here in STL. It would take a whole team of her and free beer to get me to go to a soccer game, but I'm just saying. Soccer usually adds about 2 dozen reasons it sucks every day on top of the 7 story existing stack. But she knocks the stack down a few inches. I'm thinking about becoming a stalker.

***Edit*** OK, sorry, I was mislead by Google. Here is a correct pic. I still may stalk her.

Level42 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2009, 04:32:06 pm »

American football sucks.

Football is the best sport to watch in the world.

ChadTower · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2009, 04:34:52 pm »

This whole thread is going to suck. Watch.

LLUncoolJ · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2009, 04:36:44 pm »

Ever notice how third world countries kick ass at soccer? That's only sport they have. If they had a choice between soccer and lawn darts...they would kick ass at lawn darts.

CCM · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2009, 05:00:41 pm »

ummm, why do you have a picture of Gina Carano in a thread about soccer?

FrizzleFried · « **Reply #5 on:** June 24, 2009, 05:04:23 pm »

Quote from: Level42 on June 24, 2009, 04:32:06 pm

Football (soccer) is the boringest sport to watch in the world.

I agree!

FrizzleFried · « **Reply #6 on:** June 24, 2009, 05:05:14 pm »

Quote from: pinballjim on June 24, 2009, 04:37:49 pm

Soccer sucks for all the same reasons hockey sucks.

Very little strategy, the players are magnetically attracted to the ball/puck, and all the action is repetitive and at the goals.

ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz..................

Very little strategy in hockey? Uh... sure.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #7 on:** June 24, 2009, 05:05:23 pm »

~~Hey, you're right! That's MMA's Gina Carano! I didn't even notice!~~

Edit: He fixed it....

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #8 on:** June 24, 2009, 05:30:34 pm »

I like soccer.

It gives girls something to do during baseball season.

mountain · « **Reply #9 on:** June 24, 2009, 05:34:37 pm »

I thought this thread was about this

Still...Soccer sucks and apparently Spain sucks at playing sucky soccer teams like the The United States.

LLUncoolJ · « **Reply #10 on:** June 24, 2009, 05:41:37 pm »

Quote from: mountain on June 24, 2009, 05:34:37 pm

I thought this thread was about this

Still...Soccer sucks and apparently Spain sucks at playing sucky soccer teams like the The United States.

The thread is actually about Hope Solo being hot. But you got to love a minute by minute account of a soccer game. If it weren't for that link, I'd have to go outside and watch my tomato plant grow.

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #11 on:** June 24, 2009, 05:43:43 pm »

What's funny about that is the rest of the world will be talking about this game for years...

...but in the USA this game will have been forgotten before the weekend.

Kevin Mullins · « **Reply #12 on:** June 24, 2009, 05:43:53 pm »

Ummm.... I think I oughta just keep my mouth shut in this thread.
It's always nothing but a big back and forth argument anyways.

Me - American Football
Spouse - Soccer (Holland)

Flake · « **Reply #13 on:** June 24, 2009, 06:16:47 pm »

Quote from: pinballjim on June 24, 2009, 04:37:49 pm

Soccer sucks for all the same reasons hockey sucks.

Very little strategy, the players are magnetically attracted to the ball/puck, and all the action is repetitive and at the goals.

ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz..................

Ditto. Just an awful sport to watch really..........just terrible........

hypernova · « **Reply #14 on:** June 24, 2009, 07:26:59 pm »

Quote from: Dartful Dodger on June 24, 2009, 05:43:43 pm

What's funny about that is the rest of the world will be talking about this game for years...

...but in the USA this game will have been forgotten before the weekend.

What game?

Quote from: Level42 on June 24, 2009, 04:32:06 pm

American football sucks.

HEY. HEY. HEY. Them's fightin' words, mister!

Quote from: ChadTower on June 24, 2009, 04:34:52 pm

This whole thread is going to suck. Watch.

So prophetic...

shmokes · « **Reply #15 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.

Xiaou2 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 24, 2009, 11:11:53 pm »

Quote

This whole thread is going to suck. Watch.

That comment alone keeps this thread from sucking.

Edit: (That comment.... and that hot dark haired fox!

)

Level42 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 25, 2009, 04:14:14 am »

Quote from: ChadTower on June 24, 2009, 04:34:52 pm

This whole thread is going to suck. Watch.

Ahh yeah, it's so funny, press the button and you get exactly the response that you expect

So, which third-world soccer team has recently won any significant international price. Also, what does American football require more than a badly shaped ball, a couple of lines and two goals ? Oh, I forgot that the sissies who play it need all their parts protected because they're scared of bruses.

Quote

Very little strategy, the players are magnetically attracted to the ball/puck, and all the action is repetitive and at the goals.

Which shows how little you understand about it.

American football is popular in the US because it's a great sport to put a ---steaming pile of meadow muffin----load of commercials on TV during a game, mainly because the play is dead after every couple of seconds. Talks about BORING !

HAH !

The entire world plays soccer except for a couple of nations.

O by the way, congratulations to the US soccer team that just beat Spain (current European champion).

And let's continue with the cliche's. It's fun

shardian · « **Reply #18 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:02:51 am »

Soccer and Hockey are fun to watch if:

1. You know the rules
2. The teams playing are skilled
3. The game is close so both teams are attacking

When a good team gets up on a bad offensive team, both sports get incredibly dull.

I tuned in to the last 2 games of the stanley cup finals. The parts I watched were awesome.

And for the record, Indoor soccer is the most fun sport I have ever played. I also went from wheezing from a lap on a track to running 3 miles in 6 weeks of playing.
Semi-Pro hockey is the most entertaining sporting event I have ever attended. I wish we still had a semi-pro team.

ChadTower · « **Reply #19 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:16:58 am »

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.

Soccer would be a very uneventful game without a ball.

massive88 · « **Reply #20 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 ---steaming pile of meadow muffin----load of commercials on TV during a game, mainly because the play is dead after every couple of seconds. Talks about BORING !

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.

ChadTower · « **Reply #21 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:27:16 am »

I usually stay way out of these debates because they're stupid... but the concept that a sport is popular because it allows tons of commercials makes no sense. People hate the commercials and complain about them all the time. It actually works in the opposite manner. The networks are able to cram in so many commercials without losing viewers because of the popularity of the sport.

Or, for people like me, we watch it on Tivo and there are no commercials and no halftime.

Record four games at once and flip among them at will or watch them later on if you managed to not spoil the results. Sunday during football season in my house is an event unto itself.

CheffoJeffo · « **Reply #22 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:32:05 am »

Bunch of damned heathens ... get offa my lawn!

No strategy ... pfft ... no brain.

Quote from: Level42 on June 24, 2009, 04:32:06 pm

Football is the best sport to watch in the world.

+1

Go Seleção!

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 ---steaming pile of meadow muffin----load of commercials on TV during a game, mainly because the play is dead after every couple of seconds. Talks about BORING !

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.

American football is popular in America because it is broken down into 30 second bits, after which the preceding 30 seconds are then explained to the viewer. It is the ultimate sport for the lazy fan.

As for "best TV sport period" -- compare 100 million viewers for the Superbowl (half of which just want to see the commercials) with over 1 billion viewers for the World Cup.

It may be, however, the best sport for TV, with its relentless stoppages in play and related advertising opportunities. You watch how Tide gets your whites whiter, I'll watch Macon streak down the right side.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #23 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:32:59 am »

MMA is pretty much the only sport I care to watch.

LLUncoolJ · « **Reply #24 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:51:30 am »

This is how you know if your sport sucks:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGPxgTmHJaE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0yX_1O3sRY[/youtube]

shardian · « **Reply #25 on:** June 25, 2009, 09:58:05 am »

Quote from: shardian on June 25, 2009, 09:02:51 am

2. The teams playing are skilled

Your videos violate rule #2. Funny as hell though, especially the second one.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #26 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:02:48 am »

That dude in the first video pulled an Eddie Guerrero.

ChadTower · « **Reply #27 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:07:28 am »

Guys do that in every sport, particularly hockey. Hell Sidney Crosby himself gets accused of diving, Lemieux used to get accused of it, and the Lady Byng trophy may as well be renamed Lady Gretzky.

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #28 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:16:01 am »

All I care about is that I found an excuse to post that Eddie vid

massive88 · « **Reply #29 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:34:11 am »

Quote from: CheffoJeffo on June 25, 2009, 09:32:05 am

As for "best TV sport period" -- compare 100 million viewers for the Superbowl (half of which just want to see the commercials) with over 1 billion viewers for the World Cup.

Thats a ridiculous argument, as American football isn't near as popular world wide as Soccer, which has little to do with how good of a TV sport it is. Give half the world a rooting interest in the NFL, and it would blow away soccer's viewership.

Nearly double your world cup figure watched the Olympics, because it has even more of a widespread appeal. That doesn't mean that swimming relays are a better TV product than Soccer, or football, or basketball, or even baseball.

More people watched Transformers 2 last night than saw The Wrestler, does that make it a better movie just because it was able to garner a larger audience?

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.

shardian · « **Reply #30 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:39:20 am »

Quote from: pinballjim on June 25, 2009, 10:25:27 am

Hrm... she's cute but not sure if it justified a thread.

Apparently, the OP had a pic of Gina Carano up initially. Gina Carano made American Gladiators watch worthy.

shardian · « **Reply #31 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:40:51 am »

Football is awesome live...if you have good seats. The worst "live" game by a landslide is baseball.

ChadTower · « **Reply #32 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:45:31 am »

Quote from: shardian on June 25, 2009, 10:40:51 am

Football is awesome live...if you have good seats. The worst "live" game by a landslide is baseball.

Golf. Golf. Golf. Effin golf.

mountain · « **Reply #33 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:47:09 am »

Quote from: shardian on June 25, 2009, 10:40:51 am

Football is awesome live...if you have good seats. The worst "live" game by a landslide is baseball.

Quote from: ChadTower on June 25, 2009, 10:45:31 am

Quote from: shardian on June 25, 2009, 10:40:51 am
Football is awesome live...if you have good seats. The worst "live" game by a landslide is baseball.

Golf. Golf. Golf. Effin golf.

Golf...for sure.

You have to love the game of baseball to be able to watch it live or on TV.

massive88 · « **Reply #34 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:51:22 am »

Quote from: pinballjim on June 25, 2009, 10:38:37 am

Quote from: massive88 on June 25, 2009, 10:34:11 am
Watching live? Id say Soccer is better, due to your reasons.

You've never been to a Big 12 game when a sweet, sweet BCS ranking is on the line, have you? Where there's so many damned people they've got hundreds of them sitting in folding chairs on the side of the field?

Besides, with a live football game, you can keep an eye on substitutions, see if that player is truly hurt or not, throw a beer can at the coach, all the crap you can do with any other live sport. That play clock flies by pretty fast...

I went to every Texas football game for 5 years in a row (sadly just shy of 2005), and for me, personally, nothing is better than an OU/Texas game. But that is filled with all sorts of personal bias, the hate of the Sooners that I have personally been subjected to for 10 years now, the fights Ive been involved in before and after the game, I could go on and on.

But thats personal opinion, subjectively with the non-stop action Id go with probably Basketball, Soccer, or Hockey as the best live sports. Doesnt mean I dont love football the most.

Dartful Dodger · « **Reply #35 on:** June 25, 2009, 10:59:46 am »

Mexico VS. Portugal

Ginsu Victim · « **Reply #36 on:** June 25, 2009, 11:01:41 am »

OU/Texas makes people crazy. There has been a lot of violence (mostly in bars) because of that rivalry.

massive88 · « **Reply #37 on:** June 25, 2009, 11:04:02 am »

Quote from: Ginsu Victim on June 25, 2009, 11:01:41 am

OU/Texas makes people crazy. There has been a lot of violence (mostly in bars) because of that rivalry.

Yeah, watch your nutsack.

CheffoJeffo · « **Reply #38 on:** June 25, 2009, 11:04:06 am »

Quote from: massive88 on June 25, 2009, 10:34:11 am

Stoppage in play may not be your thing, but for TV its perfect.

I'm reasonably sure that I said exactly that.

ChadTower · « **Reply #39 on:** June 25, 2009, 11:05:34 am »

Quote from: Ginsu Victim on June 25, 2009, 11:01:41 am

OU/Texas makes people crazy. There has been a lot of violence (mostly in bars) because of that rivalry.

Violence in bars in Texas and Oklahoma! OMG!

If it weren't OU/Texas it would be tastes great/less filling. Those dudes just want to brawl.


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