(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.

(06-13-2014 12:48 PM)Smaug Wrote:  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

You really have to watch what is going on away from the ball. That's difficult on TV because you are focused on the narrow area around the ball.

(06-13-2014 12:47 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(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:  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.

someone didn't read that link

(06-13-2014 12:40 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(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:  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)

Got a way to prove that only 1 out of every 10,000 people in the U/S have an issue with soccer?

(06-13-2014 12:55 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  Got a way to prove that only 1 out of every 10,000 people in the U/S have an issue with soccer?

No different than 99% of dixie's BS "liberal" claims.

(06-13-2014 12:55 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:40 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(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:  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)

Got a way to prove that only 1 out of every 10,000 people in the U/S have an issue with soccer?

it's 1 out of every 10,000 in the world dude.

only a dumb*** like you would think googles influence is limited to just the borders of the US.

(06-13-2014 12:47 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  

(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.

The whole world loves soccer because it's kicking a ball. Many countries can afford a soccer ball. I just don't want to spend years learning the intricacies and then feeling like I need to watch it.

(06-13-2014 01:00 PM)mlb Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:55 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  Got a way to prove that only 1 out of every 10,000 people in the U/S have an issue with soccer?

No different than 99% of dixie's BS "liberal" claims.

Well look who decided to come back out of the hole.

Quote:The contents of this message are hidden because oklalittledixie is on your ignore list.

Just an FYI - pretty sure dixie was responding to me earlier. I followed the request of GTS and ignored him.

yet he doesn't really ignore me because he still brings me up.

(06-13-2014 01:04 PM)mlb Wrote:  

Quote:The contents of this message are hidden because oklalittledixie is on your ignore list.

Just an FYI - pretty sure dixie was responding to me earlier. I followed the request of GTS and ignored him.

whats funny is that I have been requested by a high ranking mod to put him on ignore as well

(06-13-2014 01:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  yet he doesn't really ignore me because he still brings me up.

b/c everyone luvs u

(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.

Lol, yeah... So for your question though, it would be basketball, then baseball/softball by one percent, then foozball, and then soccer...

(06-13-2014 01:07 PM)Doctor Krieger Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 01:05 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  yet he doesn't really ignore me because he still brings me up.

b/c everyone luvs u

yeah that must be it

(06-13-2014 01:07 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 01:04 PM)mlb Wrote:  

Quote:The contents of this message are hidden because oklalittledixie is on your ignore list.

Just an FYI - pretty sure dixie was responding to me earlier. I followed the request of GTS and ignored him.

whats funny is that I have been requested by a high ranking mod to put him on ignore as well

ignoring people is for chumps imo

As far as soccer in the modern US is concerned, it's not going to beat the top sports, but that doesn't mean that it can't become widely played amongst the people that the country needs to play it in order to truly be competitive. You don't have to try to take away from prospective baseball/football players either.

Throw a futsal center in inner-city America and you'll start to develop your talent. Ask Brazil--it's how they've produced some of their best talent.

The ratings for weekend soccer are better than most baseball games. That means someone is watching and watching loyally.

(06-13-2014 12:43 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(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.

You said over there...which sounds like Iraq. So I thought you were talking about the civil unrest in Iraq...which has jack squat to do with the google and the world cup.

You should have said down there if you didn't want any confusion.

Sorry.

(06-13-2014 01:00 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:55 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 12:40 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

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

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

Got a way to prove that only 1 out of every 10,000 people in the U/S have an issue with soccer?

it's 1 out of every 10,000 in the world dude.

only a dumb*** like you would think googles influence is limited to just the borders of the US.

You're very well aware that my post relates to a domestic company celebrating a foreign event that is on the brink of war. Don't play stupid. Either give me a link to back yourself up or drop it.

(06-13-2014 01:10 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  As far as soccer in the modern US is concerned, it's not going to beat the top sports, but that doesn't mean that it can't become widely played amongst the people that the country needs to play it in order to truly be competitive. You don't have to try to take away from prospective baseball/football players either.

Throw a futsal center in inner-city America and you'll start to develop your talent. Ask Brazil--it's how they've produced some of their best talent.

The ratings for weekend soccer are better than most baseball games. That means someone is watching and watching loyally.

Only way to instantly make American soccer more competitive is to pay the same amount to professional soccer players as football/basketball/baseball players get paid. Doing that will persuade some of our best athletes to stick with the sport instead of switching over to other sports to get paid.

(06-13-2014 01:07 PM)john01992 Wrote:  

(06-13-2014 01:04 PM)mlb Wrote:  

Quote:The contents of this message are hidden because oklalittledixie is on your ignore list.

Just an FYI - pretty sure dixie was responding to me earlier. I followed the request of GTS and ignored him.

whats funny is that I have been requested by a high ranking mod to put him on ignore as well

Because you're constantly having a meltdown when you're in a conversation.