Soccer has become the sport of choice for NYC hipsters

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Soccer was always big in the area of California I grew up in. A lot of second-generation immigrants from Hispanic and Asian countries I knew played and followed it, it was like the most popular sport at my elementary/middle schools.
 
Holy shit I hate this article. Can't I just like soccer because it's the best sport, not because some bearded cunts from Brooklyn are also into it?

Football hipsters are a thing though. Jonathan Wilson is one! Always wearing those stylish sweaters and talking about false nines, double pivots and the W-M formation
 
I'll play soccer, but I'll never seriously watch it. Unless I'm trying to pick up soccer chicks. But I love playing it.

edit: perhaps I could look into this "roller derby" business. are spankings common?
 
If that helps you sleep better at night, sure, football sucks!

Why do many Americans hate it so much they have to announce it? I don't enjoy American football, but i don't go around and i say it sucks...

Because they watch it and they know Real Madrid won the Copa del Rey yesterday and they feel ashamed knowing this for some reason.

WOOOO we won!! Real Madrid GAF WOOO!
 
True hipsters would be supporting crystal palace or Swansea. Not fucking Liverpool

I was sort of thinking about that. You could probably put on a Hot Spurs jersey, stand next to one of them who was cheering on Arsenal and they wouldn't realize what you were doing. =p
 
Well, better than paying attention to their Baseball teams, or their Handegg teams that play in New Jersey.
Soccer?
Silly Americans and their Handegg.
Handegg annihilated.
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...have any of you "hand-egg" people ever seen an egg?
 
I played soccer when I was growing up. Between high school, winter, and spring/summer leagues, I was playing year round and it was awful... especially in Oregon during the winter when it's rainy and muddy. I got so sick of it I had to quit cold turkey and haven't so much as kicked a ball since. That was in like 1998 when I stopped. I'll always regret not doing wrestling instead.
 
I went to my first Portland Timbers game last week and sat in the Hipster, I mean, Timbers Army. This section seemed far more interested in chanting and singing than actually giving a fuck about the game. It seemed like a very "look at me, look at me" kind of thing. Portlanders sure love their soccer though.

I don't know anything about soccer so I asked some of the people around me about strategies and what the team was trying to do and no one could tell me shit.

They've gotta keep themselves entertained somehow.
 
As a massive footie fan living in brooklyn, this article offends me. The ones I met actually enjoy the sport, they don't watch it as a means to be "hipster".
 
Soccer - 90 min gameplay / 15 min ads
American Football - 15 min gameplay / 120 min ads

It's so true that I can't watch any other sport anymore. I can't take the commercials. With soccer, 45 minutes for the first half, 15 minutes for halftime, 45 minutes for the second half, end. Good stuff in a nice, timely package.
 
Does that make me like an ultra hipster then since I was following it before the Hipsters?

Though when I first started watching I thought it was strange that San Antonio had so many fans in England :(
 
My7 problem with these guys is that they think they know more than people who have been watching the sport their whole life. It's annoying.
 
It's because of a couple of things.

1. Red Bulls and Cosmos tickets are cheap. $20 or $15 for field level seats? Count me in.

2. Transportation is relatively easy. Whether it be hanging out at a bar or going to a Cosmos or Red Bulls game, your commute is likely less than 30 mins from your home.

3. Hipsters are liberal and relate to many European ideals.

4. Soccer is cool and easy to pick up. Everyone can celebrate a goal.

5. It's different. The NFL and MLB are extremely popular in NYC. It's a Yankee and Giants town. I can't think of a better way to differentiate than to pick up a new sport and be different than the rest of the city.

6. Drinking is an integral part of watching soccer. There's a tradition of watching matches in pubs.

7. Portland and Seattle are entirely made of hipsters and are better soccer fan.s

8. Good beer is served at soccer pubs and at Red Bull arena.
 
A lot of people here would like the letters segment on the Giant Bomb podcast

Well I don't really know what to add after this:

"After the fucking Scousers tried to push tried to push shit onto the more evolved southerners, I just wanted to let you know that anyone from north of london is a fucking northern monkey who can't think straight, because they're either drunk from tesco value cider or dizzy from working at coal factories."
 
It's because of a couple of things.

1. Red Bulls and Cosmos tickets are cheap. $20 or $15 for field level seats? Count me in.

2. Transportation is relatively easy. Whether it be hanging out at a bar or going to a Cosmos or Red Bulls game, your commute is likely less than 30 mins from your home.


3. Hipsters are liberal and relate to many European ideals.

4. Soccer is cool and easy to pick up. Everyone can celebrate a goal.

5. It's different. The NFL and MLB are extremely popular in NYC. It's a Yankee and Giants town. I can't think of a better way to differentiate than to pick up a new sport and be different than the rest of the city.

6. Drinking is an integral part of watching soccer. There's a tradition of watching matches in pubs.

7. Portland and Seattle are entirely made of hipsters and are better soccer fan.s

8. Good beer is served at soccer pubs and at Red Bull arena.

Plus New York City FC will be playing their games in a new $1.5 billion stadium inside the city.

they're playing at Yankee Stadium for the first three years until they build their own stadium next door
 
So hipsters do have a good taste, after all. Glad to see them dropping those silly American attempts of a sport.

Edit: basketball is cool, tho. I like basketball.
 
Well I don't really know what to add after this:

"After the fucking Scousers tried to push tried to push shit onto the more evolved southerners, I just wanted to let you know that anyone from north of london is a fucking northern monkey who can't think straight, because they're either drunk from tesco value cider or dizzy from working at coal factories."

I really wish these territorial emails never end, they're amazing.
 
It will be the 3rd most popular sport in the U.S. in the next 10-15 years, which is crazy to think about since our domestic league is poop compared to the top fight European leagues, Champions league, Euros ect...

I can't see it over taking American football over here for that reason.
 
It will be the 3rd most popular sport in the U.S. in the next 10-15 years, which is crazy to think about since our domestic league is poop compared to the top fight European leagues, Champions league, Euros ect...

I can't see it over taking American football over here for that reason.

It's still nice to see Americans embracing so many different sports, regardless.
 
Hipsters! You don't wanna look mainstream, right? Well, you know, football is mainstream as fuck.

Play bocce.
 
Plus New York City FC will be playing their games in a new $1.5 billion stadium inside the city.

they're playing at Yankee Stadium for the first three years until they build their own stadium next door

What's the update on that?

Last I heard Elmont was the location of NYC FC.
 
What's the update on that?

Last I heard Elmont was the location of NYC FC.

Elmont is where the New York Cosmos want to build their stadium, that's still awaiting approval.

New York City FC are planning on building a stadium in the South Bronx, right next to Yankee Stadium. That is still being negotiated as well, they expect the process to take four more years, and so for their first three seasons (from 2015-2017) they will be playing at Yankee Stadium. A baseball stadium is certainly not ideal for soccer, and I'm sure there will be plenty of complaints from Yankees fans as well, given that the two seasons totally overlap.
 
I must be a reverse-hipster or something. I'm English born and bred, live in rural Shropshire, and gave up following Spurs to support New York Red Bulls. It's a frustrating but fun experience.

It's interesting to see soccer on such a sharp rise in USA at the same time as NFL following rapidly picks up pace here in UK.
 
NYC hipsters like it, but plenty of other NYCers like it as well, and european expats. is everyone a fucking hipster now? i live in Fort Green and have a good job and like good beer and food, and i consider myself stylish and a music snob, am i a hipster? come up to my face and say that.

Are you from Fort Greene? Because 20 years ago no white people would be caught dead in that neighborhood. I think people are mistaking hipsters for Yuppies. Hipsters don't have a pot to piss in.
 
i would love nothing more than for the US at large to discover the joys of football, but this:

“You buy into the history and the tradition, the values of the club,” said Bryan Lee, a digital brand strategist who grew up in Southern California and lives in Greenpoint. He showed up in a vintage gray Liverpool away jersey. “Historically, Liverpool has been a blue-collar port city,” added Mr. Lee, 24, as thoughtful as if he were delivering his orals at graduate school. “The politics of Liverpool was really sort of anti-Thatcher. It’s become the people’s club. Those hardworking blue-collar values never really left, even though it’s been ushered into the modern era of the club being a global franchise.”

is the worst thing ever. a 24-year-old from california should not be supporting liverpool for its "anti-thatcher" vibe, jesus. cultural tourism at its worst.
 
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