Soccer Isn't A Man's Game And The Amount Of Times They Grab Each Other's Heads And Fake Cry And Fall
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It is kinda miserable sifting through some of the posters around here...
I wish I had a witty response for this, but damn, we do have some ****ty posters here.
No, seriously, you sound like a miserable dude who's just going through the paces of life. Snap out of it, Ballou. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't remember you being like this. It's corny as ****, but stop and smell the roses of life.
You should give soccer a chance and here's why.
Since, 2002 as a result of the internet and then later with instant social media, soccer has been gaining traction in this country. More and more Americans, year after year, are starting to watch the game. And it's great because while more and more folks are watching, the Americans have been getting better and better, year after year. They've been getting better at a sport where the rest of the world has been dominating for decades. And it's fun! The arguments of the game being boring fall flat in the face of games like baseball where there is rarely any "action" and football where there is more commercial time than there is play time. The flopping complaints are overrated and this is substantiated by all the slow motion camera work throughout the game.
Anyway, you can ask anyone and they'll tell you that I'm the last person to consider themselves some sort of jingoist. I'm as patriotic as the next guy. But this year was different. I don't know how it was where you live but here in Los Angeles, as well as other cities around the country, so many Americans were getting together to watch the US games. Rarely, do we get the opportunity as Americans to all share in a common experience. Most of the time our shared experiences as Americans come at the end of some sort of national tragedy. The idea that you're jumping on a bandwagon is really ****ing dumb, since you're an American. You're already part of the team! Who cares if you don't know the names of the players, you'll learn them.
As long as the US has been involved in soccer I have never seen it affect my city as much as it did this year. Granted, Im sure the time the games were on helped, but never have I seen such an electricity among the people here in LA. Everyone was getting together to watch games. Bars, stadiums, school gyms, restaurants, parks, businesses, etc. were all showing the game. This is giving me chills to write but there's nothing like going to brunch at a local spot and seeing the whole ****ing restaurant watching the US play and collectively, screaming as we scored goals and applauding good defensive efforts. And that's the thing, more and more people were understanding the minutiae of the game. People clapping as our defenders were clearing the goal of the ball. It was really amazing. The whole city just coming together to watch and have a good time. Strangers highfiving and hugging each other is great to experience.
And if you disregard everything I've said and want to continue acting like some geriatric curmudgeon, then do so, but just know you're siding with your girl Ann Coulter...the only woman I know with an adam's apple.
https://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-06-25.html
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Dude you can put a nice polish on a turd, even Mythbusters proved it, but it remains a turd nonetheless.
I can try all day long to get you to believe my parents LOVED going to watch my chess matches in high school. I am sure they thoroughly enjoyed it and mapped out all my games in standard notation as I eagerly did with the games I watched and studied. But that would be blowing a lot of smoke right up the old bung hole. They went because they loved me, and chess was BORING as all hell to watch.
If it takes getting drunk and making connections with strangers to make soccer interesting, well that just kind of proves the point actually.
I can try all day long to get you to believe my parents LOVED going to watch my chess matches in high school. I am sure they thoroughly enjoyed it and mapped out all my games in standard notation as I eagerly did with the games I watched and studied. But that would be blowing a lot of smoke right up the old bung hole. They went because they loved me, and chess was BORING as all hell to watch.
If it takes getting drunk and making connections with strangers to make soccer interesting, well that just kind of proves the point actually.
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I think soccer is hard for someone for whom basketball is their favorite spectator sport. Too much waiting in soccer tbh. I view soccer the same way I view baseball or golf, the stakes have to be high for it to be interesting. In other words you have to add excitement/drama because there is just too little of it inherit in the game.
One of the main reasons of the soccer bias/hate, in my opinion, is simply the lack of its presence in a culture or in the life of individuals.
Especially, experiencing the game itself makes a huge difference. First of all, the game is ridiculously fun to play, if you have played soccer in your childhood, most probably you won't be able to escape from being a soccer fan. In most of the world except US, kids start to play soccer and its hundreds of derivatives from very young ages, it's a perfect game for children as it includes almost all beneficial elements for children development, it offers support for many important aspects for kids such as health benefits, social skills, team/friendship skills, individual skills, fun etc. And it's very easy to play, you don't even need the main object, a soccer ball, to play it or a derivative of it. Even a bottle cap or a soda can, a stone or a sock ball, which I played with all btw, will work.
Besides that, on the contrary of the title of this thread, soccer has lots of things to offer to a man. First, it's far from being a wussy game. As its levels go up, the game gets tougher than many sports, it requires and demands serious talent and physical skills. Beyond that, I remember reading somewhere that many studies suggest that Soccer might be fulfilling/replacing the needs and ancient acts of men that they can't do in modern life. Like collective hunting, battling/fighting, harbouring animals etc. There were many symbolic relationships stated between those acts and the rules of soccer in the article but I just can't remember much of it.
As for the claims that it's boring to watch, I partially agree on that, especially after I started to follow basketball I became less interested in Soccer. But the claims are just way too overstated and only true for the lower level competitions or the matches with bad football on the field. Plus if you lack the knowledge about it, you won't enjoy it much and you won't even know why you can't enjoy it. The more you know about the game on the other hand, the more you will love and enjoy it.
For instance, if you can't notice a team's tactical arrangement on the field in a minute or so, that means you are just a novice soccer fan and you are missing a lot of things. However, if you can see the strategies that teams are trying to apply, if you are able to see the moving defensive/offensive blocks in a game, if you know the players' individual traits, teams' strengths/weaknesses and game styles, the managers' game philosophies and so on, your pleasure from the game will be on another level.
Anyway, for what it's worth, I was biased against the American Football too, until the last year. It was just too long, too boring and complex/meaningless for me back then, now the more I know about it, I actually started to enjoy it and I watch good games from time to time on the internet when I'm bored and have some time to kill. At the beginning, I was just wondering about that virtual line on the field and all I was doing was following it the whole game. But now I'm discussing about quarterbacks with my friends who follow the NFL. So it is a huge difference for me, once I removed my prejudice and I believe it would be the same for soccer haters, not just for the ones in the States but everywhere.
Especially, experiencing the game itself makes a huge difference. First of all, the game is ridiculously fun to play, if you have played soccer in your childhood, most probably you won't be able to escape from being a soccer fan. In most of the world except US, kids start to play soccer and its hundreds of derivatives from very young ages, it's a perfect game for children as it includes almost all beneficial elements for children development, it offers support for many important aspects for kids such as health benefits, social skills, team/friendship skills, individual skills, fun etc. And it's very easy to play, you don't even need the main object, a soccer ball, to play it or a derivative of it. Even a bottle cap or a soda can, a stone or a sock ball, which I played with all btw, will work.
Besides that, on the contrary of the title of this thread, soccer has lots of things to offer to a man. First, it's far from being a wussy game. As its levels go up, the game gets tougher than many sports, it requires and demands serious talent and physical skills. Beyond that, I remember reading somewhere that many studies suggest that Soccer might be fulfilling/replacing the needs and ancient acts of men that they can't do in modern life. Like collective hunting, battling/fighting, harbouring animals etc. There were many symbolic relationships stated between those acts and the rules of soccer in the article but I just can't remember much of it.
As for the claims that it's boring to watch, I partially agree on that, especially after I started to follow basketball I became less interested in Soccer. But the claims are just way too overstated and only true for the lower level competitions or the matches with bad football on the field. Plus if you lack the knowledge about it, you won't enjoy it much and you won't even know why you can't enjoy it. The more you know about the game on the other hand, the more you will love and enjoy it.
For instance, if you can't notice a team's tactical arrangement on the field in a minute or so, that means you are just a novice soccer fan and you are missing a lot of things. However, if you can see the strategies that teams are trying to apply, if you are able to see the moving defensive/offensive blocks in a game, if you know the players' individual traits, teams' strengths/weaknesses and game styles, the managers' game philosophies and so on, your pleasure from the game will be on another level.
Anyway, for what it's worth, I was biased against the American Football too, until the last year. It was just too long, too boring and complex/meaningless for me back then, now the more I know about it, I actually started to enjoy it and I watch good games from time to time on the internet when I'm bored and have some time to kill. At the beginning, I was just wondering about that virtual line on the field and all I was doing was following it the whole game. But now I'm discussing about quarterbacks with my friends who follow the NFL. So it is a huge difference for me, once I removed my prejudice and I believe it would be the same for soccer haters, not just for the ones in the States but everywhere.