North Carolina Tar Heels

[crashcourse]

watch mos any football game--usually cause im in a pool --plus I like football
baseball and basketball tend to be the last 3 minutes or last inning unless pacers or rotyals then watch more
soccer you cant just remote thru becuase you can never guess when the 30 seconds of excitement might be surrounded by 90 minutes of flops/passes back to the goalie/injury time/controlled midfield play with the occasional foray close to the box which is ultimately thwarted by an offside or OOB play

liken it to olympics

track and field or swimming or gymnatiscs or soccer is boring

except once every 4 years

[hedge]

I'm sure many people think chess is boring, too. Or golf...

[aTm]

I agree that soccer would probably pretty shitty if you're just waiting until after the ball goes in the net to get excited about anything. It's basically the girl who knows nothing about a sport method "I just cheer when everybody else does." It's like saying you cant get excited about a strikeout, or a pitch with 2 outs and the bases loaded, or during a flyball headed toward the warning track because "nobody scored yet"

[aTm]

Another issue, is that as with any sport you kinda have to really care to get the full experience.

Watching a college football overtime game is often exciting and you can think of it as a great game, but most of the knowledge you have about how good the game really is as a neutral, on some level only comes from knowing how the actual fans of the two teams are feeling watching. Its never the same as the gut wrenching nervousness or excitement you get if its your team, but you know how you feel when your team is in this kind of game. If you never watch soccer games where you really care who wins, its very difficult to appreciate a game where you're on pins and needles watching your team either try to hold a lead or trying to score the tying goal with time winding down.

Out of curiosity did you watch the USA-Belgium game live?

[sardis]

The one thing I do appreciate about soccer is the length of the match. This was the Super Bowl of soccer and it was finished in about 2 1/2 hours, even with overtime. God forbid a Super Bowl goes to overtime and we'd have a 5 hour ordeal.

[aTm]

The Super Bowl is fairly sickening honestly. it's not enough that it's the prime example of the US consumerification of sports broadcasts, cramming as much inventory as possible into every nook and cranny in a game as if there really needs to be all that down time in a game, but for that game they also manage to shovel us all that horseshit about watching the "Super Bowl ads" as if it were a positive aspect of the experience.

I am an A&M season ticket holder and go to several other games and its fucking ridiculous how bad the stadium experience is during stoppages. You got that asshole red hat down there with his orange glove in the air signaling to the refs that we're still at commercials and you wait and wait and wait, and now the schools all have penis measuring contests about who has the biggest screen in the stadium, which of course is paid for by having commercials on that thing duiring the time when TV has their commercials.

[Jungle Rat]

Soccer is still boring.

[Owlman]

baseball, football, basketball have bathroom breaks. I am unlikely to miss a big play because of my bladder. Soccer, you walk out the room and the only scoring play is missed.

[sardis]

"The Super Bowl is fairly sickening honestly. it's not enough that it's the prime example of the US consumerification of sports broadcasts, cramming as much inventory as possible into every nook and cranny in a game as if there really needs to be all that down time in a game, but for that game they also manage to shovel us all that horseshit about watching the "Super Bowl ads" as if it were a positive aspect of the experience."

At least football, baseball, and basketball don't shamelessly use their jerseys as roadside billboards.

[10ac]

Where do you think NASCAR got the idea?

[sardis]

The Barclay's Cup Racing Series

[Bklyn]

I think that soccer will always suffer in the US (relative to our lesser athletic global neighbors) if they can't figure out a way to punch up scoring. Even baseball is kind of boring to me, but you can't say that watching a pitcher send a guy down swinging, or an incredible fielding play or a bases loaded situtation is equatable to a team throwing in a ball side out and a header flying 3 feet outside of the net. Also, you don't get nearly the same amount of 1 - 0 games in baseball because it was realized that Americans love points.

Soccer is kind of boring, but I like the efficiency of the game time and the World Cup is riveting to me...even when a lot of nothing is going on for large swaths of time. I also just learned to manage my bathroom breaks, because that is a definite problem with watching the game live. Also, I'll take a NASCAR jersey'd squad if it means I don't have TV break every 7 minutes.

[Jungle Rat]

Soccer is like watching my grandparents fuck. I'm still scarred yet I didn't look away.

[hedge]

I played soccer and I like watching it alright, but I don't think it's ever going to compete with the homegrown sports here. Hearing about how big soccer is going to get "anytime now" is akin to reports that killer south american bees are going to invade the US any day now or how pythons are about to take over south florida. Interesting stories, but they never seem to pan out...

[hedge]

Also, wild hogs are taking over Texas and Arkansas. That one may actually be true, though...

[crashcourse]

yeah I watched every US game live except the ghana game--watched 10 minutes of the finals--played 18 in the am --came home and watched nascar/scottish open/senior open/royals game channel surfing on sunday afternoon like I usually do. sundays is nascar and football if I have a choice with golf a distant third unless its a major

most of the US soccer games I watched in bars--much more tolerable

[aTm]

That way you could just cheer when everybody else did.

[sardis]

Sigh...How good could our soccer team could have been if these two had not been tainted by the allure of the corrupt bougeouis American sports..

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2100 ... pt=hp_bn15

[hedge]

One other thing about soccer that makes it less attractive to Americans is that it is played by average (and maybe even below average) sized guys. We like to see freaks of nature battling it out, not some dudes that have the bodies of teenagers. Just looking at the players, I'd say the average height and weight of WC players was below 6" and well below 200 lbs. I understand that this isn't a criticism of the game itself, but you can't deny that most Americans would rather watch people who are physically on the highest end of the spectrum than just the average guy...

[Dr. Nostron]

How old are you fuckers that you cant pee before the game kicks off - wait 45 or 50 minutes max and then pee again?