QueenZone discussion #1307030

YourValentine wrote: I think Messi is the best football player ever. Maybe Maradonna was a slightly better technical player but Messi is the better team player and better athlete, he is less of a diva and he always delivers. Ronaldo is almost as good but I would still vote for Messi who has been elected world footballer of the year for 3 years in a row for very good reasons. Ronaldo is an excellent technical player but he does not have quite the determination Messi has who is also a real fighter imo. You see the deficits of Ronaldo when he plays with the Portuguese national team instead of Real where is is surrounded by the best possible players in Europe. Messi should be world champion with the Spanish team but I have a lot of respect for the fact that he chose to play for his native country.

inu-liger wrote: Never heard of him/her

thomasquinn 32989 wrote: It's terrible that I have to do this, but: This is *not* an attempt at a cheap blow, it's an *honest* question - What is it that people see in football (or any other 'spectator sport' for that matter)? I mean, I don't like playing football myself, but I could imagine that others enjoy playing the game. However, I just can't wrap my head around the pleasure many people seem to get from *watching* others they don't even know play a game. Can anyone explain this to me?

greaserkat wrote: When he does something with the Argentine National Team, like Baggio did with Italy, Maradonna with Argentina, Pele with Brasil, Romario with Brasil, Beckenbahuer with Germany, then ask the question again.

tcc wrote: A lot of interest is fuelled by betting.

Holly2003 wrote: Watch either of these videos. If these don't show you the attraction of football then words never will.

Holly2003 wrote:

thomasquinn 32989 wrote: It's terrible that I have to do this, but: This is *not* an attempt at a cheap blow, it's an *honest* question - What is it that people see in football (or any other 'spectator sport' for that matter)? I mean, I don't like playing football myself, but I could imagine that others enjoy playing the game. However, I just can't wrap my head around the pleasure many people seem to get from *watching* others they don't even know play a game. Can anyone explain this to me?

Watch either of these videos. If these don't show you the attraction of football then words never will. link link

brENsKi wrote: @GreatfulFan I know exactly what you mean. still feel the same about Vinatieri's FG against the Rams. Years of mediocrity and sh*t erased with one kick as time expired. fantastic

greaserkat wrote: This video made me cry when I watch it live, as I'm a HUGE Chivas fan. Thsi was probably one of their best victoroes ever. You can even hear in the announcers voice, in the last two goals, the feeling fottball brings to you

greaserkat wrote:

brENsKi wrote: @GreatfulFan I know exactly what you mean. still feel the same about Vinatieri's FG against the Rams. Years of mediocrity and sh*t erased with one kick as time expired. fantastic

Thanks to the ref's fucked up call in the Raiders-Pats game

brENsKi wrote:

greaserkat wrote:

brENsKi wrote: @GreatfulFan I know exactly what you mean. still feel the same about Vinatieri's FG against the Rams. Years of mediocrity and sh*t erased with one kick as time expired. fantastic

Thanks to the ref's fucked up call in the Raiders-Pats game

no. the ref explained it wrong at the time, but got the reversal decision spot on :-) you're not a bitter silver n black are you?

GratefulFan wrote: @Thomas [...] Once you accept a team as a proxy of sorts for people or things or places that you love, or qualities that you value like loyalty or perseverance or grit for example, a game or championship easily becomes a moving narrative whose appeal would need no explanation in another context.  Hard work well rewarded, bad behaviour avenged, triumph thwarted, delayed or realized, David and Goliath stories, emotions of the players reflected and absorbed by fans in both success and failure. [...]

Holly2003 wrote:

thomasquinn 32989 wrote: It's terrible that I have to do this, but: This is *not* an attempt at a cheap blow, it's an *honest* question - What is it that people see in football (or any other 'spectator sport' for that matter)? I mean, I don't like playing football myself, but I could imagine that others enjoy playing the game. However, I just can't wrap my head around the pleasure many people seem to get from *watching* others they don't even know play a game. Can anyone explain this to me?

Watch either of these videos. If these don't show you the attraction of football then words never will. link link

thomasquinn 32989 wrote: So then, essentially, what you are saying is that the appeal of football is, on some level, contagious magic, taken in the anthropological sense as described by Sir James George Frazer, which means it's the same basic feeling that inspires, for instance, Voodoo cultists - it's a primitive (not in a derogatory sense, but literal, derived from primal) form of religion.

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

Holly2003 wrote:

thomasquinn 32989 wrote: It's terrible that I have to do this, but: This is *not* an attempt at a cheap blow, it's an *honest* question - What is it that people see in football (or any other 'spectator sport' for that matter)? I mean, I don't like playing football myself, but I could imagine that others enjoy playing the game. However, I just can't wrap my head around the pleasure many people seem to get from *watching* others they don't even know play a game. Can anyone explain this to me?

Watch either of these videos. If these don't show you the attraction of football then words never will. link link

Thanks for the vids, but sorry, it really doesn't do anything at all for me. I suppose football is just one of those things I don't get.

greaserkat wrote:

brENsKi wrote:

greaserkat wrote:

brENsKi wrote: @GreatfulFan I know exactly what you mean. still feel the same about Vinatieri's FG against the Rams. Years of mediocrity and sh*t erased with one kick as time expired. fantastic

Thanks to the ref's fucked up call in the Raiders-Pats game

no. the ref explained it wrong at the time, but got the reversal decision spot on :-) you're not a bitter silver n black are you?

Hell no, Red and Gold all the way!! And Brady's arm was not moving forward when the ball came out

greaserkat wrote: I'll agree to that, but you have to admit it's a Manning-Brady stew they've been eating

greaserkat wrote: I agree again with that list; however, there is no way you can deny how much cocksucking the NFL does to Brady when it comes to flags to "protect him." How many flags would Favre have gotten or Ben Roth has gotten from very similar or identical plays done to them compared to Brady? I'm not debating Brady's accomplishments cause there's not much evidence to go against them, but fuck, stop sucking his dick like it's golden. On a side note, if Vick hadn't done his stupid shit with dogfights, I would argue that he probably would be the best QB right now in the NFL.

thomasquinn 32989 wrote: It's terrible that I have to do this, but: This is *not* an attempt at a cheap blow, it's an *honest* question - What is it that people see in football (or any other 'spectator sport' for that matter)? I mean, I don't like playing football myself, but I could imagine that others enjoy playing the game. However, I just can't wrap my head around the pleasure many people seem to get from *watching* others they don't even know play a game. Can anyone explain this to me?