Would you be concerned about your daugher playing fooball.. errrr soccer?

[wundergrape]

Well then they need to have two balls in play.

Touche.

 

[DuffMan]

Why is this thread still going. In addition to being dumb soccer is also dangerous and should be outlawed.

 

[wundergrape]

Why is this thread still going. In addition to being dumb soccer is also dangerous and should be outlawed.

You sound like me when I tell people how much I think macro-brewed beer sucks.*

*they don't care either.

 

[cmhawks99]

You haven't really thought this through, have you? Offsides encourages one-on-ones because defenders are forced to mark individual forwards as they try to time onside runs.

If you do away with offsides, the entire defense will be forced to sag, because there is nothing preventing forwards from receiving passes anywhere in the attacking third. You'll have a clumping effect, where the defense swarms the goal and has to make sweeping clearances of 80 yards or more because there's no room for the goalie to operate.

Trust me, dude. Soccer is like any other sport. It's had its historical changes. When offside became instituted in the 20s, that's when the game really began to get good. It's similar to when basketball instituted the shot clock. We know what both games looked like before. No one (except uninformed observers, apparently) wants to go back.

Of course he hasn't thought it thru, but here is a rule of thumb. Anyone who trashes someone or something and then gets up and arms when someone comes back and calls them out clearly doesn’t think things thru. This crowd is like that on most things…..from the coaches to the players or anything else they don't like or understand.

 

[tweeterhawk]

Why is this thread still going. In addition to being dumb soccer is also dangerous and should be outlawed.

You sound like me when I tell people how much I think macro-brewed beer sucks.*

*they don't care either.

Or me when I tell friends baseball sucks.

Sure, it's nice to go out and chat with friends, drink over-priced beer and eat scummy water hot dogs, but there's simply not enough action to get into baseball. I just don't dig watching pitchers stretch, play with the resin bag, stretch some more, stare down the batter, look to the left, look to the right, shake off a catcher's sign or two, then throw some little white ball you can barely see in order to have some overweight, out-of-shape guy wearing a mask and a chest protector guess whether it was remotely over the plate. Or wasn't. It's a marvel when a baseball game is played in less than two and a half hours. Three to three-and-a-half hours is more the norm.

A soccer match is nearly continuous action for 90 minutes (adults) with a 15-minute break in between. The competition between individual players is nearly continuous.

 

[Hawkeye11en1]

Or me when I tell friends baseball sucks.

Sure, it's nice to go out and chat with friends, drink over-priced beer and eat scummy water hot dogs, but there's simply not enough action to get into baseball. I just don't dig watching pitchers stretch, play with the resin bag, stretch some more, stare down the batter, look to the left, look to the right, shake off a catcher's sign or two, then throw some little white ball you can barely see in order to have some overweight, out-of-shape guy wearing a mask and a chest protector guess whether it was remotely over the plate. Or wasn't. It's a marvel when a baseball game is played in less than two and a half hours. Three to three-and-a-half hours is more the norm.

A soccer match is nearly continuous action for 90 minutes (adults) with a 15-minute break in between. The competition between individual players is nearly continuous.

Like I said before, baseball is for people who don't need cocaine to have fun. Relaxing and watching a game is rather fun. I'm sure there are things you like to do to relax. Or maybe not.

 

[GhostofBTT]

 

[wundergrape]

It's weird how people create competition over the sports they like or don't like. Sports are just awesome in general. I might not like the aesthetics of nascar, for instance, but I recognize that it's competition (awesome) and that the drivers are capable of doing things that I could never do (again, awesome).

Anything that involves spectators and competition are inherently cool, in my opinion. I don't get why people have to "pick their sports." Sports in general are just cool. Individual fan bases, well, that another story...

 

[ForeverHawk]

Again, hated the idea of soccer, thought is was a wussie sport like some of you. Then my kids started playing and my perspective on the sport changed 180 degrees. Still love football moe, but soccer is intense, and really never boring. Sporting KC games down here in KC are every bit as exciting as Chiefs games.