This is exactly how americans view soccer/football

Shum · Post by **Shum** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:30 am

£10 Bag wrote:All televised sport is shit but rugby league is the most watchable because nobody fakes an injury and there's sometimes a fight.

Fixed. Union is terrible to watch these days IMO. lol @ garethom for the link.

Siderealdb · Post by **Siderealdb** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:55 am

Basstronomer · Post by **Basstronomer** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:26 am

It's Football.

murky21 · Post by **murky21** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:11 am

I love pretty much every sport on the planet, regardless of where it is popular, scoring frequency etc...
I think sometimes people are quick to slate a sport, maybe haven't invested enough time in understanding the subtleties of it, get to know the players etc...
English might slate the NBA as just a scoring fest, boring because its just one team scoring after the other repeatedly, whereas in fact imo its all about the defence, the flow and ebb of scoring streaks, how you get to the hole etc....
I think if a lot of americans actually watched some top level football for a sustained period of time, start to understand the intricacies, start noticing particular players unique talents, they MIGHT enjoy it a bit more.

Diving is hardly a factor in football games, yeah its unnecessary but probably only takes up about 30 second out of a 90 minute game. It's just part of the culture of if you get fouled, making sure the referee recognises it. something similar happens to some extent in a lot of sports, like when people in the NBA drive to the bucket with little intention of getting it in, but just to draw the foul instead

capo ultra · Post by **capo ultra** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:24 am

fully agree with the above

yea I must say my criticism of basketball and american 'football' is definitely due to ignorance/lack of exposure, in the spirit of 'this is how English view American sports'

anyway I take OP's video and counter with:

64hz · Post by **64hz** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:34 am

another reason he's the greatest player ever.

garethom · Post by **garethom** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:14 pm

That video shows how good his balance must be, I'm pretty fast (the fastest player on my team anyway), and if I got tripped like that as many times as him in one run, I'd be faceplanting pretty quickly.

.onelove. · Post by **.onelove.** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:18 pm

Siderealdb wrote:

Oh man, the top rated comments;

hockey is way better then soccer ... its faster , stronger , and fakeless ... soccer its for european pussies and poor retarded ppl.

hockey , american football , rudby , some other = man !

golf , soccer , bowling , baseball are for pussies !
joland3 1 year ago 12

soccer=gays runnig around a field
GoDzXxSnipeRxX 11 months ago 2

Fakeless eh? Rudby is fakeless sport, soccer for gays runnig.

U-S-A! U-S-A!

Siderealdb · Post by **Siderealdb** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:31 pm

Fuck the Cowboys as well...

pkay · Post by **pkay** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:35 pm

last nights womens world cup is prime example of what I hate about soccer and what I love about soccer

Erika took a 4 min injury flop, got stretchered off, and THE SECOND they were out of bounds she hops off, runs around for 10 seconds, and runs back on the field and only gets a yellow card. Shit like that should be instant red card and then people would stop fucking doing it.

The irony being that her little flop resulted in 3 mins injury time and at 2 mins 30 seconds into the injury time the US scored a goal

.... went to PK's and US wins.

Obviously this is one example of poetic justice, but more often than not, this isn't the result.

Siderealdb · Post by **Siderealdb** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:37 pm

Reasons a person should hit the floor...

pkay · Post by **pkay** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:40 pm

Siderealdb wrote:
Fuck the Cowboys as well...

given this is a lockout year and how much of a veteran team we have.... think cowboys gonna sneak in to NFC championship this year

.onelove. · Post by **.onelove.** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:41 pm

YEAAAAH HARD HITS!!! YEAAAAA 20 STONE FAT SMACKING AGAINST FATTT DID YOU SEE THAT???? SHIT THAT TOTALLY MACHO GUY IN TIGHTS JUST DUMPED THAT OTHER COMPLETELY HETERO CHAP TO THE FLOOR. VIOLENCE. MEN. YEAAAA

.onelove. · Post by **.onelove.** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:42 pm

oh man I can't wait for the monster truck derby

.onelove. · Post by **.onelove.** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:42 pm

U-S-A, U-S-A

Siderealdb · Post by **Siderealdb** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:44 pm

.onelove. wrote:YEAAAAH HARD HITS!!! YEAAAAA 20 STONE FAT SMACKING AGAINST FATTT DID YOU SEE THAT???? SHIT THAT TOTALLY MACHO GUY IN TIGHTS JUST DUMPED THAT OTHER COMPLETELY HETERO CHAP TO THE FALL. VIOLENCE. MEN. YEAAAA

Better than a bunch of skinny cigarettes falling all over the place when the ref looks at em.

.onelove. · Post by **.onelove.** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:45 pm

EXACTLY

fucking euro cigarettes and their third world sports

.onelove. · Post by **.onelove.** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:47 pm

ooooooooh theeee laaaaand offf theeeeeee freeeeeeeeeeeeee

.onelove. · Post by **.onelove.** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:48 pm

Siderealdb wrote:
.onelove. wrote:YEAAAAH HARD HITS!!! YEAAAAA 20 STONE FAT SMACKING AGAINST FATTT DID YOU SEE THAT???? SHIT THAT TOTALLY MACHO GUY IN TIGHTS JUST DUMPED THAT OTHER COMPLETELY HETERO CHAP TO THE FALL. VIOLENCE. MEN. YEAAAA

Better than a bunch of skinny cigarettes falling all over the place when the ref looks at em.

hey mate, have you seen wrestling? I swear man those guys just don't mess around!!!1

Siderealdb · Post by **Siderealdb** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:53 pm

No man the real gay shit is UFC. The previews are just dudes knocking each other out with punches, but the real show is them doing that for a second and then rolling around on the ground for twenty minutes.

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