Sports has always been big in my family, my younger brother is actually starting his college Football career with Oregon State this next season and has a chance of starting as a true freshman. My older brother played soccer in highschool in Idaho in out of state tournaments, and my parents were athletes in highschool and college, and I did soccer, HS football, and was on the varsity track team for all 4 years of highschool. (Clarification, just track all four years varsity, ran the normal course everything else).
Now all that aside, I honestly want to know why there has to be such a hatred between both Football and Soccer. (I'm only calling it Soccer here as to differentiate between the two more easily). I constantly see folks that say Soccer is a sissy sport, or a kids sport just because they might have had a kid or two play in the local youth recreation league 2-3 years and think that's all it is. I also see folks say that Football is a game where people that are complete meat heads try to pummel eachother into the ground. Neither of these are true, and both always infuriate me when brought up.
So please, I would like this to be an intelligent conversation about the topic.
And, as in tradition of the recent X vs. Y threads,
Discuss.
