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| Are you PRO or ANTI football (aka soccer) ??? |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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 Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| waggo wrote: |
You are seriously boring.Seriously. |
Zing. |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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What's with the people on this thread saying hockey is played only in Canada or the US? Take a look at the NHL rosters and you will see that about 50 percent are native Canadians, 15 percent Americans, and the other 35 percent are Europeans. Lots of Russians, Swedes and Chechs.
Fewer players, a much faster moving game, play behind the net (that would be cool in soccer) and much less of that excitement-killing offsides garbage. I like the blue line way of determining offsides so much more |
The game would be too easy if there was no offside rule. Indeed, the offside rule changed radically in recent years (you can now be a mile offside yet 'inactive' and then score a valid goal when onside) because the game was too easy with the old offside rule. All the defenders had to do was all move forward as a unit and catch the attacker offside. Bingo! The changes sorted that little loophole out.
I once formally taught the offside rule to a bunch of women as part of a course I did. They got it! The offside rule is not difficult and not garbage. It's an essential feature of the game. The problem with offside, however, is that it's difficult to monitor consistently and valid goals get disallowed whilst invalid goals are given. That's all part of the fun though. After a soccer game, the discussions involve "that goal wasn't legitimate", "that penalty was a poor decision", "he should've been sent off for that dangerous challenge". By contrast, the after-game comments in American Football are "he played a great game". Boring. No controversy. No passion. Just a load of blokes clattering into one another for a few hours. Dreadful shower. I don't like Hockey because I can never see where the puck is - and considering the puck is the most important object in the game that's rather a drawback. However I prefer it to American Football and Baseball infinitely. I'm not being anti-America because I'M NOT ANTI-AMERICA AT ALL but I think its sports suck.
Generally, we English, I think, side with the Americans over our European counterparts - we speak the same language and we have many cultural things in common like Rock and Roll. But there's a divide when it comes to sport. And Soccer - believe me - will get popular in the States before American Football/Baseball gets popular in England. It will never be popular in England because we think it sucks nuts. Sorry guys. Don't have a fit over it - we're still your friends and allies. We'll continue giving you John Lennon and Pink Floyd whilst you give us Nirvana and The Doors. But sport? Never. |
Yeah, some type of offsides rule is necessary, but I don't like the way it slows down momentum. Also, you think that contoversial calls are part of the game's charm. I don't care for it and it happens in American football too. Your example of post-game American football talk is ridiculous. Haven't you seen all the griping over the calls in the Super Bowl? We have contoversy too. I don't feel it adds excitement to the game in a real way, though it may "excite" the fans. I mean, I suppose you could say melees in the stands adds to the excitement too, but not to the excitement of the game itself.
As for soccer becoming popular in the States, people have been saying that for a long time. I'm sure it will become more popular, but I doubt it will ever be the most popular. Even it did, it would mean nothing to me. I don't watch sports because they are poular. I mean, for unknown reasons, WWE is quite popular, but I don't watch it. And they say NASCAR is the fastest growing sport in terms of audience (in the US). Yuck.
I would never assume someone is anti-American because they don't like American sports-especially football. Disliking basketball is harder for me to understand, though. Anyway, you don't like "American sports"? Big deal. No skin off my nose. To each his own.
As for music, you can keep Lennon, but thanks for Led Zep, The Who, The Stones, and most of the great rock bands of the classic rock era. |
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