Micrówave 10.08.2007 17:15 |
There is something wicked coming. The beginning of the NFL season is nearly upon us. Yes, the greatest sport in the world. (Go ahead, get yer knickers twisted, soccer fans) And with this event, out of the pits of hell come some of the most sinister and evil people, and they only come out at this time. Not gamblers, cheating refs, or couch potatoes... I'm talking about Fantasy Football players. In the last couple of weeks, I've talked to a few of these "loons", some of which are tying to convince me to be "in their draft*". *Draft - a room full of nerds wearing oversized jerseys (even though they're size small) discussing who is the better tight end. Is this strictly confined to America? Or does this happen on an international scale? I'd like to think that since we're a young country, maybe you older folks (Norweigans, Russians, Brits, etc) grew out of that crap 400 years ago and we're just acting like kids. Is there Fantasy Cricket? or Fantasy Futbol? Or do you just like to get pissy watching a good game like me and maybe everyonce in a while have some money on it? |
iGSM 10.08.2007 21:54 |
There's fantasy cricket. I always end up losing. What happened to XFL!?!??!??!?!? THAT WAS COOL! |
AspiringPhilosophe 11.08.2007 09:12 |
The NFL is over rated....University Football (NCAA) is where it's at!! I can't wait for that to get started again! And I don't think the Europeans have outgrown anything...have you ever seen their soccer games? My word, I mean I know we get into football and everything, but they will KILL people over a soccer game! Maybe that's why American football won't serve alcohol in the stadiums past the 2nd half...give you a good hour or so to sober up before everyone congregates at the exits. |
Penetration_Guru 11.08.2007 09:55 |
If it's the greatest sport in the world, why does virtually no one outside the US play it, and how come even then your season's only four months long? I enjoy it really, but let's not get OTT (oh wait, you're American - as you were)... As to your main point, it sounds a little geeky (especially wearing the uniforms - that's just sad) but I'd prefer it to the "soccer" fantasy games, where everyone can pick the same players. There are a couple of fantasy games where you get together with some mates and auction all the players between you, so that only one person has X player, and someone ends up spunking their wad on their favourite player, only to have to make up his team with no-marks as a result. Much more entertaining. |
AspiringPhilosophe 11.08.2007 11:40 |
American football is more than 4 months long....it's called Arena Football in the off season. NCAA is 4 months long because the athletes are university students...not professionals with nothing better to do than play football. The theory is they are students first and athletes second (however, I will disagree with that at most universities). And I don't really think it's the greatest sport in the world...but it's one I enjoy watching and can understand. As soon as I can find someone willing to explain the ins and outs of soccer to me, I'm sure I'll like that just as much, as I already enjoy watching the games when I catch them but I get easily frusterated by the fact that I don't understand the game. As for the "Virtual" stuff...I don't know what to make of it. A bunch of guys who couldn't play the game getting together to pretend to be involved in it? Sheesh! There's gotta be something better you could be doing with your time. |
Legy 11.08.2007 11:56 |
The only reason the NFL only has four months in a season is because it's a high contact sport. In other words, when you have 250 + lbs men hitting each other on a weekly basis, it will take a toll on your body. The career of an average NFL player only last about six years. One severe injury and your career is over. |
Erin 11.08.2007 12:29 |
I hate football. I've been to one NFL game, and I was bored to death. |
Lisser 11.08.2007 12:35 |
Every sport in American I think has "seasons." Baseball season is spring through fall, basketball I have no clue, and American football starts what in about August and ends end of January? I don't much care about sports so I dunno but I am interested in learning more about futbol/soccer, etc. Where I live it is extremely popular in highschool sports but then it just sort of stops there. My husband played soccer/futbol/football from the time he was about 6 until he graduated from highschool. Now he plays on some indoor teams but here it seems like after highschool, there is no where else to play except for some recreational stuff. |
JoxerTheDeityPirate 11.08.2007 13:30 |
baddiel and skinner came to mind when i read the first post.i miss Stato... |
Penetration_Guru 11.08.2007 18:28 |
artemismoon wrote: The only reason the NFL only has four months in a season is because it's a high contact sport. In other words, when you have 250 + lbs men hitting each other on a weekly basis, it will take a toll on your body. The career of an average NFL player only last about six years. One severe injury and your career is over.Rugby is equally high contact, played year round with minimal padding. And your last sentence applies to any sport and many other careers too. |
7 seas of Whatever 11.08.2007 22:35 |
My dad and brothers are obsesssed with Fantasy Football. They've actually made a lot of money from it. |
yamaha 11.08.2007 22:36 |
<rant> Ya know what. Maybe soccer is a fine sport. It's just that the kids that played the game while I was in school act like gaint douches. Hence my opinion of the game. These kids actually had the nerve to act tough around campus. I could understand it if they just had some fun with it and realized that it's just a game. Perhaps there is a stereotype in this country that pins soccer as being a sport for children of upper middle-class parents who cart their little weiner brats all over town to play a game and show off in front of other families. The whole soccer mom thing is seen here in two different perspectives, one positive, one negative. Depends if one is claiming to be a soccer mom, or is being accused of being a soccer mom. It also bugs me that a player can roll around on the ground after being bumped so that a penalty can be drawn against the opposing team. If you're really hurt, take it like a man and wait to be carted off the field. Otherwise, get your ass back in the game and get angry. After all, the only true sports are mountain climbing, bull fighting, and auto racing. Everything else is just a game. Happy to have checked off one of these in my 23 years. Care to guess which one? ;-) Soccer fans and players worldwide have ruined the chances of soccer being accepted in America. Get over it. Rational people do not need to have unanimous agreement of opinions (or even correct spelling) to feel complacent. </rant> WE ARE!!! PENN STATE!!! Here's to another great year of Nittany Lion football! |
Lisser 11.08.2007 23:28 |
yamaha wrote: <rant> Ya know what. Maybe soccer is a fine sport. It's just that the kids that played the game while I was in school act like gaint douches. Hence my opinion of the game. These kids actually had the nerve to act tough around campus. I could understand it if they just had some fun with it and realized that it's just a game. Perhaps there is a stereotype in this country that pins soccer as being a sport for children of upper middle-class parents who cart their little weiner brats all over town to play a game and show off in front of other families. The whole soccer mom thing is seen here in two different perspectives, one positive, one negative. Depends if one is claiming to be a soccer mom, or is being accused of being a soccer mom. It also bugs me that a player can roll around on the ground after being bumped so that a penalty can be drawn against the opposing team. If you're really hurt, take it like a man and wait to be carted off the field. Otherwise, get your ass back in the game and get angry. After all, the only true sports are mountain climbing, bull fighting, and auto racing. Everything else is just a game. Happy to have checked off one of these in my 23 years. Care to guess which one? ;-) Soccer fans and players worldwide have ruined the chances of soccer being accepted in America. Get over it. Rational people do not need to have unanimous agreement of opinions (or even correct spelling) to feel complacent. </rant> WE ARE!!! PENN STATE!!! Here's to another great year of Nittany Lion football!Weiner brats!!!!!! That's freaking awesome....and SO true. LOL!!!! |
DavidRFuller 11.08.2007 23:43 |
I was just thinking about the XFL the other day, I really liked it. |
Joeker 12.08.2007 03:13 |
artemismoon wrote: The only reason the NFL only has four months in a season is because it's a high contact sport. In other words, when you have 250 + lbs men hitting each other on a weekly basis, it will take a toll on your body. The career of an average NFL player only last about six years. One severe injury and your career is over.crap like that happens in hockey all the time, ice hurts more than turf. then again NHL players are actually in shape. sorry, im just not a fan of american football. |
Penetration_Guru 12.08.2007 05:58 |
yamaha wrote: It also bugs me that a player can roll around on the ground after being bumped so that a penalty can be drawn against the opposing team. If you're really hurt, take it like a man and wait to be carted off the field. Otherwise, get your ass back in the game and get angry.Everyone else feels the same way (except the players, it appears). But we're not going to stop watching it (or cease to see it as a sport at all) just because of thet (hopefully temporary) side issue. After all, the only true sports are mountain climbing, bull fighting, and auto racing.Mountain climbing is not a sport! Who's the world champion? What's the world record? It's just going for a walk with added equipment - as much a sport as running for a bus! Bull fighting is animal cruelty dressed up as a cultural experience. Auto racing is just getting sponsors to pay for R&D for the car companies. |
yamaha 12.08.2007 12:07 |
Penetration_Guru wrote:I'm just paraphrasing Ernest Hemingway. I believe Ernie way considering the danger aspect.After all, the only true sports are mountain climbing, bull fighting, and auto racing.Mountain climbing is not a sport! Who's the world champion? What's the world record? It's just going for a walk with added equipment - as much a sport as running for a bus! >>Walking up a hill is not mountain climbing. Having a couple toes fall off while attempting to make it to camp. That's sport. Bull fighting is animal cruelty dressed up as a cultural experience. >>A dressed up Spaniard running the hell away from a pissed off bull. That's sport. Auto racing is just getting sponsors to pay for R&D for the car companies. >>Me taking the car that I have owned for five years and driven every day to one of the worlds most historic road courses and beating the pants off BMWs and Porsches. That's sport. Anyway. there's still enough about soccer that makes me want to stay away. Now, place the goals a couple miles apart and make the game last a few hours. THere's a distinct difference between a game and sport. I'm not even saying that there's a problem with games. I enjoy playing games. Just don't expect me to riot when the ref blows a call. |
Micrówave 13.08.2007 11:47 |
Penetration_Guru wrote: If it's the greatest sport in the world, why does virtually no one outside the US play it, and how come even then your season's only four months long?Answer me this: How come the NFL game in London sold out in less than 4 hours? I can get tickets to any "soccer" game. To answer your questions: 1. Because the world athletes aren't talented enough compared to NFL athletes. There is an NFL Europe. It folded. Players sent to Europe know they're not good enough to make the NFL. 2. Because I want to watch Donovan McNabb, not the 6th string backup QB. yamaha wrote: <rant> It's just that the kids that played the game while I was in school act like gaint douches. Hence my opinion of the game.Brilliant! Go Papa Joe. So I take it the Fantasy sport world is pretty much American. I hang my head in shame. But I love the NFL. Our band is doing two Cowboy games this year and they pay very very nice. |
Mr.Jingles 13.08.2007 12:26 |
American Football just plain sucks. 22 retards bumping onto each other for 4 quarters of 15 minutes each and a referee blowing the whilstle every 5 seconds and a countless number of time outs so the networks can go to commercials. Add all of that, and that means that you have to sit on your couch for 3-4 hours straight just waiting for the game to start only to hear that whistle being blown just and wait for everything to start over again. I guess the average obese NFL fan doesn't mind because it gives enough time to go to the kitchen and grab some more Doritos and beer. Technically it's a sport (if it can be called a sport) made for commercialism rather than entertainment and competitiveness. |
JoxerTheDeityPirate 13.08.2007 14:03 |
i may get shot down for this but... i would pay to see 15 NFL players without pads v 15 rugby players in a 2 way matchup,ie,NFL rules one game and rugby union rules in the other and see who would come out the victors,i doubt if it would be the *roided* up NFL crew somehow when it comes to the tackling,but i could be wrong.. ps,when is/was this NFL game in london.ive heard nothing about it? the probable reason it sold out in a few hours is purely for the curiosity factor and i would point out that the WWE sells out over here much quicker than the NFL.i was at Summerslam at wembley stadium in 92 which sold out in less than 2 hours and that was before the internet revolution. and before anyone jumps on my back about not knowing about NFL i must also point out that i used to go to wembley years ago to watch the monarchs play and have been a fan since the days of william "the fridge" perry. rugby is the REAL mans sport though,not the jessies in their joan collins shoulder pads.. |
Erin 13.08.2007 15:15 |
Mr.Jingles wrote: a countless number of time outs so the networks can go to commercialsI had no idea they did "TV timeouts" until I went to a game. It was SO monotonous having to sit through all the stopping and starting up again. |
Micrówave 13.08.2007 15:39 |
Mr.Jingles wrote: American Football just plain sucks. 22 retards bumping onto each other for 4 quarters of 15 minutes each and a referee blowing the whilstle every 5 seconds and a countless number of time outs so the networks can go to commercials. Add all of that, and that means that you have to sit on your couch for 3-4 hours straight just waiting for the game to start only to hear that whistle being blown just and wait for everything to start over again. I guess the average obese NFL fan doesn't mind because it gives enough time to go to the kitchen and grab some more Doritos and beer. Technically it's a sport (if it can be called a sport) made for commercialism rather than entertainment and competitiveness.Yes, "soccer" is sooooooo much better. Guys running around in faggity shorts for God knows how long. Sometimes falling down on their own. And after all that, 1-0 is the final. David Beckham finally saw the light. He wasn't going to get any $$$$ or any more popular on the "world stage". So he's come to America and in that short time has made 3X what he previously earned. AND HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO SUIT UP!!!! Soccer fans & soccer players are just frustrated with the outrageous salaries you can earn in US Major sport. The money is there, the owners just choose to keep it all. What's wrong with commercials? You still come here to Queenzone even though you're slapped with one on every single page!!! |
Penetration_Guru 13.08.2007 16:15 |
Micrówave wrote: And after all that, 1-0 is the final.Ah yes, the pinball principle: high scoring = great game If high scores are so great, why not make it 6 squillion points for a touchdown? |
iGSM 13.08.2007 22:59 |
Mmm, rugby union. What's wrong with league? I couldn't fathom NFL. Stop, start, stop, start, defence change, offense, 20 line kick, start, advertisement, half time show with nipple, stop, start, beer, start...repeat ad nauseum? Keep in mind I ain't never watched an entire game of it where as I've watched games of soccer (yes, y'fucking English pricks...soccer) and rugby union/rugby league. They just seem better than the stop/start nature. Except Australian Football. Gosh. That's just as bad. |
Lisser 14.08.2007 02:14 |
joxerthepinkmohawkpirate wrote: i may get shot down for this but... i would pay to see 15 NFL players without pads v 15 rugby players in a 2 way matchup,ie,NFL rules one game and rugby union rules in the other and see who would come out the victors,i doubt if it would be the *roided* up NFL crew somehow when it comes to the tackling,but i could be wrong.. ps,when is/was this NFL game in london.ive heard nothing about it? the probable reason it sold out in a few hours is purely for the curiosity factor and i would point out that the WWE sells out over here much quicker than the NFL.i was at Summerslam at wembley stadium in 92 which sold out in less than 2 hours and that was before the internet revolution. and before anyone jumps on my back about not knowing about NFL i must also point out that i used to go to wembley years ago to watch the monarchs play and have been a fan since the days of william "the fridge" perry. rugby is the REAL mans sport though,not the jessies in their joan collins shoulder pads..I won't shoot ya, even though I'm American and own a gun ;) but I'd love to see this 15 NFL players against 15 Rugby players in some sort of game!!! I'm not sure how big the average rugby player is but the average NFL player is well...either pretty huge and fast or pretty huge and a brick wall. I realize that the padding thing keeps getting brought up but I've seen rugby played and I've seen American football played and there is no way there would be an NFL with out some body protection, every player would be dead. The object of the game basically is to kill/take out the person with the football. Without padding that actually would happen. |
Mr.Jingles 14.08.2007 07:20 |
Micrówave wrote:I'm going to have to agree with the David Beckham comment. He is indeed nothing more than a 'poster boy' rather than a top class player. The hype is probably going to be over soon, and Becks and Posh will have no choice but to become part of a reality TV series... oh wait, I think they're doing that already.Mr.Jingles wrote: American Football just plain sucks. 22 retards bumping onto each other for 4 quarters of 15 minutes each and a referee blowing the whilstle every 5 seconds and a countless number of time outs so the networks can go to commercials. Add all of that, and that means that you have to sit on your couch for 3-4 hours straight just waiting for the game to start only to hear that whistle being blown just and wait for everything to start over again. I guess the average obese NFL fan doesn't mind because it gives enough time to go to the kitchen and grab some more Doritos and beer. Technically it's a sport (if it can be called a sport) made for commercialism rather than entertainment and competitiveness.Yes, "soccer" is sooooooo much better. Guys running around in faggity shorts for God knows how long. Sometimes falling down on their own. And after all that, 1-0 is the final. David Beckham finally saw the light. He wasn't going to get any $$$$ or any more popular on the "world stage". So he's come to America and in that short time has made 3X what he previously earned. AND HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO SUIT UP!!!! Soccer fans & soccer players are just frustrated with the outrageous salaries you can earn in US Major sport. The money is there, the owners just choose to keep it all. What's wrong with commercials? You still come here to Queenzone even though you're slapped with one on every single page!!! About advertising. The good thing about the web is that you can always ignore an ad or close a pop-up if you don't want to be bothered. On TV, your only choice is to wait 5-6 minutes until the commercial break is over. ...and thanks for the "faggity" comment, but we don't need more proof that you are indeed a blatant homophobe. |
iGSM 14.08.2007 09:26 |
It's mandatory for all rugby players to be 9' 6'' and 800 kilos. OF MUSCLE. I kind of do agree though. |
Boy Thomas Raker 14.08.2007 10:47 |
It's funny, Americans don't like soccer because there's not enough attacking action, but love baseball and football even though there's virtually no action in a baseball game over the course of three hours (two pitches per minute), or football (8 minutes of play, 52 minutes of the clock running over three hours.) They all have their merits, but as far as talent, soccer players have to have real skills (heading, passing, trapping, shooting, dribbling) while a lot of football positions are blocking and tackling, which are skills, but not a talent. |
Micrówave 14.08.2007 12:55 |
Penetration_Guru wrote:No.Micrówave wrote: And after all that, 1-0 is the final.Ah yes, the pinball principle: high scoring = great game any scoring = great game Or do you just love watching pitcher duels? The NHL thought low scoring ties were so boring they installed shoot-outs. It's not just me that doesn't like 1-0. Why not make more ways to score in soccer? Sorry, P_G, but the game just sucks. |
Micrówave 14.08.2007 12:59 |
Mr.Jingles wrote: ...and thanks for the "faggity" comment, but we don't need more proof that you are indeed a blatant homophobe.oh chill out, you're just mad for all the gay bashing you took all these years. Not a homophobe, just tired of the whole Gay Rights stupidity. Entitled to something just because you take it in the bum? Groundless. There are plenty more homeless people that could use insurance and benefits. But thanks for taking this thread there. Gays always have an agenda. I guess if I'm in England and ask for a cigarette, I'm a homophobe, too. And if you're about to point out that you got married again, Freddie was going to marry Mary Austin also!!! Why don't you look up faggity next time. It means girly. It's quite a common military term. Maybe you've seen "A Few Good Men"? (But then you were hoping for a stag film) Wait a minute!! I'm arguing with someone who thinks Michael Jackson's best work ever was "Dangerous". Who's the idiot? |
Penetration_Guru 14.08.2007 13:01 |
"It just sucks" OK, you win, I am overwhelmed by the incontrovertible logic of your argument. |
Micrówave 14.08.2007 13:02 |
Penetration_Guru wrote: "It just sucks" OK, you win, I am overwhelmed by the incontrovertible logic of your argument.No, you came up with pinball logic... and six (how many?) points for a touchdown. any scoring = great game Or do you just love watching pitcher duels? The NHL thought low scoring ties were so boring they installed shoot-outs. It's not just me that doesn't like 1-0. Why not make more ways to score in soccer? Or show the rest of the field (not just the middle of it) for 90% of the game? |
Legy 14.08.2007 14:02 |
Penetration_Guru wrote:I understand your point of view, but football players and rugby players have different builds. I'm not saying rugby players aren't great athletes, they are. They can put me to shame any day, of course I'm not an athlete. Football players tend to be bigger than rugby players. And the bigger they are, the harder they fall, hit, smash. Compared to every other sport in the US, NFL players have a shorter career. Get what I'm saying?artemismoon wrote: The only reason the NFL only has four months in a season is because it's a high contact sport. In other words, when you have 250 + lbs men hitting each other on a weekly basis, it will take a toll on your body. The career of an average NFL player only last about six years. One severe injury and your career is over.Rugby is equally high contact, played year round with minimal padding. And your last sentence applies to any sport and many other careers too. |
AspiringPhilosophe 14.08.2007 15:25 |
Me and a friend of mine who was here studying from Scotland last year were talking about this over MSN a few days ago. We both came to the same conclusion: The US doesn't like soccer because the talent pool is low here. Because soccer is something that only people younger than 18 play (and invariably yuppies under 18 at that) there is no encouragement to develop talent. Why is there no encouragement to develop talent? Because of advertising/sponsorship/demand. Soccer doesn't bring in the kind of money or provide the kind of advertising time to make big names want to sponsor it, and thus increase demand more talent. (The time thing could work to their advantage though: since there is so little time in games to advertise, only big names could afford it...that would instantly win people in, but that's another point). So why don't companies want to sponsor? Because there isn't enough demand to make it profitable for them. Why is that? Again...no talent pool. Can anyone name me 5 great soccer stars from America? Nope...they are all from South America, or Europe. Maybe Beckham with his fame could crack the thing wide open and draw more fans, which would in turn draw more sponsors, which would help the sport grow. Maybe not. Scoring is a moot point I think. Hockey is a popular sport, and it is low scoring. American football can also be low scoring...and personally I'd rather see a close, low scoring game than a game you can call in the first 20 minutes because the score winds up being a blow out. |
Micrówave 14.08.2007 15:50 |
...and there's no talent pool, because there is simply no profitibility in playing or being involved in soccer. Like one big circle, eh? The same thing happened to golf about twenty years ago. Remember those classic duels with Fred Couples, Nick Faldo, Greg Norman, etc? Neither do I. They were supposed to be the next great ones. It took something really magical to inject golf. And now, it looks like there's some fire in these other golfers. They actually are starting to trash-talk Tiger. Now some idiot thinks Beckham is going to do what Tiger did, only this time for soccer. Puh-lease! Sorry guys, soccer is doomed in the US. Tennis may be headed that way, too. I loved McEnroe, Connors, Borg... wanted to be them when I was a kid. What do we have now? Federer, Nadal, and a bunch of spares. Knock the NFL all you want, but it's pretty much the model that all other sports try to be. Believe me, if Soccer could take hold in The States, they would be hiring off all the NFL execs to run it. It just can't and won't take off. Gary Bettman & David Stern praise the system and want to take their sports to that level. Baseball? Well... get a commisioner WITH a head and he'd say the same thing. But I really was just wondering if you die hard soccer fans are idiots like us and keep track of how YOUR player does. Sounds like all soccer fans do is sit around trashing other sports and wonder why there's isnt on TV. |
AspiringPhilosophe 14.08.2007 15:59 |
Exactly!! It's a huge circle. But like you said, Golf was the same thing. Nascar too. Both of them are huge now. (Though I have no idea why....golf is second only to baseball as the most boring to sport to watch IMHO and the only reason I occassionaly catch Nascar is because my parents like it and there are a few good looking drivers). I think soccer has everything it takes to rise to a more prominent spot...it just needs to be cracked open. Can Beckham do it? I don't know. He's the only one in a position to even think about it right now though. You know...upon further thinking about it, maybe the reason soccer is so huge everywhere else than here is because it started in Europe, and the countries that are so HUGE into it now outside of Europe were countries that had a great and recent amount of influence from Europe via the era of Colonialism...where as America has been free from European colonialism since the 18th century, as opposed to places like India, Africa and South America that had influence and culture sharing right up into the 20th century? Food for thought, huh? |
Micrówave 14.08.2007 16:47 |
Definitely played a role. And probably the fact that Basketball, Football, Baseball, etc. were more recent "inventions" that traditionalists refused to recognize as sport. That would certainly explain the soccer fan's hardline approach: "The NFL is not a sport blah blah blah" "The NBA is not a sport blah blah blah" Count me out on that. I'm not going to go out back and hurl the discus or toss the javelin. ... and the only curling I do requires a mug. |
AspiringPhilosophe 14.08.2007 17:05 |
LOL Old sports aren't all that bad...for example Greek style wrestling is very athletically demanding (and a LOT of fun for girls to watch, too **grins**). Of course, I also think that the most gifted athletes are ice hockey players. I'm actually looking forward to my friend Chelsea taking me to a soccer game this year and explaining to me how the rules work so I can understand and appreciate the game more. |
yamaha 14.08.2007 17:17 |
One thing I'm wondering at the moment... For soccer/football fans, is there a reverence for history as far as great players, matches, venues? I'm not talking Pele, or others of that era. I'd like to hear about earlier times than that. I imagine there is, but I just never seem to hear of the soccer's Babe Ruth, Yankees, Vince Lombardy, Jackie Stewart, etc. As an American, I am fully aware of the history of baseball and football. I know of the worlds great auto racing traditions, tracks and drivers. This is one thing that even basketball could stand to see. If there was a push by the NBA to promote the sports history, the reputation of the game may be salvaged. Mike |
Micrówave 14.08.2007 17:33 |
HistoryGirl wrote: I'm actually looking forward to my friend Chelsea taking me to a soccer game this year and explaining to me how the rules work so I can understand and appreciate the game more.Bring a book or a magazine. I was actually going to see my first live game a couple weeks back. I had tickets to the Galaxy/FC Dallas game. Because I didn't pay for them, I decided NOT to go like everyone else. Sure the game sold out, but the stadium didn't even reach 1/4 capacity. |
AspiringPhilosophe 14.08.2007 18:53 |
Actually Chelsea played soccer when she was younger, and coached it as an undergrad, so she knows what she's talking about. And I'm sure I'll keep plenty occupied...we are going to a guy's game :-) |
JoxerTheDeityPirate 14.08.2007 19:13 |
HistoryGirl wrote: Actually Chelsea played soccer when she was younger, and coached it as an undergrad, so she knows what she's talking about. And I'm sure I'll keep plenty occupied...we are going to a guy's game :-)please make my day and say the match you two are going to is in scotland lol :-] |
Donna13 14.08.2007 21:27 |
"*Draft - a room full of nerds wearing oversized jerseys (even though they're size small) discussing who is the better tight end." At least you can have some time discussing one of your favorite subjects. It can't hurt, even if you consider them to be nerds. I think part of the sports thing is the shared experience. It's like, I would rather watch a movie in the theatre, where I can hear lots of people reacting. |
AspiringPhilosophe 14.08.2007 21:49 |
joxerthepinkmohawkpirate wrote:Sorry Marv....it's a CMU soccer game we'll be heading to. But if they are still playing over there in December, maybe I'll have to catch a game **winks**HistoryGirl wrote: Actually Chelsea played soccer when she was younger, and coached it as an undergrad, so she knows what she's talking about. And I'm sure I'll keep plenty occupied...we are going to a guy's game :-)please make my day and say the match you two are going to is in scotland lol :-] |