Comments on: We Can Stop Caring About Soccer Now

By: Bogus Bill

Bogus Bill — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 18:21:00 +0000

Americans think soccer is boring because it *is* boring. No skill required at all, just trotting up and down the field for 90 minutes hoping the ball finds its way into an oversized goal. How can you claim to have skill when you can’t hit that gigantic goal?

NASCAR requires skill, concentration, endurance , nerve, strategy and teamwork. Try driving an inch behind another car screaming around a track at 200 MPH for three hours and see how easy that is.

By: CajoleJuice

CajoleJuice — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:45:20 +0000

Ah that would be the word. And yeah, I’ve thought MLB was adverse to technology, but FIFA is ridiculous.

By: Cornballer

Cornballer — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:30:00 +0000

It’s typically referred to as “diving” rather than “flopping,” and unfortunately Altidore does indulge in it from time to time. Would be nice if they started using video to retroactively ban the culprits after matches, but Blatter & Co. aren’t down with technology.

By: CajoleJuice

CajoleJuice — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:32:41 +0000

Nevermind, still broken. So broken.

By: CajoleJuice

CajoleJuice — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:31:55 +0000

I don’t use one, I just went to “discussion” under “settings” in the dashboard and enabled threaded comments. But as you can see, it turns into a mess because of these stupid icons, which I should just disable. Might do that right now.

By: Lila

Lila — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:53:34 +0000

What comment threading plugin do you use?

By: Malek

Malek — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:39:39 +0000

Canada doesn’t care about soccer either; we have the vastly superior sport of hockey.

By: CajoleJuice

CajoleJuice — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:58:13 +0000

It says a lot about America’s sport culture and history. For whatever reason, soccer never gained a major foothold here. Its development in England (I believe, going by some quick Wiki browsing) most likely contributed to its spread through British colonies and perhaps French and other countries’ colonies as well.

America seemed to develop isolated from the rest of the world, what with baseball and basketball becoming popular. I do wonder why we felt the need to change rugby into American football though. Then there’s hockey too (which came from our neighbors to the north). This is all my bullshit speculation — I wouldn’t be surprised if there are plenty of academic and journalistic works that cover the topic.

But the sport isn’t totally shunned. Suburban boys and girls across the U.S. play it — like I did — but up until recently, there was no professional soccer for these kids to watch, preventing the development of soccer FANS. I certainly think soccer as a spectator sport is growing now with the creation of MLS and the advent of satellite television and the internet.

By: Lila

Lila — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:03:26 +0000

I’ve personally always found it pretty odd that a sport like football, that has so much world wide appeal and interest from EVERY country, is shunned in the USA. I think that says a lot about the USA as a country, as well as its people. I won’t elaborate on that though