The Official Soccer Basher Thread, Part Deux.

I always wondered if Rugby could take off being so similar to football (gridiron). But like football (soccer) it also doesn't have TV timeouts.

Rugby has no shot with us at all.

1. At this point, we DO have a fairly established history with soccer. We may not be a primary world power, but everyone knows USA in 2012 is somewhere in the mix.

2. WE PLAY SOCCER. Again, It might not be number one, but its got an audience, and kids have been playing it since the 80's in numbers. Its played in High School and College, and we have stars like Clint Dempsey etc. and we have the MLS. All different minority groups in the USA play soccer, Mexicans etc. Mexicans dont play Rugby.

3. Soccer is a completely different sport from Football. There is an ever increasing amount of young Americans who LOVE BOTH SOCCER AND FOOTBALL. People have to realize its not mutually exclusive. Lots of people love them both! Rugby is just too close to Football that we have to compare it and come to the conclusion, its just not our game.

4. Rugby is only played at the club and intramural level with no spectators, no scholarships, etc. at colleges that dont have the money to field Football teams. Its purely recreational.

5. Football has bigger hitting and more exciting plays. Rugby to us is like a bad compromise between Soccer and Football. The similarities to Football are actually what kills it from our consideration.

Just my opinion: Love Soccer, Love Football, Rugby does nothing for me at all.

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Another one to add to the list. Apparently the U.S. department of Time Magazine is not too fond of soccer either. Really bugs me that they would do this. Messi is on the cover of the latest Time Magazine globally, with the exception of the United States issue, which is featuring a bit about "shyness" instead. The picture and info is in the link below. Too bad for soccer and especially too bad for soccer in the U.S.

Messi Gets Snubbed

Maybe it's because they'll make more money with that than with a cover story on Messi...

I don't see how this says they're not fond of soccer. They have a duty to make the most money, not promote soccer.

Ehh - how compelling is a cover about shyness though? At least with the Messi cover you might be interested to find out who this guy is. Is the article still in the US version of Time or did they rip the article completely?

A basher gets suspended:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/breaking-roland-martin-suspended-by-cnn-for-offensive-super-bowl-tweets/

Wait, they're saying THIS guy made HOMOPHOBIC tweets?!?

ugh - yet another CNN dope. And he's supposedly a man of the cloth. This kind of attitude towards what constitutes masculinity in the black community is what caused stupidity like Proposition 8 to get such wide support in California.

Honestly, CNN such an embarrassment.

I am shocked SHOCKED I say to read these outrageous claims about Soccer injuries vs American Football Injuries in this article.


"Bountygate Debate: Why Football is Still Better Than Soccer"

"This misguided hypocrisy ignores the outrageous number of career-ending injuries in Soccer. There’s easily a half-dozen per match--more if you count pre-tilt muggings by British Hooligans. The worst part? Soccer injuries are both rampant and faked."--EXCERPT

http://tinyurl.com/cc360bounty

Had to expect it. People are scared that the NFL as we know it will go away. So is the NFL.

This.

Test cricket is the most strategic game invented by mankind. An Ashes series comes the closest to the war analogy in the world of sports. No other sporting event requires 2 years of dedicated strategizing, from players, coaches, media, the folks who cut the grass at the stadium, the weather forecasters, and the fans.

every sport at the highest level has a massive amount of strategy in its own right. No need to bash one in favor of the other like what some of these blinded pundits do that don't understand. Some people just understand certain sports better than others and take the fact that they don't understand the strategy to mean that it doesn't exist.

I want people to get ready because once this story makes the rounds at American media, it won't be long until the bashers jump on it. It has everything they "like": foreign country, even Muslim; 0-0 result; overturned police cars; fans throwing chairs at players and police, not to mention two sending offs.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wor...ice-article-1.1077145?localLinksEnabled=false

And you can bet that you-know-who-who-is-at-an-obscure-sports-channel will open his mouth on this story.

nope no mention today. perhaps tomorrow.

Get this "gem" from Doc Emrick of NBC Sports:
http://deadspin.com/5912213/doc-emrick-reads-promo-for-mls-is-unable-to-avoid-ripping-soccer-players-for-diving

Hmmm ... apparently he wasn't watching the Coyotes-Kings game last night.

And in the non-basher category: Peter Ueberroth

Great move there, Jim!

Y'all should check out Frank Deford on Colbert last night.

They guy who once said that lacrosse requires more skill than soccer's "fancy footwork"? No thank you.

He looked older than 73 last night.

Haha! LOL

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=215108.0

I played in an established youth league in Maryland in the 70s. At the time it was believed that soccer and the metric system would firmly take hold in the US by the end of the decade. Although that didn't happen, I think soccer might be doing better than the metric system in the US today.
In today's Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a quote from Frank Deford giving a lecture at a nearby university, "There are two great myths in American sports. Next year soccer will be popular in the United States. And next year college presidents will do something do clean up college athletics."

He's a bitter old man.