http://espn.go.com/main.html Brandi Chastain is the only soccer related one on this poll. It's about which moment is the most memorable. Over 80,000 votes have been tallied and Chastain is last.
Oh, I don't know. I think I'm reasonably mentally healthy, and I thoroughly enjoyed the WUSA final. I would give a rat's ass, but we don't have many rats in Pennsylvania, at least not of the chauvinist kind.
COME ON COME ON GUYS Lets show ESPN that we have a power in the voting polls and show them that soccer matters!! LETS START VOTING!!!!!!
I wonder if the ability to be completely non-discriminating, and to almost obsess over a sport rather to be a fan plain and simple (and objective) is a characteristic that's unique to the American soccer supporter and is, in fact, one reason why "Eurosnobs" find them so hard to take seriously from time to time. I'm from England. Soccer is the one and only game I truly love. But would I "take soccer over any (other) sport"? You have to be kidding. I would rather watch the Super Bowl than a woman's soccer game. I would rather watch the Stanley Cup than a college soccer game. I would rather watch the World Series than a High School soccer game. Just because it's soccer DOES NOT make it good soccer. If you can't see the wood for the trees...if you have no ability to be critically objective about something you like...your contribution to "the debate" is, it seems to me, going to be pretty marginal at best. There IS such a thing as soccer that isn't worth watching, you know.
I don't think you would quite understand. All my life I had to deal with baseball, basketball, and football. I'm willing to support soccer in any way.
My dislike for a shitty sport has nothing to do with the fact that women play it. I enjoy women's tennis, and not just Anna Kournikova I'll have you know.
Re: Re: Re: ESPN Poll News to her. If I had seen the poll, I would have voted. I don't mind the WUSA, just annoyed that they went head to head with MLS at 4 pm on Saturday. Therefore I watched no WUSA matches this year.
Second of all, you misunderstood me. I'm not implying that I would watch any type of soccer over the Super Bowl or something. I'm saying that I would want soccer to be the most popular over any of the other sports. For example, in that poll, I wanted soccer to be the winning one regardless if it was men's, women's, or high school soccer.
Hint: If you want soccer to be more popular, worry less about polls and work instead on convincing people that soccer is fun and therefore worth their time, energy, money and passion as a fan. Voting on polls can be fun, but anyone who thinks ESPN polls or any other sort of online poll will make or break the sport in this country is completely delusional.
I spend much more time in convincing people that soccer is great. When soccer wins or loses a poll, it won't make or break the sport. But it certainly cannot hurt. Don't forget the US and Mexico qualifying game in Columbus made the showcase highlight becasue it won the poll.
Perhaps I did, but I still simply don't understand your logic at all, and I think the above makes the same point as my first reply. I believe that we can take it as read that both of us (you and I) love soccer, but why do you give a toss if it finishes top of a poll about which sports other people like? I mean, what difference does it make? I like soccer...I watch soccer...what the rest of the world watches makes not a single jot of difference to me. If everyone else wants to watch American football, good luck to them. It's absolutely no skin off my back. And that was my point, an odd thing that seems to be unique to American supporters. Liking the game is palpably not enough for you. You want everyone else to feel the same way, too. If that's true, I honestly think you are wasting your time and fighting a losing battle not because of anything to do with whether or not soccer is a great sport, but simply because people make decisions for themselves and trying to impose your views on the rest is simply a waste of energy that would be better spent enjoying the game with other people who do like it already.
Sydtheeagle, you'd understand copaatl98 better if you'd grown up in the U.S. You don't have to fight the good fight for soccer in England because the sport is already huge there. It's easy to be charitable about other sports when they're not relegating your favorite sport to a little blurb on page 12.