Think_b4_speaking on May 28, 2008 at 5:13 PM

I won’t rehash all the arguments from the last 230 comment thread, but think height restriction, non-stationary ball, goalie, but mainly height restiction. Sorry for the late reply had to actually work.

Relax. It’s all in good fun!

Let’s see, no line of defenders rushing him, kicking a round ball 60 yards, on a bounce, through poles spaced 50% wider than football. I’d say I hit the nail on the head.

Think_b4_speaking on May 28, 2008 at 5:13 PM

Close: I’d say you got hit in the head with a nail, dork.

Quoting yourself in a comment section is pure vanity, but I repeat my invitation, bedwetting English Pig-Dog: I’ll give you an empty soccer field and a week, and you tell me how many times you can create that shot.

I’m guessing you couldn’t run the 10 yards required to strike the ball.

The fact is the best football player ( never mind we have to pretend the hand is a foot ) will need a paramedic after just 10 minutes of continuous running.

Look, the reason it is called ‘football’ is because you ‘foot’ the ball across the goal line. You don’t hit it, you don’t shoot it, you don’t KICK it (unless you are a soccer player on the football field). . . you FOOT (run, carry) the BALL.

It’s pretty funny you are talking about the differences between the sports and suggesting that the football player would need a medic for playing soccer instead of the soccer player needing a medic for playing football. How far does the goalie run each match? Soccer players don’t often cross mid field – they do, they can, but it generally puts them out of position if they do.

And I know quite a few Europeans who ‘worship at the trough of American football’ too.

And oh yes! NFL kickers! Guys who makes a kick off and then cower as the last line of defense, unable to make a simple tackle if that situation should arise. An NFL kicker is the last person you should be parading around the town square as a “real athlete”.

Dave Rywall on May 28, 2008 at 7:56 PM

Bwahahahaha!!! Soccer sissy’s need a guy with a red card to protect them from contact. Let me know when an NFL kicker gets the protection of a red card when he’s making a tackle.

But if you need advice on what color drapes and carpet to put in your office, don’t ask a rugby player. They’re worthless at that sort of thing.

Professor Blather on May 28, 2008 at 5:25 PM

HA! HA! That’s actually quite funny prof.
However, those two soccer posts have proven that if you push the right button you could get anyone, even the most consistenly intelligent HA commenter, to sink to the level of a Kos Kid.
Gay! Liberace-like! Soccer suxs!etc. As I said, a Kos Kid couldn’t be more proud.

But on a more lighter side…

I don’t understand how any of this is going to help Michelle Obama’s children.

wccawa on May 28, 2008 at 3:31 PM

HA! HA! That too is funny.

Ahhhhh, you’re one of those people who think kicking a football is the same as kicking a soccer ball. That is truly hilarious, but hey – you don’t understand the laws of physics, or the difference between the two sports – and that’s okay. You don’t know any better. I suppose really good ping pong players should take up tennis because both use rackets.

And oh yes! NFL kickers! Guys who makes a kick off and then cower as the last line of defense, unable to make a simple tackle if that situation should arise. An NFL kicker is the last person you should be parading around the town square as a “real athlete”.

Because soccer is gay and they cannot keep up with real athletes.

There is only one reason the world fell in love with the beautiful game. It’s because IT IS the beautiful game.

RMR on May 28, 2008 at 4:19 PM

The world fell in love with Liberace too.

You miss the point entirely. But that’s okay.

Dave Rywall on May 28, 2008 at 6:01 PM

Seems like lots of people miss lots of your points. Maybe it’s your point-making ability?

http://www.theotherfinal.com

http://www.circleprod.com/screeningroom.asp?

reel=Christian+LOUBEK&type=Director&m=4&s=480

http://www.circleprod.com/screeningroom.asp?reel=Christian+LOUBEK&type=Director&m=0&s=480

Maybe you’ll change your mind, maybe you won’t.

Dave Rywall on May 28, 2008 at 4:20 PM

I love the sentiment, but FIFA should be expending the same energy and creativity as they did to produce these commericials in ensuring that these African kids don’t return to the miserable exsistence imposed on them by the thugs and murders who govern them.
Instead of playing nice with African thugs to produce “pretty” commercials, FIFA should be asking these thugs why they believe it’s necessary for them to live like royalty, while most Africans live in grinding poverty.
But I guess questions like that will always be a “distraction” to the average European socialist “deep thinker” when dealing with Africans.

Soccer takes immense conditioning, and just because the ball isn’t in the net, doesn’t mean there isn’t skillful play going on. But go back to shooting your sawed off $25 shotgun at your can of beans out back. I’m going to watch soccer on Brickell Avenue in Miami surrounded by models. Cheers!

Next.

Dave Rywall on May 28, 2008 at 5:43 PM

Next, the Prof is right, soccer sux. Someone kicks a ball into a open net? BFD! Do something most any able bodies girl can not go, then it may be post-worthy. Even then, soccer sux.

Next

This is an American website with 99% American posters. You don’t get soccer and you never will. No big deal.

I guess your disdain for soccer is like the rest of the world’s laugh riot at American football for being pussy-ish for wearing all that protection and padding. They don’t ever see the sport and they don’t really get it, so they mock it.

Next.

- The Cat

After all, the un-manly soccer player only wears a shin-pad and a cup. Same for the equally un-manly Australian rules football player and rugby player.
Is it a sign of real manliness? Just asking.

RMR on May 28, 2008 at 3:40 PM

Sigh.

You’re stuck on two stupid arguments. The “everybody likes it” argument and the “they don’t wear pads!” stupidity.

The “everybody likes it” meme has already been destroyed, and shouldn’t have been mentioned in the first place. At one point, everybody liked Bill Clinton and crushed-velvet leisure suits, too. Enough embarrassing yourself with the “its popular in Bolivia” gayitude.

The “pads” argument is equally dumb. Because in all those other sports, they actually hit each other. Hard. Duh.

Meanwhile, soccer players trip and fall and cry almost constantly. Literally weep. And roll around and toss their hair and beg the nice referee to hold up a pretty colored piece of paper.

If you trip a hockey player, he gets up and beats your ass. Trip a soccer player, you might as well get a bucket of popcorn, because there’s going to be a fine theatrical display. (And of course they’re all wearing shinpads and cups and kneepads sometimes … although the kneepads are probably for after the game …)

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And how dare you compare soccer to rugby! If you’d read the thread, you’d see that nobody puts them in the same class.

Rugby is cool. It’s a little bit like soccer, but for heterosexuals.

Oh – and rugby players do hit each other hard, with no pads, and no rolling-crying-weeping hysterics.

But if you need advice on what color drapes and carpet to put in your office, don’t ask a rugby player. They’re worthless at that sort of thing.

Face the facts csdeven. There is only one reason the world fell in love with the beautiful game. It’s because IT IS the beautiful game.

RMR on May 28, 2008 at 4:19 PM

I can’t believe I have to agree with CSDeven on something. How gay.,

Speaking of gay, back to soccer.

You’re still using that most embarrassing of all reasons to be a soccer fan: cuz its like, totally, like, popular in Portugal and stuff. Britney Spears sold more albums than Tina Turner, kiddies. Popularity doesn’t equal merit.

(I made that up. Sounds good, though. Might even be true).

You folks would get a lot farther in this debate if you’d just acknowledge the 800 pound gay elephant in the room. C’mon. Just admit that the prancing and dancing and rolling around and crying and weeping … is gay.

If you want to defend the sport, fine. I mean “sport.” Like darts and bowling.

But you’d look less silly if you’d admit the blitheringly obvious that the culture of soccer is, well, super-duper gay.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Oh – and it’d also help if you’d quit going about how “beautiful” and “pretty” the “game” is. That isn’t making you look less gay.

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Is there anything more entertaining than getting soccer fans riled up?

infidel2 on May 28, 2008 at 2:09 PM

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Let’s see, no line of defenders rushing him, kicking a round ball 60 yards, on a bounce, through poles spaced 50% wider than football. I’d say I hit the nail on the head.