Badmike wrote:BTW, any Dallas Mavs fans here? I know their 26 years with no championship doesn't begin to touch teams like the Cubbies (or even the Rangers for that matter) but it's been a pretty awesome month around here in the Dallas area watching Dirk and the boys go almost all the way. Tried to call in for tickets to the finals, just so I could turn around and sell them. Nice to know two seats to Game One are equal to an ST1 and Woodgrain, which is why I would have scalped those suckers should I have gotten through.... Mike B.
Xaxaxe wrote:Speaking of "world," has anybody heard of this soccer tournament they're having in Germany? It's supposed to be some sort of big deal, apparently.World CupI don't know much about it, other than Brazil wins all the time and England doesn't. Oh, and something about a "hand of God" back in 1986 ... I don't know, it looked like a legal goal to me.I take the typical American view of soccer being "22 foreigners in shorts." Unless we beat the Czechs on the 12th ... then I will be on board, baby!
killjoy32 wrote:Xaxaxe wrote:Speaking of "world," has anybody heard of this soccer tournament they're having in Germany? It's supposed to be some sort of big deal, apparently.World CupI don't know much about it, other than Brazil wins all the time and England doesn't. Oh, and something about a "hand of God" back in 1986 ... I don't know, it looked like a legal goal to me.I take the typical American view of soccer being "22 foreigners in shorts." Unless we beat the Czechs on the 12th ... then I will be on board, baby! well the yanks are on a role arent they? they beat ummm who was it....Angola, 2-1 wooh tough game joking aside though, they seem to be playing well anyway, so no reason they cant be up for it just as much as anyone else.oh and btw...brazil dont win all the time, not even close Al
Marlith wrote:Give us another 10 to 15 years and I am sure the tune will be much different. You have to remember we have only been taking rest of the worlds "football" serious now for 10 years or less. Untill then anyone for a world wide tournament of American style football...I am sure we could field a team that might do ok.
Marlith wrote:killjoy32 wrote:well the yanks are on a role arent they? they beat ummm who was it....Angola, 2-1 wooh tough game joking aside though, they seem to be playing well anyway, so no reason they cant be up for it just as much as anyone else.oh and btw...brazil dont win all the time, not even close AlGive us another 10 to 15 years and I am sure the tune will be much different. You have to remember we have only been taking rest of the worlds "football" serious now for 10 years or less. Untill then anyone for a world wide tournament of American style football...I am sure we could field a team that might do ok.
killjoy32 wrote:well the yanks are on a role arent they? they beat ummm who was it....Angola, 2-1 wooh tough game joking aside though, they seem to be playing well anyway, so no reason they cant be up for it just as much as anyone else.oh and btw...brazil dont win all the time, not even close Al
Deadlord39 wrote:Good point. However, that is exactly the reason why I never watch basketball. Games where teams score 50 times each are boring.Football has the perfect medium. Scoring is not out-of-control, yet happens often enough for enjoyment.
Badmike wrote:I had friends back int he early 80's who were predicting with all the kids going to soccer camps and playing in high schools, it would be the new popular sport of the 90's and next century. Instead, as back then, no one really cares.
killjoy32 wrote:so we got tickets to go see the california angels (they have changed their name now right?)
Xaxaxe wrote:Badmike wrote:I had friends back int he early 80's who were predicting with all the kids going to soccer camps and playing in high schools, it would be the new popular sport of the 90's and next century. Instead, as back then, no one really cares.Soccer is, according to many researchers, by far the most popular sport for American youths (especially considering how many girls play), and every so often I'll run across an article predicting how it is poised to be become "the next big thing" on the American sports landscape.And it never happpens. Those millions of youth players are largely former players by the time they reach college age ... and then the cycle just repeats. There's absolutely nothing wrong with young people having a fun, healthy, outdoors activity, but what the writers of these articles don't seem to realize is that just because millions of kids play soccer doesn't mean they grow up to become soccer fans. I mean, a lot of kids take piano lessons, too, but that doesn't mean they grow up and attend recitals when they are adults.Soccer has one chance here: the U.S. men reaching the World Cup final* someday. Even then, for a U.S. league to reach anything approaching the mainstream, the arcane offsides rule would have to be changed — we're Americans; we don't do obscure rules that take 15 minutes to explain.
Blackmoor wrote:Deadlord39 wrote:Good point. However, that is exactly the reason why I never watch basketball. Games where teams score 50 times each are boring.Football has the perfect medium. Scoring is not out-of-control, yet happens often enough for enjoyment.How about Hockey!! Fast, exiciting, physical and you can play it in the winter Basketball seems to be just a show (at the pro level anyway). It drives me crazy watching all the travelling, fouls and showboating. Personally I do not get why people watch a sport with no rules
Badmike wrote: But still, the rules would have to be "americanized" (I.e., more scoring) for US audiences to ever really like the sport. Personally, I've never watched a soccer game completely start to finish except when one of my kids or my buddies was playing...professional soccer should be shown to anyone suffering from insomnia before medicine is ever tried... Mike B.