Soccer is seriously the most boring sport on the planet.

[trumad]

Shootout----Shootout----Shootout----

0-0

0-0

0-0

1-1

1-1

1-1

om edit: although todays game at least had some scoring.... finally.

[Runcible Spoon]

1. ummm.....

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[KyndCulture]

2. nu uh.... I'd rather watch..

flies fuck than watch golf.

[trumad]

3. LOL---

Agree

[BringEmOn]

9. What channel is that on?

[wiley]

4. The French could have won.

But the Italians did, deservedly so. Very exciting match. Like every situation in life there's always at least one selfish cur like Zadane who debases the dialog. I'm sorry that the other French players had to have such a low-life captain. Bored by soccer? Turn the channel...

[Lost-in-FL]

10. Zadine is not like that and I am very shocked with what he did.

I think he is a short timer, he is retiring from soccer and I guess wanted to win today. I am very shocked.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

13. spousette and I wondered about the topical meds and pain killers he took

his shoulder was REALLY loused up and those meds may have affected him. Even for a hard fighter like Zidane, that was uncharacteristic for him.

And this is the most exciting sport in the world, by the way. you could see the emotion boiling on the field.

I pity those who have not seen a Van Gogh or heard Carmen live. I feel sorry for those who have not seen the Alps, or the Grand Ditch. I pity those who are too close-minded or inexperienced to understand just why this game is so exciting.

[bumblebee1]

38. The grand ditch?

[Julius Civitatus]

54. I agree. Soccer is exciting till the last minute

I've never been the greatest soccer fan in the planet. As a matter of fact, I've often been more inclined towards the arts than to sports... but soccer is one sport that always keeps you at the edge of your seat until the end. I find it silly that those "soccer-bashers" always complain about the low number of scores per game. Sad.

Soccer is not about "scoring points", but about the skill, the joy of game, the tension, and the "delayed satisfaction." Just like SEX.

(Unless, of course, you are more into quick scoring and premature satisfaction).

:hi:

[Julius Civitatus]

49. Sorry, but Zidane has a history of losing his cool often

He always been very professional except for that part: sometimes he has outbursts like that. He almost got disqualified in the 98 World Cup for attacking a player from Saudi Arabia, and I've seen him lose his cool more than once while playing for the Real Madrid. Sorry to say, but Zidane is like that.

It's awful to see such a great player end his career in such an awful and embarrassing fashion. He knows better.

[tandot]

18. Yes, I was absolutely PISSED about Zidane

I am pretty sure they could have won.

Darn it. My mom is French and she was really, really, really pissed. Actually, my father's side of the family is German. What a disappointment.

And, I have to agree with Trumad: Most of the soccer games are just not as exciting as football. But there are more boring games on this planet than soccer.

[Lost-in-FL]

5. Don't watch soccer, watch golf instead.

:eyes:

It's better than watching NASCAR. How stupid is that of seen people driving in circles for 2 fkn hours. At least F1 has a few curves, an ocean view race, etc.

[tyedyeto]

15. Ah, NASCAR ...

the 'turn left and crash' race.

[vikegirl]

37. Are you calling me stupid?

:cry: :spank:


I love NASCAR....go Tony Stewart!

[jmowreader]

62. NASCAR is lots better than soccer

In soccer you have ten guys on one side and ten guys on the other. (And the two goaltenders; since they have to stay in the goals, they don't count here.)

The ten guys on one team run down the field as hard as they can kicking the ball toward the goal so the goaltender can catch it and throw it back while the other ten guys try to stop them from doing it. When it gets thrown back, the other team runs the ball back up the field so the goaltender up there can catch it and throw it back. This goes on for a couple of hours, and then they have a shootout to decide who won the game.

And then, right AFTER the game, there's a big riot where thirty or forty people get killed, and they have to call in the army to break it up.

Not only that, but you people can't even agree on what the game is called!

NASCAR is more fun because it's a different game every weekend. Let me pick out three tracks for you: Talladega, Martinsville, Watkins Glen. The crew chief wins Talladega, not the driver, because you drive Talladega by nailing the gas and avoiding multicar pileups. Setup is absolutely everything. Martinsville is all about brake management because it's a little track that you run by braking very hard twice a lap. And Watkins Glen is a road course...which you need a special car for, since the pit stalls are on the right side of the car, not the left like they are at every other track on the circuit.

You guys want a seriously boring sport? Tennis.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. actually, that would be baseball...

...talk about BORING! Or, as another poster pointed out...GOLF!

Soccer is a great game, fun to play, and fun to watch!

[uppityperson]

7. or bowling. watch bowling.

[hopein08]

8. Dominoes, poker & golf are infinitely more boring!

IMHO

[H2O Man]

11. Doing laundry

while watching reruns of the Lawrence Welk show would be more boring. I think that would be as much of a sport as half the things listed here.

[MrSlayer]

12. Could you imagine the Super Bowl decided by field goals?

Or a home run derby for the World Series?

It's a joke. This World Cup has cemented my contempt for this "sport".

[Bad Penny]

34. well that settles that then

[bumblebee1]

41. Two of the recent Super Bowls have been decided by field goals.

Both involved the New England Patriots.

[TahitiNut]

14. Funny how the rest of the planet disagrees.

No sport is more popular or democratic. :shrug:
Nor is any sport played by more of its own spectators. In the US, the stands are full of people who've never played football at any level, in their entire lives - just as one example.

[qazplm]

20. sometimes

the rest of the planet is wrong lol

soccer is beyond boring to watch, only game I find more boring is golf.

baseball is close but you certainly get more scoring, but I hate watching it too.

[President Kerry]

29. yup.. the rest of the planet is wrong. We're right..

unbelievable..

I'm not really sure what this thread is about. If you don't like the sport, just don't watch it, and don't spoil it for the rest of us. It's like having a sourface at a party.

[RagingInMiami]

21. One of the most basic instincts for toddlers is to kick a ball

That is universal. And if you don't have a ball, just kick a rolled up piece of cloth. If you don't have a goal, use two trees.

[TahitiNut]

26. Yep. It doesn't take affluence to play.

It also doesn't take a pituitary anomaly or sideshow freak. People can play at all ages and levels. It emphasizes endurance, coordination, agility, fitness, and team coordination. It's not a sport that's merely an excuse for showing commercials, either.

Like I say: democratic.

[Karenina]

53. Na Du, TN...

Most Americans just DON'T.GET.IT. Having been a diehard NFL fan attending NFL "church" at Steve Tannen's home on Sundays, it took me some years to understand the reality of Fußball. I DO GET why Amis DON'T.GET.IT.

Fußball is about the fluidity of the play. It's about skill, luck and whatever the moment brings. And you're correct, a VERY DEMOCRATIC mindset is also a requirement. ;-) :loveya:

[Julius Civitatus]

56. Well said!

:beer:

[ComerPerro]

16. I can't help but wonder: Why not forget the games, and just have shootouts

would save a lot of time and pointless running around

[President Kerry]

30. pointless running around.. good one.

Hey, to each his own. Soccer's obviously not your thing, but about 4+ billion people disagree.

[EFerrari]

17. Too funny but actually, I love soccer because I can always

see the ball. It's my left brained baseball.

Brazil. :cry:

[GOPisEvil]

19. Ever watch a football game with only field goals?

Stop. Start. Whistle. Flag. 10 seconds of action and 30 seconds of standing around.

My point is not that American football is boring, just that you can think anything is boring if you focus on the parts of it you don't like.

[mark414]

22. bah...typical american attitude

even the simplest things they do are ridiculously hard and ridiculously exciting and what is the point of all of this? you don't like it, so shut up.

[Kajsa]

23. Double bah-humbug.

Makes Americans look like friggin
separatists.

We come from all over the world
where they ALL PLAY SOCCER.

[billyskank]

24. Dunno, I watched a seriously boring Grand Prix at Indianapolis

last weekend. Come to think of it, all races that Michael Schumacher wins are boring.

Football can be boring, no doubt about that. It can be exciting too.

[Telly Savalas]

25. The aesthetic merit of a sport is based on how many points are scored?

A duel between two of the best pitchers in MLB is boring?

A free throw in basketball is exciting, then? Over 4 in 5 times, a point is scored.

[matcom]

27. stupid American

it's a chess match

[Spider Jerusalem]

28. That's a very American thing to say...

Goals are all that matters, right? Things like the fluid beauty of a well-coordinated attack, the tension of a hard-fought contest at goal, the combination of grace, athleticism, touch and almost supernatural awareness of where their teammates are that the best soccer players have, is all as nothing next to the fact that they just don't score enough...and you probably think they need more commercial breaks, too. :eyes:

[President Kerry]

32. exactly right..

Also wanted to sorry about the earlier thing. You were in the right.

[Spider Jerusalem]

33. That's okay...

no hard feelings (I well understand how discussion can get a little heated, at times) :)

[-..__...]

31. Even God hates soccer and thinks that it's boring...

http://gprime.net/video.php/soccertornado

[Anarcho-Socialist]

35. The rest of the world disagrees

It must be hard to watch sport with hardly any commercial breaks. :eyes:

[Writer]

36. Or watch a sport without padding...

or where skill trumps scoring.

[Kajsa]

39. Touche', Writer.

You said it all.

:D :hi: :thumbsup:

[cassandra uprising]

57. Nice form Writer

But the concept of nice form will probably be lost on the OP.

[mac56]

43. "Sport with hardly any commercial breaks"

That's why they run a "crawl" with the commercials across the bottom of the screen, right?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

44. We don't have that in Britain n/t

[mac56]

40. You know why so many people around the world play soccer?

So they don't have to watch it.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

47. I suppose that's why the audience for this event numbers in billions?

n/t

[mac56]

48. So popular = good?

Explain Britney Spears, then.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

50. What does Britney Spears have to do with anything?

You said people play soccer so they don't have to watch it. I pointed out that the audience for the World Cup numbers in the billions.

[mac56]

52. "the audience for the World Cup numbers in the billions."

Okay, forgive me. I'm a bit dense. What was the point of that observation, if not to tout soccer's popularity as some indicator of quality?

[Anarcho-Socialist]

55. It was point out your original "...so they don't have to watch it"

comment is incorrect.

[SaveElmer]

42. I totally agree...any sport that regularly has 0-0 ties...

Cannot be taken seriously...

Not only that...for 9/10 of the game there is not even the possibility of a score...running up and down the middle of this huge field...

ugh...snooze city

[lastknowngood]

45. Oh come now. You can sleep through an entire baseball game and

miss nothing.

[Skidmore]

46. Any professional American sport is boring...

NBA - Dribble, dunk, dribble, dunk, tie score, dribble dunk.
Baseball - you can have 3 meals and two naps before the game is over.
Football - if you have to dress like that to play a game, you should be in Iraq in a tank
Golf - ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.....
Tennis - words fail me.

[Julius Civitatus]

59. Well said !!!

> Football - if you have to dress like that to play a game, you should be in Iraq in a tank

I find American football beyond boring, but also a "show-off" sport that's not very democratic. What I mean by that is that you need to be the size of a fridge to play that sport, and then wear the armor on top. Soccer is not about "size." "Size really doesn't matter" in soccer: it's about SKILL, and SMARTS.

I find tennis exciting if it is a good game (say the Wimbledon finals), same for basketball, although regular basket games tend to be tedious. Watching golf should be qualified as "torture" by Amnesty International.

[HuckleB]

51. Opinion piece.

Pure drivel.

[GalleryGod]

58. But not OUR planet...

JAFO

[Endangered Specie]

60. you obviously have never watched golf.

[stopbush]

61. Americans don't like sporting events that feature non-stop action.

They like football because a play runs for 4 seconds...and then there's a break to get another beer or take a dump.
They call American football "football" even though the foot is used only for punts, kick offs and field goals while calling
the world's version of football "soccer." Go figure.

People say the WC is boring...and watch stop-n-start sports and call them exciting.

They like basketball where there's little action but lots of scoring...and tons of hot dogging.

Americans in general also dislike hockey which doesn't allow time for commericials...and taking a dump.

Americans like NASCAR because everybody drives and they can relate to constantly turning left.

The World Cup was great this year. This was my favorite month for sports in years, what with
the WC, Wimbledon, Le Tour and ML baseball all running concurrently. It was almost impossible to keep up with it all!

Americans are actually more passionate about the stop-n-start of their TV sports than the sports themselves. How else
to explain the mania that accompanies watching the commercials during the Super Bowl?

[sleipnir]

64. Precisely.

n/t

[maveric]

63. I find it painfully boring.

But as an American I/we expect touchdowns,3-pointers and balls being jacked over the wall. I'm sure that there is great skill involved in all the passing and defending,but I LOVE to see scoring.

[columbusdem]

65. Golf

At least they do some running and jumping in soccer. Golf is just hit the ball, walk, hit the ball, walk.

[lpbk2713]

66. Bowling

followed closely by golf.