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06-26-2014, 10:54 PM | #376 | |
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I'm the type who respects the game of soccer, respects fans of the game, and even tries to pay attention to the big events and get to a Rapids game once every year or two. But I have trouble really getting into it for many of the reasons mentioned by the "trolls" in the thread (flopping, ties, mildly arbitrary extra time, slow pace, etc.). So I get both sides of the "argument". But I get frustrated when the core message when anyone criticizes the game (or even the team itself in this case) is basically "GTFO". |
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06-26-2014, 11:08 PM | #377 | |
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For giving their favorite sports a pass, and bashing on soccer for the very same thing. More specifically bagging on the USMNT for moving on the way they did. More years than not, teams benefit from the result of another teams game to move into the playoffs. It's the same thing, they just refuse to equate the two. I don't really care about the tie argument, b/c it's a matter of opinion. |
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06-26-2014, 11:22 PM | #378 |
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I just enjoy watching the old guard sports fans continue to say things like, "it will never happen in America" or "I've been hearing the same thing for 30 years."
Meanwhile, the sport continues to grow right under their nose. They're oblivious. Maybe it's a generational thing. After all, the demographic in which soccer is gaining the most popularity is young people. |
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06-26-2014, 11:35 PM | #379 | |
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In my anecdotal experience, my age group of people in the mid 20s, a possible half of the people I know might go out of their way to watch the USMNT but aren't big on MLS or EPL/Seria A/BL soccer. I'd stake my reputation that this is also the case for many social circles in my age range. Thing is, even for people like me and the few who will go out of our way to watch the World Cup, we still are bigger supporters of pro or college football.. Followed by baseball (mostly a casual fandom) or basketball. Eventually, my generation will start (deliberately) having children and they will probably continue to consume these sports and will expose these younglings to those sports more so than soccer. People who are huge soccer acolytes (to the point it's their only sport preference) my age seem to be self-serving hipster douches who think themselves more worldly (or something) as well as people who grew up playing the sport from YMCA to high school or even college. And again, I'd also stake my rep on saying that my generation -even from bum**** rural Missouri- has been exposed to soccer from a young age in terms of recreational playing and we still gravitate towards the American-born sports moreso than soccer. The MLS will grow, sure. And the USMNT will grow stronger as more "athletes" find their niche in the game more than they have in the past.. But American culture is predicated on football, basketball or baseball in terms of prevalence... and until there's a "Tuesday Night Soccer" available to 90% of household televisions and watched regularly by tens of millions of those TVs (or tablets / smartphones what have you) then I'm going to doubt the sport will ever supplant basketball in terms of popularity. It may supplant football.. if the sport becomes watered down due to injury concerns.
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06-27-2014, 12:15 AM | #381 |
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06-27-2014, 12:23 AM | #382 |
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I tried watching today. (Germany match) but my god, that was so boring and frustrating to me as I pretty much 99.9% thought it was gonna be.
I mean seriously 1-0? People stood on their feet crammed against one another for 90+ minutes watching what appeared to be an extremely undermanned team in the U.S. Who couldn't even come close to scoring. But I left the TV on for the entire game and probably an hour after listening to Bob Ley on ESPN after to give it a fair chance but Never again. I'd rather take a nap.
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06-27-2014, 12:24 AM | #383 |
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I can't even begin to be salty...this team really did a great thing. So many people have had to move the goal posts to to continue to criticize them it's great.
That and their next game is winnable. This is rarefied air for US Soccer I think even better than this being a good place is the idea of them building from this performance in the future already locking down Kilnnsman for another cycle. |
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06-27-2014, 01:00 AM | #384 | |
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06-27-2014, 01:03 AM | #385 | |
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You gave it an honest chance and thought it was boring? Fine, good for you for trying. At least you didn't post something idiotic like Americans don't understand ties or advancing out of the group of death is somehow not impressive because your last match of 3 was a loss.
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And I know when a game isn't a glowing endorsement of the sport. This wasn't an awful game at all. But it wasn't one of those matches that inspires people to know more. |
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06-27-2014, 01:24 AM | #388 |
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Soccer may not be the most popular viewed sport in America but it is however the most played, and that's a statistic that many people do not realize. The amount of clubs, competitive play, tournaments that are played at all age levels beats out baseball and football any day of the week.
So if we are talking about popularity contest, soccer wins in the fashion of what sport is played most. Football and baseball win in online viewing and television ratings |
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I don't know if you will, but the next match should be far more interesting and fun to watch. Hell, the Portugal game was incredibly exciting. |
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06-27-2014, 05:29 AM | #390 |
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This one is killing me. In a country that uses RPI and the BCS rankings with complicated computer algorithms as well as just gut instinct of the powers that be to determine who "advances" into knockout play for our sports, we act like the soccer system is some insanely difficult puzzle with no logic to it. It's a beautiful example of ethnocentrism and myopia.
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