Go to a football stadium...then you might understand more. I took many people who hated football to begin with and are now fanatics. Lots of females too....though some of them got hooked on watching the "good looking" players. :lol: :roll:

No...football is very much like sex. I swear it is...very similar emotions...though for it to be so you have to have some sort of connection with the team...i.e. your country or local town.

Look at this:

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com...4045671946.jpg

2 million people were in front of this player (Francesco Totti)...2 million...I have it on tape....30 billion watched the world cup on TV. 30 billion people. The population on Earth 5 times over. There is a reason you know? Not liking football is like saying you've never experienced an orgasm. You definitely are missing something. ;)

Meh. Soccer = boring in my book. Isn't this stuff supposed to be confined to it's own special thread?

Americans don't understand excitement...boring. haha...you never see people yawning at football matches like you do in baseball. :roll: All American sports are like an anti-climax...meaning there is no climax. Stop-start affair. Just made to brainwash people into buying products from all the advertising that goes on.

I pity Americans...I really do. Because they are the only ones who've never experienced what football means. Tough luck...your loss. :up:

Yeah basketball is just like that... :roll:

Gadzooks!:o

I now withdraw my vote for NeonSamurai and change it to Kurushio.:ping:

Unless. He is a moderator too. :damn:

I change my vote based on Kurushio’s past statements and my belief that soccer fans take the sport way too seriously.:roll:

Most sports fans do. "Past statements" :lol:

Basketball is a load of tosh. It's the fourth most popular sport in the US after baseball, handball (aka NFL), Ice Hockey....and basket ball is the most unpopular sport on the planet. And there's a reason. Apart from that silly sport being prejudiced to freaks of nature (if you're not a giant, you can't play), you also have the fact that these freaks can easily reach the hoop without tip-toeing...so where's the skill in that? :roll: And then basketball resembles ping-pong. It's a STUPID sport. Why not just play the last minute cos that's what it always comes down too....you reach 58 seconds where it's 102-101...or 98-98 or if it's really one-sided 95-98 :roll:.

Stupid stupid sport....and very pointless apart from boring. Just another version of ping-pong.

p.s. Isn't NBA having financial problems because nobody watches it? :lol:

It's like a virgin saying "..men take sex way too seriously" :roll:

If you never experience it...you don't know what you are missing. Football is the perfect game. It's continuosly physical and athletic...you know, no fat 40 year old bastard like Barry Bonds...once you reach 30 in football...you are almost over...because you can't keep up. Controlling a ball with your feet is very hard and you need a lot of skill....not like NFL where they just throw a rugby ball at each other....any person with two arms can throw for Gods sake. :roll: No ridiculously high scores lik or basketball or NFL for that matter....goals are hard to score...you need great skill and team participation...and when they come...the adrenaline surge is incredible...pity you'll never know.

There is a reason why billions follow football (soccer) as opposed to the American sports. :roll:

I see I voted wisely. ;)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

This is a good comparison. American sports are like having sex with your wife every night, with the light off (could be a good thing), in the same position for 15 years.

Football is like losing your virginity to Liv Tyler.

:yep:

You decide.

I wasn't able to read all your posts until someone all emailed them to me... :lol: Now I feel tempted to increase the list by the name of that someone... :lol:

Skybird's criterion for putting someone on his list: that someone

a.) has almost exclusively raised his anger and a feeling of unfairness,
b.) has almost never changed a reasonable or sensible word with him
c.) and most likely has been regarded as a source of troubles by others as well, so that by considerating pojnts a,b and c --->
d.) this person qualifies for the technical description of a noisemaker.

Differing opinions or stubborn defense of arguments is NOT what makes me putting people on the list. Bad behavior or primitive language is something different.

Skybird...you wont put me on ignore, because:

a) Deep down you think what I write makes sense
b) You are scared you'll miss something I'll say on the German world cup team
c) You know I'm right about dinosaurs

Take your pick

Funny that's how i feel about soccer. I'm no great fan of basketball either but at least they don't prance around like nancys with pretend injuries.

September: Prance around like nancys? Have you even ever watched football? These guys regularly break their bones. :roll: Wayne Rooney had a broken bone in hise foot. Totti broke his leg in April. Remember the US pplayer with the bloody face? :lol: Basketball is a no contact sport...for effs sake. :roll:

Stick to knitting, mate. It's safer.:stare:

This buddy/ignore list is not good. I can't put my self on the buddylist.

Markus

Ouch!

:huh:

So what your saying is that is ok to block, shove, hit, and tackle people in soccer?

:hmm:

Ok? That's PART of the game. It wouldn't be football (stop saying soccer!...and change the name of your football to handball) if you didn't have those things. Soc..errr....football is a physical game. The only things which aren't allowed are dangerous tackles, unfair play etc but if there are, they have sanctions for it (i.e. cards). Much like baseball where beaning isn't allowed. You bean someone once, he gets a free ride to 1st, bean the second player...you might get ejected. Same thing.

p.s. I must admit I really like baseball though...GO METS! :rock:

Feh, Extreme ironing rules all, period :up:

Discussion closed. :smug: