Why Do People Hate Football?

[Hootenanny]

Okay, I can see some of your points, I guess we shall have to agree to disagree.






LEAGUE IS FAR BETTER THAN UNION

 

[Anttech]

Aggreed





No it isnt, come to the light.. stay away from the dark side mmmuuuhhhaaaaaaaaaa

 

[Jeff Ford]

Soccer, like baseball or golf, are games that take a very long time, and something interesting only happens 2-3 times every hour or so. It's just not enough to keep my watching.

 

[Echo 6 Sierra]

Is it coincidence that rugby ref's wear the same coats as doctors, veterinarians and BUTCHERS?! I think not. And don't forget the cool hats. When a goal is made what's with the ref almost doing the robot? I'm guessing it's just the hand signal for goal like when amerikan football refs stick both hands straight up in the air, right?

 

[Anttech]

Is it coincidence that rugby ref's wear the same coats as doctors, veterinarians and BUTCHERS?

Rugby refs were black mate

 

[Moonbear]

Soccer, like baseball or golf, are games that take a very long time, and something interesting only happens 2-3 times every hour or so. It's just not enough to keep my watching.

Wow, I'd never lump soccer in with baseball and golf. I think soccer is a pretty fast-moving game, and that's what makes it more tolerable than a lot of other sports. Even when they aren't making a goal, there's still something happening. It's more like basketball where the interest lies more in the passing and blocking and quick movements of the players more than with the actual scoring of points. What bugs me about sports like American football is that every time things start to get interesting, they stop play, and you sit around waiting while they take measurements and get all lined up again. Baseball is mostly a game of standing around doing nothing interrupted by the occassional running in circles. It's boring enough to play let alone watch. Soccer isn't nearly as painful to watch as baseball or American football or golf, and I do think it's pretty fun to play, even if you aren't very good at playing (and fun to watch when it's kids playing...they do some of the goofiest things), but I have no interest in watching the televised version.

 

[BobG]

What bugs me about sports like American football is that every time things start to get interesting, they stop play, and you sit around waiting while they take measurements and get all lined up again.

The funniest thing about the measurements: the referees figure out the approximate location where the player was tackled, the linesman try to eyeball approximately where to place the sticks to line up with the ball, a couple more plays where the ref figures out approximately where the ball should be spotted, followed by a key third down play where the referee eyeballs approximately where the ball should be spotted so the linesmen can run out on the field and see if the last approximate spot of the ball is exactly ten yards away from the first approximate spot of the ball.

It's especially fun in the last two minutes when one team is in their hurry-up offense. The reason the yellow line on TV isn't always available is because the TV is waiting for the linesmen to set their sticks. During the hurry-up, the linesmen are in an all out sprint to get even with the new line of scrimmage so they can exhaustedly and exhuberantly plunge the sticks in the exact, precise - well, pretty close - spot of the ball.

 

[Echo 6 Sierra]

Rugby refs were black mate

Who are the guys near the goals wearing white labcoats with pancake hats that when a goal is made take a quick step forward and make a chopping-like hand signal where their arms both wind up parallel to the ground? Maybe its that game where its a cross between field hockey, baseball, and rugby I used to see on the Irish channel. Meh, like I know sports anyway.

 

[shmoe]

Who are the guys near the goals wearing white labcoats with pancake hats that when a goal is made take a quick step forward and make a chopping-like hand signal where their arms both wind up parallel to the ground? Maybe its that game where its a cross between field hockey, baseball, and rugby I used to see on the Irish channel. Meh, like I know sports anyway.

Aussie rules football perhaps? The field is round and the players are generally trying to murder one another. They also bounce the ovoid shaped ball on the run and it returns to them rather than shooting off in a random direction. good middle of the night tv viewing.

 

[shmoe]

At it's best, football (the soccer kind) earns the "beautiful game" nickname. The World Cup always features some mind blowing feats of skill.

At it's worst, some players deserve whatever horrible sissy comments directed towards them. It's amazing when a player can be virtually unstoppable strength/speed/skillwise in the midfield, yet trips over grass in the penalty area, writhes in horrible agony, pleads to the referee, then gets up and takes the free kick. What bugs me the most though is the shirt pulling. It bugs me because it ends up being emulated by amateur players everywhere, and I have no tolerance for this (or any other unsportsmanlike garbage) when playing.

I'd rather be playing than watching (and I do love playing), but I'm sure I'll make my way to a tv for some of the more promising games during the knockout stage (I've watched but one game so far).

 

[Astronuc]

Who are the guys near the goals wearing white labcoats with pancake hats that when a goal is made take a quick step forward and make a chopping-like hand signal where their arms both wind up parallel to the ground? Maybe its that game where its a cross between field hockey, baseball, and rugby I used to see on the Irish channel. Meh, like I know sports anyway.

Like Shmoe said, it sounds like Aussie rules footie, especially if the field is oval and there are 4 posts at each end, two tall in between to short. A goal (6 points) is scored between the two tall posts, and point is scored between the tall and shorter posts.

 

[Astronuc]

At it's best, football (the soccer kind) earns the "beautiful game" nickname. The World Cup always features some mind blowing feats of skill.

At it's worst, some players deserve whatever horrible sissy comments directed towards them. It's amazing when a player can be virtually unstoppable strength/speed/skillwise in the midfield, yet trips over grass in the penalty area, writhes in horrible agony, pleads to the referee, then gets up and takes the free kick. What bugs me the most though is the shirt pulling. It bugs me because it ends up being emulated by amateur players everywhere, and I have no tolerance for this (or any other unsportsmanlike garbage) when playing.

Yeah, I'd agree with that assessment.

 

[Pengwuino]

So are we all in agreeance that I hate soccer?

 

[Echo 6 Sierra]

Like Shmoe said, it sounds like Aussie rules footie, especially if the field is oval and there are 4 posts at each end, two tall in between to short. A goal (6 points) is scored between the two tall posts, and point is scored between the tall and shorter posts.

That's probably it. I can remember a player holding the "ball" in one hand and bopping it to pass it to another player and the goal posts were the H kind and tall and skinny.

 

[Bladibla]

So are we all in agreeance that I hate soccer?

Lets thank god that My hatred of American football and baseball is enough to cancel out the evilness of you're hatred of 'soccer'.

 

[Pengwuino]

Lets thank god that My hatred of American football and baseball is enough to cancel out the evilness of you're hatred of 'soccer'.

I think our mutual hatred of baseball should combine to create the ultimate force!

 

[Bladibla]

I think our mutual hatred of baseball should combine to create the ultimate force!

Hmph. But the art of baseball is so heretical that even the combined power will not be able to stop such vile vocabulary such as the 'home-run' and 'safe'.

 

[Pengwuino]

Hmph. But the art of baseball is so heretical that even the combined power will not be able to stop such vile vocabulary such as the 'home-run' and 'safe'.

Safe is vile?

 

[Andy]

"team sports are for people who can't do things for themselves".

Oh i know who said that, it was an egotistical loner.

Before you slag of football (too late) remember that American football is a game played by a bunch of ladymen that arent tough enough to play rugby. Baseball originates from a womans game (rounders). And basketball is a non contact sport. Wheres the fun in any of them?

 

[Pengwuino]

Maybe i was watching a different version of rugby.. but is it just me or is rugby just a lot of hugging and male sexuality being unleashed?

 

[Hootenanny]

Maybe i was watching a different version of rugby.. but is it just me or is rugby just a lot of hugging and male sexuality being unleashed?

Sounds like a good analogy to rugby union. Rugby league is a far more heterosexual and manly game.

#Prepares for verbal onslaught form Anttech#

 

[Pengwuino]

Sounds like a good analogy to rugby union. Rugby league is a far more heterosexual and manly game.

#Prepares for verbal onslaught form Anttech#

*tosses hoot a kevlar vest* good luck!

 

[Mollet1955]

people posting in this thread are only women or guyZ
rarely see a man who says he hates football which is clearly containing a part of his

 

[Pengwuino]

people posting in this thread are only women or guyZ
rarely see a man who says he hates football which is clearly containing a part of his

What language was that in?

 

[Mollet1955]

beautiful English verse

 

[Hootenanny]

*tosses hoot a kevlar vest* good luck!

Cheers! I've got my kevlar vest, my M60 with ammunition belt, several grenades stuffed into my pockets (with the saftey pins in) and my bandana on; I'm ready to rock and roll!

beautiful English verse

I can assure you that it is neither beautiful, nor english verse Perhaps we could get a translator in here?

 

[Andy]

What sports do you non-football liking people like then?

Now that's good english.

 

[Omega_6]

What sports do you non-football liking people like then?

Now that's good english.

Well, I'm really not that into sports anymore, but if I do watch a sport then it will be REAL football (american football).

 

[Moonbear]

What sports do you non-football liking people like then?

Now that's good english.

I wouldn't even notice if all sports suddenly disappeared overnight, other than the pool of available men out somewhere away from their TV where I can find them might increase exponentially!

 

[Artman]

If they held the Super Bowl in my backyard, I wouldn't look out the window.