It must drive the rest of the world crazy that Americans prefer football over soccer

[Kilgor]

Originally posted by: 3NF
Soccer would be more interesting to watch if the players could beat the hell out of each other

Now that I would watch. Forget the ball just have a bunch of guys run at each other from other ends of the field and start beating the crap out of each other. The team with a guy left standing wins.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Spidey07 shouldnt be allowed to post in any sports threads. He is absolutely clueless...eg, this thread and that big quarterback thread. Who's with me?

 

[Atheus]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Spidey07 shouldnt be allowed to post in any sports threads. He is absolutely clueless...eg, this thread and that big quarterback thread. Who's with me?

Prepare to be haXXored.

 

[monk3y]

Originally posted by: chrisms
As an American, I never watch soccer. I watch football every Sunday and am addicted to it.

However soccer is the king of all sports. The competition, pride, and fanaticism that goes along with a World Cup tournament is unmatched. I was lucky enough to backpack through Europe during last year's World Cup. In every country, in every pub, people of different nationalities would gather to watch the game. The fanfest in Berlin was the most amazing event I have ever been to in my life, with thousands of German flags flying in a crowd that was packed in for over a mile, cheering as the 3rd place game played on a series of huge screens. The entire city seemed shut down. Crowds gathered outside the French team's hotel just to get a glimpse of their bus passing by. Thousands of people flowed through the streets towards the fanfest, waving French, Portugese, German, and Italian flags. After Germany won, you couldn't go three minutes without hearing someone scream "Duestchland!!!" on their way back home. Miles away from the fanfest, you could still hear people cheering in the streets and people on the trains discussing the game.

Football is great. But nothing compares to that. Without having much of a team to cheer for I still loved watching the games with people at bars around Europe. No Super Bowl could ever be as great as the World Cup.

Well said.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: Atheus

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
Spidey07 shouldnt be allowed to post in any sports threads. He is absolutely clueless...eg, this thread and that big quarterback thread. Who's with me?

Prepare to be haXXored.

 

[aswedc]

Originally posted by: chrisms
As an American, I never watch soccer. I watch football every Sunday and am addicted to it.

However soccer is the king of all sports. The competition, pride, and fanaticism that goes along with a World Cup tournament is unmatched. I was lucky enough to backpack through Europe during last year's World Cup. In every country, in every pub, people of different nationalities would gather to watch the game. The fanfest in Berlin was the most amazing event I have ever been to in my life, with thousands of German flags flying in a crowd that was packed in for over a mile, cheering as the 3rd place game played on a series of huge screens. The entire city seemed shut down. Crowds gathered outside the French team's hotel just to get a glimpse of their bus passing by. Thousands of people flowed through the streets towards the fanfest, waving French, Portugese, German, and Italian flags. After Germany won, you couldn't go three minutes without hearing someone scream "Duestchland!!!" on their way back home. Miles away from the fanfest, you could still hear people cheering in the streets and people on the trains discussing the game.

Football is great. But nothing compares to that. Without having much of a team to cheer for I still loved watching the games with people at bars around Europe. No Super Bowl could ever be as great as the World Cup.

Problem one, the World Cup happens every four years. Football is every year. Of course something that rare is going to be a bigger event when it does come around.

Problem two, you're watching football on Sunday and not Saturday. There are plenty of college games that gather crowds pro football and soccer teams can only dream of, and those towns live and die by their teams.

 

[JasonCoder]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: suicidalpigeon

Originally posted by: spidey07
Soccer is the most boring sport to watch.

Ever.

Golf? Curling? Darts?

More exciting.
Golf is really fun to watch.
Curling at least has women in tights.
Darts - well they have that cool announcer guy that says "20....50.....60!"

Gotta go with curling. First time I caught a broadcast of it I was like "someone must've made a mess cuz they've broke out the brooms." Which was quickly followed by a turning of the channel. Frankly, I'd rather watch paint peel.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I seriously doubt that the rest of the world really cares. I'm sure the promoters do but that's primarily because of the enormous revenue base we have here for a huge sporting event like World Cup Soccer. It remains largely untapped although I suspect it is growing.

Fact is, soccer is the number one sport in the entire world, I'd like to see more coverage of it here quite honestly. I watched a number of World Cup matches last year and was hooked. I'll definitely watch it again in 2010. I'd like to think that building a great team around a dominating player like Beckham will give us a better chance at the World Cup. Go USA!!! :thumbsup:

 

[monk3y]

Originally posted by: aswedc

Originally posted by: chrisms
As an American, I never watch soccer. I watch football every Sunday and am addicted to it.

However soccer is the king of all sports. The competition, pride, and fanaticism that goes along with a World Cup tournament is unmatched. I was lucky enough to backpack through Europe during last year's World Cup. In every country, in every pub, people of different nationalities would gather to watch the game. The fanfest in Berlin was the most amazing event I have ever been to in my life, with thousands of German flags flying in a crowd that was packed in for over a mile, cheering as the 3rd place game played on a series of huge screens. The entire city seemed shut down. Crowds gathered outside the French team's hotel just to get a glimpse of their bus passing by. Thousands of people flowed through the streets towards the fanfest, waving French, Portugese, German, and Italian flags. After Germany won, you couldn't go three minutes without hearing someone scream "Duestchland!!!" on their way back home. Miles away from the fanfest, you could still hear people cheering in the streets and people on the trains discussing the game.

Football is great. But nothing compares to that. Without having much of a team to cheer for I still loved watching the games with people at bars around Europe. No Super Bowl could ever be as great as the World Cup.

Problem one, the World Cup happens every four years. Football is every year. Of course something that rare is going to be a bigger event when it does come around.

Problem two, you're watching football on Sunday and not Saturday. There are plenty of college games that gather crowds pro football and soccer teams can only dream of, and those towns live and die by their teams.

I don't know... I don't think you can even get CLOSE to calling a college team having the amount of fans a COUNTRY has. And I go to one of the bigger college towns.

 

[aswedc]

Originally posted by: monk3y
I don't know... I don't think you can even get CLOSE to calling a college team having the amount of fans a COUNTRY has.

Who cares how many total fans there are? At a college game, there are more people, the people there are more involved and louder, and after the game the whole town is going to be celebrating a victory or drinking away a loss. How can sports get any better than that?

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: aswedc

Originally posted by: chrisms
As an American, I never watch soccer. I watch football every Sunday and am addicted to it.

However soccer is the king of all sports. The competition, pride, and fanaticism that goes along with a World Cup tournament is unmatched. I was lucky enough to backpack through Europe during last year's World Cup. In every country, in every pub, people of different nationalities would gather to watch the game. The fanfest in Berlin was the most amazing event I have ever been to in my life, with thousands of German flags flying in a crowd that was packed in for over a mile, cheering as the 3rd place game played on a series of huge screens. The entire city seemed shut down. Crowds gathered outside the French team's hotel just to get a glimpse of their bus passing by. Thousands of people flowed through the streets towards the fanfest, waving French, Portugese, German, and Italian flags. After Germany won, you couldn't go three minutes without hearing someone scream "Duestchland!!!" on their way back home. Miles away from the fanfest, you could still hear people cheering in the streets and people on the trains discussing the game.

Football is great. But nothing compares to that. Without having much of a team to cheer for I still loved watching the games with people at bars around Europe. No Super Bowl could ever be as great as the World Cup.

Problem one, the World Cup happens every four years. Football is every year. Of course something that rare is going to be a bigger event when it does come around.

Problem two, you're watching football on Sunday and not Saturday. There are plenty of college games that gather crowds pro football and soccer teams can only dream of, and those towns live and die by their teams.

Problem one? A worldwide sports tournament that draws millions of people is difficult to set up every year. Sure a Super Bowl happens four times as much but it is not a fourth of the event that a World Cup tournament is.

As for problem two, that is just flat wrong. College football has nothing on World Cup soccer. It is not even a spec of dust compared to the gigantic event that is a world soccer tournament. I live in Pullman, home of the Washington State Cougars, a town of which you speak of. It simply is not worth even mentioning in the same sentence when it comes to comparing sporting events.

Regardless of your sport of choice the fact is nothing draws the same passion or amount of people as a World Cup tournament.

 

[monk3y]

Originally posted by: aswedc

Originally posted by: monk3y
I don't know... I don't think you can even get CLOSE to calling a college team having the amount of fans a COUNTRY has.

Who cares how many total fans there are? At a college game, there are more people, the people there are more involved and louder, and after the game the whole town is going to be celebrating a victory or drinking away a loss. How can sports get any better than that?

To me a sport can get better when you're playing with the passion of a country. Sure I went to the college but that doesn't have the ties my nationality does.

 

[aswedc]

Originally posted by: chrisms
Regardless of your sport of choice the fact is nothing draws the same passion or amount of people as a World Cup tournament.

You can talk theory about how many are watching the game all day long. Personally, I like going to sporting events, not thinking about how many other people are watching it at the same time. And at ground zero, in the stadium, there is no sport in the world that can touch the college football experience. And that's basically all I have to say about the subject

 

[monk3y]

Originally posted by: aswedc

Originally posted by: chrisms
Regardless of your sport of choice the fact is nothing draws the same passion or amount of people as a World Cup tournament.

You can talk theory about how many are watching the game all day long. Personally, I like going to sporting events, not thinking about how many other people are watching it at the same time. And at ground zero, in the stadium, there is no sport in the world that can touch the college football experience. And that's basically all I have to say about the subject

You sound like you've been to "The Swamp"

But anyways, I don't think you have a clue how huge soccer is.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: aswedc

Originally posted by: chrisms
Regardless of your sport of choice the fact is nothing draws the same passion or amount of people as a World Cup tournament.

You can talk theory about how many are watching the game all day long. Personally, I like going to sporting events, not thinking about how many other people are watching it at the same time. And at ground zero, in the stadium, there is no sport in the world that can touch the college football experience. And that's basically all I have to say about the subject

You're entitled to your own opinion, but which one of us has been to both and can actually make a comparison?

Actually I didn't even go to the stadium itself.. I can only imagine it being even more amazing (if that is possible).

 

[Inspector Jihad]

Originally posted by: monk3y

Originally posted by: aswedc

Originally posted by: chrisms
Regardless of your sport of choice the fact is nothing draws the same passion or amount of people as a World Cup tournament.

You can talk theory about how many are watching the game all day long. Personally, I like going to sporting events, not thinking about how many other people are watching it at the same time. And at ground zero, in the stadium, there is no sport in the world that can touch the college football experience. And that's basically all I have to say about the subject

You sound like you've been to "The Swamp"

But anyways, I don't think you have a clue how huge soccer is.

He doesnt.

 

[AnyMal]

Let me be one of the europeans to say - we don't care. You can have Beckham, he's yesterday's news.

 

[chrisms]

Originally posted by: AnyMal
Let me be one of the europeans to say - we don't care. You can have Beckham, he's yesterday's news.

I'd go as far as to say Europeans like Americans being disinterested in soccer (fielding bad teams as a result), and that may even be one of the motivating factors behind their love of the sport.

 

[dug777]

As an Aussie, i don't give a sh1t.

 

[aswedc]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
But anyways, I don't think you have a clue how huge soccer is.

He doesnt.[/quote]
I don't think you have a clue what I'm trying to say. I don't care how many people are watching the game. When I go to a college football game, 55,000 people start a chant, the other 55,000 people respond, he whole stadium shakes, and it's absolutely deafening.

Does that happen in the World Cup? Oh wait, the majority of the World Cup 2006 stadiums had a capacity of under 50,000 total...

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Soccer is the most boring sport to watch.

Ever.

hardly... baseball and golf are FAR worse

 

[Oxaqata]

Originally posted by: dug777
As an Aussie, i don't give a sh1t.

I was reading an article and apparently the participation rate in Soccer (in Australia) is almost double that of Australian Rules.

I dont care that much for watching Soccer either, however playing it is a different matter.

 

[Tommouse]

Originally posted by: sao123

Originally posted by: Dumac
I like soccer much more than football...

Ah..soccer...the "chess game in the grass"...

Soccor is more like... hockey in the grass.

I think Lacrosse would be more like Hockey on grass.

Beckhams one year salary is more than a whole NHL teams salary cap!!!!! zomg:Q

 

[RapidSnail]

Originally posted by: aidanjm
american football seems a bit silly. lots of very big guys with crazy shoulder pads. big chunky guys are quite sexy, I find, but you don't really get to see their bodies because they are wearing so much padding.

I bet you would touch their butts.

 

[Xyclone]

Being half-Armenian, and half-Greek, I love soccer. I play and watch it. But, nothing can compete with American football's to be perfect to watch with friends going crazy over the game. That said, I find both sports not that fun to watch... I would rather play them.