The women just don't get it...

[jd6885]

Originally posted by mr magoo


Again i would like to know why you would call an arena Bruce? This arena seem to be popping up quite oftern can sumone explain. An of corse an arena carnt coach. Do you not mean you carnt coach inside Bruce arena?

Uhhh.... I'm afraid to answer this. Are you being sarcastic? ::confused::

[jd6885]

Originally posted by Qdog


We will name our arenas just about anything as long as someone is willing to pay for it.

How bout Hustler Arena or

Victoria's Secret Arena
Viagra Arena
Vagisil Arena

[lasoccervegas2002]

thats reminds me of Osvaldo Ardiles of the Argentina nat team ( ex Hotspur ) and i think its not going to ruin the game at all on the other hand, diving or pretending hurting like Rivaldo did during last WC makes me sick.

[Qdog]

Originally posted by jd6885


How bout Hustler Arena or

Victoria's Secret Arena
Viagra Arena
Vagisil Arena

No problem to me. Whatever pays the bills. :)

[Thomas Flannigan]

I think Thepremierleague come to us with a very English take on things. It is refreshing at times.
He and I share a common interest in Nigerian football but for now we are debating other points.
I think his general point, the lack of grass roots interest in women's sports in England and the U.S., has validity.

[Benedict XVI]

Originally posted by Thomas Flannigan
I think Thepremierleague come to us with a very English take on things. It is refreshing at times.
He and I share a common interest in Nigerian football but for now we are debating other points.
I think his general point, the lack of grass roots interest in women's sports in England and the U.S., has validity.

there's lots of interest in women's sports in the US, just not in professional sports. tell the 40-50% of girls in US high schools who participate in a sport that there's no 'grass-roots' interest.

[Spartak]

Originally posted by Vicar


there's lots of interest in women's sports in the US, just not in professional sports. tell the 40-50% of girls in US high schools who participate in a sport that there's no 'grass-roots' interest.
Girls are interested not woman. When girls get older they forget about sports. That is why women's sports will never be successful.

[Benedict XVI]

Originally posted by Spartak

Girls are interested not woman. When girls get older they forget about sports. That is why women's sports will never be successful.

there are plenty of women interested in sports, both following sports and participating.

a lot of this is cultural conditioning - we won't really see how it actually shakes out until the generation that grew up after title 9 is old.

i don't think women's sports will ever be particularly successful, either - but not because of lack of interest of women, because of lack of interest of men.

[quarterUltra]

Originally posted by seahawkdad
I just finished watching the WUSA championship game and again was dismayed at a pattern that I've seen in almost all women's games: they just don't understand the nuances of the sport...

When they go down from a hard tackle or collision they don't writhe in pain, holding their shin or ankle. They don't require the blessing from the magic water. They just get up and play.

Don't they realize they are ruining our game by this behavior???

Oh I guess you like it when men are being big cry babies and wimps.

Women are and always will be tougher than men. I'll take you and this kind of commentary seriously whenever you start to bear children.

[Spartak]

Originally posted by quarterUltra


Oh I guess you like it when men are being big cry babies and wimps.

Women are and always will be tougher than men. I'll take you and this kind of commentary seriously whenever you start to bear children.
You can blame the child bearing thing on one of your own: Eve.

[deejay]

Is this going to be another stupid thread about who's better: men or women.?

Or are we going to talk about soccer?

[deejay]

Originally posted by quarterUltra


Oh I guess you like it when men are being big cry babies and wimps.

Women are and always will be tougher than men. I'll take you and this kind of commentary seriously whenever you start to bear children.

If you read Seahawkdad carefully you'll see he was being sarcastic. Nobody likes that aspect of socer.

A little touchy? Eh?

[Maczebus]

Originally posted by quarterUltra


Oh I guess you like it when men are being big cry babies and wimps.

Women are and always will be tougher than men. I'll take you and this kind of commentary seriously whenever you start to bear children.

My God, I'm not sure I've seen anyone miss the point of a post quite so spectacularly as this.


Unless I've just beaten it.

[Benedict XVI]

ah, baseless opinions stated as fact. it wouldn't be bigsoccer without it.

[Sachin]

Originally posted by quarterUltra


Oh I guess you like it when men are being big cry babies and wimps.

Women are and always will be tougher than men. I'll take you and this kind of commentary seriously whenever you start to bear children.

He was being sarcastic.

Sachin

[Mountainia]

Originally posted by thepremierleague


How popular is womens Basketball, Baseball and American football? Not very I bet.


The WNBA has had an average attendance of over 9,000 per game, and total attendance of over 2 million for the 2001, 2002 seasons. Success is not a pass/fail criteria (unless you consider being in business passing, and out of business failing. But by that criteria, both the WUSA and WNBA are succeeding. Until, perhaps, they fail.)

So, assuming your success criteria is not pass/fail, then you have a sliding scale to work with. You might claim that the WNBA has lower attendance than the NBA, but is that unexpected? Does this mean that there is no interest in women's sports? I think not.

It would only be fair to watch how these leagues develop and grow (or not) before using their experience as evidence of a lack of interest in women's sports.

I would posit that, given the short duration of women's sports, the current attendance figures indicate a potentially profitable future business due to there being enough interest. If they can control their costs, it seems to me that these sports could return a decent profit and even some capital growth.

That sounds like future success to me.

[skipshady]

Originally posted by Spartak
You can blame the child bearing thing on one of your own: Eve. That little bitch. I'll never forgive her for making us wear clothes and getting us kicked out of Eden.

[skipshady]

Originally posted by Spartak
Girls are interested not woman. When girls get older they forget about sports. That is why women's sports will never be successful. This is true to an extent but you're forgetting that women's team sports is a generally new phenomenon (discounting the wartime baseball and soccer leagues, when there were no male counterparts).

The culture of female sports stars did not develop until the 1970s and 80s and it was generally limited to the Olympics and tennis. TV has only recently started to push women's sports front and center, and WNBA is the first true women's professional sports league in this country. So we can agree that girls of today and girls of 20, 30 years ago are growing up in completely different environments.

So to compare girls and grown women in year 2002 is purely apples and oranges. When the current generation of girls, you may turn out to be right, that girls who watch sports don't grow up to be women who watch sports. But only time will tell.

[lion]

Originally posted by skipshady
That little bitch. I'll never forgive her for making us wear clothes and getting us kicked out of Eden.



And also don't forget that it is because of her we have to work for a living in this hell we call Planet Earth.

[lion]

Originally posted by skipshady
That little bitch. I'll never forgive her for making us wear clothes and getting us kicked out of Eden.


And also don't forget that it is because of her that we have a thing called "having sex."