Soccer is like Synchronized Swimming

[slosprint]

It's love stupid.

[jayman]

actually . i dont get to into sports much , but soccer looks far more athletic than football..... and you know personally i like a game where men are forbidden to jump on each other while wearing tight pants rather than encouraging it . that's just my opinion

Haha dude soccer has to be one of the most physically demanding sports. In football you can be called out for injury or switched out, there are 4 quarters in football, 2 halfs in soccer, in basket ball you can get called out if you get tired, not in soccer. Imho, soccer is the most demanding of all the sports.

I like Skeleton

I can't stand watching soccer.

I can't stand having advertisements rammed in my face every 5 seconds, but I digress.

[slosprint]

How about this: you guys call our football soccer so when anyone says that "Football is love awesome" we can all agree and when anyone says that "soccer sucks" we can agree on that too.

wheres gouldy when you need him

Gazag,isn't that MC Hammer on your avatar?

[SauronHimself]

The only professional sport I deem worthy enough to watch on TV for hours is cycling. It is by far the most physically demanding sport out there. When I raced in high school, I would ride for several hours each day training on hills, and during the races you had to have reflexes like a cat so that you wouldn't hit the guy 6" to your left or right. Time trials were especially exhausting when I'd be practically sprinting for 10-15 miles at a constant 30mph.

Slo, Why must you always rant about 'Soccer being crap'? If you don't like it, quit complaining. Its the biggest sport in the world, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

[Dirk_Ermen]

Originally posted by gazag

wheres gouldy when you need him

Agreed! *Waits for Gouldy to spice up the discussion.*

[slosprint]

He doesn't argue any better than anyone else, he just does it more aggresively.

[gouldy]

Slosprint, you have an opinion, which is valid as your view, but still incorrect [:)]

Essentially, the definition of a sport is something that is played purely for entertainment purposes, for those participating and for those viewing. So, it stands to reason that the greatest sport on the planet would be the one that entertained not only the largest number of people around the globe, but the one that entertained the largest variety of people around the globe.

Football (the real Football, not HandEgg), is watched and played around the entire globe at every level, from the very poor to the very rich. Even in the USA. Below is a link to the Fifa world rankings:

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranki ... 0&rank=193

As you can see, there are well over 200 countries that are registered to enter the world cup when the qualifying rounds begin again next year. Do any of the sports that you would consider American sports have a tournament of quite this scale? Look as Baseball (or Cricket II as it probably should be known in all actuality), in the "World series", from how many countries do the teams that participate hail from? It certainly seems like false advertising to me .

As for HandEgg (I guess you would call this football), is this played outside of North America at any kind of professional level? If it is, it's not really heard of.

Essentially, what I'm saying is that none of the so called "American" sports are particularly popular outside of North America (I'm aware this is not entirely true as Japan has attempted down the years to be America II). Whereas Football (known as Soccer to those incapable of logic) is played the whole world over at a professional level, and has a following in some areas of the globe (Europe, South America, Africa) that is more passionate about the sport than about life itself.

Although as a side note, it is wrong of me to say "American Sports", seeing as Baseball (Cricket II), American Football (HandEgg) and Ice Hockey (genuinely an awesome sport) are all English inventions.


Slosprint; I appreciate that there is no way that I will be able change your opinions of the sports in question, because it's what you've grown up on and vice versa for me. I would appreciate, however, that you wouldn't throw unsubstantiated slander at me or the sport that is essentially the most important thing in my life (except my fiance), to me and basically everyone I know.

So yeah, roller coasters, ay it [:)]

This poop just got real.

[slosprint]

Originally posted by gouldy

Slosprint, you have an opinion, which is valid as your view, but still incorrect [:)]

Essentially, the definition of a sport is something that is played purely for entertainment purposes, for those participating and for those viewing. So, it stands to reason that the greatest sport on the planet would be the one that entertained not only the largest number of people around the globe, but the one that entertained the largest variety of people around the globe.

Football (the real Football, not HandEgg), is watched and played around the entire globe at every level, from the very poor to the very rich. Even in the USA. Below is a link to the Fifa world rankings:

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranki ... 0&rank=193

As you can see, there are well over 200 countries that are registered to enter the world cup when the qualifying rounds begin again next year. Do any of the sports that you would consider American sports have a tournament of quite this scale? Look as Baseball (or Cricket II as it probably should be known in all actuality), in the "World series", from how many countries do the teams that participate hail from? It certainly seems like false advertising to me .

As for HandEgg (I guess you would call this football), is this played outside of North America at any kind of professional level? If it is, it's not really heard of.

Essentially, what I'm saying is that none of the so called "American" sports are particularly popular outside of North America (I'm aware this is not entirely true as Japan has attempted down the years to be America II). Whereas Football (known as Soccer to those incapable of logic) is played the whole world over at a professional level, and has a following in some areas of the globe (Europe, South America, Africa) that is more passionate about the sport than about life itself.

Although as a side note, it is wrong of me to say "American Sports", seeing as Baseball (Cricket II), American Football (HandEgg) and Ice Hockey (genuinely an awesome sport) are all English inventions.


Slosprint; I appreciate that there is no way that I will be able change your opinions of the sports in question, because it's what you've grown up on and vice versa for me. I would appreciate, however, that you wouldn't throw unsubstantiated slander at me or the sport that is essentially the most important thing in my life (except my fiance), to me and basically everyone I know.

So yeah, roller coasters, ay it [:)]

You're a poopyhead.

Sorry to break it to you but football and soccer both suck. Football is rarely actually played. Most of the time is setting up for a 5 second play. Yeah, I can bare to watch it but it is as boring as heck. Soccer (football), on the other hand, is even worse. Yes, it may be the most athletic sport in the world, but when there are only 7 shots per team in a half, it is disgusting, especially since missed shots count as shots. There are so few chances and I am sitting there drained. I probably get more tired than the players themselves. Soccer is a sport designed for kids to play because they are so much worse at defending and once you get better, the sport gets worse. Hockey on the other hand has action almost every second and they get more shots than soccer even though they don't count shots that miss. Everything is so much closer and it makes it so much more action packed.

[gouldy]

^ Typical American view. You miss the subtlety of the whole thing. The fact that there isn't many goals is what makes the sport exciting/tense/soul destroying. It is what MAKES the sport.

Originally posted by slosprint

Originally posted by gouldy

Slosprint, you have an opinion, which is valid as your view, but still incorrect [:)]

Essentially, the definition of a sport is something that is played purely for entertainment purposes, for those participating and for those viewing. So, it stands to reason that the greatest sport on the planet would be the one that entertained not only the largest number of people around the globe, but the one that entertained the largest variety of people around the globe.

Football (the real Football, not HandEgg), is watched and played around the entire globe at every level, from the very poor to the very rich. Even in the USA. Below is a link to the Fifa world rankings:

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranki ... 0&rank=193

As you can see, there are well over 200 countries that are registered to enter the world cup when the qualifying rounds begin again next year. Do any of the sports that you would consider American sports have a tournament of quite this scale? Look as Baseball (or Cricket II as it probably should be known in all actuality), in the "World series", from how many countries do the teams that participate hail from? It certainly seems like false advertising to me .

As for HandEgg (I guess you would call this football), is this played outside of North America at any kind of professional level? If it is, it's not really heard of.

Essentially, what I'm saying is that none of the so called "American" sports are particularly popular outside of North America (I'm aware this is not entirely true as Japan has attempted down the years to be America II). Whereas Football (known as Soccer to those incapable of logic) is played the whole world over at a professional level, and has a following in some areas of the globe (Europe, South America, Africa) that is more passionate about the sport than about life itself.

Although as a side note, it is wrong of me to say "American Sports", seeing as Baseball (Cricket II), American Football (HandEgg) and Ice Hockey (genuinely an awesome sport) are all English inventions.


Slosprint; I appreciate that there is no way that I will be able change your opinions of the sports in question, because it's what you've grown up on and vice versa for me. I would appreciate, however, that you wouldn't throw unsubstantiated slander at me or the sport that is essentially the most important thing in my life (except my fiance), to me and basically everyone I know.

So yeah, roller coasters, ay it [:)]

You're a poopyhead.

Thank you for proving everything I've ever said on the subject, in one three word sentence. [:P]

[slosprint]

Originally posted by gouldy

^ Typical American view. You miss the subtlety of the whole thing. The fact that there isn't many goals is what makes the sport exciting/tense/soul destroying. It is what MAKES the sport.

Originally posted by slosprint

Originally posted by gouldy

Slosprint, you have an opinion, which is valid as your view, but still incorrect [:)]

Essentially, the definition of a sport is something that is played purely for entertainment purposes, for those participating and for those viewing. So, it stands to reason that the greatest sport on the planet would be the one that entertained not only the largest number of people around the globe, but the one that entertained the largest variety of people around the globe.

Football (the real Football, not HandEgg), is watched and played around the entire globe at every level, from the very poor to the very rich. Even in the USA. Below is a link to the Fifa world rankings:

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranki ... 0&rank=193

As you can see, there are well over 200 countries that are registered to enter the world cup when the qualifying rounds begin again next year. Do any of the sports that you would consider American sports have a tournament of quite this scale? Look as Baseball (or Cricket II as it probably should be known in all actuality), in the "World series", from how many countries do the teams that participate hail from? It certainly seems like false advertising to me .

As for HandEgg (I guess you would call this football), is this played outside of North America at any kind of professional level? If it is, it's not really heard of.

Essentially, what I'm saying is that none of the so called "American" sports are particularly popular outside of North America (I'm aware this is not entirely true as Japan has attempted down the years to be America II). Whereas Football (known as Soccer to those incapable of logic) is played the whole world over at a professional level, and has a following in some areas of the globe (Europe, South America, Africa) that is more passionate about the sport than about life itself.

Although as a side note, it is wrong of me to say "American Sports", seeing as Baseball (Cricket II), American Football (HandEgg) and Ice Hockey (genuinely an awesome sport) are all English inventions.


Slosprint; I appreciate that there is no way that I will be able change your opinions of the sports in question, because it's what you've grown up on and vice versa for me. I would appreciate, however, that you wouldn't throw unsubstantiated slander at me or the sport that is essentially the most important thing in my life (except my fiance), to me and basically everyone I know.

So yeah, roller coasters, ay it [:)]

You're a poopyhead.

Thank you for proving everything I've ever said on the subject, in one three word sentence. [:P]

I was going to tell you to correct the spelling of a word there but it turned out everything was spelled correctly. I think we have wandered from the point of how much synchronized swimming sucks though.

Originally posted by gouldy

^ Typical American view. You miss the subtlety of the whole thing. The fact that there isn't many goals is what makes the sport exciting/tense/soul destroying. It is what MAKES the sport.

Yes, but the goals are the only exciting part. You need action to make it tense. To me if there is action and you want to see a goal is better then when its dull and you want to see a goal because you get irritated. That's what makes hockey so good [:)]

[gouldy]

I love Hockey. With my personality, if I had grown up in America Ice Hockey would have definitely been my sport. It is action packed and exciting to watch and that is why I like it.

BUT, Football is a completely different animal and it's the sporadic nature of the goals that makes this so. A lot of games finish 1-0 and in truth, these can be the most exciting and most tense games, because one more goal either way changes the entire game and that goal can occur at any stage or not occur, hence making it tense/exciting. Because goals are more sparse, when they do occur they are much more important than they are in other sports, thus increasing the elation when a goal goes in your favour, especially if it's in a tense game and towards the end of the game.

Take this as an example:

This is a video of my team (Wolves), this is a goal scored in the 83rd minute or so, which essentially meant that we would progress to the next stage of this tournament. It was a massively tense game because a goal for the other team meant they would go through, and a goal for Wolves meant they would go through. Fortunately for me, it was Wolves that scored on this occassion and this video shows quite well how incredible a moment it is for the 6,000 Wolves fans behind the goal. All of the tension in the game is suddenly released in pure uncontrollable elation. Honestly it is better than the climax of sex when this kind of stuff happens. Please watch closely as the goal goes in, when you briefly see the kind of passion involved in the game, directly behind the goal:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwLNwhT_0t8[/youtube]


Basically, I came as this goal went in . but it is very similar to this a lot of the time. Entire seasons hinge on one goal, simply because of how few goals are scored. This is what makes the game so tense and exciting, this is exactly what makes the game so easy to become passionate about. Yet it is exactly what most Americans seem to find as the sport's largest fault.

There is no greater feeling, certainly I have never felt the same feeling, than winning the ganme in the final moments in a low scoring game.

EDIT: Gay, I didn't realise quite how bad the quality was in the video, but you still get the jist I think, even if you can't quite see how crazy the fans go.

EDIT 2: Another decent example though:

Wolves are losing by one goal with 1 minute remaining on the clock, against their local rivals (Birmingham City), then we scored a goal in the 89th minute and this goal in the 92nd minute to win the game by a goal. The goal is scored in front of the stand that I sit in and we go pretty crazy!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Ca1GQUMoE&feature=related[/youtube]

Gouldy, you're my hero. Everything I've always wanted to say, and then you say it spot on. <3

Isn't soccer like... the world's oldest known sport?

[gouldy]

Originally posted by SkyLindlar

Gouldy, you're my hero. Everything I've always wanted to say, and then you say it spot on. <3

I am a hero to many [^]

Originally posted by coasterpimp

Isn't soccer like... the world's oldest known sport?

nah, there is lots of evidence of sport going on hundreds/thousands of years ago. "sport" as in pertaining to the definition I said earlier, about a sport being something that is done purely for entertainment.

What it is, is the sport with the oldest professional teams. Except of course for how old countries are that compete in olympic events, haha.

[Mikey]

According to a recent court case, cheerleading is not a sport.