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Anonymous
I want to write a non-troll, honest assessment of why I, and probably most Americans, hate soccer. Ya know, to try and enlighten the Europeans here.

So... here we go.

The lack of strategy and accuracy probably bothers me the most. Football is, in many ways, a game of inches; whether the left toe of the wide receiver managed to touch inbounds or the sidelines, or if the tip of a football cracked the goal line, or if the quarterback's arm was moving forward or simply up when the ball left is hands are the subject of 2-minute replays to determine near-exacting accuracy. Passes are threaded through the arms of one defender, above the arms of another leaping defender, and into the awaiting hands of a wide receiver that is parallel to the ground after leaping forward to 10 feet to catch it. It's exacting, meticulous, and... accurate. Soccer, on the other hand, seems to be little more than lobbing soccer balls deep down field and hoping a lone forward can run under it (note the difference: the quarterback passes to the receiver, while the attacker runs to the pass), and make magic happen while usually outnumbered 2-1 or 3-1. So much of the game seems to be just that-- one side kicks it to the other side, hope their hopelessly outnumbered designated goalscorer can work magic, and, when said scorer fails to make magic, the other teams aimlessly lobs it to the other side. Rinse, repeat, recycle. Nothing happens until all the defenders happen to trip over their own feet, fall away from the ball while the goalkeeper is taking a cigarette break, and somehow the ball manages to roll into the net.
>> Anonymous
And this is despite the goals themselves being ridiculously huge, seemingly 10 feet high and 25 feet long. But still, so-called goal scorers can't get the ball in such a huge target more than once a game (compare basketball teams putting a ball with a 9.5 inch diameter into an 18 inch hoop perhaps upwards of 50 times a game). And it's not just that they miss, its that they miss wide. Beckam's free kick doesn't 'bend', and instead travels 50 feet into over the net, into the stands.

And so, soccer players never score. I invest 90+ minutes of my time to watching people kick a ball around a field, and the raison d'etre of sports, scoring, happens... maybe twice? Even shots are rare, and are cause of a moral boost and celebration. "He shoots! He... misses the crossbar by probably 15 meters. But still, what a nice break by the striker! Maybe in 45 more minutes, they'll have another chance to connect on that pass again for another chance."

And what happens? 45 minutes later, they connect on that pass again. except this time, they score! "Oh shit, son! They scored! GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! OLE OLE OLE OLE OLEEEEE... Er, lol, j/k. Someone somewhere was offsides. Still 0-0." What the fuck does offsides even mean?
>> Anonymous
What's the predictable end result? Aside from a riot, the gamed ends 0-0. 90 minutes of your life, plus injury time, and nothing is actually settled. Somehow, you've invented a sport where, on average, both teams manage to lose. People run, people kick, people sometimes even shoot, one team may have even dominated, but with the help of a good goalkeeper and a few of those mysterious female-orgasm-esque offsides, nothing is actually resolved. Game over, go home, riot a bit, and get ready for the next offensive shootout.

I think one of the things that makes me, not dislike, but disrespect soccer and its players the most is seeing people fall to draw cards. I mean, the players embarrass themselves. Most soccer fans I know even admit they're ashamed of it. In football, something like that simply isn't tolerated--a player that faked an injury like that would be laughed off the field. In fact, they are. Kickers and punters (the only players to do this) regularly fall over backwards, trying to draw a roughing the kicker flag, and they're ridiculed for it, and are also the most expendable players on the team. Same happens in basketball; some players have reputations for falling, trying to draw fouls, and they're ridiculed, and rarely even make teams.
>> Anonymous
In 2006, I gave soccer an honest chance, and watched pretty much every World Cup match I could find on ESPN (I also caught a few Euro2008 games and some Olympic games recently). The single event that most struck me was seeing how a lot of people cheered for what Zidane did in the 2006 Final. In Football, he wouldn't have left the field alive. Seriously. To be the best player on your team, at the end of the ultimate game of your sport, and to let anger get in the way of victory, and get ejected... fuck no. If it's the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl, and Peyton Manning or Tom Brady (inb4 18-1 season ending knee injury) lost his cool, and got ejected in a fight, he would be cut from the team before the next play. And no team would give him a second chance. Because you can't put your feelings or pride ahead of the team and victory.

tl;dr: Soccer sucks, Football is superior.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>324483

Hm, I suppose. It is a good point.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>324479
I agreed with a lot of this up to this point. People that take cheap shots are dismissed by the media and crap all the time. If you are a football celebrity like the people you named you would have a billion free passes to murder someone. A lot of your arguments I can see, but this one I cannot.

Hell, you still see people rallying to get convicted criminals less jail time because dey be good foosball players.
>> Anonymous
Is that all?
>> Anonymous
>>324499
I agree with your assessment of OP's post which, that one area aside, is still either the best and most forthright assessment of how most Americans view soccer or the longest troll ever seen on /sp/.

Let me expand on one more thing not fully covered by OP. It is interesting to see the attitude that all of the big soccer countries have about the US in that we're all supposedly bloodthirsty gun-loving Neanderthals. Yet, to me, it is Americans who are the more civilized and mature ones because...well, when's the last time you saw a riot after any major sporting event in the United States? Maybe it's that lack of scoring and action in soccer that gets so many people riled up for something resembling action that makes them lose their minds so much that they have to rampage through the stands and nearby streets beating and burning anything that gets in their way. Yes, maybe some drunken idiots get into a fight in the parking lot after an American sports event, but you sure don't see even Raiderfags going nuts like that when they all go down and fill up Qualcomm for Charger games.

Just an honest observation, although I must admit that, after writing it and reading it over, it's one hell of a troll, too.
>> Anonymous
>>324473
>>324474
>>324476
>>324479
>>324499
>>324533

samefag

all of this is from some other forum

sage for cancer, too
>> Anonymous
tl;dr

Though I am American, I enjoy Soccer, the only complaint is it drags on too long, no enough substitutions to keep it fresh, and the God awful acting the players do if they are even touched by another player.
>> Anonymous
>>324499

OP here. I agree with you for the most parts. People make cheap shots all the time, but not to the extent of getting ejected. Ejections are pretty goddamn rare, to the point where I can't remember the last time it happened in Football. It happens in Baseball, but usually only to the Manager who is... fairly expendable.

So yeah, I agree people get a lot of second chances after cheap shots, but I don't think they get a lot of second chances after being ejected from the Super Bowl, costing their team a victory. The only person to ever have gotten a free pass for murder was... um.. Ray Lewis. But that's only one exception. I think it's comparing... well, apples to really really big apples.
>> Anonymous
I hate soccer, but the offsides rule is so fucking simple it astonishes me people can't understand it.

If your guy is past the defense's last guy, you can't pass to him. Period.
>> Anonymous
>>324533

Thanks, actually.

But no, not a troll. If for no other reason than I'm right, lol.
>> Anonymous
>>324548
Well, most of them are the samefag because he strongly implied from the beginning most of the early posts would be.

I don't know why you put>>324499there though, samefags don't tend to argue against themselves.
>> Anonymous
>>324548

Yeah? What other forum?
>> SSG Posted Here
>>324551
OJ Simpson is the ultimate free pass for murder.

Though he is getting raped with the new case of stealing, and for the lulz, too.
>> Anonymous
>>324552

I get the definition, but not the logic behind.

Why the fuck is that against the rules? Too afraid someone is going to camp the goal? If that's a legit concern, soccer needs fewer starters.
>> Anonymous
>I want to write a non-troll, honest assessment of why I, and probably most Americans, hate soccer.

>tl;dr: Soccer sucks, Football is superior.
>> Anonymous
>>324563

Wow. All this time, newfags actually can greentext.
>> Anonymous
>>324562

if they got rid of offside then soccer would be alot more boring.

and i know how you americans have such a hard time paying attention already
>> Anonymous
>>324565
buttsex buttsex buttsex buttsex buttsex
>> Anonymous
>>324575

Ok. Why would it be more boring?
>> Anonymous
>>324548
Wrongfag is wrong on>>324533
>> Anonymous
>>324560
He got that pass from being black, and having the money to get a good lawyer that was willing to scream up and down about racism.
>> Anonymous
>>324582

I have tried for years to figure out the purpose of the offside rule. I know why it exists as a function of gameplay -- it's the same reason American football has offsides. Because the game is a game of territory, gaining and giving it up, like any other game that emulates a war battle. But as a function of competition, I don't really know.

Certainly if the offside rule didn't exist, a team with one fast player would dominate the other team. The offside rule means teams have to run plays and use strategy, and thus the most athletic team doesn't always win.
>> Anonymous
>>324597
Then soccer needs to learn about that SEC speed.
>> Anonymous
>>324597

>The offside rule means teams have to run plays and use strategy, and thus the most athletic team doesn't always win.

That sounds... awesome. I deem it necessary and proper.
>> Anonymous
>>324605
>I like sports where white guys can still win.
fxd
>> Anonymous
>>324612

>im a nigger with no skills other than running reel fast.
fixed
>> Anonymous
>>324616
>I'm a basement dweller who is also on my high school's chess club and spends a lot of time getting dumped into the cafeteria trash can by the football team.
fxd
>> Anonymous
>>324597
Football (soccer) hasn't always had the offside rule. Back before its implementation there would be like two players on the team whose job would be to stand around near the opposing team's goalposts and all the rest of the team did was lob the ball to them from the other side of the pitch so they could put it in
The offside rule was made to prevent that shit
>> Anonymous
>>324627

If that was its intent, I think it largely failed.

And why not just eliminate one player from each team from being on the field? If a team can spare 1-2 players for most of the game to just camp the goal, I think there are more serious structural problems with the rules of soccer that should be addressed.
>> Anonymous
>>324625

>im still a nigger
already fixed previously.
>> Anonymous
>>324479

Stuff happens on almost every play in a football game that would earn a soccer red card. Refs put up with way more shit, esp. in the NFL. Think about how many unsportsmanlike conduct or personal foul penalties happen in a given NFL game. Every one of those would be a red card in a soccer match.
>> Anonymous
>>324635
I eschew "gridiron" football and watch no sport other than soccer, all while simultaneously masturbating furiously into my grandfather's underpants.
fxd
>> Ergot Nine !dLdqEqmO0Q
Soccer should use the NHL's offside rule.

Not that I care, I already like the sport.
>> Anonymous
>>324627

I have to disagree with you on this. The offside rule has existed in association football since the rules were put together in the early 1800s. The rule has actually been relaxed over the years, originally it was that no offensive player can move in front of the ball. (so, basically like rugby)
>> Anonymous
You know what the hardest part about being a soccer player is?
Telling your parents you're gay...
>> Anonymous
>>324664
In b4 spandex
>> Anonymous
Lol, nothing better than waking up to a good troll.

Do Americans only watch the English National side play, or is MSL all long ball?
>> Ergot Nine !dLdqEqmO0Q
>>324700
I don't notice MLS players longballing it up from the games I've seen, but I don't watch much MLS.
>> Anonymous
Amerifag here, Americans hate soccer because our country isn't good at it.
>> Anonymous
OP probably watched a match between 2 useless countries who had like 10 people behind the half line.

And besides, how about YOU trying to play the game, op? It's extremely hard to shoot accurately under pressure from 30 meters away.
>> Anonymous
>30 meters away
>30 meters
>meters

You lost OP there
>> Anon
The fact of the matter is that Football or as you fags call it Soccer is loved by pretty much every country in the world and is classed as the beautiful game.

Just shows you how out of touch your country is, and another thing why the hell do you have a world series with only teams from America, it stinks of egotictical bullshit.

PS American football is pish, theres no skill in it.
>> Anonymous
>>324793

soccer = running, kicking

football = throwing, running, kicking, tackling

but yeah soccer is for people with skills though. and i'm sure all those developing countries play it because of how much better it is than football and not because all you need is a round ball to play it.

fucking eurofag.
>> Too fat and past it now. Fluffsta
The best team in USA got beat 4-0 by JOE PUBLIC FFS!
>> Too fat and past it now. Fluffsta
http://www.joepubliconline.com/cms/
>> Anonymous
OP forgot how the biggest game in their world, the world cup final was ended on penalty kicks!!!!! SRSLY?

Imagine the Superbowl being decided by the kickers taking turn making field goals till someone missed.

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>> Anonymous
>>324723
>America isnt good at soccer because Americans dont give a fuck about it


FIX'D
>> Anonymous
>>324813
>America doesn't give a fuck about soccer because America isn't good at it.

Fix'd
>> Anonymous
>>324806
Imagine an Anon making a new argument that wasn't stolen from Jim Rome.
>> Anonymous
american here

tldr

i love soccer. that shit is too long
>> Anonymous
Reason why PKs are used is because after 120min of game play, everyone is practically dead from running and that's the only way to separate the two teams.

Where as in the NFL, you could play forever seeing how some fat ass 300 lb linemen play in 5 second spurts.

Soccer > american football.
>> Anonymous
>>324816

LULZ, who the fuck watches Jim Rome?!?!?!?!?

Are you some kind of special retard?
>> Anonymous
>>324820

They play in spurts so we don't have to watch something boring because everyone is too tired to play the actual game.

Football > Soccer
>> Anonymous
>>324820

So PK's are used to determine who is better at soccer because the athletes are pussies?

Good to know
>> Anonymous
What annoys me about American Football is that players can go an entire 15 year career without actually ever touching the ball.

What kind of fail sport would allow you to do that ?

Its also down to the fact that they have to employ specialised people do one specific job in the sport.

Would it really be that hard for the QB to double up as the kicker. How shit must your life be whne you know the team has only signed you for kickoffs and fieldgoals. You must get like 5 mins of action per game per week.

Im sorry Americans if you find "soccer" to boring to keep your attention uplifted. We can all invent sports that rely on short 7 second bursts of play with a visiblie indication that the play has stopped and then be retold that it is going to start so we can pick up our interest again.
>> Anonymous
>>324823

Why don't American Football players play 120 minutes with 15 minute break and see who has more stamina left? Or if you think like>>324822then all you care about is your entertainment.
>> Anonymous
>>324823
Soccer players on average run 7-10 kilometers (4-6 miles) a game (excluding goalkeepers).

I'd like to see the fatass players and fans even try and run one.
>> Anonymous
What annoys me about American Football is that players can go an entire 15 year career without actually ever touching the ball.
This.

Soccer > Throwball
>> Anonymous
>>324838
most soccer fans cant even run that much.
>> Anonymous
Ausfag here, my country sucks at soccer (should have tied 0-0 with Italy in '06 World Cup though) and from what I've seen from Gridiron/American Football is extremely boring. The flow of the game is horrendous just to make plays and help the players think out simple maneuvers. While Gridiron is a game of strength (and running speed), Soccer is a game of agility, instinct, split-second decisions and intellect. As a keeper I know that in a second the game can be lost if the striker gets a good foot on the ball and I also realise just how much stamina it takes to run around for 90 minutes but when you've played A-grade soccer you notice just how difficult it is to pull of what looks like an easy trick or save. Sure, guys may miss the goals 20 meters out but with the pressure the defence has, and the fact you don't wanna give an easy save to the keeper, it becomes difficult to shoot accurately with pace.

Tl; dr gridiron is about strength, the coaches intelligence and running speed
soccer is about skill, intellect, timing, precision, reaction, agility and stamina
>> Anonymous
>>324832
Gotta agree with that. Most players on the team never even touch the ball. What the hell?

I'm also not a fan of using too many substitutes, let alone using at least 3 whole teams of players in one game!
>> Anonymous
>>324473
>Lack of strategy

Yup, i wonder why they come up with those fancy systems and protocols and whatnot.
>> Anonymous
>>324836
That is a poor excuse.

In Hockey they don't finish the game with penalty shots when the games mean something, NO MATTER HOW TIRED THEY GET.

Oh bally who old chaps, I do believe it's getting late, what's say we wrap this farce up with a skills competition.

Bottom line, soccer is for pussy athletes.

They are seriously talented joggers though.
>> Anonymous
>>324849
kicking the ball in a triangle and long passes down the field is not rocket science
>> Anonymous
>>324852
Well neither is running with a ball or throwing long passes if you want to look at it that way.
>> Anonymous
>>324851


Have to agree about ice hockey, it was fucking loltastic a few years back in the stanley cup playoffs when the Canadiens had to play a game that went to triple overtime. LAWLZ

Everybody was knackered.
>> Anonymous
this post is so full of fail. stupid americans. stupid, fat, ugly americans. god i feel good when i think about how the whole world hates you--
>> Anonymous
>I want to write a non-troll...

Oh wow, you almost got me there.

Cancer killing /sp/, etc...
>> Anonymous
>>324838
>>I'd like to see the fatass players and fans even try and run one.

Soccer fans nor NFL fans could do that for the most part. I've seen fans of both sports, neither has anything to brag about, that's for sure.

I'm sure a wide receiver or running back could EASILY run that distance.

I wonder why Europeans think all football players are offensive linemen.
>> Anonymous
>>324843
>>and intellect.

Stopped reading there.
>> Anonymous
lol, not another football hate thread.

fucking insecure amerikans.
>> Anonymous
old /sp/ rears its ugly head again

Reported.
>> Anonymous
Ask an American why they hate soccer and they'll give you some loooong essay on every aspect of the game and how they don't know anything about it but hate it anyway.

Ask someone outside of the US why they hate the NFL. "The hell is the NFL?"

I've always found that funny. Anyway sage for cancer. BAAAAWWW more if you don't like American Football living in Football's shadow.
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
You asked for it.
>> Anonymous
Amerifag here

Soccer fucking sucks dick, end of story. Okay, sure, it takes stamina to do all that running around, but it's SO REDUNDANT. Back and forth, again and again. For 90 minutes. Who cares who the better athletes are? All that matters is how interesting the game is to watch. And when all the players on the field do is pass it to each other, fuck up and give the ball away, and have the same thing happen to the other team, that doesn't exactly constitute a fun viewing experience.

Soccer also blows cock because it takes nothing at all to understand it (that's why there are so many women in the stands, cheering their tits off).
I concede that soccer is good for poor people. All you need is your brother's decapitated head and a few of your malnourished friends for a game.

Notice how I didn't mention American football ONCE in this post, because that sport kinda sucks too. At least it doesn't have riots.
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
cure cancer with cats
>> Anonymous
>>324900

For every BAAAAWWWW, a sage. Fuck off cancer fags.
>> fashion diva !3wJfpCMhKc
soccer is a better sport than football, guys
but take comfort in the fact that the MLS is almost completely devoid of faggy diving (except for people like Blanco) and shitty refs making calls for no reason.
>> fashion diva !3wJfpCMhKc
>>324900
no sport really takes a lot to understand it. Basketball, tennis, soccer, even football (to a lesser extent) are all pretty simple concepts - put the ball in this thing, get the ball to this point, get it past your opponent.

but wtf is baseball? Seriously that shit doesn't even make sense. It's like, you hit it. and then run to this point, and then you have to tag up... and like pick-offs. It's a fucking jumble
>> Anonymous
Football is a game. Games should be fun. I don't want to sit around with my thumb up my padded ass trying to think up a new "play" or decide if something was legit. Soccer (and every other sport, for that matter) is superior to football BECAUSE of it's simplicity. I'm an American and I fucking hate american football.
>> Anonymous
Eurofag here

NFL fucking sucks dick, end of story. Okay, sure, it takes stamina to do all that running around, but it's SO REDUNDANT. Back and forth, again and again. For 60 minutes that somehow manages to take 4 hours to play. Who cares who the better athletes are? All that matters is how interesting the game is to watch. And when all the players on the field do is pass it to the same cunt out on the wing, fuck up and give the interception away, and have the same thing happen to the other team, that doesn't exactly constitute a fun viewing experience.

NFL also blows cock because it takes nothing at all to understand it (that's why there are so many women in the stands, cheering their tits off).
I concede that NFL is good for people with large ego's. All you need is your brother's decapitated head and a few thousand of your malnourished friends for a game.

Notice how I didn't mention soccer ONCE in this post, because that sport kinda sucks too. At least it doeshave riots.
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
fight the cancer with cats
>> Anonymous
baww fat americans

sage
>> Anonymous
I like both.
>> Anonymous
>>324935
Soccer is much much more redundant than NFL. That logic is pure shit.
>> Anonymous
Foosball is more fun than Soccer.
>> Anonymous
Simple answer,

American football is for thick people who have short attention spans and need a big score to feel like they've achieved something themselves.

Football (soccer), 1000000 times more passionate as the "riots" show. Ten fold more skillfull and entertaining then men smacking each other down because thats just prehistoric behaviour. Also draws are never usually 0-0 its usually 1-1 or higher if at all.

LEARN TO OUTSIDE WORLD FAGGOT AMERICANS.
>> Anonymous
>>324952
Mindfuck
>> Anonymous
>>324935
So, your point is that when two NFL teams play badly it's not fun to watch? Why would I argue with that...
>> Anonymous
trolls trolling trolls
>> Anonymous
>>324960
Passionate? You've never seen a big college football rivalry. Granted they don't kill each other, because they're not inept dumbass Europeans
>> Anonymous
>>324957
And Airhockey is more fun than real hockey.
>> Anonymous
>>324900

Firstly, only real men fight.

Second going to a football game costs 30-50 quid a pop.

Thirdly, why aren't you over the fact your father violated you yet.... jeez 10 years and still you act like it's 4chan's fault. :\
>> Anonymous
>>324967

PASSION

Europe: Love of your team, national team or defending your team through thick and thin.... spending money and time to follow and support your team.

America: Sitting in a seat, eating assorted fatty foods, drinking weak alcholic beverages and screaming WOWOOOWOWOWOWOOWOW every 3 seconds.

Yeah.... I don't get it too mate.
>> Anonymous
Soccer is for malnourished 3rd worlders. Playing soccer means admitting that your best skill is running up and down a field aimlessly for 90 minutes. Soccer has no direction, no flow, no direct goal at any given moment beyond "kick ball downfield, hope for the best". Soccer is not MORE entertaining because play never stops. There is nothing entertaining about watching people run up and down aimlessly, passing, kicking out of bounds and throwing in only to repeat the same sequence. Being able to watch that doesn't mean you have a longer attention span, it means you are a boring, lifeless individual that is easily pleased by moving objects. You might as well go fly a kite and watch that flutter around in the breeze.

Soccer is not a sport. Soccer is a mild distraction from the crushing, terrible reality of the people who primarily play it. It is a banner that 3rd worlders and europeans proudly hoist to wave infront of Americans. "HAHA, LOOK, EVERYONE PLAYS THIS! NO ONE PLAYS YOUR GAMES LOL! YOU ALL SUCK AT OUR SPORT, HAHA ROFL."

Really, foreigners are easy to read.
>> Anonymous
ITT: sweeping over-generalizations and strawman arguments.
>> Anonymous
>>324972

> I wish I was fit enough to play a sport even as gay as badmitton.

fix'd
>> Anonymous
>>324975
Wow, how did you... where....

That you got that from my post is just astonishing. Go eat something, your sugar is low.

OH WAIT.
>> Anonymous
>>324976

The painstaking excercise of sitting and eating has affected your ability to use proper english.

That you got that < Facepalm.jpg.
>> Anonymous
>>324975
>>324976
God bless both of you for having said the two funniest things I have read today.
>> Anonymous
Fact is even Dean Windass probably earns more money than everyone in this thread. Soccer is hardly 3rd world. Also Eurofags won't have witnessed anything like the passion of college rivalries, like americunts won't have witnessed anything like the passion of an inner city rivalry like the Old Firm.

And all the fans are the same, just replace a hotdog for a pukka pie. Budwater for Carpsling. Still a fat cunt who couldn't play the football they are watching themselves.
>> Anonymous
Fuck you americans our yankees are better than your rolling stones....
>> Anonymous
Football vs. Soccer is old now.

Let's do Baseball vs. Cricket gogogo!
>> Holy Emperor Anon vi Philadelphia !!CF3BKIiUIDY
People posting in this thread; save your arguments as copypasta in a text file so you don't have to type them out all over again.
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
>> Anonymous
Baseball is so retarded. wtf it's rounders but gayer... and ROUNDERS IS GAY!

Cricket is a real man's sport it takes strategies such placing player in certain places and aiming for the balls. Also Baseball is only there to distract America for their disastrous economy which will soon make protective pads unaffordable. Also did I mention some about men's cocks, and YOU'RE GAY!
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
>>324989

The one thing I hate about england is cricket, its so homosexual.... Baseball is cricket but longer and more masculine but however just as boring.

In turn both are gay.
>> Anonymous
>>324988
Nike Factory needs to be updated to THY TUK URR JERBS/OUTSOURCING
>> Anonymous
>>324989
"strategies such placing player in certain places and aiming for the balls."
lol
>> Anonymous
>>324991
>longer
wut?
>> Anonymous
>>325000
I'm not suggesting you do it, but have you ever watched a baseball game from first pitch to final out? Even if a game ends in the top of the 9th because the home team has the lead, a baseball game takes 3-4 hours to finish. It's worse than football.
>> Anonymous
NFL sucks and MLS suck.

College sports have more spirit than both of those contract whore leagues.
>> sage sage !ccqXAQxUxI
     File :-(, x)
Sage goes in every field.
>> Anonymous
wow regardless of intent you might as well go start a christfag thread on /r9k/ or a neutral milk thread on /mu/ op
>> Anonymous
>>325005
Nothing on Cricket... Cricket can last upto 5 days!

FIVE FUCKING DAYS!
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
these threads are the cancer that is killing /sp/

cats are the chemo

post a cat, its the only way
>> Anonymous
     File :-(, x)
>>325024
>> Anonymous
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>>325028
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>> Anonymous
>>324979
chemo
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>> Anonymous
Let's break it down:

The fans for one are much better in football than gridiron. Chanting Lets Go "X Team" isn't as passionate as "When you walk....through a storm... hold your head... up high!" *continues* (See You'll never walk alone)

Football is more skillful because there's grace and co-ordination. Gridiron just means being at the right place at the right time and luck.

Tactics. You'd think gridiron would win but it actually doesn't. The way the game stops and starts to initiate every play just makes it essentaially a rock-paper-scissots contest. In football, the changes are free-flowing and any penetration into the other half is done naturally which makes for more exciting and unexpecting entertainment.

The overall verdict. I'm good at maths. And I know that 2,000,000,000 is greater than 250,000,000. And that isn't even negating the numbers of Americans who watched the World Cup and who watch the Super Bowl too.
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ok here is my take. "soccer" is a sport for pure athletic people who run alot and dont have much upper body stength and "football" is for the the complete oposite. i dont care how much of and Amerifag you are you can not deny the populatity of the sport. the reason its so popular it because the basic elements to play the game are easy (just like basketball). football is mostly "heavy set" players runing and average of 25 yards on each play then go sit down for a while and wait for a turn over.
"soccer" is runnunng up and down the same field length back and forth for 90+ mins. unless you get tired or hurt. its is also alot more phisical than most people think and not to mention stategy with set formations and man marking and different styles of play.
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>runnunng
>> Anonymous
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL ADVERTISEMENTS EVERY PLAY
>> Anonymous
American football is just an excuse for sweaty men on 'roids to grope each other every 2 minutes.
>> Anonymous
Why the fuck is the off season longer than the actual season.

Wow talk about getting shafted as fans. 18 games a season, what an absolute joke.
>> Anonymous
>>324551
O.J.
>> Anonymous
I like how all the good soccer players get paid 10x more than any football players. I like that soccer is an international sport when football is only for American to watch and negros to play.
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>> kass
NFL > your life, and shitty country.
>> Anonymous
Sports suck. Get a life, losers.
>> Britannian Anonymous !4bbKDTSEQc
Football > NFL

Baseball > Cricket (Fags all dressed the same just hitting the ball 5 meters for hours and hours to play out time. Fucking shit!)

To OP: You either watch really low quality football which involves nothing but hoofing the ball, or are just an idiot. Go watch Arsenal v Liverpool and then give me your newly INFORMED opinion.
>> Anonymous
personally i find football more fun to watch while i find soccer much more enjoyable to play, whenever ive tried playing a game of pickup football it always ends up the quarterback tossing bombs down to the fastest guy, and its not as involving. with soccer though i can play any position i feel like and ill get lots of touches and its more fun and the players aren't as angry in soccer. but i think that part of the reason i like to watch football alot is because the regular season is pretty short so when no football is on tv i start getting a craving to watch it where as in soccer theres always a game going on somewhere all the time. also i was raised on terrible terrible mexican league soccer...god they're terrible. fuck.
>> Anonymous
OP here, just woke up.

I like how there have been no actual substantive post on any issue brought up aside from simple negations, ad hominen attacks, and discussion of being offsides.

Eurofags fail at defending their sport.
>> Anonymous
OP here, just woke up.

I like how there have been no actual substantive post on any issue brought up aside from simple negations, ad hominen attacks, and discussion of being offsides.

Eurofags fail at defending their sport from an honest and curious assessment.
>> Anonymous
>>324813

If we were good at it, we'd give a fuck about it.
>> Anonymous
OP here, just woke up.

I like how there have been actual substantive posts on many issues brought up and not many simple negations, ad hominen attacks, and discussion of being offsides.

Eurofags win at defending their sport from an honest and curious assessment.
>> Anonymous
The one argument I see a lot against American Football is the huddles, which is just plain ridiculous. Just because the clock is running doesn't mean anything is happening in the game.

There is more then enough pointless midfield play in soccer to make up for every second a gridiron team spends in the huddle.

And before I get a butthurt Amerifag post, I'm a hockey fan so I basically win the thread. I'm just saying one side should stop whining about how the other is boring because both have equal doldrums.
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please shut the fuck up