Soccer is for Fairies, Chicks, and Foreigners

• Nate

  To say a teams success from JH to HS is dependent on 4 players is retarded.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Wait, there is actually such a thing as fantasy soccer?
  
  
  WTF????
• Laley23

  

  THE4RINGZ wrote: Wait, there is actually such a thing as fantasy soccer?
  
  
  WTF????

  There is fantasy everything. Golf...I mean really. Fantasy golf.
  
  Even fantasy nascar.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  I guess so. It just seems soccer would be more difficult to follow as most of it is played overseas and not televised except for late at night for the most part.
• Devils Advocate

  

  sportchampps wrote: In my School our 7th and 8th grade football teams went Undefeated and the closest score was about 55-12. When HS started four players (who played both soccer and football) choose to play soccer. The players were the starting RB/LB, WR/DB, WR/S and 2nd string RB/starting LB. Our high school football team never won more then 7 games in a season during High School. The soccer team won regionals. The soccer team also had the 100M district and regional champion who came in 2nd in the state in D1. I think that was Maurice Halls senior year. Also each year atleast 2 seniors ran track for the first time after they were done with soccer and always advanced to state and in my four years there atleast 4 soccer players ended up with scholarships or partial scholarships for track after only running there senior year including one who ran for Kentucky. To say soccer players couldn't compete in any sport is ignorant. A soccer player might not make the good lineman but i bet he could be a good db or free safety. In America right now most athletes choose to play other sports but that doesnt mean there are not good athletes on the soccer field.
  
  As for soccer If American kids grew up kicking a ball around instead of catching a football or baseball when they were young America would easily be the best in the World in soccer. Just image someone like Allen Iverson or Lebron James on a soccer Pitch. Their combination of size and speed would be unstoppable. One day America will have a kid like Allen Iverson who chooses soccer and lands with a good coach and he will help bring the sport to the level of MLB or the NBA. Soccer will never be like the NFL because fantasy soccer isn't as fun as fantasy football and betting on soccer is a more difficult bet. Soccer has already started to grow though thanks to HD televisions.

  
  Agreed... and if the kids started early in San Francisco, The USA wou be the GOAT:rolleyes:
• Laley23

  

  THE4RINGZ wrote: I guess so. It just seems soccer would be more difficult to follow as most of it is played overseas and not televised except for late at night for the most part.

  Well actually it all early in the morning/early afternoon here. The midweek games (IE Tourney games) are usually at night there, so around 1-3 here. The issue is you have to have FSC to watch the EPL (England) games and GolTV to watch the Spanish La Liga.
  
  ESPN picked up contracts with each, but its only 1 maybe 2 games a week.
  
  FSC/FSN have the Champions League, which is available to most so thats good, and the final will be on FX. Those games are all at 2:45pm here, but during the week (so work is in the way).
  
  Soccer really isnt tough to find on TV, its just not on the mainstream channels so it makes it difficult for casual viewers.
• nc52

  

  soccer is like being in the band for a football game, who gives a shit about it
• killdeer

  

  nc52 wrote: soccer is like being in the band for a football game, who gives a shit about it

  a good example of why message board posters are anonymous.
  
  ...and why it's a bad idea to drink and post.
• ohiobucks1

  

  I was merely trying to say that both sports are hard to play
  
  
  I do think soccer is for pussys though, I mean hell, I play college soccer
• I Wear Pants

  ohiobucks1 wrote: I was merely trying to say that both sports are hard to play
  
  
  I do think soccer is for pussys though, I mean hell, I play college soccer

  For who if you don't mind me asking?
  
  Also, what did you think of Blair Gavin's hilariously high PK in the finals this year?
• Be Nice

  Funny thread. Just curious bases_loaded...what the hell does that little rainbow in front of your name signify?
• ohiobucks1

  

  I Wear Pants wrote:

  ohiobucks1 wrote: I was merely trying to say that both sports are hard to play
  
  
  I do think soccer is for pussys though, I mean hell, I play college soccer

  For who if you don't mind me asking?
  
  Also, what did you think of Blair Gavin's hilariously high PK in the finals this year?

  Wittenberg
  
  
  Loved it, not a big fan of Akron Soccer.
• sjmvsfscs08

  I quit football to play soccer for a season, it was actually very fun. Of course, football is better and I transferred schools and picked up football again.
  
  Lay off soccer, it's a pretty awesome sport. The World Cup is just as much fun to watch as any other sporting event in my opinion.
• Heretic

  

  Be Nice wrote: Funny thread. Just curious bases_loaded...what the hell does that little rainbow in front of your name signify?

  Possibly that he's one of the "fairies" who likes soccer and he was using self deprecating humor.
  
  Unless the pitcher in his avatar is Utah's Quinta (who is near-impossible for the computer to hit if you know what you're doing), that's what I consider to be the truth.
• bases_loaded

  

  Heretic wrote:

  Be Nice wrote: Funny thread. Just curious bases_loaded...what the hell does that little rainbow in front of your name signify?

  Possibly that he's one of the "fairies" who likes soccer and he was using self deprecating humor.
  
  Unless the pitcher in his avatar is Utah's Quinta (who is near-impossible for the computer to hit if you know what you're doing), that's what I consider to be the truth.

  Rainbow is for how G-A-Y soccer is....and I played with Texas and Hawaii
• Mylock3

  Soccer players fake injuries to give their teammates time to catch their breath. They don't call timeouts every five minutes like the "manly sports". There are no media timeouts or officials timeouts.
  
  The ball is in play during a soccer game for an average of 83 minutes.
  
  Football = 12 minutes
  
  Baseball = 10 minutes
• Sonofanump

  6 Nation Rugby is on BBC America at noon today.
  Rugby and Austrailian Rules Football think this thread is funny.
• killdeer

  

  Sonofanump wrote: 6 Nation Rugby is on BBC America at noon today.
  Rugby and Austrailian Rules Football think this thread is funny.

  
  this thread thinks spelling it "Austrailian" is funny.
• Sonofanump

  If you think so.
• Mr Pat

  ohiobucks1 wrote: I was merely trying to say that both sports are hard to play
  
  
  I do think soccer is for pussys though, I mean hell, I play college soccer

  Haha, that was pretty funny.
• O-Trap