I find it funny that you are opposed to people "running around kicking a ball" but you find it's okay for people to just simply run around a track. Yep, it's your opinion, just wanted to know your reasoning for your dislike of soccer.
What is America's True Sport?
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I find it funny that you are opposed to people "running around kicking a ball" but you find it's okay for people to just simply run around a track. Yep, it's your opinion, just wanted to know your reasoning for your dislike of soccer.
Half of a soccer game is the team with the ball going backwards... Put in a shot clock and bigger goals and you might get a better audience in America...
Never thought about that viewpoint, yet it is similar strategy as running the football to shorten game, dribble the ball a long time, etc.
I had the chance to coach kid soccer teams for twenty years and I feel soccer is the one game that a 5-12 year old can look "semi-prrofessional" at an early age. The reasoon why the rest of the world like soccer so much is you only need a soccer ball, you can play with any number of people, or you can practice with yourself against a wall.
I had the chance to coach kid soccer teams for twenty years and I feel soccer is the one game that a 5-12 year old can look "semi-prrofessional" at an early age. The reasoon why the rest of the world like soccer so much is you only need a soccer ball, you can play with any number of people, or you can practice with yourself against a wall.
Soccer would be 10 times better if they just got rid of offsides. This rule doesn't make any sense, and it's a big reason why no one scores any goals. It's like saying you can't have a fast break layup in basketball or can't pass beyond the defensive backs in football.
True. That would be very interesting to see a match without offsides.
What I don't understand is people saying the game is slow. It doesn't stop and you can't take a break or you may miss a goal (quite possibly the only one). It's a game of close calls and almosts.
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I like track because you are in direct competition with your competitors and it is you vs. them.
Honestly and bluntly I look at socer as the sport that overprotective parents want their kids to play so they don't get hurt playing a sport like football. Its my opinion and my opinion only that this is leading to the pussification of kids these days. Like I said its just my opinion.
Since you never have played soccer, you wouldn't know how physical soccer actually is. Granted it isn't as physical as Football, Hockey, UFC, Boxing or Rugby, but it sure is more physical than basketball, track, tennis, golf, nascar, and on and on. I've been hit harder on the soccer field than I ever did during football. The world doesn't get why we like football because football players where all those pads. They are used to their athletes playing without any protection whatsoever and find it funny we need so much for football.
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I haven't read the rest of this thread yet, but that sir is the funniest dang thing I have ever read! I thought all you soccer player were just keeping those chicks around so you wouldn't have to buy eggs everyday for breakfast. :wink:
Now that I have caught up, I just cannot find soccer interesting for most of the reasons Curt stated above. I have played soccer when I was younger and just never enjoyed it, don't hate the people that do though. I do know that I can't use the argument of disliking soccer because all they do is run around kicking balls, since I wrestled and to an outsider all it looked like was us rolling around trying to grab.....
Soccer would be better if they would stop the flopping. It is horrible to watch, someone barely gets hit and they act like someone just shot them. 20 seconds later they are fine.
For me soccer is the most boring to watch - just IMO
As for America's True sport, I'm going with NASCAR, if nothing else just to make the NASCAR haters get upset.
P.S. In the poll I voted for Football
As for America's True sport, I'm going with NASCAR, if nothing else just to make the NASCAR haters get upset.
P.S. In the poll I voted for Football
I have a feeling you're just trying to antagonize the soccer fans, but you have to admit you have to be in a LOT better shape to play soccer than you do to play football.
Bingo that is my wife. She wants them to play soccer, they want to play hockey. I tried to explain to her that hockey is one of the safest sports. And there is very little cheapshotting going on. When there is a fight, it is done with the consent of both sides. It is really a gentlemans game
You can make any sport sound stupid if you dumb it down the way that one poster did by saying all you do is run around kicking a ball.
In basketball, all you do is try to get a ball in a hole. In golf, all you do is hit a little ball, just so you can walk up to it and do it again.
With all that said, I am not a soccer fan. I played soccer when I was a kid, but then again, didn't all kids play soccer? I respect soccer because those players have to be in terrific shape and they have more talent than I do, but I just don't like the game.
I'd rather watch baseball, football, basketball, wrestling, tennis, track, bowling, and spelling bees over soccer.
In basketball, all you do is try to get a ball in a hole. In golf, all you do is hit a little ball, just so you can walk up to it and do it again.
With all that said, I am not a soccer fan. I played soccer when I was a kid, but then again, didn't all kids play soccer? I respect soccer because those players have to be in terrific shape and they have more talent than I do, but I just don't like the game.
I'd rather watch baseball, football, basketball, wrestling, tennis, track, bowling, and spelling bees over soccer.
You know we have not done that for a good long time. I am looking forward to the Daytona 500 this year. Gonna try to get it this year, I really am.
Bingo that is my wife. She wants them to play soccer, they want to play hockey. I tried to explain to her that hockey is one of the safest sports. And there is very little cheapshotting going on. When there is a fight, it is done with the consent of both sides. It is really a gentlemans game
I won't let my boys play hockey because it's so darn expensive, but as far as the contact in hockey I don't even think they let them check until they're 10 or 11.
I am not trying to antagonize anyone, its just my opinion.
And yes I do agree you have to be in great shape to play soccer.
Ummm what? You might need more endurance, but not nearly as much strength, do not confuse endurance with being in shape. I can run for 4 hrs straight without stopping, but I am very weak anymore, I would say I am not in shape.