It looks like it would be a hard sport to play, but it is dull to watch. DA-ULL!
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It looks like it would be a hard sport to play, but it is dull to watch. DA-ULL!
upbarleyboy
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The above numbers are very misleading.
NFL=32 teams-16 game schedule (20 including preseason)
MLB=30 teams-162 game reg. season schedule
NBA=30 teams-82 reg. season game schedule
Nascar= 41 races (including the Shootout, the Duels, and the All-Star race)
MLS=16 teams-30 game reg season schedule
The only way you can get make a valid comparison is have the same number of teams in each sport playing the same number of games. That will never happen. Of course the numbers are going to reflect negatively on soccer. I'm not a fan of soccer either. I too find it pretty boring, but you can see how the numbers can be taken out of context.
If it was important to you you could average them out.
indy_500
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Bet you a million bucks a soccer player couldn't play football
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Indy, that is a pretty hefty bet for a rather unlikely reality. It is already called futball in Europe.
And they are in pretty dang good shape.
I honestly hated watching soccer until I watched with some hard-core European fans. It becomes a whole new experience when you are watching in a room full of people that are into the game. It is more emotionally charged than watching traditional football.
Right on Indy! Sure, they could run circles around most of those guys if the circles were run longer than 30 seconds at a time, but let's see 'em take a hit over the middle, or pound the ball up the middle and get hit by a 260 lb guy running 18 mph at you and lay him/her flat out on their back. Can't even compare the two. PC talks about contact.... whatever. Other than leg whips and a ball flying off your head, shoving and tripping doesn't count.
I'll give anyone the benefit of being in shape to play soccer. Absolutely agree. The whole point of this thread was ITS THE MOST BORING SPORT EVER TO WATCH!
I'll give anyone the benefit of being in shape to play soccer. Absolutely agree. The whole point of this thread was ITS THE MOST BORING SPORT EVER TO WATCH!
OK, the second most boring!!
Professor PC
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doesnt hold any water INDY...you know why? because MANY soccer players that cannot cut the mustard in soccer then move on and become the kicker or wide reciever or safeties in GOOD OLE FOOTBALL.....because its a step down and easier i hate ta tell ya....almost all NFL kickers were soccer players....go look it up, then get back to us on that
Kickers - yes, receivers and safeties....... no. Never once heard anyone say that a receiver or a safety, or any other position other than punter or place kicker was a soccer player. I think you are exaggerating there a little bit...
All you folks that find it so boring, also do not understand it, do not know anything about the rules and have never inquired anything about it. You don't like it, so you bad mouth the sport and make fun of it. How many of you no-it alls have any athletic ability to start with?
You don't like golf, so you bad mouth it. You don't like auto racing, so you bad mouth it.
You don't like basketball, so you bad mouth it. You don't like tennis, so you bad mouth it.
On and on and on. Fact is it is the most popular sport in the world. Is it American football? No! So don't compare it. You don't like it, don't watch.
I didn't know anything about it when my daughter started playing at 5. She's now 21, going in to her 4th season in college. She's not playing for a scholarship, she plays because she enjoys it. I watch because I enjoy it.
How mad do you get when people bitch about snowmobiling? The hobby of chose for everyone on here
What a dumb thing to bitch about. So many people need more to do in their lives.
I know, let's complain somemore about smoking bans. That will make the world better.
Bitch, bitch, bitch.
I'm done now.
"Go Pack Go"
You don't like golf, so you bad mouth it. You don't like auto racing, so you bad mouth it.
You don't like basketball, so you bad mouth it. You don't like tennis, so you bad mouth it.
On and on and on. Fact is it is the most popular sport in the world. Is it American football? No! So don't compare it. You don't like it, don't watch.
I didn't know anything about it when my daughter started playing at 5. She's now 21, going in to her 4th season in college. She's not playing for a scholarship, she plays because she enjoys it. I watch because I enjoy it.
How mad do you get when people bitch about snowmobiling? The hobby of chose for everyone on here
What a dumb thing to bitch about. So many people need more to do in their lives.
I know, let's complain somemore about smoking bans. That will make the world better.
Bitch, bitch, bitch.
I'm done now.
"Go Pack Go"
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No hands, so they won't break their nails! Izzat why they both like the game?
I don't think it's fair to say that soccer 'sucks'. Do I like watching it? No. But as someone said, just b/c you don't like a sport, doesn't make it bad/easy/not a sport/etc. I had to laugh at the cricket comment. I spent 3 weeks in Sri Lanka for work- I got 3 channels in my hotel room, ESPN, BBC, and HBO. The only thing on ESPN was cricket. Once I got to understand the game, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it. The Australian National team was there to play their national team- I went to a game. It was awesome. It's all about perspective. Like when someone says nascar isn't a sport. BS! You don't have to enjoy it or watch it- but give credit where credit is due. I went for a Richard Petty ridealong thing- 175mph around the track for 3 laps. It was so disorienting, and the g forces, etc. To think these guys are out there with 42 other cars for hours at a time. Insane! You just can't compare sports. A soccer player couldn't do what a football player does. So? A football player couldn't do what a soccer player does either. A tennis player can't do what a golfer can do, etc. What do you say to those who say that snowmobiling isn't a sport? All of you 'boondockers' who think you're a sledneck... you'd probably disagree right? Heck, I'm a trail rider only- but I still get a workout b/c we're riding fast, and we put on a decent amount of miles. At the end of the first day of the year- my back is sore, my arms hurt, my legs are tight, etc. If you don't like it- flip the channel!
I think that game already exists....it's called Hockey
Ya think? LOL
Typical.... come on here, and say "stop ur bitching cause my daughter plays"...lol..OK what ever you say....IMO SOCCER STILL SUX>>OK?? IS THAT COOL WITH YOU?? I'm not trying to make the world a better place...keep voting democrat it won't help you...lol I posted this opinion because I felt that the world media, and america's own liberal media was SHOVING soccer down everybodies throat...why do you think they have to tell everybody how great it is, and that the rest of the world watches this sport..or that it is the number one watched sport in the rest of the world..blah..blah..blah... WHO THE **** CARES!!! IMO IT SUX..ALWAYS HAS, ALWAYS WILL...AND A **** OF ALOT MORE PEOPLE IN AMERICA AGREE WITH ME ON THIS SUBJECT THAN AGREE YOU!!!
How mad do I get when people bitch about snowmobiling?? Don't know..I haven't met a single person that has done that to me (not in public anyway)...Where I live..we rely on snowmobiles to supliment the economy in the winter...ONLY A REALLY STUPID PERSON would bad mouth snowmobiling up here..gotta know where ur bread is buttered...SOCCER DOESN'T BUTTER ANYBODY'S BREAD UP HERE...STUPID COMPARISON ON UR PART!!!!
If you haven't figured it out yet...THIS IS AMERICA...WE HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH...SO YEAH...WE CAN BITCH IF WE PLEASE...AND WE FREQUENTLY DO...I like excersizing that right...if you don't, so be it..but don't tell me to get a life because I choose to do so!!!
So, because the World Cup was broadcast nationally here and was advertised (like other sporting events would be) that means there is some liberal conspiracy behind it? You also claimed to know how he votes because his daughter plays soccer? That's a non-sequiter if I've ever heard one.
I have a feeling you do exercise your right of freedom of speech often, possibly while level-headed people try very hard to ignore the dude in the Canadian tuxedo that won't shut up about liberal bias or whatever.