Is he the best European athlete?

[Bort]

Okay, as a soccer player myself, I cannot stand it when everyone in the entire United States of America calls soccer (or football) a sissy sport, there's more contact in soccer than there is in just about every other popular sport in the U.S. aside from football and lacrosse. And besides, what does the amount of hitting that happens in a sport have to do with how good it is?

I don't understand, waste gate, why you aren't ragging on our own American Pasttime for being a sissy sport. With the exception of the almost-never-happens collision at home plate and perhaps a hard slide into a base (are there no hard slides in soccer?), there's pretty much NO contact whatsoever, and if contact does happen, interference is called because the players can't handle getting grazed by someone running past.

Now I'm not saying that you should go nitpick every single sport out there like this, but if you actually take the time to think about it, you pretty much have a choice of watching two sports in the U.S. if you want to watch a physical, "hard hitting" sport. Football and lacrosse, and how many times do you see lacrosse on TV?

I'll stick with watching and participating in all sports I want to watch or participate in, no matter how "sissy" they are. I also won't go into a public forum and try to piss off many people there by insulting for no reason a major part of their lives.

Oh, and your little dig about girls kicking eachother in the shins? Hmm, the ONE pad that soccer players wear is on the shins, so unless most soccer players enjoy kicking curved pieces of plastic, I don't think it stands. Besides, football players wear more pads anyways.