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phYscHo
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posted April 26, 2002 08:27 AM

What sport DO you like

Well{soccer} as many of us can see, soccer seems to pop up in just about eve{soccer}rypost that is on this board
now my question is.{soccer}.. if so many people dislike it what DO they like as a sport, do you only watch it? live or on tv? or do you play it?
me personaly i love rugby and swimming (strang{soccer}e mix yes but im cool too

rugby is a great way to well do anything!
btw im from 1 of the ex-rugby greats South Africa for any1 that might know
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posted April 26, 2002 09:25 AM

Sorry, but soccer is terribly boring. In the U.S. no one really plays it except for children and adults who are too whimpy for real sports like Football (the real football, American Football), Basketball, baseball, or Hockey. Those sports are far more entertaining than soccer.

Soccer is just lame. Someone goes up a point and then they just try to stall the rest of the game out. Woo hoo...1-0...exciting. Soccer is basically a bunch of guys jogging up and down a field.
Not to mention, the fans are ridiculous...nothing but hooligans and mobs and people killing people...or stadiums collapsing...


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meadey
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posted April 26, 2002 09:41 AM

Not wanting to come across as argumentative or aggressive but that attitude is typical of someone who can't accept that anything else apart from his/her view has relevance . Firstly, Football is a game where the ball is kicked with the feet ! Fact. American Football is also a great game but you can't compare the two.   As with baseball , the notion that you have a "World Series" for only your country is frankly ludicrous. The football World Cup kicks off in June and is a true World tournament. The USA is taking part and have some good players you should watch it from a supporters viewpoint and try to rid yourself of your petty predjudices. And by the way , only Americans call it "soccer" is this because you can't grasp two games called football?
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posted April 26, 2002 10:21 AM

Psycho, I hear you!

Once Wales was a great rugby playing nation, with the likes of Barry John.  Now, we struggle to beat Italy!  It's just not right!
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posted April 26, 2002 10:49 AM

You talked about realfootball being american football? Obviously you havent seen aussie rules football, the greatest game on earth.
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posted April 26, 2002 10:50 AM

Legalised violence you mean !!! LOL
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posted April 26, 2002 04:51 PM

Football. enough said.
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Wesley
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posted April 26, 2002 05:47 PM

Well

Skating/Baseball/Atletics/Hokey/Basketball/Badminton/Stunting/Skate boarding/I probally forgot some things...

Tennis/Golf and Soccer suck.


And all people that watch sport on television are lazy and stupid.
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posted April 26, 2002 06:27 PM

Basketball, skiing, snowboarding, formule-1.
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Embryo
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posted April 26, 2002 06:49 PM

Nothing can beat Hockey, when it comes to Lord Stanley's Cup there is nothing holding those skating maniacs back.
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posted April 26, 2002 06:51 PM

a tear still trickles down my cheek when rember the 1995 world cup that was held in S.A we won!! it was awesome, about the same magnitude as when the canadians beat usa in olimpic (i dont care how u spel it hockey, people were on the streets cheering and waving flags, now thats great patriotism.

anyway, cricket too! thats actualy a fun game(bit long... 5days sometimes)

As for the football thing, they are all different games taht are all fun, personaly i love soccer(using this name as identifier) and can enjoy amercian football too... its all in how you were brought up
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posted April 26, 2002 07:11 PM

UndeadWolfYes. Football (or soccer) sure is lame. I guess that's why it's the biggest sport in the world... people just love lame stuff, they love to do lame things, they love to feel lame, they love to think, eat, sleep and talk lame...

And your *real* football, where you kick the ball, what, five times per game? And there's only one guy on each team that even knows how to do it. Yeah, that's *real* football...

If you had even the slightest comprehension of what football is, you would not speak of it in such patronizing ways. What footballers can do with their feet and a ball is not even comparable to the american thugs running around throwing a ball to eachother. And you need different teams on the pitch to play defense and offense? Don't want to break a sweat, do we?

Have you ever wondered why PC game developers can make very good am. footie/ baseball/ basket simulators, whereas their football(soccer) simulators seem to miss a great deal? It's because football is a so much more complex game than your american braindead activities.

How many ways can you score a point in basket? You shoot, or dunk. Great. In football, a player can score with both feet, his head, any part of the body apart from the hands (except Maradona, apparently he could have scored with a cannon and people would still cheer him...), which would be the easiest way to score in most situations. But I guess we footballers are up for more of a challenge...

And individuality is so much more important in football. With a tactic coach, one fast guy and one who can throw the ball, you can win the Superbowl. Each player has one task, and that's the only thing he has to concentrate on. In football, this can't work. You have to be able to think for yourself, and rely on individual initiative and flair to make good plays. You think it's hard being a quarterback? Try making that pass with your feet...

What is the american mentality anyway? Is it like "Hm, high scores are funny, hence must the most entertaining sport be the one with the highest scores!"??? A 0-0 football match can be entertaining as hell, while nine innings of pointless baseball is bound to be dull (and very unlikely, god forbid a pointless game in the U.S.A.!!)

Psycho: I play football (european) actively, I go cross country skiing in the winter, and I occasionally play squash with friends.

I'm a sucker for sports, and watch almost everything except golf, horseback riding and baseball.
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posted April 26, 2002 07:17 PM

Of Course!i totaly forgot winter sports, i just learned how 2 snowboard i kick ass (its snowing outside today which sucks, i was looking forward to warm weather)

Soccer i think is one of the largest played games in the world, i mean almost every country has a team, and the world cup events rule!
my favourite sport to watch is UFC tho sometimes violence kicks ass
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Wesley
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posted April 26, 2002 08:27 PM

Why don't you all get famous and good yourself?

Then spending your life behind a television and giving those stupid freaks more money!

Get good yourself....
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meadey
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posted April 26, 2002 10:48 PM

Don Gio
 You are the MAN !! Without wanting to patronise the Yanks even more They don't seem to grasp that lots of points doesn't necessarily mean a good game. I played football until I got too old and now both my kids do . I've nothing against american sports and enjoy watching NFL ( I'm a Patriots man !!) But I can't stand by and let someone as ill informed as this diss the Worlds favourite team sport .
 I used to hate Golf also until I played it and it is sooo addictive !!!
 Wes : You seem to spend a lot of time in front of your PC either playing or chatting to knock someone for watching TV !!
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Wesley
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posted April 26, 2002 10:52 PM

Give me this

Not true....

I'm very good at sports myself..

But till end of may I can't sport because of my lungs that I had an operation on some months ago...

That's why I can't sport YET..
But I will go skating again...

(if it isn't turned into a soccer park by now.. many turks people like to play soccer on our skatepark...)
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posted April 27, 2002 03:49 AM

i think all skate parks should become soccer parks just for your lungs wesley, but then of course i could be nice and say yeah sure, but sports are good
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posted April 27, 2002 04:07 AM

Soccer Players more talented????  My god you guys are delusional.  The reason that soccer is the most popular world sport is simple.  It is very cheap to equip a game.  All you need is a ball.  Football is very expensive to equip and run, most people in the world do not live in an economy that can support this.

Football is a game that is about ground control and territory acquisition.  Just because not all players touch the ball has little to do with their particular talent, they must coooperate to achieve their team objective.  The QB runs actions that are designed to penetrate the enemy land and to force his objective.  The Middle Linebacker controls the defence calling actions that are designed to push the enemy out of their territory and into the enemy lands.

Soccer is a game about kicking a ball and chasing it.  And it's oohhh so fun to watch.  As a matter of fact people who watch soccer are driven mad with the boredom and attack each other.  Need to spice up the evening.
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posted April 27, 2002 05:20 AM

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Soccer is a game about kicking a ball and chasing it.  And it's oohhh so fun to watch.  As a matter of fact people who watch soccer are driven mad with the boredom and attack each other.  Need to spice up the evening.


I object. "Football" is far more boring than soccer. Soccer is a constant battle, constant struggle against the other team. In "football" the stupid people madly rush at each other for about 30 seconds, wait five minutes, and repeat. Don't get me wrong, I love going to football games, watching it and cheering my team on, but I often forget that someone is playing football because there are such big time gaps in between

Hehe... this is turning into a good debate. Oh yes, and soccer teams are better team players than football players, because it requires everyone on the team to be making a full effort to win. Whereas in football, I could be playing, and we could still win (that is not a good thing, since I don't know exactly how to play football and am not the best at it) if we have a few good individuals.

Oh yes.. whats wrong with tennis? Its a good sport to play (specially for old people!) when you don't wanna get too sweaty and have good bonding time between friends.... hmmm.. must just be a gentleman's sport then
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Biff_Justice
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posted April 27, 2002 06:15 AM

My favorite sport?....

Hockey!  It combines the strategy of football (either kind of football, both are very strategic games) with the fast pace and athleticism of basketball (which has next to no strategy as far as I can tell).

And I am an American who will pronounce that baseball is the second most boring sport after golf.  Most of the time spent in baseball is waiting for something to happen.  *yawn*
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