(06-13-2014 12:30 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:28 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:38 AM)GrayBeard Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:08 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:00 AM)john01992 Wrote:  funny thing,

the top thread in the spin room is a sports discussion and the top thread in the college sports forum is a political discussion.

WTF is going on today????

This is about the Brazilian government screwing it's people over and them fighting back, and an attempt to find out why Google would celebrate that. But it's clearly over your head, and many others so yeah, even though it's totally political, I guess you might as well relate it to being a sports thread.

Brazil was a terrible choice to host the Cup. For all intents and purposes it is a third world country with unbelievable extremes. The people have a right to be pissed over the money spent on a sport while they starve to death in slums.

There, I'm an extremely conservative American soccer fan, and I stuck to your topic for this post.

Everybody keeps directing the liberal/conservative output at me but I've not yet stated the political movement of this sport. I hate soccer, that's true, but at least you knew where I was coming from. I really don't care what Google does, this is all just my opinion and I never expected it to go more than a page...

and i never expected my "things too liberal for dixie" post at espn to get a bunch of replies ==> and we both know how that one turned out.....

It turned out great because you still talk about it.

The whole game of soccer needs to be changed to make it more
entertaining. Drying paint could compete most of the time.
Why watch a game when you can see what happened in 5 to 10
seconds on sports center.

(06-13-2014 12:00 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:55 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:21 AM)JerryJeff Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 10:58 AM)Doctor Krieger Wrote:  Alright guys, the e-gang (Dixie and LSU) is just trolling us now...time to shut 'er down imo.

Those two do go hand in hand don't they? I admire how they always rush to defend one another. Peas and carrots, those two.

Haha, as if on que, see post above.

Eh, you've always had a problem with me so I don't really care what you think.

I just feel that Google could find something better than an event that's causing a lot of trouble right now. I didn't have an issue with it yesterday, but things have greatly escalated since then, that's why I mentioned it.

for every idiot that has a problem with google celebrating this there are maybe 10,000 who actually like it. i say google made the correct call here.

Speaking of idiots, do you have a link to back your opinion up as fact? Lol

We've been playing soccer longer than a lot of countries (have had pro leagues since 1894). A lot of baseball teams had attached soccer teams and they were popular (Giants, Original Orioles, Braves, Phillies, Senators). If you look up the US soccer wars you'll see that we were on pace to be the most powerful soccer country in the world, but a mixture between FIFA, a competing American league, and the stock market crash hampered it. Ironically, if FIFA had never gotten involved soccer could be as American as apple pie.

(06-13-2014 12:34 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:30 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:28 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:38 AM)GrayBeard Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:08 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  This is about the Brazilian government screwing it's people over and them fighting back, and an attempt to find out why Google would celebrate that. But it's clearly over your head, and many others so yeah, even though it's totally political, I guess you might as well relate it to being a sports thread.

Brazil was a terrible choice to host the Cup. For all intents and purposes it is a third world country with unbelievable extremes. The people have a right to be pissed over the money spent on a sport while they starve to death in slums.

There, I'm an extremely conservative American soccer fan, and I stuck to your topic for this post.

Everybody keeps directing the liberal/conservative output at me but I've not yet stated the political movement of this sport. I hate soccer, that's true, but at least you knew where I was coming from. I really don't care what Google does, this is all just my opinion and I never expected it to go more than a page...

and i never expected my "things too liberal for dixie" post at espn to get a bunch of replies ==> and we both know how that one turned out.....

It turned out great because you still talk about it.

yeah because every time i do it annoys the crap outta

On the issue at hand the world knows that FIFA is corrupt and these developing countries have a good amount of corruption as well.

(06-13-2014 12:09 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 09:52 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  Yesterday and today have been Google doodles celebrating the World Cup. Have they not been watching the news? It's a war zone over there right now, hardly worth celebrating.

Over there? The World Cup is in Brazil.

Were you trying to insult me or prove my point? You succeeded in the latter.

(06-13-2014 12:36 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:00 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:55 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:21 AM)JerryJeff Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 10:58 AM)Doctor Krieger Wrote:  Alright guys, the e-gang (Dixie and LSU) is just trolling us now...time to shut 'er down imo.

Those two do go hand in hand don't they? I admire how they always rush to defend one another. Peas and carrots, those two.

Haha, as if on que, see post above.

Eh, you've always had a problem with me so I don't really care what you think.

I just feel that Google could find something better than an event that's causing a lot of trouble right now. I didn't have an issue with it yesterday, but things have greatly escalated since then, that's why I mentioned it.

for every idiot that has a problem with google celebrating this there are maybe 10,000 who actually like it. i say google made the correct call here.

Speaking of idiots, do you have a link to back your opinion up as fact? Lol

speaking of idiots ==> who the hell asks for a link to back up something that is pretty common knowledge (soccer being the most popular sport in the world)

Nobody is as corrupt as us, we just hide it better.

Way I personally look at it is that soccer is a great kids game.
A lot of running around, not too many injuries, little equipment needed.

As a spectator sport I would only be interested if I was pulling for
a certain team.
And have some time outs for commercials and refrigerator beer runs.

(06-13-2014 12:31 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:43 AM)john01992 Wrote:  remember when people blasted me for making a thread called "things too liberal for dixie?"

soccer was one of the things on that list.

Remember earlier this week when you said putting another poster's name in a thread title is totally lame?

lotta dixies on this forum.......

so i am in the clear

(06-13-2014 12:15 PM)UM2001GRAD Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:09 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 09:52 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  Yesterday and today have been Google doodles celebrating the World Cup. Have they not been watching the news? It's a war zone over there right now, hardly worth celebrating.

Over there? The World Cup is in Brazil.

Lots of protests and police responses going on in Brazil right now. It still doesn't change the fact that the World Cup is the most popular sports event on the planet.

You have GOT to be shitting me... Of all the people in this thread (that have been full of insults), UM2001GRAD was the last person I expected to come in here and have sense about this.

(06-13-2014 12:33 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:50 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:45 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:40 AM)GrayBeard Wrote:  By the way, to all the soccer haters out there....Soccer has become the most popular kids sport in the country, in terms of sheer numbers playing. And the vast majority of them are not illegal immigrants or brown people. Take a drive to your local recreational fields on any weekend and see who is out there playing in the youth leagues.

Meh, I played it as a kid through the program at the Y for about 5 years. It was a great time, but I like all of us, we moved on to more popular sports like football and basketball.

You are actually incorrect. Soccer ranks 4th among child sport particpation.

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/94692...n-magazine

Combine boys and girls and what do you get?

Pregnant teens...

Hahah! I lobbed it up there, didn't I?

My point was to not divide by sex but to see what percentages of ALL kids are playing what sports.

(06-13-2014 12:37 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  We've been playing soccer longer than a lot of countries (have had pro leagues since 1894). A lot of baseball teams had attached soccer teams and they were popular (Giants, Original Orioles, Braves, Phillies, Senators). If you look up the US soccer wars you'll see that we were on pace to be the most powerful soccer country in the world, but a mixture between FIFA, a competing American league, and the stock market crash hampered it. Ironically, if FIFA had never gotten involved soccer could be as American as apple pie.

Man, if you think the rest of the world hates us NOW...

(06-13-2014 12:43 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:33 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:50 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:45 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:40 AM)GrayBeard Wrote:  By the way, to all the soccer haters out there....Soccer has become the most popular kids sport in the country, in terms of sheer numbers playing. And the vast majority of them are not illegal immigrants or brown people. Take a drive to your local recreational fields on any weekend and see who is out there playing in the youth leagues.

Meh, I played it as a kid through the program at the Y for about 5 years. It was a great time, but I like all of us, we moved on to more popular sports like football and basketball.

You are actually incorrect. Soccer ranks 4th among child sport particpation.

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/94692...n-magazine

Combine boys and girls and what do you get?

Pregnant teens...

Hahah! I lobbed it up there, didn't I?

My point was to not divide by sex but to see what percentages of ALL kids are playing what sports.

Soccer would still rank about 4th. Pop Warner football and Pee Wee Baseball are still boss.

(06-13-2014 12:30 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:28 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:38 AM)GrayBeard Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:08 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:00 AM)john01992 Wrote:  funny thing,

the top thread in the spin room is a sports discussion and the top thread in the college sports forum is a political discussion.

WTF is going on today????

This is about the Brazilian government screwing it's people over and them fighting back, and an attempt to find out why Google would celebrate that. But it's clearly over your head, and many others so yeah, even though it's totally political, I guess you might as well relate it to being a sports thread.

Brazil was a terrible choice to host the Cup. For all intents and purposes it is a third world country with unbelievable extremes. The people have a right to be pissed over the money spent on a sport while they starve to death in slums.

There, I'm an extremely conservative American soccer fan, and I stuck to your topic for this post.

Everybody keeps directing the liberal/conservative output at me but I've not yet stated the political movement of this sport. I hate soccer, that's true, but at least you knew where I was coming from. I really don't care what Google does, this is all just my opinion and I never expected it to go more than a page...

and i never expected my "things too liberal for dixie" post at espn to get a bunch of replies ==> and we both know how that one turned out.....

Torch was never at ESPN...


things "too liberal" for dixie (and torch as well)

(06-13-2014 12:34 PM)GoApps70 Wrote:  The whole game of soccer needs to be changed to make it more
entertaining. Drying paint could compete most of the time.
Why watch a game when you can see what happened in 5 to 10
seconds on sports center.

It's like baseball, it takes knowledge of the "game within the game" to truly enjoy.

I want to say baseball is boring, but I just don't know enough about the intricacies to enjoy it, so I won't resort to intellectual laziness to just say "boring". I'm pretty sure it's the same for you and soccer, even if you don't want to admit it.

Admittedly, it took me a long time to get into it. I got my first FIFA in 06 and it took picking a club, struggling to find a match on TV, not understanding it, not enjoying it, not watching it for a few years, reading the rules, watching old matches, watching highlights, and consistently finding matches about 6 years later to actually call myself a fan.

Like Casey Stengel said about baseball (and I think it's true of soccer), "Baseball is like church. Many attend. Few understand."

There are a million subtle, cat-and-mouse things going on in soccer AND baseball that get missed by the casual, or uninformed fan.

Hell, I watched Greg Maddox give one of the greatest individual performances I'd ever seen. 2-hit shutout. 86 pitches, ballgame over in 1 hr 52 minutes.

Final score: 1-0

Football, baseball, hockey, soccer, and IndyCar are all awesome; but to each their own.

(06-13-2014 12:46 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:37 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  We've been playing soccer longer than a lot of countries (have had pro leagues since 1894). A lot of baseball teams had attached soccer teams and they were popular (Giants, Original Orioles, Braves, Phillies, Senators). If you look up the US soccer wars you'll see that we were on pace to be the most powerful soccer country in the world, but a mixture between FIFA, a competing American league, and the stock market crash hampered it. Ironically, if FIFA had never gotten involved soccer could be as American as apple pie.

Man, if you think the rest of the world hates us NOW...

The rest of the world DID hate us. At a time when European professional soccer was "Join our club and we'll find you a job at a factory near the stadium", our clubs were rich enough to offer an athlete's lifestyle. That tended to draw the best European players. It's part of the reason FIFA stepped in.