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Post by Carter on Jun 28, 2010 18:28:29 GMT -1
yeah, i really am not a "football" fan. Any game that didn't have usa in it i found rather boring. I mean soccer is our nation’s 5th sport anyway. I did have a blast watching USA tho. I think they got a lot of people interested in the sport. We'll see if it has any effect in the long run.
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Post by MetalBlade on Jun 28, 2010 18:32:34 GMT -1
We should hold the World Series of Baseball here in the UK.
It's like our 15th sport.
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Post by Steala on Jun 28, 2010 23:27:55 GMT -1
yeah, i really am not a "football" fan. Any game that didn't have usa in it i found rather boring. I mean soccer is our nation’s 5th sport anyway. I did have a blast watching USA tho. I think they got a lot of people interested in the sport. We'll see if it has any effect in the long run. I think you're drastically overstating soccer as the USA's "5th sport", but I've been wrong once before. Other sports that may be more popular in America than soccer include (but are not limited to): NASCAR, tennis, golf, Brock Lesnar, boxing, skateboarding, Wii Sports Resort, and Michael Phelps. However, "soccer is the number one youth participation sport in the U.S. today, more popular even than American football, baseball, basketball, or hockey, up to about the age of 13", according to wikipedia, which is where I go for all my youth participation sport news. |
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Post by Carter on Jun 29, 2010 13:29:09 GMT -1
it's because mothers don't want to see their kids get hurt..... so they sign them up for a non contact sport like soccer.
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Post by Steala on Jun 29, 2010 23:17:04 GMT -1
That and what better way to tire a kid out than have him run after another kid for 3 miles?
I don't know though. I see this as kind of a changing of the guard. I truly believe that these kids will stick with the sport for life. And when the current crop grows up, I think we'll see some real progress in America's professional soccer, kickball, and hopscotch teams. I really do.
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Post by Carter on Jun 30, 2010 14:13:03 GMT -1
plus, the orange industry will increase because they remain to be the perfect halftime snack.
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Post by Kevin Borg on Jun 30, 2010 15:02:51 GMT -1
not to mention it's much less expensive to put kids into Soccer than sports that require actual equipment like football and hockey.
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Post by Steala on Jun 30, 2010 23:28:13 GMT -1
So lazy parenting is breeding the soccer stars of tomorrow.
I bet Lionel Messi's parents are just the worst. I doubt they go to any of his games. They probably don't even slice his oranges.
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Post by Woo on Jul 5, 2010 12:10:54 GMT -1
Pele actually practised his football skills using an orange rather than a ball.
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Post by Carter on Jul 5, 2010 15:07:35 GMT -1
who?
JK
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Post by Steala on Jul 5, 2010 21:27:49 GMT -1
Pele actually practised his football skills using an orange rather than a ball. Sliced? (How did I get to within 110 posts of Woo?) |
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Post by Woo on Jul 6, 2010 8:13:41 GMT -1
Lol, obviously my post count has been altered by someone.
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Post by Steala on Jul 6, 2010 21:52:10 GMT -1
KITTENFINGERS!!!!!!!
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Post by Hellion on Jul 7, 2010 11:54:55 GMT -1
That diabolical!!
I knew he couldn't be trusted!
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Post by Steala on Jul 7, 2010 22:54:44 GMT -1
Takes a long time for that guy to put a plan into action though. He's real grassroots though, so I respect his treachery.
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