brap
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Imagine being butthurt. Imagine watching any sports at all.
Imagine living in euroland LMAO
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American soccer and its fans are embarrassing!
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Imagine living in euroland LMAO
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SLoWMoTIoN
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But many Americans watch futbol. Just not the ones that live in the country North America or those whose family have "latin" roots.
I was just commenting on the English hooligans who are goddamn wankers.
Take a knee!
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StreetsofBeige
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Got the Whitecaps and NY MLS game on TV now.
Some dude tried to fake falling in the penalty area to draw a foul. Ref checked video replay (which I'll assume is pretty darn close to what we see on replays which they gut totally embellishment a small tap), and he waived off any penalty call.
Good.
Sports like soccer with tons of diving and faking need this shit put into the game. Hopefully, it will make players cut back on it.
Some dude tried to fake falling in the penalty area to draw a foul. Ref checked video replay (which I'll assume is pretty darn close to what we see on replays which they gut totally embellishment a small tap), and he waived off any penalty call.
Good.
Sports like soccer with tons of diving and faking need this shit put into the game. Hopefully, it will make players cut back on it.
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Azurro
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Not being able to feel the passion of watching your team play, of finally being able to get one over another team in a derby and getting invested in it. I feel sad that other people can't get it.
Football had given me some of the best moments and also some of the biggest heartbreaks. Americans just watch sports in a much different way, it's something to do and watch three sports or so without actually getting invested in any of them. It's just something to do, just some more source of entertainment. That's why they love high scoring sports, just something that happens on screen that doesn't really mean anything. Even the passion seems manufactured and sanitized. Even the system they use, if they win, great, if they lose, it's great too.
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StreetsofBeige
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It's different in the US and Canada.
There's more sports to follow, which all have high production values. At any given time, there's at least one pro league going on (the four main ones are football, baseball, basketball and hockey). And that even excludes things like racing, golf, tennis and MLS. And also excludes the huge following in college football and basketball.
Soccer is the main sport (often seems like the only sport worth following) in most other countries, so people seem to live and die sports with soccer.
While in North America, fans are split across sports. I don't think there are many fans that will closely follow more than 2-3 sports among the probably 10 sports with good production values and talent.
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appaws
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This is one of the great things about Football. Dudes of all types can play. Big dudes, super fast little guys, even little spaz guys can be kickers. All soccer players have to be the fit types who can run all day.
Plus one important added bonus. Playing as a lineman is the only way for a fat American kid to get laid in High School!
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slugbahr
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There is no 'best' sport. The popularity of it doesn't mean anything more than that.
And its popularity probably has more to do with the ease with which it can be played. At the most basic level, you only need a ball to work on your skills.
A couple of bags or similar to be goal 'posts' or some chalk on a wall.
Basketball, where the great majority of scoring is meaningless - what the fuck does that even mean?
'Handegg' - hilarious. What do you call tennis, golf, cricket, chess and snooker?
Baseball, the best medicine for insomnia - unlike 'soccer'?
LMJ
Member
This thread is pure proof that tribalism is alive and well lol
From the incorrect notion that Americans invented the term soccer, to the constant dick measuring test between countries and their so called sports of choice..
Here's a kicker for you, it's all subjective... you grew up with football AKA Soccer in America and thus you are passionate about the sport you did not grow up with the NFL the MLB or the NBA, so those sports mean nothing to most of you, but to pretend that they don't have any history or culture is just silly...
The simple fact is if tomorrow Europe decided to create their own NFL, or their own MLB or their own NBA you would see the exact same kind of stupidity, the exact same kind of so called "larping" because it's new and not established, from the pathetic names to the forced fans...
Yes right now football or soccer is new in America when it comes to popularity and it will slowly grow this is just an inevitable truth with the diversity that is becoming so rich in this country, and yes a good deal of said "larpers" are indeed the "soy boy SJW" kind of people because they're anti anything establishment, you see them all over the place, they embrace European Football and come off as fake because they are, But there are also fans who moved to America, or fans in America who had embraced soccer/football and everything it stands for give it time will become less embarrassing I assure you...
From the incorrect notion that Americans invented the term soccer, to the constant dick measuring test between countries and their so called sports of choice..
Here's a kicker for you, it's all subjective... you grew up with football AKA Soccer in America and thus you are passionate about the sport you did not grow up with the NFL the MLB or the NBA, so those sports mean nothing to most of you, but to pretend that they don't have any history or culture is just silly...
The simple fact is if tomorrow Europe decided to create their own NFL, or their own MLB or their own NBA you would see the exact same kind of stupidity, the exact same kind of so called "larping" because it's new and not established, from the pathetic names to the forced fans...
Yes right now football or soccer is new in America when it comes to popularity and it will slowly grow this is just an inevitable truth with the diversity that is becoming so rich in this country, and yes a good deal of said "larpers" are indeed the "soy boy SJW" kind of people because they're anti anything establishment, you see them all over the place, they embrace European Football and come off as fake because they are, But there are also fans who moved to America, or fans in America who had embraced soccer/football and everything it stands for give it time will become less embarrassing I assure you...
Mista
Banned
You fucking cunts know anything outside of Rugby and Cricket?
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Shifty
Member
What do you expect from a country that still insists on calling it soccer? 
Burnouts are the national sport there, everything else is secondary.
highrider
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We have contests of hand eye like baseball, and more purely athletic stuff like basketball and American football. We understand it, just don’t find it as entertaining. Just like you grew up playing and admiring great soccer players I grew up playing basketball and football, some baseball but I’m not a big baseball guy. It’s culture.
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E-Cat
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Let's be honest, though -- American football is even more boring. The players mosey up a few yards at a time, and there's long pauses in between.
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slugbahr
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That's not being honest. That's just opinion.
And ignorance.
Torrent of Pork
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The only place I know of where you have proper European football culture is Philadelphia, those psychopaths turn to cannibalism when they win.
And the lefties are doubling down on crazy.
www.foxnews.com
Thanks, Colin Kaperfucknut and the limp dick cunts who bend over backwards for human waste.
Major League Soccer club bans Utah couple from waving 'Betsy Ross flag' at games
Two die-hard soccer fans in Utah say Major League Soccer's Real Salt Lake asked them to take down a Betsy Ross flag they were waving in the front row at a recent match because the team dubbed the star-spangled banner a "symbol for hate groups."
www.foxnews.com
Thanks, Colin Kaperfucknut and the limp dick cunts who bend over backwards for human waste.