Lomo wrote:
they just beat italy they were the underdog. for 4 hours it was bedlam. first soccer game i ever watched. I,m an ex qb from high school like al bundy, 1969 and 1970, nfl is my passion, i don't want to offend any soccer lovers but too bad, i find soccer excruciatingly painfully boring, i almost would rather watch golf championships...
del rey computer sorry for sloppiness...[/quote]
As a soccer lover I am not upset but I have heard this before and I've seen peoples minds change once they got to understand the sport better. I am one of those people.
I am also a baby boomer who grew up playing traditional American sports with some success. Although I don't identify with Bundy in anyway. I never played soccer until about 15 years ago when my firm changed our company softball league to a soccer league to try and get their employees in better shape. At first we hated it, but as we got to understand the sport we began to love it and it did get us in better shape, and we realized why soccer is the world's most popular sport.
A writer for SI once said "If you don't love soccer you don't love sports". I would take that one step further and say,"If you don't love soccer you don't understand sports". It's the basic sport which can actually prepare you for other sports. It's no secret that many of America's top athletes in other sports are great soccer fans and have even said that it has helped prepare for their own sports.
As for boring once you understand it, how can a sport with non-stop action, where every player's every move is strategy to break down the opposition and strategies are constantly changing be boring? Unfortunately many American sports fans have short attention spans and demand instant gratification. Plus the fans at soccer games are totally into the game unlike baseball. Every time I go to a baseball game there is some guy asking me almost every inning,"Who's on first"?, and his name is never Abbot or Costello. I guess that's also typical of short attention spans.
I thought physics was boring when I was a K*D, but once I learned to understand it opened up my mind to a new dimension and the same is true with soccer in the world of sports.[/quote]
When I retire in Costa Rica 2 to 3 years from now, I'll try, for me for now all games look alike, a bunch of guys kicking the ball around and bouncing it off their heads and scoring maybe once per hour if lucky... I grew up on strategic football, devised many plays myself in High School, I've had many Tico friends tell me they think American football is boring, they like non stop action. I tell them it's a chess match with big violent guys slamming into each other and living through it!
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