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America's past time is baseball, one of the most boring sports to watch. It's not even considered a sport by many. You could argue that it's more of an activity. This is why some pitchers could go well into their 40s, an age range where a typical human body is well past its athletic durability.
Ann Coulter is a huge idiot and a waste of space. I hate people who hate soccer for no other reason than "cuz 'Murrica and NFL."
Maybe people don't like soccer because it goes on forever with very little scoring. She even mentioned all the digital signs in California showing info of various games, many in the 80-something minute and score 0:0.
It's a real sport, but dear God it is the world's most boring sport ever.
I'll second that. I think I'd rather watch the lawn grow.
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Originally Posted by knowledgeiskey
America's past time is baseball, one of the most boring sports to watch. It's not even considered a sport by many. You could argue that it's more of an activity. This is why some pitchers could go well into their 40s, an age range where a typical human body is well past its athletic durability.
I don't watch sports to any extent, but I can at least stand to watch baseball. It seems to be more of a "thinking man's" game. Other sports just bore me to tears. Although I don't watch baseball either (or at least rarely), at least it does not make my mind go numb.
Maybe people don't like soccer because it goes on forever with very little scoring. She even mentioned all the digital signs in California showing info of various games, many in the 80-something minute and score 0:0.
Yeah that is something else weird and foreign about soccer - they count upwards in minutes and even though the game is supposed to be 90 minutes long, time is seemingly arbitrarily added at the "end".
In American sports, we count innings, quarters, and halves, with minutes counted downwards.
We don't say that the Seahawks scored in the "55th minute" - we say that it was 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter and the Seahawks got a TD or field goal.
Or we say that the Mariners scored a run in the bottom of the 9th inning with two outs.
Play is rationally stopped when someone gets hurt.
Is it two difficult for the soccer leagues to hire someone to operate a game clock?
Is it two difficult for the soccer leagues to hire someone to operate a game clock?
It wouldn't be in the spirit of this sport really, when would you stop the clock ? After every foul, every injury etc ? The game would last much longer then
Yeah that is something else weird and foreign about soccer - they count upwards in minutes and even though the game is supposed to be 90 minutes long, time is seemingly arbitrarily added at the "end".
In American sports, we count innings, quarters, and halves, with minutes counted downwards.
We don't say that the Seahawks scored in the "55th minute" - we say that it was 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter and the Seahawks got a TD or field goal.
Or we say that the Mariners scored a run in the bottom of the 9th inning with two outs.
Play is rationally stopped when someone gets hurt.
Is it two difficult for the soccer leagues to hire someone to operate a game clock?
Who wants games that last over 3 hours? That is what makes football unwatchable. 8 seconds of action and then minutes of waiting/commerical breaks.
International Football pays its stars very well if not better than NFL francises. If you can make it in the British Premier League or the German Bundesliga or La lega in Spain or Italy you will walk away a multimillionaire. The powerhouse European teams are owned either by billionaires or deep pockets business groups so a 100 million dollar contract is no problem if the team can win. This is why a team like Manchester United, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich has a book value of over one billion dollars. They are money making machines and have world wide audiences - a marketers dream. Many of the great South American players do just that and play for European teams because they pay much better than teams in Brazil, Argentina or Mexico (ditto for African or Middle Eastern players).
Absolutely. However the US does not produce Soccer players at that caliber. In the US the best athletes choose Basketball and Football for the scholarship money. That is the reason why the best athletes do not choose baseball. Full ride scholarships for baseball are pretty rare, just as for soccer, although the few guys that go in the first few rounds of the MLB draft out of HS do get signing bonuses that exceed a million.
If football is more of an "American sport" (which derived from a non-American sport, of course), then it would have to be because you get to see more serious injuries. And as a country who loves its wars, who here doesn't enjoy seeing someone getting seriously injured for fortune and fame (op, sorry, "respect")? Oh, and of course lots of men in tight pants, can't forget how much the conservatives like that sort of thing
Nah, basketball all the way for me. It was invented here in the U.S. (if that matters to ya), there are very few serious incidents, you get to see your little feuds like you do in other sports, and I don't ever have to sit in the sweltering heat or freezing cold just to watch the damn game! I also think it's a good balance between the requirement for physical and mental strengths.
Yeah that is something else weird and foreign about soccer - they count upwards in minutes and even though the game is supposed to be 90 minutes long, time is seemingly arbitrarily added at the "end".
In American sports, we count innings, quarters, and halves, with minutes counted downwards.
We don't say that the Seahawks scored in the "55th minute" - we say that it was 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter and the Seahawks got a TD or field goal.
Or we say that the Mariners scored a run in the bottom of the 9th inning with two outs.
Play is rationally stopped when someone gets hurt.
Is it two difficult for the soccer leagues to hire someone to operate a game clock?
I've seen football games where that has happened!
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