07-03-2005, 09:22
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Consigliere
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OK, so I have a friend who works for a company that owns one of the teams. Our kids go to the same school. The school had a silent auction, and my friend donated a basket with a bunch of tickets and stuff. No one was bidding on it, so I bought it in sympathy.
Last night we go to the first game. Let me start by saying that I played soccer as a kid and don't mind the game so much as a sport. But professional soccer is a complete joke. I have never seen so many guys writhing on the ground in supposed pain grabbing their ankles after barely being touched in my life! What a bunch of pussies!
And the final score was 1-0. Thrilling. 
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07-03-2005, 09:33
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Soccer really is rather dull. I'd rather watch paint dry.
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07-03-2005, 13:32
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Growing up on Mitchell Field in NY (and playing soccer for the LIJSL as well as West & North Babylon soccer clubs) we would always go watch the Arrows play at Nassau Coliseum and the Cosmos practice was held in one of the old hangars on base. It used to be exciting to go to a game. The stands would be filled and their was action.
We went to see the Wizards (KC) play as my brother in laws brother in law (yes, that reads correct) played for them. Man what a dull ass game. I was waiting for it to be over and had we not promised the kids they could run the field when the game was over I would have left in the first half. Maybe the difference is the location? East coast, especially Long Island was big soccer country but here? You might as well be wearing a dress and licking lollipops.
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07-03-2005, 17:35
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Originally Posted by brewmonkey
East coast, especially Long Island was big soccer country but here? You might as well be wearing a dress and licking lollipops.
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Here, the PA announcer does the game in Spanish. Except the advertisements, which are bilingual. Seriously.
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07-03-2005, 17:57
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Chick game
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07-03-2005, 18:59
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Originally Posted by brewmonkey
Growing up on Mitchell Field in NY (and playing soccer for the LIJSL as well as West & North Babylon soccer clubs) we would always go watch the Arrows play at Nassau Coliseum and the Cosmos practice was held in one of the old hangars on base. It used to be exciting to go to a game. The stands would be filled and their was action.
We went to see the Wizards (KC) play as my brother in laws brother in law (yes, that reads correct) played for them. Man what a dull ass game. I was waiting for it to be over and had we not promised the kids they could run the field when the game was over I would have left in the first half. Maybe the difference is the location? East coast, especially Long Island was big soccer country but here? You might as well be wearing a dress and licking lollipops.
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What? I passed out half way through your soccer story...
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07-03-2005, 19:32
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What? I passed out half way through your soccer story...
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That's what I get for taking my meds and then posting. 
Readers Digest Version...
Basic gyst is that soccer on the east coast was a blast. I moved to the midwest and it just sucks here.
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07-03-2005, 19:33
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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
Here, the PA announcer does the game in Spanish. Except the advertisements, which are bilingual. Seriously.
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07-03-2005, 19:42
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No one was bidding on it, so I bought it in sympathy.
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no good deed goes unpunished...and we all know where sympathy is in the dictionary, right??????????//
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07-03-2005, 20:08
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A good game of soccer is amazing to watch. Which is why I only watch the World Cup.
There's no in betweens. Either it's a crackerjack game or absoultely shithouse.
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07-03-2005, 20:10
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Originally Posted by brewmonkey
That's what I get for taking my meds and then posting.
Readers Digest Version...
Basic gyst is that soccer on the east coast was a blast. I moved to the midwest and it just sucks here. |
I thought that it sucked everywhere.
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07-04-2005, 01:11
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Originally Posted by Huey14
A good game of soccer is amazing to watch. Which is why I only watch the World Cup.
There's no in betweens. Either it's a crackerjack game or absoultely shithouse.
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Agreed- almost anyway. I've had the pleasure of seeing a handful of bang-on club matches between, well, several teams. The rivalry between Real Madrid and Barcelona and Man U and Liverpool always produce some good matches.
The World Cup has produced some rather shithouse games the last two times out. Anybody remember the Iran v. US match of '98(?)- complete crap. Iran won by the way, 2:1. We won't even mention Italy's disgraceful showing this last time out.
Anyway, le foot/soccer/whatever has been forever bastardized in this country by the AYSO. There's a good essay on this I have somewhere- might've re-sold that book though. Check out Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch as well.
Of course I'd rather be watching the DHL Lions series.
Kia Mau.
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07-04-2005, 01:54
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I have tried to learn to appreciate "football," as it is called everywhere in the world except in the US (which has real NFL football), and I have failed.
Everytime that I sit down and try to watch a game, it just reminds me of hockey, and of how much faster, and more brutal, and harder hitting hockey is in comparison.
I can rarely watch a significant portion of a soccer game. I get bored.
I have learned to appreciate Australian Rules football...which looks like rugby to me. It is faster-paced, there is a lot of hard hitting, and it looks far more manly than soccer. My GF cracks up when I put the games on.....everytime someone hurts themselves, or gets cracked in the nuts, or ends up writhing on the ground in pain, she busts a gut. I do not get it, but...it adds another element to the mix.
At this point.....everything is starting to remind me of hockey.
sigh.
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07-04-2005, 07:46
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Originally Posted by magician
I have tried to learn to appreciate "football," as it is called everywhere in the world except in the US (which has real NFL football), and I have failed.
Everytime that I sit down and try to watch a game, it just reminds me of hockey, and of how much faster, and more brutal, and harder hitting hockey is in comparison.
I can rarely watch a significant portion of a soccer game. I get bored.
I have learned to appreciate Australian Rules football...which looks like rugby to me. It is faster-paced, there is a lot of hard hitting, and it looks far more manly than soccer. My GF cracks up when I put the games on.....everytime someone hurts themselves, or gets cracked in the nuts, or ends up writhing on the ground in pain, she busts a gut. I do not get it, but...it adds another element to the mix.
At this point.....everything is starting to remind me of hockey.
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You need to watch lacrosse!
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07-04-2005, 07:46
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....At this point.....everything is starting to remind me of hockey.
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We have noticed that.
Is that like a Cope Jones?
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