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Anonymous
Hi. Amerifag here who is interested in soccer, but not to the point where I'm a huge fan and know everything. We have Euro08 here on ESPN2. was at the bar watching the replay of Port/Czech. Even though I knew the outcome, I was interested. I'm trying to get into it, but something is holding me back. Is it just my American nature to reject soccer? I love NFL and follow it deeply. I want to get involved because I love the passion of the fans (unlike here were fans are bleh... just because you show up at a Buffalo Bill game in late December with no shirt doesn't mean your hardcore.. in fact you are a braindead fag). I like the fact that a whole continent has a tournament. People traveling thousands of miles to watch their team play and dressing up and all the chants and the songs and stuff. I wish we had stuff like that here.

Meh. I don't know. I'm just rambling. I guess I'm making this point just to say that not all Americans hate this whole soccer/football deal. I respect both of our major sports. Although I know very little about soccer, I like watching it, and occasionally friends and I play it in the park.
>> Anonymous
>>153385
Racism makes sports interesting.

Rate me.
>> Anonymous
OP seems to have forgotten college football, which has everything he likes in soccer EXCEPT for faggoty-ass soccer.
>> Anonymous
soccer = the cancer that is killing /sp/
>> Anonymous
>>153388

0/10 for the 'rate me'. Have you ever trolled before?
>> Anonymous
>>153389
Once you turn 30, College football fans are thrown right out the window.
>> Anonymous
>Although I know very little about soccer, I like watching it, and occasionally friends and I play it in the park.

OP = illegal alien
>> Anonymous
>>153379
Meh, american sports dont enterain me as much since scoring doesnt mean as much. I only put all my attention when my favourite team is playing.
>> Anonymous
>>153389

College football fails so hard. I go to a D1-A school and its just failure. I guess that's because football in general fails as a sport. It's more like chess with a bunch of burly jocks as pieces than an actual game.

10 seconds of action for every 1 minute of strategizing. No continuity of play, no excitement except for the odd hail mary or qb sack.

Real sports like hockey, soccer, basketball, et al actual require endurance and athleticism, whereas jerome bettis is just a fat fuck who does a shit ton of dead lifts and squats and gets paid million of dollars to stand there and none of these guys have to do more than 20 seconds worth of work at a time.

Watching a football game:

Wait 45 seconds.
Mass scramble for ten seconds.
Move up 2 yards.
Repeat 1000 times.
Game over.
>> Anonymous
When you are in Texas go see Monterrey, Tigres or Indios play.

Mexico are the lovable losers of football but they fucking care a ton (and most all Europeans love the Mexican National Team/Fans because they are like the skinny kid on the high school gridiron team that tries REALLY hard to be a star receiver.)
>> Anonymous
>>153399
I almost have to agree with you. Although (contrary to popular belief) a lot of hardcore NFL fans watch football for the strategy process instead of the actuall action. Obviously, they appreciate the 20+ yard RB runs and 40 yard passes over the middle where the WR burns the defense, but they like some of the tactics involve. They love trying to predict what the offense is going to do on Third and 5. They like seeing how the Defensive backs react to a play-action fake. They like seeing Quad-WR.
>> Anonymous
HEY FAGGOTS GUESS WHAT

TEAM USA WON FIFA AND DIDN'T GET INVITED TO EURO2008

ALSO TEAM ENGLAND SUCKS
>> Masterboboftheuniverse
Soccer is an interesting sport once you watch it for a while. Once you know the personalities of a couple people or a whole team you really get involved in the whole personal drama of it all that isn't really visible at first. Once you start to notice the patterns of play and ultimately how team tactics play out you start to get interested in the details of what's going on. Now I for one have to say that big occasions don't always equal big soccer. National teams are a conglomeration of all that nations best players against someone else's best players and they simply just cancel each other out sometimes. Also try to find different nations' league soccer to watch as they are really all quite different than each other in play-style. I recommend Russian soccer as those huge bastards are really physical when they play and also pretty good at the technical side of the sport.