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Do you intend to watch the World Cup?

Do you intend to watch the World Cup?

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HogWash said:
As opposed to the 4th tie in the last 15 MINUTES, in futbol?
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Nothing wrong with a tie, just means two teams played their best. And tournaments and championships always end in a win, either via golden goal, or PK.
 
Smeagol said:
Do I plan to? No. Will I? Maybe. Probably some of it.

2. The scoring is to low. Widen the goal area to allow higher scores under US rules. Feel free to go back to international rules for international matches.
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The scoring is too low: A 3-2 soccer match is the same as a 21-14 football game. Soccer is about the importance of a goal. One point, one goal, football has 6 points touchdown, 3 points field goal, 2 points safety, one point PAT.

A goal in soccer is huge and important. It makes the game that much more exciting.

Oh, and there are cheerleaders http://bustedcoverage.com/cheerleaders/soccer-cheerleaders/



And there are concerts after games.

And the MLS has a higher average attendance than the NBA and the NHL.

Your knowledge of soccer is lacking.
 
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No, because soccer sucks.
 
Yeah. I love soccer. Been watching the WC since 2002. Deutschland, uber alles!
 
TurtleDude said:
there are now (they changed the rules since when I played in college) points awarded after every play in volleyball
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It's way too easy to score in b-ball. They could just give each team a hundred points and play for ten minutes.
They tried to change hockey to get more scoring and appeal to (ahem!) non-traditional markets in Columbus and Raleigh, etc. It led to nearly ruining the game and brought us that nasty perverdion, the shoot-out.
 
NO. I find the game lacking in scoring and very little of the real action happens near the goals. It simply has never appealed to me.
 
Might watch bits and pieces of USA games if nothing else is on. Sitting through an entire game, however, is akin to waterboarding to me.
 
No, unless the USA were to be in the final. Same with hockey. Hockey is soccer played on ice, albeit with actual contact.
 
You are actually arguing about a sport. My sport is okay, yours is not. Meh.


Heck, if I am surfing through the TV and see a bowling tournament I may watch a little bit but not the whole game.

Just don't see why people have to put someone's choice of sports entertainment down. This is lame as arguing Ford vs Chevy or your beer vs my beer.

This whole thread was not about to see how many actually watch the World Cup but more of the juvenile troll eagerness to just attack soccer. Nothing else on Nickelodeon today I guess.
 
Navy Pride said:
Hey that is your opinion personally to me sitting and watching a 2 to 3 hour game ending up 0 to 0 is boring as hell...I would rather watch paint dry.
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Football lasts 90 minutes...

Anyhow, are you saying that if two grid-iron teams played a big hitting match with lots of offence and defence, players making amazing plays which end up with jaw-dropping tackles to stop certain scores - you'd still say it was boring?

What you seem to need then is a game where there is only one side playing - that way you'll get all the high scores you want.
 
Jredbaron96 said:
You ever played Soccer?
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Really.

I played it for years. Other then maybe goalies and fullbacks (the defense closest to the goalies), EVERYONE runs in soccer...a lot.


Having said that, I won't be watching the World Cup much. Maybe just the 'big' games.

I am more into watching football, baseball, auto racing then soccer.
 
99percenter said:
It requires no physical exertion. You can probably burn more calories playing wii sports.
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that's really stupid. I find soccer boring but short of tennis players, soccer players are the fittest professional athletes in any of the major sports because they run more miles in a game than any other major team sport
 
TurtleDude said:
that's really stupid. I find soccer boring but short of tennis players, soccer players are the fittest professional athletes in any of the major sports because they run more miles in a game than any other major team sport
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As someone whose kids play soccer, lacrosse and hockey, I will agree 100% with this statement.

The shifts in soccer tend to be substantially longer than either hockey or lacrosse, and after they play soccer, they are drenched in sweat more than even when they are full out playing hockey & lacrosse wearing heavy padding.

They could down 10 boxes of Little Debbie **** and burn it all off in one game of soccer.
 
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tres borrachos said:
As someone whose kids play soccer, lacrosse and hockey, I will agree 100% with this statement.

The shifts in soccer tend to be substantially longer than either hockey or lacrosse, and after they play soccer, they are drenched in sweat more than even when they are full out playing hockey & lacrosse wearing heavy padding.

They could down 10 boxes of Little Debbie **** and burn it all off in one game of soccer.
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as team sports go, only water polo is probably more tiring in terms of endurance though Lacrosse is close

Individual sports-many are more demanding such as boxing, Squash and tennis along with some of the cycling and rowing events but overall soccer players have to be extremely fit. If I had to pick a pro athlete to run a mile race who is not a track or cross country runner, it would be a soccer player or a squash player.
 
Navy Pride said:
Hey that is your opinion personally to me sitting and watching a 2 to 3 hour game ending up 0 to 0 is boring as hell...I would rather watch paint dry.
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How about if it was only 90 minutes?
 
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