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Discussion: World Cup: Why doesn't the US use ha?
Member Since: 8/9/2012
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Actually I have heard people refer to soccer as girly which I don't understand at all.
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Member Since: 12/31/2010
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Originally posted by RudeBoyy
Not in the slightest
We have our own football which although stupid is more popular. Here it's like
1.) Football
2.) Baseball
3.) Slaysketball
4.) Hockey
5.) Soccer
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I honestly think basketball is more popular than baseball now.
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Member Since: 9/7/2011
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Because other than the World Cup soccer is the most boring sport. Kicking the ball for 90 minutes with most of the time only one score is not my definition of entertainment. Add the fact that a lot of soccer players like to pretend like they are hurt. American Football is far superior. The only reason soccer is so popular is because it's the easiest sport to understand. Many soccer fans that have lived here in the US start liking American Football better than soccer after they learn how it is played.
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Member Since: 7/9/2010
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Originally posted by Goosey
Oh please, you hear it all the time. I often hear it even in Canada.
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But I haven't.
That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard if some indeed think that way
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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I'm from Portugal and I don't use World Cup, I'm not defending this when they are beating children around the stadium and not to mention they spent money on building it, and surrouding it there's just poverty. Good fking bye.
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Member Since: 9/7/2011
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Originally posted by Kane
That's actually funny to hear
As i have heard references to American Football being a girly/soft sport as they have to wear full body armour, apposed to Rugby, which is hugely popular here.
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The difference between Rugby and American Football is the the forward pass. Football players run at full speed and get hit at tremendous amount of force, whereas in Rugby they only run and pass the ball backwards and get tackled at slower speeds. Rugby injuries are mostly lower back injuries while Football has head injuries, even with a helmet, every year many football players are sent to the hospital unconscious. Those helmets help save lives.
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Member Since: 2/6/2014
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Originally posted by RickyH.
I think it's because people here don't like what isn't ours tbh.
First off, most of our country is scared of losing anything, and can't handle when we're not looked upon as "the best" for some reason. With that, the world cup and soccer itself requires international participation, which doesn't guarantee an American win. After looking at that, I think the fear is more deeply embedded in the American psyche. After we left Britain and separated ourselves as a whole, I think the attitude that we could do anything on our own without help never truly left. You see it in many forms, not just with soccer but with pop culture (music, fashion, &etc.) For example, the 90s deep house revival, people here don't like it because they say "American music is better than anything else," choosing a country song which only talks about Beer and Chevy's/Fords or a rap song with extreme profanities focusing solely on sex, instead of songs with meaning. You see it when songs hit the top ten worldwide and don't even enter the top 50 in the US, sometimes not even charting whatsoever. Take dance music for example, and it's worldwide popularity, even in Canada and Mexico, but not the US. Also with fashion, people in the US, unless there's an interest in it, stick to the basics they've always known and don't stray from it. I just think this entire country is terrified of change, things unfamiliar to them, and all in which they don't come out on top tbh.
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Soccer doesn't smash in the most populated countries: China India and the US.
That makes u think.
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Member Since: 9/7/2011
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Originally posted by RickyH.
I think it's because people here don't like what isn't ours tbh.
First off, most of our country is scared of losing anything, and can't handle when we're not looked upon as "the best" for some reason. With that, the world cup and soccer itself requires international participation, which doesn't guarantee an American win. After looking at that, I think the fear is more deeply embedded in the American psyche. After we left Britain and separated ourselves as a whole, I think the attitude that we could do anything on our own without help never truly left. You see it in many forms, not just with soccer but with pop culture (music, fashion, &etc.) For example, the 90s deep house revival, people here don't like it because they say "American music is better than anything else," choosing a country song which only talks about Beer and Chevy's/Fords or a rap song with extreme profanities focusing solely on sex, instead of songs with meaning. You see it when songs hit the top ten worldwide and don't even enter the top 50 in the US, sometimes not even charting whatsoever. Take dance music for example, and it's worldwide popularity, even in Canada and Mexico, but not the US. Also with fashion, people in the US, unless there's an interest in it, stick to the basics they've always known and don't stray from it. I just think this entire country is terrified of change, things unfamiliar to them, and all in which they don't come out on top tbh.
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I have never met one American sports fan that has said this. I lived in Mexico where soccer is the the number one sport. My cousins were obsessed with it, but when I came back to the US, grew up and started watching Basketball and Football I never wanted to watch another soccer game in my life. The action and suspense is just far superior.
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Member Since: 4/6/2014
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American Football players are just hotter and more sensual.
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The reason the US doesn’t give a f**k about soccer/football/futbol is because they found it boring, useless, and not a real sport. Plus they prefer American football, basketball, baseball, and hockey in that order. Also the ignorant Americans would assumed soccer to be only a “Mexican” sport. They assumed this since most of the time, they found a soccer game that it’s in Spanish and it’s usually from the Liga MX (Mexico’s soccer league). Now, all of the soccer leagues from all around the world (such as The Barclays Premier league, Serie A, La Liga) are in channels that you really have to pay much for or in nobody channels. The World Cup is on ESPN and ESPN2 and I don’t even have that in my Dish. So I watch the games on the Latino channels, which I don’t mind at all. I bet most Americans don’t even know that they have their own soccer league in the MLS. No matter how people tried to get soccer as meaningful as the other sports esp. the World Cup, it’s just doesn’t work out. It’s funny that some people don’t know that soccer is actually first started in England. Oh, and they called it football.
They even paying it more dust since they know the US will most likely not going to make it even out of the group stage considering they are playing against the super power Germany, f**king Portugal and freaking Ghana. Note that Ghana was the team that boot off the US from the World Cup and we all know how great Portugal and especially Germany are. So there’s that.
I already heard all the negativity about soccer from my area so I don’t care about what the haters have to say. Soccer is still a global sport in most countries anyway. It’s funny that due to summer classed and other stuff I have to do, I devoted my time to sports on the World Cup instead of the NBA finals and NHL Stanley Cup in which I will watch the highlights videos from them later.
And oh, what RickyH. said. I agree with.
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Member Since: 9/4/2011
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Because Americans are just..
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Member Since: 9/7/2011
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Originally posted by Flame Beat Z000
The reason the US doesn’t give a f**k about soccer/football/futbol is because they found it boring, useless, and not a real sport. Plus they prefer American football, basketball, baseball, and hockey in that order. Also the ignorant Americans would assumed soccer to be only a “Mexican” sport. They assumed this since most of the time, they found a soccer game that it’s in Spanish and it’s usually from the Liga MX (Mexico’s soccer league). Now, all of the soccer leagues from all around the world (such as The Barclays Premier league, Serie A, La Liga) are in channels that you really have to pay much for or in nobody channels. The World Cup is on ESPN and ESPN2 and I don’t even have that in my Dish. So I watch the games on the Latino channels, which I don’t mind at all. I bet most Americans don’t even know that they have their own soccer league in the MLS. No matter how people tried to get soccer as meaningful as the other sports esp. the World Cup, it’s just doesn’t work out. It’s funny that some people don’t know that soccer is actually first started in England. Oh, and they called it football.
They even paying it more dust since they know the US will most likely not going to make it even out of the group stage considering they are playing against the super power Germany, f**king Portugal and freaking Ghana. Note that Ghana was the team that boot off the US from the World Cup and we all know how great Portugal and especially Germany are. So there’s that.
I already heard all the negativity about soccer from my area so I don’t care about what the haters have to say. Soccer is still a global sport in most countries anyway. It’s funny that due to summer classed and other stuff I have to do, I devoted my time to sports on the World Cup instead of the NBA finals and NHL Stanley Cup in which I will watch the highlights videos from them later.
And oh, what RickyH. said. I agree with.
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My MLS team Dynamo has won 4 MLS titles and I have never watched a single game and I could care less lol. My Football team the Texans have yet to go to the SuperBowl and I have watched almost every game they played. Why watch soccer when Football is 100 times better?
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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I feel like people are over complicating this. We like other sports better. It's not bad if the US doesn't conform to the rest of the world
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Member Since: 9/7/2011
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Originally posted by Mezter
I feel like people are over complicating this. We like other sports better. It's not bad if the US doesn't conform to the rest of the world
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I don't know why they are so butthurt that we don't care about soccer.
It's ok tho. I still like the World Cup and my cousins from Mexico like the Dallas Cowboys. Everyone can like what they like.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Originally posted by iStanGaga
I don't know why they are so butthurt that we don't care about soccer.
It's ok tho. I still like the World Cup and my cousins from Mexico like the Dallas Cowboys. Everyone can like what they like.
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Exactly!
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Member Since: 9/7/2011
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Originally posted by J a y
Europe:
America:
It seems as though they were late. Perhaps they should get into it.
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Two of the earliest recorded football type games from Europe include Episkyros[7][8] from Ancient Greece and the Roman version Harpastum,[7] which similar to pre-codified "Mob Football" the forerunner of all modern football codes involved more handling the ball than kicking.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football
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Episkyros (Greek: ἐπίσκυρος[1]) was an ancient Greek ball game also called έφηβική ephebike, "adolescence", and ἐπίκοινος epikoinos, "commonball"[2]). The game was played between two teams of usually 12 to 14 players each, with one ball and the rules of the game allowed using hands.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episkyros
Actually there are earlier games that involved also handling the ball which resemble Rugby, the game that American Football was developed from. As much as soccer fans like to say they watch the original football, this is just not the case.
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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Originally posted by Benjamin
As said, Football isn't that popular there.
Really?! This would be amazing, you could just imagine some of the superstars who would absolutely love to represent their state. California Gurls vs Brooklyn Nights, with the American public having an ATRL-esque poll.
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I know, right? It's just a rumor, but IF it's true NBC sucks. They could have a grand slam show
Even the interval act would be famous
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Member Since: 8/29/2008
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Football is the biggest sport in the world and the World Cup the biggest event.
Over 3 Billion people are watching it.
Is unpopular in the United States because they don't pay millionaire contracts like they do with Baseball, Basketball, etc
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Member Since: 3/5/2011
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The WC is airing on ESPN, and UEFA Champions League and Barclays Premier League are always shown on NBC Sports.
You have the option to watch.
I do.
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