Is It Football Season Yet?

[Darkside]

I've never watched soccer until this year. Not once. And its been highly entertaining. We've had the concussion when the dude just went right back in, the biter, and the USA blowing a won game against Portugal, which I really think will cost us dearly.

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[AzStevenCal]

I've never watched soccer until this year. Not once. And its been highly entertaining. We've had the concussion when the dude just went right back in, the biter, and the USA blowing a won game against Portugal, which I really think will cost us dearly.

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I've been in the stands (or the seats, etc) for most of the major team sports. Soccer provided the most exhilarating experience of all of them, almost like being at a killer rock concert. I may not care for what the sport has become but I'd never call it boring. Far from it.

Steve

 

[cardpa]

I grew up playing soccer. A retired pro moved into our neighborhood and started up a team which eventually became the beginnings of a league. I loved playing it and I followed it as best I could which wasn't that easy in the 60's. I went to many football matches when stationed in Germany in the 70's. Personally, I can't stand what the sport has become. It has nothing to do with it not originating in America or understanding the game. I appreciate the conditioning, skill and incredible teamwork on display but the flopping, the fan behavior and the business of the sport turn me off.

Steve

This is what turned me off from B-ball and baseball. The strikes and everything else that went with it and the sad part is I was once a baseball zealot. Now I will tune in a game once or twice a season and may watch a little bit of the WS but not even near the same fervor I used to have. I still will go to the Harrisburg Senators games now and again (a AA team we have here affiliated with the Nationals) but that is about it. By the way Steve it is true there are some people I know who have told me they don't like soccer because its a foreign sport. Sad but true.

 

[Duckjake]

On the other hand it was a players strike that got the Cards their first playoff game in several years! Too bad we got slaughtered.

Soccer? Forget it. Give me Rugby any day.
The Blacks pre game routine alone is better than the entire World Cup.

 

[cardpa]

On the other hand it was a players strike that got the Cards their first playoff game in several years! Too bad we got slaughtered.

Soccer? Forget it. Give me Rugby any day.
The Blacks pre game routine alone is better than the entire World Cup.

Never really watched rugby so I can't say what I think about it. Seriously though a warmup in any sport can't be better than the actual game in any sport. Sounds like quite a stretch to me Duck. Oh well to each their own.

 

[Covert Rain]

Frack...I can't wait for this season to start!!!!

 

[SoCal Cardfan]

Never really watched rugby so I can't say what I think about it. Seriously though a warmup in any sport can't be better than the actual game in any sport. Sounds like quite a stretch to me Duck. Oh well to each their own.

Clearly you have never seen this warmup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfkwW4GgAiU

and clearly I forgot how to embed... isn't it just ?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

 

[Duckjake]

Clearly you have never seen this warmup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfkwW4GgAiU

and clearly I forgot how to embed... isn't it just ?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

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[Jetstream Green]

I like sports which are more physical and a lot more athletic than what soccer offers. Before anyone wants to talk about how athletic soccer is, note this... the athletic juggernauts of such countries as Argentina, Belgium, and Costa Rica are some of the top teams duking it out to move forward

 

[Mulli]

I like sports which are more physical and a lot more athletic than what soccer offers. Before anyone wants to talk about how athletic soccer is, note this... the athletic juggernauts of such countries as Argentina, Belgium, and Costa Rica are some of the top teams duking it out to move forward

I don't see your point. Plenty of "athletes" on those teams.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I don't see your point. Plenty of "athletes" on those teams.

Have you looked at a globe? Belgium is like this tiny little dot. How many athletes can you fit in a tiny little dot?

I think his point had to do with population base from which to draw and that makes sense. But athleticism can be developed and these kids grow up playing that game, many of them playing from morning till night.

Steve

 

[Mulli]

Have you looked at a globe? Belgium is like this tiny little dot. How many athletes can you fit in a tiny little dot?

I think his point had to do with population base from which to draw and that makes sense. But athleticism can be developed and these kids grow up playing that game, many of them playing from morning till night.

Steve

I have now been asked on ASFN:

have you read a book
have you looked at a globe

 

[Jetstream Green]

I have now been asked on ASFN:

have you read a book
have you looked at a globe

Don't change Mulli, books from places all over the globe are overrated lol