this is what ESPN does. this is what ESPN will always do. They'll care about the sport up to and including the World Cup but absent that, or until the EPL expands here, we will see what we have continued to see - mid-afternoon midweek games and early morning/afternoon weekend games.
Wait. You just revived this thing in the "Subscribed Threads" list of probably hundreds of BigSoccer users to say that? Who's "Martino," and what does he have to do with soccer bashers?
This article has some bashing in it, but it has a happy ending. Read on: http://www.indiewire.com/article/20...occer_movie_in_america_the_tale_of_peladas_hy
That's an awesome article. Fox had the makers of Pelada on FFF back in the day and on the Kyle Martino Show. The concept is very interesting. I wonder if FSC will pick it up - maybe not until it's been out for a few years?
Just wanted to say LOL: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...stalking-and-assault-20110511,0,1666485.story
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/07/22/2326816/a-double-take-and-change-of-heart.html#ixzz1SzcvihMV Not really bashing but more of an example of a lament from one of the old guard sportswriters from that area.
whoah, the guy remembers the American Soccer League? Must be a huge soccer fan Up there with the guys who watch the exciting MSL
Dec-20-2011 Wall Street Journal published this half-page article by British transplant Gerard Baker: "The shameful truth is this. I like football better than soccer. ... "In its energy and complexity, football captures the spirit of America better than any other cultural creation on this continent, and I don't mean because it features long breaks in which advertisers get to sell beer and treatments for erectile dysfunction. It sits at the intersection of pioneering aggression and impossibly complex strategic planning. It is a collision of Hobbes and Locke; violent, primal force tempered by the most complex set of rules, regulations, procedures and systems ever conceived in an athletic framework. Soccer is called the beautiful game. But football is chess, played with real pieces that try to knock each other's brains out. It doesn't get any more beautiful than that." don't know how long this article is available to non-subscribers: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204791104577108782771826106.html
Sorry, the beauty of soccer vs american football is highly subjective, especially if one defines that something encompassing American values is by definition beautiful (which seems like stretch to me, but whatever). If American Football would be so beautiful, and beauty a general value available to most humans, the game would be more popular world wide (and I say that as someone who enjoys watching the super bowl)
hence this part: "football captures the spirit of America better than any other cultural creation on this continent"
The last sentence relativates that sentence massively the way I read it. The author turns what is essentially a subjective statement into a grammatically objective one.
As someone who LOVES soccer, FIFA has made the unthinkable happen for me: make me not like the sport as much. This is the first year in 10 years that I don't surf FIFA.com and and big soccer everyday. I am tired to seeing all the crap that is happening with FIFA, UEFA, CONCACAF, etc.. depressing if you ask me.
bro, you can't let fifa bring you away from soccer... that would be like the president making you hate America... Everything is the same. There's just a bad governing body...
bro don't surf fifa.com there's some funny, interesting, human interest pieces all over if you look for it. Maybed search for articles on tiny island nations on fifa.com, then look elsewhere.
Well, well, well. It looks like our "favorite" soccer-hater is taking his ball and going...well, somewhere we can safely ignore for the time being. http://thebiglead.com/index.php/201...taking-his-tv-show-to-the-cbs-sports-network/ http://content.usatoday.com/communi...im-rome-leaving-espn-for-cbs-sports-network/1
Nah - his "TV godfather" Mark Shapiro left ESPN and was involved in this deal with Viacom. It's a pretty good deal for him - he wasn't a fit for the ESPN automaton lineup and the Showtime and CBS contributor angles are something ESPN didn't afford him. It's kinda like the Champions League rights on Fox - mostly on channels with lower distribution but no threat of ESPN scheduling crapfests and visibility on a mostly movie channel and the broadcast network. Wonder if Jim Everett is a footy fan
But the Superbowl final is utterly crap, with its advert breaks every 10 seconds, crap concert in the middle and all the rest of the nonsense. And it is hard to take any sport that has men in multi coloured leggings that seriously. As for saying complex strategy etc. is part of the American way, he obviously has not seen any of your politicians in an election battle. American football is alright if it is a run of the mill league game, but, probably because I am British, I find football (soccer), rugby league and union much more interesting, and test cricket as strategic and absorbing in a more thoughtful way. A lot of the abuse football (soccer) gets over there is because it is 'foreign' (like Baseball), has been loved by ethnic minorities, and these journalists are simply pig headed about new experiences. I'd probably like baseball if I ever went to a game over there with a fan who explained it to me.
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.