|
|
 |
|
|
|
#2
06-15-2006, 07:53 AM
|
|||
|
|||
From what I've read over here, the FIFA rankings have been criticized intensely, and our collapse has given a lot of people ammunition to keep tearing into them.
We're off to watch our match against Italy at a football-crazed pub Saturday. It should be painful, but someone has to cheer us on (or cringe and hide behind the pint, either way). I grew up playing soccer/football and loved it, so I enjoy the World Cup. It's really great being in the UK -- I don't think I've ever seen so many car flags supporting the team anywhere. 
|
|
#4
06-15-2006, 10:49 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
Where is the respect...? How many fat players do you see on a soccer field compared to a football or baseball field? Cmon Gander, you are into fitness. These guys are totally fit or they sit. I will say it is an aquired taste much like baseball. The sport is deeper than the score. Its hard for some people to appreciate unless you have played. This sport in damn tough to play. When you see teams pass the ball and move into opens space so efficiently and set up a shot that misses, there is still beauty in the play. Its kind of like a pitcher setting up a guy for a high tight one for watch that one strike 3. We might love it, but people who dont know the sport look and say what is the big deal? You got to move for 45 minutes straight sprinting and cutting in between. And then do it again. It is a fantastic sport and a wonderful exercise in team cohesion. A change: If a guy has to be carted off the field on a stretcher, he is out of the game and a substitution must be made. He must also sit out the team's next game as he must have been severly injured. They fake way too much to catch a breath.
|
|
#5
06-15-2006, 10:52 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
If he is knocked down and cannot get up, he has 40 seconds before a stretcher is brought on... and once the stretcher is on the field a player must come off and be substituted for.
pgardn rules of soccer: Article IV subsection 32a Verse III(c) pslam G5
|
|
#6
06-16-2006, 09:33 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
I could care less what kind of shape they are in. Just being honest here. I'd much rather watch out of shape overweight guys play baseball than a bunch of very athletic soccer players run around a field (thats way too big by the way) for one hour and score maybe one goal. They need to do something to make this a more offensive game.
They should shrink the field down in size and increase the size of the goal. When is this over anyways?
|
|
#7
06-16-2006, 09:59 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
Because I am tired of watching fat, tabacco chompin, spittin, fat guys that stand around. What kind of sport lets Barry Bonds on the field to play defense. How IN GOD'S NAME can you call baseball a sport when a guy that cannot even run, can play in the outfield? Now that my friend, is a joke. Gander if you learned to love baseball, you can learn to love soccer. (Not that you want to)
|
|
#8
06-16-2006, 10:04 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Never will I be a fan of soccer. Add that to car racing and bowling, this I am sure of.
And how can you be so sure everybody on those soccer fields are clean? You mean there is absolutely no one who cheats with a banned substance?
|
|
#9
06-16-2006, 10:23 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Not a soccer fan at all, I would never watch it, but lots of people like it, so to each their own...
The best arguement I have seen for why Baseball and Football are better, is because something can happen on every play with those sports. Even if if is a 0-0 Baseball Game, 1 swing of the bat can change it, the Reds were 0-0 going into the 11th the other day and with one swing of the bat Adam Dunn won the game, at least there's the anticipation something can happen, same thing in Football... And with the fat Football Players, those are some of the biggest, strongest, fastest people in the world, people do not understand how violent of a game Football can be, someone once compared it to having a car wreck on every play. The speed and size these guys carry is unbelievable...
|
|
#10
06-16-2006, 10:25 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
I did not say anything about soccer players being clean. Or Barry. I am just asking how can a guy that cannot even run play in the outfield. What kind of sport that involves some running, on occassion, allow a guy that cannot even run to be in the OUTFIELD. Dont they have to chase down balls?
|
|
#12
06-16-2006, 10:38 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
|
|
#13
06-16-2006, 10:56 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
somer, im abig fan of american football, baseball, basketball and hockey, basically any sport imaginable, but football is amazing. only racing beats it in my mind. The great thing about football is no matter where you are in the world (except the states and canada) you can talk football to the locals even if you dont know the language!
__________________
  #Grand
|
|
#14
06-18-2006, 07:46 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
... the athletes are great ... but the sport is a complete snoozathon. After 26 games ... a total of 61 goals had been scored ... an average of 2.3 per game by BOTH teams ... and only about half of those resulted from game action ... the rest coming on penalty kicks and corner kicks. As Joanne Worley used to say on "Laugh-In" ... BOOOOOOORINGGGG !!!
|
 |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Hybrid Mode
