(06-13-2014 11:53 AM)oklalittledixie 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?

LOL the same figures.

the issue with your figure is that it counts from ages 6 through 17. if you look at the age breakdown basketball, soccer & baseball absolutely dominate in the early age groups while football & volleyball are virtually non existent compared to them.

(06-13-2014 11:53 AM)oklalittledixie 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?

LOL the same figures.

No, this doesn't say how many kids are participating, and when added together, where each sport falls. For example, football is going to be heavily skewed toward boys.

(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.

(06-13-2014 11:31 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:19 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:03 AM)JerryJeff Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 10:57 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 10:55 AM)Smaug Wrote:  1. No it doesn't, and it's not close.

2. Did you just use the evil NFL as a reference point?

3. Boring is in the eye of the beholder. Baseball doesn't score a whole lot, either.

It's a liberal, European/Latin American snooze fest, dude.

There is an Irish bar here in Memphis called Celtic Crossing. When there are big soccer matches it fills up with genuine Irishmen, doing what Irishmen are famous for. You know getting drunk etc. I'd love to see you go in there and tell them they are liberal. I'll buy your beer, deal?

They're Irish, DUH...


That's like a Canadian liking hockey... I think Dixie is talking more towards American-Americans, not Irish- Americans.

oh boy, you just had to add a lil bit of racism into this thread..........

Do you call a black man racist if he says something about blacks?

(06-13-2014 11:59 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:53 AM)oklalittledixie 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?

LOL the same figures.

the issue with your figure is that it counts from ages 6 through 17. if you look at the age breakdown basketball, soccer & baseball absolutely dominate in the early age groups while football & volleyball are virtually non existent compared to them.

You're a funny guy John. Soccer is not the most played sport among school age kids. Not even close. Sorry.

(06-13-2014 12:00 PM)Smaug Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:53 AM)oklalittledixie 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?

LOL the same figures.

No, this doesn't say how many kids are participating, and when added together, where each sport falls. For example, football is going to be heavily skewed toward boys.

his figure counts all 17 & under "kids." hence the reason are skewed that way. his link clearly shows that at the early ages soccer & baseball are the two biggest sports.

(06-13-2014 12:01 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:59 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:53 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:50 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

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

LOL the same figures.

the issue with your figure is that it counts from ages 6 through 17. if you look at the age breakdown basketball, soccer & baseball absolutely dominate in the early age groups while football & volleyball are virtually non existent compared to them.

You're a funny guy John. Soccer is not the most played sport among school age kids. Not even close. Sorry.

For ages 5-10 I bet it does rival baseball and basketball.

BTW, according to the article, basketball kicks the **** out of every other sport, at every level.

(06-13-2014 12:01 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:59 AM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:53 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 11:50 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

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

LOL the same figures.

the issue with your figure is that it counts from ages 6 through 17. if you look at the age breakdown basketball, soccer & baseball absolutely dominate in the early age groups while football & volleyball are virtually non existent compared to them.

You're a funny guy John. Soccer is not the most played sport among school age kids. Not even close. Sorry.

no it us only the 2nd most played sport among the earliest age groups despite having the weakest resources to work with among baseball, basketball, & football.

give it up dixie

(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.

(06-13-2014 12:02 PM)Smaug Wrote:  BTW, according to the article, basketball kicks the **** out of every other sport, at every level.

because it takes only 5 to make a team, and has an abundance of courts.

baseball has plenty of baseball fields, plus a number of professional baeball leagues propping it up.

no sport does less with more than soccer, and I also must add that dixies link doesn't account for indoor soccer which accounts for a large number of youth soccer players.

(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.

See, what did I tell you. Where there is soccer, there is violence and chaos. All to watch a boring game of a ball being kicked around.

(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.

And that makes corruption and poverty okay!

Why is this three pages?


I thought the answer was very simple:

Quote:RE: Why is Google celebrating the World Cup?

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(06-13-2014 12:22 PM)JDTulane Wrote:  Why is this three pages?


I thought the answer was very simple:

Quote:RE: Why is Google celebrating the World Cup?

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for the posters who try to prop the conservatives as the smarter and more business-minded party ==> they sure suck at that.

(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...

(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.....

(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?

(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...