FIFA World Cup 2010

[Cw0rk]

Its not that most Americans "hate" it, most just think it is kinda boring. We see a group of guys kicking a ball back and forth with hardly any contact. Then when there is contact weather it hurt or not they start acting like it was some big deal. It reminds us of "acting" and overdramatic acting puts us in the soap opera state of mind.

See we call it soccer because you can play in your socks and never get hurt. There is little risk.

I mean when playing real football people get hurt! When LT got a hold of Joe Thiesman and snapped his leg... there is no acting in that. 

Can you explain me why baseball is not boring to 'most americans'?

[Legolis]

Its not that most Americans "hate" it, most just think it is kinda boring. We see a group of guys kicking a ball back and forth with hardly any contact. Then when there is contact weather it hurt or not they start acting like it was some big deal. It reminds us of "acting" and overdramatic acting puts us in the soap opera state of mind.

See we call it soccer because you can play in your socks and never get hurt. There is little risk.

I mean when playing real football people get hurt! When LT got a hold of Joe Thiesman and snapped his leg... there is no acting in that. 

Can you explain me why baseball is not boring to 'most americans'?

Its pretty boring too kinda like goof, I mean golf! I guess I shouldn't say "most Americans" but around 97.999% of the Americans I have met in all the states I have been to. If I can get up to go to the bathroom without any fear of missing anything well it just doesn't keep my attention to long. Now if there is a game that will keep me sitting there in my own pee, now thats a game lol! Not that i would cause if I even suspected it I would strap on some depends before hand. 

[Witchkingx5]

Germany - Australia 4 - 0!!!!!

Poldi, KLose, Müller and Cacao!!!

[CCCORNIV]

 I do find baseball boring Cw0rk.  I can watch college ball and little league baseball, but major league baseball bores me to death.  I'd rank the major team sports in this order football, basketball, soccer, hockey and then baseball and if I never saw another hockey or baseball game it would be alright with me.  I prefer watching volleyball over hockey and baseball.

 Geez, Germany killed Austrailia.

[chompers]

I am sad ... oh well ... my second nationality (if that makes sense) is German so some consolation there.

Best sports ... for me .... Car Racing, Cricket ... soccer comes in their every so often usually once every four years

[legolas3333]

So I was watching The West Wing (the TV show), and there was this one scene where the VP is explaining to a guy why so few Americans like hockey, because Americans love situations, such as "Fourth and 5 from the 9 yard line the game is on the line and here's the snap" but in hockey, and to an extent, soccer, the scoring is more... random, you know, like the goal in the USA-England game, 999 times out of 1000 he would've stopped it, but he, randomly, missed it.

Anyway that's my spam for the day

:EDIT: Also Americans are bored by announcers who say, "We're in the 86th minute and they need a shot to get past the keeper." That's just not exciting to them.

[ket_the_jet]

Can you explain me why baseball is not boring to 'most americans'?

The same way that soccer/football has so much history in other countries, baseball has a lot of history associated with it. It is America's national past time and personally, I love it.

L3333, I had never thought about it from the "scenario" point of view, but I think there is a lot of substance to that argument. I would much better be able to describe a touchdown pass or a big hit in baseball than a goal in soccer because there are so many more scenario-markers. In football, there is the down, the line, the quarter, the minute, and the score. In baseball, there are variables like the inning, the score, the number of runners on base, the number of pitches the pitcher has already thrown, etc. In soccer or hockey, it's minute and score.
-wtk

[Fierce]

Kick-off in just 2,5 hours - good luck all you Dutch people on this forum. We have a huge World Cup Tipping system at work and I can't decide if I shall change my result from 1-1 to 2-0 in Hollands favor.

1-1 is a result from the heart, 2-0 from the brain and 3-0 from the stomach. #$&*@!, this is a hard match to predict. Has any starting elevens been released yet?

Worst thing is I'll miss the game. Maybe I can stream it from the internet...

[legolas3333]

The dutch needed an own goal to score... doesn't bode well for their future chances since spain, brasil and the like won't be that stupid

[Gil-Estel]

Ah, the expert is talking, pfff. Denmark won their qualifiers above Portugal and Sweden, so they are not a shitteam. We didn't start too well indeed, but to see it as a prelude for our chances in winning the cup, that is just nonsense. EC 1988 we lost the first game, to eventually win the event.

[hrcho]

I like to play every sport and watch none except maybe (just maybe) hockey. Now, hockey's got it all. It takes skill, it takes strategy, it takes tactics and it takes brutality. In what other sport can you see two guys chasing a puck (or ball or whatever is being chased nowadays) and suddenly they cross. Gloves off and let the fight begin. The referee doesn't stop them! He declares a winner of the fight! Talking about brutality.

Too much fuss is made about sports. I'd understand if the fuss was made by people who play it, but it's people who watch it that make all that fuss.

[Witchkingx5]

I like to play every sport and watch none except maybe (just maybe) hockey. Now, hockey's got it all. It takes skill, it takes strategy, it takes tactics and it takes brutality. In what other sport can you see two guys chasing a puck (or ball or whatever is being chased nowadays) and suddenly they cross. Gloves off and let the fight begin. The referee doesn't stop them! He declares a winner of the fight! Talking about brutality.

Too much fuss is made about sports. I'd understand if the fuss was made by people who play it, but it's people who watch it that make all that fuss.

I also like hockey pretty much (as we're World Champions this year!), but there are 2 points I have to complain about:

- the puck is so small! I'm hardly able to keep its way with my eyes...

- all the Time-Outs and, whenever a foul or anything else is committed, the timer stops. That was really awful during the Final Match Czech Republc - Russia: The last 15 seconds were about 3 minutes long...

[legolas3333]

Ah, the expert is talking, pfff. Denmark won their qualifiers above Portugal and Sweden, so they are not a shitteam. We didn't start too well indeed, but to see it as a prelude for our chances in winning the cup, that is just nonsense. EC 1988 we lost the first game, to eventually win the event.

expert? Nah I just know that Brasil isn't going to do that

three pretty boring games today all things considered

tomorrow is the group of death Brasil ivory coast Portugal and north korea

[Gil-Estel]

Have you seen Brasil recently? All Brasilian topplayers from the past complain that nowadays Brasil isn't true to their nature of playing dominant and attractive football. So I don't expect them to be all of a sudden the most flamboyant team of the world cup. They face very strong competitors, so don't get your hopes up for very energetic games, in a way that it will be a walk over for Brasil.

[Anautikus]

Is anyone rooting for USA besides me? hahaha