World Cup

Old Bearkat

Old Bearkat

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Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game -- and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.
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smokeyjoe53":3ajl6ht5 said:
World Cup is just about as intriguing to me as the NBA Finals.............
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I kinda liked the NBA finals ... team basketball finally winning a series. The good guys won.

But the World Cup, it's like watching grass grow on TV. Even baseball, a totally unwatchable sport on TV, is better.
 
I have some ideas to make soccer a lot more fun to watch.

1. Make the ball either much larger, or much smaller...... Either way, it ads a comical relief.
2. Make the goals twice as big. Both horizontally and vertically. More goals is more fun.
3. Allow full body checks. Why do you think soccer on ice (Hockey) is so popular?
4. Alligators, a couple of live alligators allowed to roam freely on the field would definitely liven things up.
5. No ties, ever. I don't care what kind of OT or kickoffs or put the two biggest guys in the middle circle and try to throw the other one out, but let there be a winner.
6. Field goals, take a lesson from football and allow field goals, just make it way up there and really far away, cause them fellers can kick it a long way.
7. Alligators! I know, I already said that, but think of how much fun that would be.......... TO WATCH!
 
The Rangers came on tv immediately after the MNT played. The constant action of soccer made baseball unwatchable. Although the scoring is low, compared to ...well, anything (including CowboyP) at least it's constant action. You have to watch the game within the game. Our boys get about 30 seconds of rest between 9 seconds of action.
 
CarlSagan":2drnacz5 said:
Although the scoring is low, compared to ...well, anything (including CowboyP) at least it's constant action.
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There's constant action at a disrupted fire-ant mound, too. That doesn't make it a sport.

TexDoc
 
TexianDoc":18bmng64 said:
CarlSagan":18bmng64 said:
Although the scoring is low, compared to ...well, anything (including CowboyP) at least it's constant action.
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There's constant action at a disrupted fire-ant mound, too. That doesn't make it a sport.

TexDoc
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Neither one is very entertaining either. A good shortstop can make a routine ground ball a thing of beauty.
 
oldfat&bald":3pvlnnx9 said:
CowboyP":3pvlnnx9 said:
If the ball is round, it's not a sport.
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Unless that ball has red stiches on it.
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Absolutely...

Baseball - the national pastime of the formerly great nation that existed where the uglified Empire of North America stands, today. (Current National Pastime: NBA, Honey-Boo-Boo, and collecting gummint checks)

Secede, NOW

Tex Doc
 
I liked watching the World Cup. The amount of running they do - even in a scoreless snooze-fest is amazing. Seems like the average is around 9-10Km. So what is that, like 6 miles?

In all honesty, though - I found the tournament much more interesting when the USMNT was still in the running. So maybe I don;t like soccer as much as I like seeing our national team be competitive.

Soccer as a sport will likely never catch on, BUT - and just hang with me here - the soccer athletes looked very similar to 6-man athletes, and they require almost as much conditioning as 6-man players. Maybe 6-man schools could become the new feeder system for international quality soccer players.
 
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