Soccer the most exciting sport - FACT!

[TomTom]

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Football (Soccer) is great. If you grow up with it like I did (grew up in a small town where EVERYBODY is mad about Football), you have it in your soul. Nothing better to be in a 40.000 people stadium and watch your local team win. I also really love the international championships, be it Champions League/UEFA-Cup or the World Championship/European championship/South Africa/America Cup or whatever. You see awesome players and people from all over the world and for 90 minutes, it?s all about the same thing. I also watched American Football and Baseball mostly in German army camps living 10 minutes away from an american barrack and we had a lot of them in Kaiserslautern (near Rammstein). But also Frankfurt has a pretty good (American) Football team called Frankfurt Galaxy http://www.frankfurt-galaxy.de/ and over 30.000 people are watching the Games regularly and I try to watch at least one game per season as well. It's something completely different but not bad either but there is no chance for another sports besides Football before the 36 hour day was invented.

[3d_1200]

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it's ok to like more then one sport.

just because you like the NFL, doesn't mean you can't like the premier league.

it's almost like a prog vs electro thread.

it's just not ok to like figure skating.

those blouses the guys wear just make them look fruity and i will not support that or any other 'sport' that relies soley on biases judges opinions.

[geoffgulley]

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I find the whole premise of scientists researching and then telling us what the most exciting sport is way beyond humorous. Why of course, who knows more about sports then scientists? I wonder if the scientists factored in flying flares, bottles, riots, angry mobs climbing fences, murders, stadiums burning down during games, fans crushed rushing gates, injured players writhing on the ground and then being hauled off on stretchers only to return five minutes later under their own power, no offense, the number of one name mullet hair players etc into their equations? Don't get me wrong... I find soccer, err, football veeeeeeery exciting. Especially knowing I could die just watching it. Wheeeee!

[peloquin]

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[rubyraks]

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I was watching the Rose Bowl last night between USC-Texas. A great championship game...perhaps even the best I've seen...at least in a long time.

It suddenly occurs to me why I enjoy watching football, ie. soccer...though I tend to call the American leagues soccer and the rest of the world's leagues football, cause truthfully they're just not playing the same game in the US as they do elsewhere, their run and shoot style seems to lack the strategy that the rest play...

anyways, getting back to the point, the reason is the non-stop action of the sport, the endurance the players must have is just insane. Plus as an added bonus, it cuts down on the bullshit that the announcers tend to talk about in between plays of american sports and also practically cuts out all commercials.

[geoffgulley]

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the reason is the non-stop action of the sport. Plus it cuts down on the bullshit that the announcers tend to talk about in between plays of american sports

Non-stop action yet the announcers tend to talk less. Translation: nothing happening.

[rubyraks]

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Non-stop action yet the announcers tend to talk less. Translation: nothing happening.

I didn't say they talk less, I said they talk less bullshit!

Translation: Like they have to give you the military history of every American football (pro or college) player's family during the game or madden talking bout his thanksgiving dinner...you know bullshit.

[3d_1200]

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nobody is worse at that then the olympics. oh my god watching the olympics is the most painful thing ever and i'd rather sit and watch 5 hours of childberth.

does anyone even care that its an olympic year?

[geoffgulley]

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I work in media.... It's my job to take what you say and change it to fit my agenda... .

[geoffgulley]

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nobody is worse at that then the olympics. oh my god watching the olympics is the most painful thing ever and i'd rather sit and watch 5 hours of childberth.

does anyone even care that its an olympic year?

Well for hockey yes.... however there's something just downright wrong with the two man luge. Kinda like two guys riding a motorcycle or sharing an umbrella.

[peloquin]

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Well for hockey yes.... however there's something just downright wrong with the two man luge. Kinda like two guys riding a motorcycle or sharing an umbrella.

or making love

[3d_1200]

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lol.

it's not the events that bother me as much as the constant background information on all these athletes you've never heard of it. i mean events like figure skating and shit like that can just go away right now, but they spend more time doing segments on athletes then they do showing the actual events.

i dont give a shit about some figure skater from bolkinictinstan and how her father was in the war and never came home and her mother was forced into prostitution and had to give the little skater up for a adoption and she couldnt afford a real pair of skates until she was 13 and blah blah blah blah stupid olympics

[peloquin]

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i could give a fuck about figure skating too, and golf... think they are boring as hell. but i find tennis entertaining, unlike most people i talk to... so once again, different strokes'

[dasbooyah]

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can't wait for world cup