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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Maniac on June 18, 2002, 05:37:00 AM
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Please let the rest of the world have its fun, its only once in 4 years...
Its almost like the regular US citizen feels threatened (sp?) by soccer.
The regular us citizen aproach to soccer : "i dont like it, so it must be toejam"
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Why do you think we're scared of soccer?
I happen to like the sport
Is the rest of the world scared that we didn't go 0-3 and out?
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No, im happy that the US does well in this WC. And its really nice to see americans who like soccer :)
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You confused me Maniac - where did you get the notion most Americans thought soccer was toejam?
Maybe there was a post somewhere I missed?
to another football fan either way :)
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Mebbe its not that bad, i read both boards so i guess i get double dosage of the negativism :)
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because I dont understand the rules.
Anyways, hockey should stay in Canada and;
Soccer should stay in England or Scotland or Spain or wherever it was invented.
Silly game anyways, they dont wear any pads!!!
Heck, golf makes more sense for that was invented in Florida!
:)
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LOL
"scared" must have a different meaning in Sweden :)
I don't think the average American is "scared" of your football. Are you "scared" of ours?
I'd be "scared" to watch a match live over there with the riots/fires/stadium collapses we see on the tele here of your "games" over there ...
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Originally posted by Swager
Heck, golf makes more sense for that was invented in Florida!
:)
The origin of the game of golf has never been clearly established.
The Romans during the reign of Caesar played a game resembling golf by striking a feather-stuffed ball with club-shaped branches.
Book illustrations show the Dutch playing a similar game on their frozen canals about the 15th century.
Cross-country variations were popular in France and Belgium.
In 1457 golf was banned in Scotland because it interfered with the practice of archery, which was vital to the defense effort. Nevertheless the Scots continued to brave the opposition of both Parliament and church by playing the game on seaside courses called links.
Scotland is the home of the world's oldest golf course, St. Andrews, which was used as early as the 16th century.
Golf became firmly established in Great Britain by the 17th century when James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, was attracted to the sport.
The Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, the cradle of golf, was founded in 1754.
During the 1800s the gutta-percha ball, or "gutty," replaced the feather-filled ball that had been used for centuries.
In 1860 the first British Open was played at Prestwick, Scotland. The competition was opened to both professionals and amateurs the following year.
The first permanent golf club in North America, Canada's Royal Montreal Club, was founded in 1873.
St. Andrews, one of the oldest golf clubs in the United States, was established as a 3-hole layout in 1888 at Yonkers, N.Y. Its founders were known as the "Apple Tree Gang" because of the many apple trees on their course, which was extended to 6 holes on a cow pasture.
During the next few years numerous 6-, 8-, 9-, and 12-hole courses were opened in the East.
The first 18-hole course in the United States, the Chicago Golf Club, was founded near Wheaton, Ill., in 1893.
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The governing body of golf in the United States is the United States Golf Association (USGA), which was founded in 1894. The organization, whose headquarters are in Far Hills, New Jersey, rules on ball and club specifications and such regulations as hazards and scoring. It works with the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews in reviewing international rules.
The Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA) was founded in 1916, 15 years after the first Professional Golfers' Association was established in Great Britain. It conducts the PGA and PGA Senior tournaments and Ryder Cup competition between members of the American and British PGAs.
Doesnt look like you can lay claim to that hehe. Now...Gator wrestling may have been invented in Florida. We will let you have that one :p
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What gave you the idea Americans are "scared" of football (soccer)??? :D
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We are so scared of soccer that our 5 year old children and women play it.
AKDejaVu
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Why should we be afraid of a girl's sport?:p
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I would be afraid for it's hooligans
hmmm USA sports no violence
:rolleyes:
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When is the world cup?
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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
I would be afraid for it's hooligans
hmmm USA sports no violence
:rolleyes:
We don't have fan violence during the game...its only after a city's team has won a championship, then just about everyone under 30 comes out of the wood work to burn their own neighborhoods down...LOL! :)
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
We don't have fan violence during the game...its only after a city's team has won a championship, then just about everyone under 30 comes out of the wood work to burn their own neighborhoods down...LOL! :)
In LA we only burn cars.
Detriot is the place to aviod after a win.
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many americans like soccer.
the rest of us aren't affraid of it. we are bored by it however.
don't feel singled out I'm bored by just about any sport involving a ball.
but as for my particular reasons for being bored with soccer, let me give you a breif summery of what i see when i try to give soccer a chance and watch a game.
run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, (then 2 -3 days later) run, run, run, GOOOAAAALLLLL!!!!
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
We don't have fan violence during the game...its only after a city's team has won a championship, then just about everyone under 30 comes out of the wood work to burn their own neighborhoods down...LOL! :)
Not much burning going on down here (Rays, Lightning, Bucs :))
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Originally posted by Eagler
Not much burning going on down here (Rays, Lightning, Bucs :))
Nor Seattle! LOL!
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Hell yes!
Anything THAT boring, with the ability to hypnotize the entire world must horrifically dangerous! I think it is probably an Al Quaida plot to take over our children.
AYSO......sure
Al Quaida
Youth using
Soccer to
Oust the Infidels
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Maniac: Please let the rest of the world have its fun, its only once in 4 years...
I do not even want to adress stupidity of your other statements concerning americans' indifference to the boring game of soccer, but why do you personally need US approval to have your fun?
miko
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But as far as i heard fans sitting mixed in the stadion ?
without trouble
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will never forget a coach walking down the hall bouncing a soccer ball in a small se texas town. he was almost in tears as now we had to play the new game since the injurys from the phys ed tackle football had gotten out of hand. and this sport was mandated cause it was cheaper and less violent. ( this was when if you started a fight there was no attempt to stop it if they were even match, both partys got whiped afterward but men had the right to fight )
after about 50 punctured soccer balls they gave us our foot ball back . and we had to play flag football.
soccer just aint violent enough for us. and and a game where being 400 lbs is no advantage at all is just alien to us.
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You think soccer is boring? You should try cricket. There a game lasts for days, and it is easier to understand how a woman thinks than understand those rules.
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by the way i just to have to block mark henry if you know who he is. was like trying to slow down a tractor.
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Nah you are all djust scared :D
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Vader summed it up nicely.
In the US we only play soccer until we get old enough that the authorities will let us play tackle football.
PS Mark Henry the WWF guy????? Geezus!!!
My only claim to fame is that I sacked Jack Trudeau's brother and injured him. :)
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I got a pick of me taking a jump shot over Ronnie Lott. Yes that Ronnie Lott.
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he grew up here in sillsbee with his brother patrick . sweet guys but really really big . ( they have a uncle that makes mark look small if you can believe it.) i was their troop leader for a while. in boy scouts. we were all fat as hell and quite happy. all 3 grew up huge. they much more so than me.
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Scared? No.
Bored? Yes.
-- Todd/Leviathn
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americans dont like soccer cause its the only game they cant play worth crap...
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Why?
That's why ....
(http://www.raf303.org/mietla/soccer2.jpg)
(http://www.raf303.org/mietla/soccer3.jpg)
(http://www.raf303.org/mietla/soccer4.jpg)
(http://www.raf303.org/mietla/soccer5.jpg)
(http://www.raf303.org/mietla/soccer6.jpg)
(http://www.raf303.org/mietla/soccer7.jpg)
(http://www.raf303.org/mietla/soccer8.jpg)
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Dont think it's the game really , rather the fans/crowds.
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hehe
the photos above explain the reaction of these "fellas" :)
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I wasn't aware that the US was stopping the world from having fun.
We must be pretty damn powerful.
No wonder you care what we think. :)
DmdKanth
Originally posted by Maniac
Please let the rest of the world have its fun, its only once in 4 years...
Its almost like the regular US citizen feels threatened (sp?) by soccer.
The regular us citizen aproach to soccer : "i dont like it, so it must be toejam"
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damn Eagler, I didn't know you played for Argentina! You're the one on the far right, correct?
:D
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ROTFLOL Mietla, stole one of those, Thanks! :D
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Citizens of the United States have many faults.
But being 'scared' isn't one of them.
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I am following the world cup continuously. There is a stereotype of people in the USA that we don't know about or like "futbol" or soccer. I have seen such in Europe and Latin America.
In addition, some words of wisdom fellow gringos. I have a lot of experience with other cultures and have had to endure learning two other languages in addition to my native english. I recommend giving people where english is their second language the benefit of the doubt. Speaking from experience and mistakes that I have made in the past, it's very difficult to translate what may be humorous in one language and culture to another.
Be careful how you say, "sorry I embarrased your daughter" in Spanish.
rogwar
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don't belive everything you read in the paper
i stayed up to 4am to watch the WC live; USA vs Mexico
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OK, you REALLY wanna know why Americans hate soccer and the World Cup? It's because we've never WON the damn thing! And we're used to winning everything because we're Americans.
Do you Euros know what it's like to have the fastest runners, best golfers, best tennis players, and to win every international competition from archery to yachting? Of course not! How COULD you know what that is like? You aren't American and thus spoiled by success in EVERY VENUE, EVERY UNDERTAKING we have ever attempted- except soccer and that stupid goat carcass game Hortlund plays in Sweden.
Look Europe, the bottom line is that if soccer paid half as much as a courtesy clerk makes here in America we'd attract enough kids with athletic ability to win EVERY world cup. We are bigger, stronger and faster than you are. And more humble too.
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Cripes, American national sport is baseball, and you guys call soccer boring.:p
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Everyone knows that soccer is an east European plot to overthrow our great American way of life.
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Originally posted by Thrawn
Cripes, American national sport is baseball, and you guys call soccer boring.:p
...And Thrawn speaks from Canada, the Land of Curling! The most boring sporting event I ever attended were the World Curling Championships in Canada. All the participants had humped backs from bending over their brooms after hours and hours of pratice so I felt like I was attending a Quasimoto convention. Sorry, but after an hour in the press tent with all the humpbacked curlers staring at me at crotch level I got the heebee-jeebies and stood outside next to a snowdrift and shivered. I'll take baseball over hump backed Canadian curlers anytime.
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Originally posted by Elfenwolf
Sorry, but after an hour in the press tent with all the humpbacked curlers staring at me at crotch level I got the heebee-jeebies and stood outside next to a snowdrift and shivered. I'll take baseball over hump backed Canadian curlers anytime.
This is just another way of saying you are skeerd of curling.
Why are you Americans so scared of our sport?
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Originally posted by Thrawn
Why are you Americans so scared of our sport?
Dude, have you SEEN some of the women who participate in curling?
-- Todd/Leviathn
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ROFL!!! You all are funny...thanks for the laughs! :)
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This thread turned out great :cool:
Ah going on vacation tomorrow, take care all and cyas up :D
Chickens bok! bok! bok!
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you don't mean to say that Swedish chickens do:
"bok"?????
What kind of language is that? :)
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bok! bok! bok! is universal :)
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Originally posted by mietla
Why?
That's why ....
(http://www.raf303.org/mietla/soccer3.jpg)
(http://www.raf303.org/mietla/soccer6.jpg)
You realise that the second pic is Rugby League (which can be extremely brutal), and 3rd from the bottom is Australian Rules Football.
Tronsky
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haveing been to sweden i can assure you their chickens go cockldoodledo and cluck cluck cluck.
they argued with me but these are people who think pigs go neuf neuf neuf. not oink oink oink like they actualy do . otherwise a very nice country when they can get the sun to come up so you can see the dang place.
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The real question is this : whay are American footballers so scared that they have to wear enourmous amounts of padding and a helmet while playing their version of the game?
Put a proffesional rugby union or league team against a gridiron team in a game of gridiron....you'll still get a game, no doubt with the Americans coming out as winners.
put a proffessional gridiron team in a game of union or league against a proffessional side....and you will have MANY casualties, virtually all of them in the first 10 minutes, and nearly all Gridiron players.
American football is a great game, but c'mon guys....whats with all the mamby pamby fairey pads and helmet?? your not scared of a bit of contact sport are ya? :)
P.S. my home town has clubs for all three above mentioned codes....I've played amatuer club level in all three.....gridiron is by FAR the least likely to involve injury in my experience.
Then League, then Union....that game is just an excuse for brutality on a weekly basis :)
Played club level soccer too, but only untill I discovered that physical size was much more of an advantage when you actually get to grind the other bloke into the dirt without being sent off :)
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I always thought the US didn't like football because you can't put enough commercial breaks into it. You need a sport where you can stop for a couple of minutes while they change teams or have a time out or something every 15 minutes or so to be able to go "and now a word from our sponsors...". The whole two-halves of 45 minutes stuff is really not TV sponsor friendly, and I suspect the TV stations assume it's a bit committed for the audience, whom US TV stations seem to treat like they all have ADD or something. :D
Aussie rules (from what little I seen of it) is fighting with intermittent patches of rugby. They even do slow motion replays of the fights. All in all quite good fun. :D
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I cant belive some of the comments on this board, Some football matches are VERY boring but a majority(sp) are exciting, Now American Football that is boring my run down;
Kick the Ball other team catch it 5 people from original team pound the one with the ball to the ground,Stop,Ad break,Throw the ball,Knock more people down,Stop,Ad Break and so on for about 4 hours.
Oh And BTW why do you call it 'Football' when you kick the ball very rarely and then change the name of Football to 'Soccer'?;)
'Only playing along BTW'
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When does that world cup thing start?
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I was afraid of soccer when I played football in high school -- way too much running involved :)
Charon
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I think soccer should be played on a smaller field, with smaller goals and no goaly.
Nevermind, we already have basketball, the greatest sport in the world. :cool:
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"Why are americans scared of soccer?"
It leads to men hugging and then kissing each other on the face!
Westy
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Westy's right! American's don't want any of that hugging and kissing crap! They want their sports to only have guys smacking each other on the bellybutton after a good play! ;)