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06-09-2010, 09:48 AM
martin.redlineshoptalk

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Are any of you getting excited about the world cup ? I know football isn`t your favourite game. Come on England
06-09-2010, 10:51 AM
dftcat

Just moderate interest.Chelsea is my club, so would that make my pick England?
06-09-2010, 11:21 AM
Charger68

Nope, do they use a ball?? <img src="http://www.ezboard.com/image/posticons/pi_tongue.gif">
06-09-2010, 11:41 AM
mlbuser

Just so happens Slate had an interesting <a title="article" target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2256165/">article</a> on soccer today, how it could a/should a been America's game instead of football.
06-09-2010, 12:53 PM
dftcat

<blockquote>Charger68 wrote:
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Nope, do they use a ball?? <img src="http://www.ezboard.com/image/posticons/pi_tongue.gif"></blockquote>More balls than here.
06-09-2010, 02:00 PM
redlinesrule

<blockquote>mlbuser wrote:
<hr>Just so happens Slate had an interesting <a title="article" target="_blank" href="http://www.slate.com/id/2256165/">article</a> on soccer today, how it could a/should a been America's game instead of football. </blockquote>No disrespect but soccer bores me to death, almost as much as friggin' golf. It's the #1 sport overall worldwide but it will never be that in the U.S. I've played it in pick-up games & it does take great skill & it's a very physically demanding sport with so much stop & starting on a field a lot bigger than an American pigskin one. I just get bored watching it as the action/scoring is often far & in between. They also tried an indoor pro league which I don't believe lasted more than 5 yrs due to very poor ticket sales. To each his own but I'm not part of that fan base.
06-09-2010, 02:08 PM
toysalot

World cup? Not interested either... Remember the commercials with Mark McGwire and Sosa and a few others with the catch-phrase "women love the long ball?" That goes along with all sports. America wants to see scoring and lots of it. America wants to cheer more than once or twice a game. We want to see scores like 8-6 in baseball and 120-118 in basketball and 45-38 in football. Soccer is a brutal endurance game but there just isn't enough scoring/excitement for America. Our adrenaline levels are much higher than the rest of the world. No disrespect either...I too, am not a fan. Go USA!
06-09-2010, 02:23 PM
huntkeh

<blockquote>Our adrenaline levels are much higher than the rest of the world. </blockquote> Jeff....did you read this somewhere or just made it up...<img src="http://www.ezboard.com/image/posticons/pi_tongue.gif" width="20" height="20"> Rick
06-09-2010, 02:25 PM
toysalot

Yes...I did! <img src="http://static.yuku.com/domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif"> Just my 2 cents...how much is that Canadian?
06-09-2010, 02:32 PM
huntkeh

<img src="http://static.yuku.com/domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/roll.gif">sometimes less sometimes more<img src="http://mmb.maverick.to/images/smilies/woohoo1.gif" width="100" height="28"> And to stay on topic,The World Cup does not excite me. Rick
06-09-2010, 03:04 PM
toysalot

BOOOYAAAAAAAAAA!!!
06-09-2010, 03:15 PM
Charger68

<blockquote>toysalot wrote:<hr>World cup? Not interested either... Remember the commercials with Mark McGwire and Sosa and a few others with the catch-phrase "women love the long ball?" That goes along with all sports. America wants to see scoring and lots of it. America wants to cheer more than once or twice a game. We want to see scores like 8-6 in baseball and 120-118 in basketball and 45-38 in football. Soccer is a brutal endurance game but there just isn't enough scoring/excitement for America. Our adrenaline levels are much higher than the rest of the world. No disrespect either...I too, am not a fan. Go USA! </blockquote> Nnnnnnnnn...........BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB...................AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PISS on the rest!!!
06-09-2010, 03:32 PM
huntkeh

<blockquote>Charger68 wrote:
<hr><blockquote>toysalot wrote:
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World cup? Not interested either... Remember the commercials with Mark McGwire and Sosa and a few others with the catch-phrase "women love the long ball?" That goes along with all sports. America wants to see scoring and lots of it. America wants to cheer more than once or twice a game. We want to see scores like 8-6 in baseball and 120-118 in basketball and 45-38 in football. Soccer is a brutal endurance game but there just isn't enough scoring/excitement for America. Our adrenaline levels are much higher than the rest of the world. No disrespect either...I too, am not a fan. Go USA! </blockquote> Nnnnnnnnn...........BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB...................AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PISS on the rest!!!</blockquote>Thats what I do in the fresh water that comes your way from up here!!!!!
06-10-2010, 07:56 AM
jmaner

Man I thought we had a thread about real football......not soccer. Could care less here........no matter how hard ESPN wants to plug Soccer it will never catch on here. Sure ratings might be there if the US stays in for awhile for the World cup but it will quickly go away. Fortunately for 99% of the US a home made ball is not the only source of entertainment like it is many poor countries leading to the love of soccer.
06-10-2010, 10:55 AM
scottwheels

My 2 cent theories on why soccer will only ever be, at best, a temporary amusement for 90% of US sports fans: 
1) The rest of the world loves the game, so our independent, contrarian nature dictates that we'll despise it. 
2) Much of a soccer game is pretty esoteric, not unlike much of a baseball game. It's no surprise that baseball has lost it's status as 'America's pastime' in recent years (that mantle has passed to Football or Basketball). Our attention spans are so short that unless there's points piling up on the scoreboard we lose interest. 
I told you they were 2 cent theories! 
Scott
06-10-2010, 01:05 PM
toysalot

<blockquote>the only source of entertainment like it is many poor countries leading
to the love of soccer.</blockquote> Exactly...how many countries in the world that have billions of people are 3rd world(or close to it) countries that couldn't even afford a glove and a bat much less a whole teams worth? Also, a full set of football gear is very expensive also and then for 11 men teams? With soccer...all you need is a ball and some vacant land, lots of vacant land and you got a soccer game!!! I think the reason there are so many hooligans and fights breaking out at soccer games is because the fans are so frickin' bored and drunk that's all the want to do is fight someone. Then the riot breaks out then the stands collapse then all hell breaks loose!!! Does make some highlights on Sportcenter tho'. Still doesn't interest me...
06-10-2010, 01:38 PM
dftcat

From the sounds of it The World Cup ain't gonna do well here.
06-11-2010, 12:20 AM
gnabors

Well I'm all over it - have played soccer since I was 7, and still going strong. Wearing my Donovan jersey to work today, looking forward to US vs. England!
06-11-2010, 01:49 AM
Charger68

Donovan......... Yeah, didn't he sing Mellow Yellow and Hurdy Gurdy Man???? He has a JERSEY?????
06-11-2010, 04:35 AM
bobbyj59

Dave, I was thinking the same thing! What does Dovovan the singer have to do with anything and why does he have a jersey? <img src="http://forums.gottadeal.com/images/smilies/sidesplit.gif" width="30" height="18">Bob Jordan. PS, I also notice that Martin (the thread starter) writes in Canadian (favourite). I thought our northern buddies like Hockey? By the way, it's June; did that winter sport end yet?
06-11-2010, 11:39 AM
Phildirt

Oops, I misread the thread. I was hoping for foosball.
06-12-2010, 08:37 AM
toysalot

WTF happened with that goal for the US??? Does that really count? I figured I would give the game a chance and watch some soccer then I see that goal? GO USA!!!
06-12-2010, 03:43 PM
camarocrazy2

I watched it for five minutes, what is with all the noise they are making? Just stupid if you ask me just plane stupid. As for the sport it's self I'm not into it but then I'm not into lots of sports but all the nasty noise all the people are making was too much for me.
06-12-2010, 03:45 PM
toysalot

What the heck is all that whirrring noise??? No wonder they fight a lot in the stands.
06-12-2010, 03:52 PM
camarocrazy2

<blockquote>toysalot wrote:
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What the heck is all that whirrring noise??? No wonder they fight a lot in the stands. </blockquote> LOL.....that could be it, I guess in some cultures the more noise you make.....fill in the blank......
06-12-2010, 04:02 PM
Charger68

<blockquote>bobbyj59 wrote:<hr>Dave, I was thinking the same thing! What does Dovovan the singer have to do with anything and why does he have a jersey? <img src="http://forums.gottadeal.com/images/smilies/sidesplit.gif" width="30" height="18">Bob Jordan. PS, I also notice that Martin (the thread starter) writes in Canadian (favourite). I thought our northern buddies like Hockey? By the way, it's June; did that winter sport end yet? </blockquote> LOLOL!!! Yeah Bob, it seems like they play for 14-months and there are 20-games, I don't get it.......
06-12-2010, 11:12 PM
mlbuser

Ok, I didn't watch the game, but Martin has got to be kind of bummed. How's the reaction in the UK Martin, end of the world, or no big deal? Mark
06-13-2010, 03:48 AM
redlinesrule

<blockquote>mlbuser wrote:
<hr>Ok, I didn't watch the game, but Martin has got to be kind of bummed. How's the reaction in the UK Martin, end of the world, or no big deal? Mark </blockquote> I didn't see the game either but from all the hundreds of replays since, yup, the goal keeper would like to have that one back. Martin seems like a class act as most Brits are, & I'm sure it hurts big time.
06-13-2010, 04:14 AM
toysalot

I am confused because I do not know about soccer. I have a question about the uniforms. When I saw the goal scored by the USA, I thought England had scored a goal for the USA by the English player kicking the ball back to the goalkeeper as a safety so the goalkeeper could throw it back into play away from all the players who were in front of the goal. I thought this because the USA players and the England keeper had the same colored jerseys on. I just figured they were on the same team because the jerseys were the same color or close to the same. Englands uniforms were white, yet their goalkeepers jersey was a dark blue or dark something or other. In all other organized sports, basketball, hockey, baseball and football, all of the players have on the exact same uniforms. Why are the goalkeepers uniforms a different color in soccer??? Just curious...
06-13-2010, 04:59 AM
redlinesrule

Great question as I never knew the answer either. Did a search and found this: <h1 style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 1px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 1px">Why do soccer goalies wear different colored shirts than rest of the team?</h1> So that you can tell that it is the goal keeper that is coming to get the ball because he is allowed to touch it with his hands.
06-13-2010, 12:42 PM
gnabors

This thread officially frightens me.
06-14-2010, 12:38 AM
rdln66

Don't your kids play soccer in the States? I can't believe the lack of soccer common knowlege here. 
The World Cup is huge apparently everywhere but in the US..lol. 
I love it..It's great!
06-14-2010, 02:31 PM
sverrefehn

Depends what part of the country you live in Frank. Soccer is huge here in the northwest. A number of the coffee shops and bars will fill up with soccer fans for Champion's League play and of course the World Cup. 
It's pretty big in Cincinnati as well, but not like here. It's also a younger generation that likes it. Hardly any of our parents played the game, but a lot of people in their early 40's and younger have. The younger, the more likely to have played and to be interested. 
All that said, it will still always lag behind football, baseball, and basketball.
06-14-2010, 03:20 PM
toysalot

<blockquote>Don't your kids play soccer in the States?</blockquote> No...mine played football, surfs and skateboards...you don't wanna know what the kids at my sons high school called soccer players. <img src="http://forums.gottadeal.com/images/smilies/sidesplit.gif"> Come on...my son grew up in Huntington Beach, California... <img src="http://mmb.maverick.to/images/smilies/yahoo.gif"> <img src="http://www.ezboard.com/image/posticons/pi_wink1.gif">
06-14-2010, 03:48 PM
camarocrazy2

No soccer her in the O.C. ............until the migration of ill...........never mind.

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