Monster Win For the Sounders, When Will You Soccer Haters Give them a Chance?

[Botev1912]

Originally Posted by MondoTime

Precisely!

Soccer is great for societies in which an entire group of impoverished families cannot collectively afford necessary equipment or even a ball for the group to play with. In worlds where that isn’t the case, boring soccer will always take a backseat to much of whatever else goes on.

Of course soccer is “becoming more popular in Seattle” as area businesses continue to bring workers from those very same impoverished locations for local work. Most other large cities in N.A. don’t match the influx from those places.

You can tell a great deal about a place by comparing how many people are leaving to how many are arriving.


Now and again someone would fall off the outside railings at the Kingdome, but aside from those rarities the number of fan deaths at U.S. sporting events is minute when contrasted to deaths of fans at soccer matches world-wide.

Score an “own goal” in 3rd world soccer:

Take your own life first so some rabid fan can’t get you.

The entire scenario surrounding soccer is 3rd-worldish.

Your hate toward football (soccer) must be personal. I don't see any other explanation for all of your nonsense.

[MondoTime]

How much more need be said about such a brutal sport ?


I mean, Christ, baseball is played with BATS... and nobody ever pens a similar story about baseball:


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-...istory/3806638


One might suspect that perhaps Archery might occasionally know a 'disaster' or two. But none like soccer can boast. (and this doesn't even include the suicides by the Bill Buckners of the soccer world whose own countrymen would murder them first if allowed half the chance)


It's downright comical that such a brutal sport should gain even a foothold in a first world country which can afford equipment for the multitude of superior athletic competitions.

So if your standard is such that you love to root for your team and its .400 win percentage, AND call yourself "champions" upon achieving the end of a season in which you won 40% of your competitions, then go right ahead. But the stupidity in so doing is akin to merely citing the Seattle Mariners as "Champions" of anything.

We already have a team that can (usually) win 40% of its games year after year after year. We don't need clueless people with even lower standards suddenly deciding that such organizations are now "champions" upon conclusion of another 40% successful season.

How about instead of wasting another breath on soccer, we as a local society inspire the powers that be to actually make an effort with the Mariners to bring them to a level of efficiency befitting a 42-year-old franchise, instead of putting the area through the routine sh*tshow we've come to know, year after pathetic year?

[Botev1912]

So you are sharing an article from more than 7 years ago to make a point? Guess what, people don't care what you think. It's pretty obvious you are clueless and cannot see beyond the end of your nose.