The beautiful game

Gabe215 · 04-01-2015, 07:31 PM

Neil are you bashing soccer or saying how tough soccer players are? Soccer players play with broken arms and with stitches in their head.

pnoon · 04-01-2015, 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Gabe215

Neil are you bashing soccer or saying how tough soccer players are? Soccer players play with broken arms and with stitches in their head.

Gabe, except for the truly enlightened, everyone bashes soccer.

Now I will be the first to admit that only Lebron James flops more than the average soccer player. And I think the punishment for flopping should be much more severe. But there is a reason they call it "the beautiful game". Sure scores are lower than the U.S. audience would like but there are a number of valid criticisms of MLB, the NFL, and the NBA that the fans choose to ignore. I am a fan of American football, baseball, and college basketball (the NBA sucks eggs).

Let the haters hate. Soccer is the most popular sport in the world.

The Poet · 04-01-2015, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Gabe215

Neil are you bashing soccer or saying how tough soccer players are? Soccer players play with broken arms and with stitches in their head.

Well maybe they wouldn't hurt themselves so badly if they stopped flopping so much.

nutcracker · 04-01-2015, 07:53 PM

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Neil are you bashing soccer or saying how tough soccer players are? Soccer players play with broken arms and with stitches in their head.

Only slightly Gabe. I played rugger as a kid, and later field hockey when the rugby injuries become too much for my long suffering mother. Oddly enough the only sporting fatality at my high school in a 30 year period was a hockey ball to the head.

We didn't have a lot of time for soccer ("footy"). We thought they were whimps.

There's no doubt a good soccer player is incredibly fit and skillful. Seriously tough games like rugger don't have the divers though. When a rugger player lies on the field it's usually stretcher time!

markem · 04-01-2015, 08:46 PM

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Oddly enough the only sporting fatality at my high school in a 30 year period was a hockey ball to the head.

I'm not sure that I could withstand being held back a grade that long.

icehog3 · 04-01-2015, 10:42 PM

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Let the haters hate. Soccer is the most popular sport in the third world.

Fixed it for you.

Don't hate me, Peter, pour a vodka martini and take it all in good fun.

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