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- bstory, on 08/06/2008, -6/+89dugg for thinking that Americans will ever care about soccer
- spaceshipsix, on 08/06/2008, -5/+65This article blows. I love soccer but these reasons are terrible. The top two reasons are the same thing. And we shouldn't love it so we can "attempt to conquer the world." That's so ridiculous.
Reason 3 is just as dumb. He says: "Why is soccer the most entertaining sport?" (Who said it was the most entertaining?) Answer: "Because it's the world's most popular sport, simple." That doesn't make sense. And you can argue upsets happen in every sport just as often. How can you say upsets happen more often in soccer.
I get your intentions but give good reasons and at least read over your article to correct grammatical mistakes before posting. - shzdeR, on 08/06/2008, -7/+62Did you grow up with successive enemas when growing up?
Rough childhood. - defaultfilter, on 08/06/2008, -11/+50Next on the list: cricket.
- splinter09, on 08/06/2008, -42/+73First they need to understand that is not called soccer is football. The we can start talking.
- TheGooseyOne, on 08/07/2008, -9/+32Why "should" we watch anything. I thought we Americans were the ones imposing our ideas on everyone else in the world.
- str1fe, on 08/07/2008, -0/+17Dugg because I'm one of the sadly few Americans who does care about soccer.
- S7aind, on 08/07/2008, -1/+18Wait, you didn't grow up with successive enemas?
- Pramma, on 08/07/2008, -3/+18Meh, we have American football, the rest of the world doesn't, we have the largest most successful basketball league in the world, same with hockey,... I'm saying yea soccer is fine and all, but we just have other major league sports that are already drawing in too much of the crowds, the player talent, and money, soccer just somehow was somewhat left behind.
- bogdon6, on 08/07/2008, -9/+23Soccer is funny. Almost everyone plays it when they are young and yet very few people care about it when they are adults. I can't say I understand the reasons, but baseball, football, basketball, and hockey are just more interesting to watch. Don't get me wrong, the World Cup is great to watch, but why should anyone care about professional soccer in the U.S.
For more Americans to care, Team USA needs to be really good and they aren't. - liljay2k, on 08/07/2008, -0/+14How many times do we have to go over this:
The rules of football were codified in England by the Football Association in 1863, and the name association football was coined to distinguish the game from the other forms of football played at the time, specifically rugby football. The term soccer originated in England, first appearing in the 1880s as a slang abbreviation of the word "association", often credited to former England captain Charles Wreford-Brown.[46]
Today the sport is generally known simply as football in countries where it is the most popular football code. In countries where other codes are more popular, the sport is more commonly referred to as soccer, and indeed is referred to as such in the official names of the governing bodies in the United States and Canada. FIFA, the sport's world governing body, defines the sport as association football in its statutes,[47] but the term most commonly used by FIFA and the International Olympic Committee is football.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football# ... - markhiler, on 08/07/2008, -3/+17It's the game, not the name.
- Luke1h7, on 08/07/2008, -1/+14Plenty of high schools have boys soccer.
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -2/+13I played Soccer on the NES. That's about as close as I'll get.
- rsm5068, on 08/07/2008, -4/+15one reason to not: athletes and their families are killed in their sleep for losing games. Yeah I'm looking at your Brazil.
- gfxlonghorn, on 08/07/2008, -5/+16I have played soccer("futbol") all my life and I still find Football and Basketball more entertaining to watch. Unless your in the action, it can get boring pretty quickly. I think the fact that the possibilities for monumental upsets take away from the sport. The mere fact that it is possible for a ***** team to beat an amazing team on one fluke goal can ruin ***** for me.
- tubalcane, on 08/07/2008, -3/+14Who cares? If you like soccer good for you. I can't stand watching soccer, I find it incredibly boring. Why does this insult soccer fans? I said soccer is boring, not that your mother dresses you funny. I prefer American football but it doesn't bother me one bit if you don't like American football. Arguing this is like arguing what the best color is when everyone knows it's blue...
- Ryan32, on 08/07/2008, -9/+20I'm not a soccer fan, but even when I manage to sit through 5 minutes of a soccer match on TV (when nothing else is on), I see some panzy ass fall to the ground every 30 seconds acting like he got drop kicked in the face.... Then the replay comes up and you see that he barely got tapped..... I ***** you not this happened like 15 times in a 5 minute period the last time i watched a soccer match. If soccer players weren't such pussies I probably wouldn't hate them so much.
Soccer players make the infamous duke basketball players look good. for reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0upQDkY-pg - johnpaul191, on 08/07/2008, -6/+16odd, i have lived in the US my whole life and have never been able to sit through an entire american football, baseball or basketball event. they bore the hell out of me. I can in fact watch soccer/football though.... and i have not played it in 20 years.
- gianttoolbox11, on 08/07/2008, -1/+10The Premier League does not have a championship rather they crown their champion as the team with the most points at the end of the season. I think you mean Champions League final, which was 'exciting *****.'
- BRENTON8907, on 08/07/2008, -5/+14All David Beckham has accomplished is a recent surge of 18-24 year olds having faux hawks
- dangrshark, on 08/07/2008, -2/+11exactly, maybe 'we' should listen to others for a chance...
- speakafreaka, on 08/07/2008, -1/+10You cant watch something unless you're absolutely certain your team will win?
Whats the point? - Tyrghast, on 08/07/2008, -1/+9The biggest issue with soccer in america is that it's commonly viewed as a kid's sport. At 7 you play soccer, at 13 you move up to football or basketball.
- wejmahtin, on 08/07/2008, -0/+8Same here man. I don't think our television networks will ever let it get big, because they don't have a format that fits it. It would have to be 20 periods of 2 minutes each with 18 commercials in between each one.
- Biks, on 08/07/2008, -2/+10Soccer will never catch on in the states. It's conceptually just like hockey, but three times as slow and no violence. No one here gives a ***** about hockey either.
Note to your Europeans: Yes, baseball is boring as hell too, so you've got us there. That's why every American loves FOOTBALL - it's about conquering your opponents land and beating the ***** out of them. - wejmahtin, on 08/07/2008, -4/+12Soccer moms
- PullingTeeth, on 08/07/2008, -2/+10It makes no sense. Feet hardly come in contact with the ball in American football, and when it does, it's when the game is most similar to soccer.
- paulvq, on 08/07/2008, -2/+10"It sucks having to live with people like this and get grouped in with them as "Americans". I bet mike17032 voted for Bush and is going to vote for McCain."
So you hate people that think you're a typical American, and you yourself generalize? - wejmahtin, on 08/07/2008, -1/+9That's ***** impossible.
- markhiler, on 08/07/2008, -1/+9But... our team won't be really good unless more people care.
Same thing with MLS, if more people cared and went to the games, then the league would grow and eventually be better. - chestertonb, on 08/07/2008, -0/+8I played Water Polo once. It was quite exciting until my horse drowned.
- Obsession88, on 08/07/2008, -0/+8Add boobs = USA cares
- h0ly, on 08/07/2008, -0/+7"everyone plays it when they are young and yet very few people care about it when they are adults"
That's what happen in the USA. In the rest of the world, kids and adults play it, talk about it, and generally enjoy it.
Americans seem to have chosen a completely different cultural view on soccer, and now maybe is too late to change that. When you think about soccer, it's associated with kids, "soccer moms", and a whole lot of other symbolic relationships that are completely inexistent in other countries.
I'm not saying it is wrong, it's just a different perspective. - 1gunners4, on 08/07/2008, -2/+9Baseball is about as entertaining as watching grass grow.
- RobMackenzie, on 08/07/2008, -2/+9The group of snobby kids in the corner of the playground that nobody likes:
"Screw you guys, we aren't going to play with you, we're going to make our OWN games."
Come on USA, come play with the rest of us... its more fun if everyone plays along.
(And canada rocks you guys in hockey, it's what we DO) - avanor, on 08/07/2008, -1/+8Not Really.
More like Colombia. - readacook, on 08/07/2008, -0/+7I love playing and watching soccer, but I friggin' hate soccer evangelists. You know, the type that look down on you as uncultured because you'd rather watch another sport.
- Aurabolt, on 08/07/2008, -4/+10Most of his reasons revolve around the fact that all countries are poorer than the US, so they just play soccer.
- stormofswords, on 08/07/2008, -1/+7I have to agree with you. I want to like soccer. I think it's amazing how much the rest of the First World loves and cherishes the sport and how it's often nation vs. nation, not just one city vs. another city from the same country.
I just can't get over the pussies in the game. Every 5 minutes, someone gets tapped and falls to the ground like they just had a spike rammed through their leg. I find myself yelling more at the TV when that crap happens than at any other time during the match. That kind of ***** would get you laughed off the field in any other sport in America, but it still goes on in pro soccer (even if it's become less prevalent).
Someone post that video of Ronaldo tripping over air. What a vag. - pimpdad82, on 08/07/2008, -5/+11First you need to learn how to speak English, THEN we can talk.
- trafficlight, on 08/07/2008, -6/+12Pitching a perfect game is the most anticlimactic victory in all of sports. It's 3 hours of watching two guys play catch.
Yah! We win because nobody hit the ball! - kgreen69er, on 08/07/2008, -0/+6The Euro Cup this year, was reason enough alone to be a lifelong soccer fan.
- Number23, on 08/07/2008, -6/+12The got flights leaving every day.
- turleh, on 08/07/2008, -1/+7"I honestly believe this is a case where deep down, everyone in the world knows that American football is better, but they don't want to admit it."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH - Ryan32, on 08/07/2008, -0/+5I honestly thought reason 3 was something out of a 1st grade writing assignment... Actually i think most 1st graders could come up with something better than that... How the hell did this crap get to the front page?
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -40/+45Sorry but in the States, the name Football is taken by a sport that doesnt suck total ass.
- wejmahtin, on 08/07/2008, -0/+5Hell yeah. For the no-commercial thing alone you would think Americans would be all over it, as thickly laden as our american sports have become with ***** advertising.. .
- dgcarbs, on 08/07/2008, -1/+6rugby? you know the sport where you non-stop run for 45 minute halves w/ a 5 minute break, all the time you actually have to be hitting someone. Sorry but soccer is definitely not as exhausting as playing rugby.
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