World Cup Soccer - could it get more boring?
I’ve been thinking this about soccer for my entire life, but never posted about it until I found out I’m not alone. I stopped watching baseball years ago because I thought it was boring - but at least they make progress in baseball. You can sit there and watch a 2 hour ( or is it 7? ) soccer game, and it’ll end in a tie. A freaking 0-0 tie. A score of 2-1 would make headlines as one of the highest scoring games all year.
Not only that, but during the game, players seem to kick the ball directly to members of the other team alarmingly often. I mean, no one else on their team will be anywhere around, but they’ll kick it straight to the other team. I can only assume this is some sort of advanced soccer strategy that my small brain just can’t comprehend. Ok I’m done. Soccer sucks. And the world cup sucks. How in the crap can you have playoffs every 4 freaking years. I don’t have that kind of patience.
Anyone else hate soccer?
Kody said
July 10 2006 @ 7:59 pm
yes, yes, & yes
Leroy Brown said
July 10 2006 @ 8:02 pm
Down with soccer! Yea!
Tom said
July 10 2006 @ 9:31 pm
Soccer is pretty good, once you learn the rules. There is no strategy of kicking the ball to the other team. If this happens, chances are the player is from Italy. (Please refer to ongoing matchfixing scandal in Italian League). Italy are big cheats (Refer to match against Australia) and deserve to get headbutted (refer to French Captain).
Bob said
July 11 2006 @ 5:04 pm
While flipping thru the tv stations, I actually tried to watch a few minutes of the world cup a coupla times — in no time flat, practically every time, it seemed like the camera would be focused on some ‘drama-queen’ (oops I mean soccer-player) writhing in pain on the ground — my guess is that they wanted to be sure that they got ‘face-time’ on television…..oh well…..
leroybrown said
July 12 2006 @ 4:52 am
Hah, good to see you on here. Yea, I hadn’t even thought of that - they do an awful lot of lawing on the ground in pain. Come to think of it, there’s way too much of that in basketball too.