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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: Suga Foot on September 11, 2004, 12:41:00 AM
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How Come nobody in North America gives a flying fuck about soccer, but it's huge everywhere else in the world?
Personally, I like playing soccer, but It's so fuckin boring to watch.
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Because we have Football, Baseball and Basketball ;)
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How Come nobody in North America gives a flying fuck about soccer, but it's huge everywhere else in the world?
Personally, I like playing soccer, but It's so fuckin boring to watch.
im the other way around i dont mind watchin it but i dont like to play it
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I like playing it except the ball loves to make contact with my head.
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lmao^^
its a good sport to play and watch imo
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Because we have Football, Baseball and Basketball ;)
You dont have Football
The rest of the world has football. You lot just call it Soccer
Because in real Football the ball touches your feet a lot = FOOTBALL
Anyway how can people say it's booring with them slow sports U got ?
Having breaks every 5 mins waiting 4 adverts YAWN
Basketball is good though but thats about it
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^^I just looked up "Real Football" in the dictionary, and it was nowhere to be found...I'll trust Mr. Webster over you when it comes to the English Language.
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football:
Noun
1. Sports a. A game played by two teams of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with goal lines and goal posts at either end, the object being to gain possession of the ball and advance it in running or passing plays across the opponent's goal line or kick it through the air between the opponent's goal posts. b. The inflated oval ball used in this game. 2. Chiefly British a. Rugby. b. Soccer. c. The ball used in Rugby or soccer. 3. Informal A problem or issue that is discussed among groups or persons without being settled: The issue of tax reform became a political football.
Other forms
foot'ball'er n.
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football:
Noun
1. Sports a. A game played by two teams of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with goal lines and goal posts at either end, the object being to gain possession of the ball and advance it in running or passing plays across the opponent's goal line or kick it through the air between the opponent's goal posts. b. The inflated oval ball used in this game. 2. Chiefly British a. Rugby. b. Soccer. c. The ball used in Rugby or soccer. 3. Informal A problem or issue that is discussed among groups or persons without being settled: The issue of tax reform became a political football.
Other forms
foot'ball'er n.
Yeah yeah
The game started in England way before your football
So I think I will go with the Originals
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football:
Noun
1. Sports a. A game played by two teams of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with goal lines and goal posts at either end, the object being to gain possession of the ball and advance it in running or passing plays across the opponent's goal line or kick it through the air between the opponent's goal posts. b. The inflated oval ball used in this game. 2. Chiefly British a. Rugby. b. Soccer. c. The ball used in Rugby or soccer. 3. Informal A problem or issue that is discussed among groups or persons without being settled: The issue of tax reform became a political football.
Other forms
foot'ball'er n.
Yeah yeah
The game started in England way before your football
So I think I will go with the Originals
So if there's two people with the name Michael, only one of them is really Michael? Your logic is fucked up...They're both called Football; get over it.
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I find it hilarious that some of you get your panties in a bunch over football. Yes, you guys had the name first, but get over it, football in America will never have the same meaning as the rest of the world. I respect both groups athletically.
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Yeah your right There both called football
It's just your country who calls it Soccer
The rest of the world calls it football.
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Yeah your right There both called football
It's just your country who calls it Soccer
The rest of the world calls it football.
Yeah, and......
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Yeah your right There both called football
It's just your country who calls it Soccer
The rest of the world calls it football.
And your country spells the word "color" with a "u"...What the fuck is your point?
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Yeah your right There both called football
It's just your country who calls it Soccer
The rest of the world calls it football.
And your country spells the word "color" with a "u"...What the fuck is your point?
The point is your loosing the plot
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The point is your loosing the plot
Any translators on this board?
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The point is your loosing the plot
Any translators on this board?
basically your goin crazy ;D
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I like soccer, usually the only time I watch it though is when the euro and world cup are on.. lol, ever 2 years..
I personally like football the best though
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wow.. this argument is never ending.. btw its funny how america love football but doesnt love football, yet the rest of the world loves football yet doesnt love football... :)
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Because soccer is boring. Your not allowed to make lots of contact (if any?). Yes, i have watched it before.
Back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth.....10 minutes later GOAL!
Back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth.....10 minutes later GOAL!
Back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth.....10 minutes later GOAL!
Back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth.....10 minutes later GOAL!
If i want to bore myself, ill slit my wrists.
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funny thing.. i just read an essay about what i posted... basicly.. amercians like something complex, but not too complex.. casue soccer is too simple.. and americans love violence
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It's because were brought up on other sports. I'm willing to bet it has a lot to do with the Revolutionary War. What I mean is it was probably a conscious effort to find sports that Britain does not play and make them a part of tradition. So USA made Football and Baseball, well somebody made then and USA adopted them. Britain has Crickett and Soccer and USA has Baseball and Football. Then USA kids were brought up with these sports being the most important. Another reason why Soccer became so poular world wide is because all the poor countries could pick it up with out spending much money. The average kid in the 60s Brazil couldn't afford to play baseball or american footballl, but a couple sea shells for a net (or tie a fish net between two trees) and a cabbage roll for a ball and you got Soccer.
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Yeah thats it. I started watching basketball instead of soccer, because of the revolutionary war.
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^LMAO!!
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HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Football historians, those who have studied the game and its origins, place the games beginnings in rugby, an English game played with many similarities to football. Rugby began in eighteen twenty-three at the famous Rugby Boys School in England.
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Walter Camp, the coach at Yale and a dissenter from the IFA over his desire for an eleven man team, helped begin the final step in the evolution from rugby-style play to the modern game of American football. The IFAs rules committee, led by Camp, soon cut the number of players from fifteen to eleven, and also instituted the size of the playing field, at one hundred ten yards.(...)
So, pretty much, both Football, Rugby, and American Football originally comes from England.
Football was a sport before "American Football", so Football is one sport, and American Football another.
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Yeah thats it. I started watching basketball instead of soccer, because of the revolutionary war.
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wow that post went right over your head.
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lol i didnt even readit. I started until i read war, so i stopped. ;D
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How Come nobody in North America gives a flying fuck about soccer, but it's huge everywhere else in the world?
Personally, I like playing soccer, but It's so fuckin boring to watch.
In Canada, this is changing. (my province anywayz)
Let me explain, soccer is getting HUGE over here in Canada (ages 5 to 18). I know mroe people playing soccer than I do hockey.
I know people who play hockey during the winter, then soccer and baseball during the spring/summer seasons.
Soccer in BC, Canada is greater than baseball right now (ages 5 to 18 agian).
Professionally, in Canada it goes Hockey, CFL Football, baseball, basketball, then lacross....no one cares about soccer (A division...OOOH WOW, THEY SUCK)
In America, you have Baseball, Football, basketball, hockey, MLS then lacross
SOCCER (FUTBOL), is growing in North America, its just a matter of time
BTW, Arn't the Canadian (U-20, Senior getting there)) and American (U-20, Senior) women soccer teams like the top teams in the World right now ;D??
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Baseball was actually a Native American game, that became what it is now over the years, and basketball was invented here also at YMCAs. So I can see their popularity here because they are our sports, and Baseball is more popular in some Latin American countries than futbol... lol. These sports started out in the Americas, so it's easy to see baseball as more popular than soccer. As for American football, the sport started out as a college game in Ivy League schools, and it was thought to build charactor, and the game was more of an elitist game. In the 20's, the game finally hit mainstream, and the NFL was founded, and United States high schools started picking up the sport. Since football is a weekly sport due to it's brutial nature, it makes each game more important. Like in baseball, if you lose a game, there is 160 other games to win, or in basketball, there are 82, but in football there was only 12 back in the day for NFL, and 11 for college and 10 for high school. So a lose was more harmful than a 10 game losing streak in baseball now. Now there are still only 16 games, so it's basically a 10 game losing streak, and when two very good teams play, they both play hard because it can make or break a season. The build up for games, and the media genious that the NFL has done to promote the game makes each game seem like a win at all cost game. In the NFl, there is a hard cap of pay, so each team is almost equal. And the bottomline, there is more scoring than in soccer, so how can it be more boring. I watch a few soccer games, like USA vs. Mexico, and I can say that other than nation pride, there really isn't much to soccer. US scored twice that game early, and the whole rest of the game, Mexico would threaten, and never score, the US would play keep away, and it was boring to watch.
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Yeah your right There both called football
It's just your country who calls it Soccer
The rest of the world calls it football.
And your country spells the word "color" with a "u"...What the fuck is your point?
The point is your loosing the plot
You're a fag and I hate you, but that doesnt change the fact that we enjoy our football with hits and interceptions and not colored cards
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you can get physical in soccer. The refs arent always bitches. Its nothing compared to football (in contact) but at least the sport is continuous and you dont stop every 5 seconds. But yeah and america also does the stupid shit with the "world series".
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you can get physical in soccer. The refs arent always bitches. Its nothing compared to football (in contact) but at least the sport is continuous and you dont stop every 5 seconds. But yeah and america also does the stupid shit with the "world series".
yea theres some contact. but not like they bash into each other with big ass spacesuits as in American Football. Australian rugby is even worse ive heard. they jump into each other and shit. crzay.
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hillary muff.... :banana_dss:
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Because soccer is boring. Your not allowed to make lots of contact (if any?). Yes, i have watched it before.
i guess you dont like basketball then ???
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I just can't do this argument again.
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Because soccer is boring. Your not allowed to make lots of contact (if any?). Yes, i have watched it before.
i guess you dont like basketball then ???
But in Basketball, the players score very often. Americans like to see people score OFTEN, it's a pretty simple concept. That's the main reason SOCCER and Hockey aren't popular here, and there is nothing that will change that.
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because you have a low attention span? because you have a low attention span? because you have a low attention span? because you have a low attention span? :D
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^LMAO
basically, Americans always want a fuckin' SHOW.
Basketball - score often, dunks, bla
American Football - violence, muddy Arnold's jumping on each other
Soccer >>> American Football for me.
It's my 2nd favorite sport next to Basketball. It's great.
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because you have a low attention span? because you have a low attention span? because you have a low attention span? because you have a low attention span? :D
Hey, did you see that crazy topic in the g spot today?
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because you have a low attention span? because you have a low attention span? because you have a low attention span? because you have a low attention span? :D
Not really. It's simply just about preference.
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All you have to do is look @ the other shit.
America has the best music.
America has the greatest success @ the Olympics.
America has the greatest army.
America has the superior sport.
It all follows along with each other.
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All you have to do is look @ the other shit.
America has the best music.
America has the greatest success @ the Olympics.
America has the greatest army.
America has the superior sport.
It all follows along with each other.
America has the most ignorant people.
It all follows along with each other.
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Yeah thats it. I started watching basketball instead of soccer, because of the revolutionary war.
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You mean you didn't? I know I did!
Try reading the rest of the post before judging. It might make you look smarter.
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All you have to do is look @ the other shit.
America has the best music.
America has the greatest success @ the Olympics.
America has the greatest army.
America has the superior sport.
It all follows along with each other.
America has the most ignorant people.
It all follows along with each other.
se7en if what you said is true you would fit very nicely in america
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There's a lot more scores in Basket and American Football, than in Football.. but then again..
Is a movie with 50 murders neccessarily better than a movie with 1 murder.. ??
Is a concert with 50.000 people neccessarily better than a smaller concert with 300 people.. ??
Seeing each team score every other second in handball or basketball isn't all that exciting to me, in certain games maybe..
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There's a lot more scores in Basket and American Football, than in Football.. but then again..
Is a movie with 50 murders neccessarily better than a movie with 1 murder.. ??
Is a concert with 50.000 people neccessarily better than a smaller concert with 300 people.. ??
Seeing each team score every other second in handball or basketball isn't all that exciting to me, in certain games maybe..
Your examples are irrelevant to the topic.
In a movie, it is better to have one murder. If you have 50 murders, you lose touch with the characters, no room for a good plot, etc. etc. Sports have no characters or plots to worry about.
The number of people in a concert have nothing to do with the actual performance on stage.
It's simply all about preference and nothing will ever change that. Baseball is a slow-paced game, and that's supposedly America's past time. I personally can't stand the sport from a spectator's standpoint.
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i'd say american football is way more boring and complicated then football in europe. theres like ad's every time there break in game so every fifth second. ::) how can u enjoy somethin if there's all the time breaks.
imo hockey is best and most fastest sport and theres contact and scoring and when ur watchin it live it awesome :D
1.hockey
2.basketball
3.soccer
4.american football
just my oppinion.
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Your examples are irrelevant to the topic.
In a movie, it is better to have one murder. If you have 50 murders, you lose touch with the characters, no room for a good plot, etc. etc. Sports have no characters or plots to worry about.
The number of people in a concert have nothing to do with the actual performance on stage.
It's simply all about preference and nothing will ever change that. Baseball is a slow-paced game, and that's supposedly America's past time. I personally can't stand the sport from a spectator's standpoint.
Sports have no characters, then what are they, robots.. ??
The comparison was relevant, both movies & sports is supposed to be exciting for the viewer..
Wether movies have a "plot" and sports isn't already planned, is irrelevant.
If a movie have 50 murders, you get bored, like "Who they gonna kill next.. :sleep:", and if a sports game have 100 points scored, you're gonna be like "Gee, who's gonna score next.. :sleep:", at least for regular matches, or matches where one team is clearly better than the other.. obviously important matches and close action packed games are gonna be more exciting, but the point is: If you're watching sports ONLY to see the ball hit the net, you're kinda superficial, just scoring/getting points in itself isn't all that exciting, imo.
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how comen american footballs called that when they mostly use their hands?
it should be called american rugby, same shape ball, similar rules in places.. lol..
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Why are Europeans so confused why Americans like American Football. It's a game of quick outburst, and explosion. It's also a human chess match. Using big guys as blockers to try and have smaller faster guys score behind them. On the other side, you have defenses trying to do what is can to stop the other team, either by having more fast players to stop the pass, or bigger players down low to stop the run. Each coach has their own schemes, and their own theories. It's not a hard game to get. Just like soccer is as easy as they come. The difference with soccer is that it's just frustrating to watch. I mean, if Mexico is down 2-0 in the beginning of the game, I'd still like to feel like they have a chance to win the game. In football, yesterday the Raiders were down 21-10, and by the last quarter they tied it up. They still lost with no time remaining on a field goal, but that was exciting. I mean a field goal with 7 seconds left and a game on the line, it's a beautiful thing. In basketball, a team can comeback, the Lakers were down 17 in the 4th quarter and cameback to win, who will ever forget Robert Horry's last second 3 to win the game. Shit, even baseball has last second rallies to win the game. Soccer don't have that. I'm sorry, but American Football and Basketball and Baseball are all going to be popular here. But I mean, you guys invented Soccer, and Cricket that's going to be popular in England. That's fine, different cultures, different ways of entertaining ourselves. And you can look down at us for liking what we like, but that's just difference in culture. It's not that we are stupit, or you are stupit. It's just like with any other culture... it's just different. And surely you liberal Europeans understand that.
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America has the best music.
Hmmm.
Well obviously rap is the best for nearly everyone here, but really?
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Oasis etc. Britain basically owned the American charts up until the 90s.
And as for the Olympics - didn't you not win Basketball? The 100 metre sprint relay - who won? And the EU actually won the most medals. lol.
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You're comparing the EU to America, a single sovereign state? lol
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^^LOL..
Anywayz, I believe most euro's here havn't seen a NFL Football Game. Even 7-7 games are exciting, cause every play COUNTS. One bad pass, one bad fumble, one interception could win the game. Last year, about more than half the games were settled by a touchdown or less. NFL games arn't always high scoring..if you want to see HIGHSCORING FOOTBALL GAMES, you watch the CFL Football games, those are fuckin high scoring games lol..wider field, and 3 downs.
Anywayz, Hockey IS the best sport in the world IMO. So fast, contact sport,and there is beauty to the game (not physically :P).
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HISTORY OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Football historians, those who have studied the game and its origins, place the games beginnings in rugby, an English game played with many similarities to football. Rugby began in eighteen twenty-three at the famous Rugby Boys School in England.
(...)
Walter Camp, the coach at Yale and a dissenter from the IFA over his desire for an eleven man team, helped begin the final step in the evolution from rugby-style play to the modern game of American football. The IFAs rules committee, led by Camp, soon cut the number of players from fifteen to eleven, and also instituted the size of the playing field, at one hundred ten yards.(...)
So, pretty much, both Football, Rugby, and American Football originally comes from England.
Football was a sport before "American Football", so Football is one sport, and American Football another.
Note to Dumbass: America ITSELF comes from England.
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Who cares if american sports are based of european sports. The fact is this.
America based their sports off europeans, and made them better, as usual.
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So, pretty much, both Football, Rugby, and American Football originally comes from England.
Football was a sport before "American Football", so Football is one sport, and American Football another.
Note to Dumbass: America ITSELF comes from England.
No shit huh..
Doesn't mean that you have to steal or borrow everything though, there IS actually Americans who have invented stuff. :grumpy:
Or do you mean that the term "American Football" in itself is a tribute to England.. ? :laugh:
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America based their sports off europeans, and made them better, as usual.
Eye of the beholder.
Or made them more commercial, in most Europeans eyes.
I dunno how you Americans can stand all those fucking commercial breaks.. :grumpy:
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We're a capitalist society. We make money. I realize in Norway there's nothing to advertise but fish, fish, and more fish, but here, we supply the world with products & entertainment.
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We're a capitalist society. We make money. I realize in Norway there's nothing to advertise but fish, fish, and more fish, but here, we supply the world with products & entertainment.
Actually I think China's got the Products on lock. My tiolet was made in the USA tho :D. Amurrca's all about the entertainment tho.
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We're a capitalist society. We make money. I realize in Norway there's nothing to advertise but fish, fish, and more fish, but here, we supply the world with products & entertainment.
Nope, we're as much capitalists as you, (not that it's something to brag about ::) ), we could have ads 24/7 IF it was allowed.
(And fish is the least advertised product.. :loco: )
Here we have regulations on how much advertisement TV channels can air, you can't get off with anything, thank god.
I guess you can have 80% adverts and 20% programs in U.S. and still get away with it, or do you have any regulations.. ?
Take MTV e.g.. you have 8-10 minutes programs, 5-7 minutes commercials, 8-10 minutes programs, etc..
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Seeing each team score every other second in handball
I don't think there's a pro handball league in the US... ::)
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Seeing each team score every other second in handball
I don't think there's a pro handball league in the US... ::)
I didn't it say it neither.
The point is, that seeing each team score every other second, isn't all that exciting.
I'd rather see some great play/performances than non-stop goals galore..
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Seeing each team score every other second in handball
I don't think there's a pro handball league in the US... ::)
I didn't it say it neither.
The point is, that seeing each team score every other second, isn't all that exciting.
I'd rather see some great play/performances than non-stop goals galore..
we are different like that... just accept it. Honestly, I never see American's starting shit like, why don't Europeans don't like American football, how can they like soccer. To each their own. You do you, I do me, and forget about the sports difference. It's a whole 'nother culture homie. We can leave it to that.
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we are different like that... just accept it. Honestly, I never see American's starting shit like, why don't Europeans don't like American football, how can they like soccer. To each their own. You do you, I do me, and forget about the sports difference. It's a whole 'nother culture homie. We can leave it to that.
It's not like it's Europeans who are the worst in so case, most of them basically don't give a shit if U.S. likes Soccer or not.
It's just the way some Americans denounce everything they don't like or don't know about.
Also, Americans "We are superior", "We owns", "Americans obviously have the superior sports, the rest of the world sucks and doesn't know better" attitude that seems to piss people off, this same attitude is also shown in politics and other issues as well..
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we are different like that... just accept it. Honestly, I never see American's starting shit like, why don't Europeans don't like American football, how can they like soccer. To each their own. You do you, I do me, and forget about the sports difference. It's a whole 'nother culture homie. We can leave it to that.
It's not like it's Europeans who are the worst in so case, most of them basically don't give a shit if U.S. likes Soccer or not.
It's just the way some Americans denounce everything they don't like or don't know about.
Also, Americans "We are superior", "We owns", "Americans obviously have the superior sports, the rest of the world sucks and doesn't know better" attitude that seems to piss people off, this same attitude is also shown in politics and other issues as well..
so there are some Americans that are assholes, and some Europeans that are assholes, and some Africans, and some Asians, and so you point out our assholes, and start threats like this because you don't like our assholes. I have never seen a soccer threat where a person from the U.S. goes in, and says soccer sucks. But let us start a threat about American Football, and the Europeans are like, how can you like that. Then we respond back. It's our sport that people here enjoy. That's like us always insulting soccer, and making threads about it. You like soccer, that's fine, no one is talking shit on you for liking soccer. American Football season has started, I enjoying watching every Raider game, and if there is something I'd like to make a thread about, I would like to do it without Europeans dissing the game that I played for 6 years in Jr High and High School. I played it, enjoyed it, love watching my Raider games, to say the least for 16 weeks, my Sundays are off limits. If you get mad because we ignore your soccer post, don't get mad. We don't denounce soccer, we just don't like watching soccer games. We have MLS, which is a piss poor excuse of a soccer league, but it's ours, and in LA you can see thousands of Mexicans in Carson to watch the games. No one issults them, these are people wanting to enjoy a soccer game. With the World Cup, no one talks shit on soccer, we just hope our team wins. But on Sundays, we watch NFL, in summer, we watch baseball, and in late winter, early spring, the NBA is on most everybodies TV set. We like it that way, we don't like people dissing our sports. We don't diss soccer, we don't even get mad when our soccer team loses the same way we do basketball, so why should the soccer thing offend you. Hell, baseball is our national passtime, if any sport was to be the offical sport of the United States, it's baseball. And you know what, this years gold medal was won by our hated enemy, Cuba, and no one said much of anything. We didn't even qualify for the Oympics. In 2000, we were shocked and proud to win a gold medal in baseball, which is our sport. Basketball is not something we are use to losing in. If that's what you are getting your panties in a bunch for, just let it go. Americans, we like to win, it's our capitalist nature. But that's no need to diss our sports. We don't diss yours, don't diss ours.
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I didn't diss none of your sports.
It's all good, don't trip. ;D