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Soccer has become the sport of choice for NYC hipsters
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XShadows69
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Four Square would be more respectable. Soccer is not hipster whatsoever.
4 Square sounds boss. I wish this was the game when I was in primary school.
As a Brit who prefers American sports, I want to go to America to watch Basketball and American Football not Football.
Robinho 2.0 dude, I know it's hard to accept when you're part of the cult. But the sooner you realize, the better.
I noticed this dude disappeared from the footie thread as the year went on.
Domestic league has improved quite a bit in the last decade, and we're starting to see some of the top flight US national guys either stay in MLS or come back to MLS. League is continuing to expand and with that comes more money, more viewers, etc.
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I was hopping it was gonna be built in Queens, but with the team's Yank connection, its was always likely to be in the BX
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wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I would say it to your face if only to elicit and subsequently observe a response.
You're not a hipster, you're a yuppie living in Fort Greene paying too much for rent.
You also frequent Black Forrest Brooklyn and Habana outpost because they're so charming.
terrisus
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Foursquare is awesome.
Not that I would play it now, but, back when I was around 10, it was great.
gutter_trash
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i grew up in kensington, pretty much lived in brooklyn all my life, im also not white. i moved to park slope and then fort greene because i just like these neighborhoods better. i get it, its all gentrified but yeah, the hipster term has become too generic...these gentrified neighborhoods are filled with young(ish) successful career oriented people of all ethnicity....they are not hipsters, they are techies, bankers or their significant others are techies or bankers, or digital marketers.
i might just hug you. because you know, im non violent. hugz not drugz xoxoxo
i grew up in brooklyn. but i love the gentrification regardless, good to have choices. i do like Black Forrest, but the other beer garden across the street has better selection of beers, and Habana Outpost...great for warm weather I guess, but I'm not a huge fan of the food, I don't eat pork for one, and hated their chicken sandwich.
you sound like my friend who works for Heineken, makes 180,000 and talks about socialism and how he is a true blue collar proletariat and how he hates the non-gritty, "cutesy" new york, whereas i am a Whole Food loving scum.
but whatever.
Your friend calls you "whole food loving scum"?
And he's wrong. You shop at Trader Joe's.
I'm just fucking with you yuppie. Gentrification is why my dad's place in ft Greene is worth 100 times (or more) more than when he got it. I also frequent both of those establishments. I'd never live there though. Not worth it.
Luv roller derby. I almost like it enough to go see the guys play....but not quite. Soccer is going to have to put in some serious work to displace derby as Atlanta's no. 1 hipster sport.
Its a social experiment to see if they can use it and get someone on Neogaf to post this same post every time.
whats any of this supposed to mean to me? my dad owns two houses in brooklyn.
Muppet of a Man
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Nothing dumb dumb. I'm saying I'm not much different than you and I was just fucking with you in my original post.
terrisus
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Association FOOTBALL
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And, if you want to shorten that further, there's also "Footy"
And both make more sense than just randomly pulling out the middle of a word.
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La Liga in a nutshell.
almost as good as lebron
terrisus
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It's almost like this exact quote has been posted in this thread already...
And, hey, guess what - when most of the rest of the world is calling it by a particular name, and just one part is going "Well, hey, this was a nickname for it somewhere... let's call it that!," someone's doing something wrong.
But then, we still use the Imperial system of measurements, and one could toss the same sort of excuse at that as well. Again - we're the ones doing it wrong.
FootballFan
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Why does every American Football/Football thread in OT become a "it's call football!" "no, it's soccer"
Same shit, different name. Let it go already.
Same shit, different name. Let it go already.
terrisus
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It does get annoying, even more annoying when people say soccer with the intention to dismiss the sport in a condescending manner to the fans and the fans correcting them in a whiny tone as well.
Neymar fucking screwed up on Wednesday's match (I live in Cali so it might be on a different day for others). huehuehuehue
Soccer isn't "wrong" by any stretch. There's a historical basis for calling it that from the country where the sport was created. It just so happens our paths diverged and another game with an equally valid tie to the name "football" won out in the US. It's not a derogatory label like hand egg. Soccer fans will just have to accept that until CTE kills football or something.
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terrisus
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When the vast majority of countries are using the same/similar official name for something, and then you have the US saying "Well, hey, we have a historical basis to call it this other thing, because this one place used this as a nickname!," yes, the US is doing it wrong.
American Football has a history of liking to take names from other things and mess up names of things anyway. You have the New York Giants calling themselves the New York Giants when there was also an existing Baseball team at the time called the New York Giants. And then you have the New York Giants and the New York Jets continuing to call themselves "New York" even when they moved to New Jersey. So, sorry, they don't get any benefit of the doubt or "winning out" on anything name-related.
freenudemacusers
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usa is the most important country in the world and maybe solar system so they should get naming rights imo
*whistles in a non suspicious way*
Now do pineapple vs ananas with meme faces.
IdreamofHIME
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We should buy them all a ticket to a Millwall game.
IdreamofHIME
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*whistles in a non suspicious way*
What's going on with the Thai translation?
It says Futbon (no L's as final sounds in Thai), not Futbxl :/
Squirrel Killer
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Blame the Brits.
It's not just historical:
You'll notice the price of the magazine is in pounds.
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HIPSTER LEGOS HIPSTER LEGOS HIPSTER LEGOS HIPSTER LEGOS.
Because it's exactly like saying 'pokemons' or 'sheeps' or something.
Grenouille
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Where is Italy and South Africa in there
Violentine
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No surprise. Soccer is an internationally favorited sport and NYC is very international.
IdreamofHIME
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It's not just historical:
You'll notice the price of the magazine is in pounds.
Says Football right on the title
"World Soccer: Global Football since 1960"
lol
Broder Salsa
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The constant soccer or football discussion is one of the most boring topics in the world, and somehow all threads in OT about the sport turns into it.
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