Why Do People Hate Football?

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The "I loathe football" thread serves as a platform for individuals expressing their disdain for soccer, often contrasting it with other sports. Participants articulate their views on the lack of excitement in watching soccer, describing it as tedious and unengaging, particularly when compared to the dynamic nature of sports like American football. The discussion highlights a belief that soccer's low scoring diminishes its appeal, with some participants likening the experience to watching paint dry. While some acknowledge the athleticism of soccer players, they argue that the sport lacks the action and excitement found in other games. The thread also touches on the cultural phenomenon surrounding major events like the World Cup, with some participants questioning the obsession and seriousness with which fans approach the sport. The conversation occasionally veers into humor and sarcasm, with quotes and jokes about soccer and its players. Overall, the thread captures a collective sentiment of frustration and bemusement towards soccer as a spectator sport.
  • #51
I would rather sleep, I mean, sit through a 3 hour, twice a week Calc2 class than watch televised sports ESPECIALLY soccer...wait...I already do that.

I mean really, do they even know how to do the wave?

Now, if the ball had a taser-like device in it THAT would BE something. Imagine a random jersey number generator that could be hooked up to it and bingo, instant excitement. Or you could have some other fun stuff a la Rollerball where a guy driving a motorcycle would pull someone in armor with spikes wearing cross country roller blades or something cool like that and the random jersey number generator would choose who they would chase. I would definitely watch soccer then.
 
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  • #52
If the end zone size was reduced to about the width of a soccer goal, then the scores in American football (NFL) would be much lower.

I've seen American football fans who are comparable to soccer fans.

I've played both Amercian football and real football (intramurals), and prefer the later. Real football requires considerable stamina and finesse, while American football often requires the ability to withstand impacts of other people.
 
  • #53
Note to everyone:
American football is even dumber than soccer.
But, we may keep this thread to discuss the lacks of merit in soccer.
 
  • #54
lacks of merit in soccer.

no guns
no bats
no clubs
nothing automotive
no sexy babes.
 
  • #55
wolram said:
lacks of merit in soccer.

... no sexy babes.

You obviously missed Brandi Chastain's winning shot in the PK shootout in the Women's '99 WC.

Gokul43201 said:
To all the folks here, my condolences. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6063478215160948442

Carlos's long free kick is just unreal. No ball should be able to move like that (and the keeper obviously agreed, he didn't even move).
 
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  • #56
Let us not get started on this debate. Rugby union should be called either "15-a-side-tennis" or "kick n' clap". League is superior in every way, speed, skills and strength. The only advantage union players have is weight.

Spoken like someone who hasnt played either... Am I right? I played both league and Union, Union to a high level at U18. (I was coached by Hadden, scotland's coach, and played with a few of the player there.. but anyway) Union is far more tatical, and when played open and free far more exciting than League. Yes you are right, far to many Northern Hem. Teams play the percentages, but this is changing. league on the other hand is always the same... High impact, hardly free flowing, and down right BASIC, adapted for people who can't comprehened the rules of union :) haha

anyway I like both but Union is way better..
 
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  • #57
Anttech said:
Spoken like someone who hasnt played either... Am I right? I played both league and Union, Union to a high level at U18. (I was coached by Hadden, scotland's coach, and played with a few of the player there.. but anyway) Union is far more tatical, and when played open and free far more exciting than League. Yes you are right, far to many Northern Hem. Teams play the percentages, but this is changing. league on the other hand is always the same... High impact, hardly free flowing, and down right BASIC, adapted for people who can't comprehened the rules of union :) haha

anyway I like both but Union is way better..
I will admit that my slightly biased opinion is probably due to the fact that I play rugby league to a high level. As for your comments that union is more tatical than league is way off the mark. League also has the upper hand with technical skills, power, agility and speed; rugby league is a game played by altheltes. Union is game played by pub teams. Right I am going to get down off my soap box now.
 
  • #58
I will admit that my slightly biased opinion is probably due to the fact that I play rugby league to a high level. As for your comments that union is more tatical than league is way off the mark. League also has the upper hand with technical skills, power, agility and speed; rugby league is a game played by altheltes. Union is game played by pub teams. Right I am going to get down off my soap box now.

WAS amature is NOT now. Look I'll admit if you don't have a brain and can't comprehend free flowing rugby Union, then league is for you... League is perhaps more physical and higher impact I'll give you that, but it is NOT more tactical... Union with its Maules (rolling or not), Rucks, Line Outs, scrums... etc etc is far more complicated and tatical than, 'Run, hit, stop (bar the occational pop up)' League...

sorry mate, League is a nice game, but it just isn't anywhere near as tatical or nice to watch as Union (when played in a proper style, not England of the 90's)... If you are right why do so many 1000 more people watch Union than League? League will in the UK will always just be a game played in the midlands by a bunch of tough nuts...
 
  • #59
Anttech said:
WAS amature is NOT now. Look I'll admit if you don't have a brain and can't comprehend free flowing rugby Union, then league is for you... League is perhaps more physical and higher impact I'll give you that, but it is NOT more tactical... Union with its Maules (rolling or not), Rucks, Line Outs, scrums... etc etc is far more complicated and tatical than, 'Run, hit, stop (bar the occational pop up)' League...

sorry mate, League is a nice game, but it just isn't anywhere near as tatical or nice to watch as Union (when played in a proper style, not England of the 90's)... If you are right why do so many 1000 more people watch Union than League? League will in the UK will always just be a game played in the midlands by a bunch of tough nuts...
1000's more people? Maybe international, but how about club games? How about Australia? Union is a much slower game, if you had stoppage time you'd never finish a match! With reference to you maules, rucks, line outs etc, note that technical is not the same as tatical. Oh and btw, rugby league is primarily played in the North, infact there are no midland teams represented in the superleague of NL1 as I recall.
 
  • #60
Well I am from scotland, we never play League, can't get much more North than that. We call Newcastle the north where I am from.

I know tatical is not the same as technical, I stand beside my comment. Union is both technically more advanced and tatically more advanced. With all that extra technical play you NEED more tactics. Really League is about a few things. Timing of your runs, angles of your runs, and physical strength. Ohh and a few nicely times cross pitch kicks, and grubber kicks. We have all of this in Union plus FAR FAR more.

I'll assume you are English, its quiet right u say Union is slow (In England), becuase that is the way England has been killing/attempting to win the game for the past years... If you look abroad you will notice that in France Ireland and the trinations union is played ALOT different.

And yes In Austrilia 1000's more watch the trinations league in Union that the punch up league matches. (to be honest I don't mind watching league in Aussie its far better than England, midlands :-p )
 
  • #61
Okay, I can see some of your points, I guess we shall have to agree to disagree. :-p






LEAGUE IS FAR BETTER THAN UNION
 
  • #62
Aggreed :-p





No it isnt, come to the light.. stay away from the dark side mmmuuuhhhaaaaaaaaaa
 
  • #63
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.
 
  • #64
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?
 
  • #65
Is it coincidence that rugby ref's wear the same coats as doctors, veterinarians and BUTCHERS?
Rugby refs were black mate
 
  • #66
Jeff Ford said:
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.
 
  • #67
Moonbear said:
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.
 
  • #68
Anttech said:
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.
 
  • #69
Echo 6 Sierra said:
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.
 
  • #70
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).
 
  • #71
Echo 6 Sierra said:
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.
 
  • #72
shmoe said:
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. :biggrin:
 
  • #73
So are we all in agreeance that I hate soccer?
 
  • #74
Astronuc said:
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.
 
  • #75
Pengwuino said:
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'.
 
  • #76
Bladibla said:
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!
 
  • #77
Pengwuino said:
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'.
 
  • #78
Bladibla said:
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? :smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
 
  • #79
"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?
 
  • #80
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?
 
  • #81
Pengwuino said:
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#
 
  • #82
Hootenanny said:
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!
 
  • #83
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
 
  • #84
Mollet1955 said:
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?
 
  • #85
beautiful English verse
 
  • #86
Pengwuino said:
*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!:-p
Mollet1955 said:
beautiful English verse
I can assure you that it is neither beautiful, nor english verse:-p Perhaps we could get a translator in here?
 
  • #87
What sports do you non-football liking people like then?

Now that's good english.
 
  • #88
Andy said:
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).:wink:
 
  • #89
Andy said:
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! :biggrin:
 
  • #90
If they held the Super Bowl in my backyard, I wouldn't look out the window.
 
  • #91
Artman said:
If they held the Super Bowl in my backyard, I wouldn't look out the window.
I might...to yell for them to shut up and turn out the lights! :smile:
 
  • #92
Sorry Anttech (and rugby playing friends), I wouldn't normally post these things that do the email rounds, but they might be apt here -
The Super 14 quotes of the year...

"Nobody in Rugby should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Jono Gibbs - Chiefs

"I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes." - Rodney So'ialo - Hurricanes - on University

"You guys line up alphabetically by height." and "You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle." - Colin Cooper - Hurricanes head coach

Chris Masoe (Hurricanes) on whether he had visited the Pyramids during his visit to Egypt: "I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we went to."

"He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is." - Colin Cooper on Paul Tito

Kevin Senio (Auckland), on Night Rugby vs Day Games "It's basically the same, just darker."

David Nucifora (Auckland) talking about Troy Flavell "I told him, 'Son, what is it with you. Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'David, I don't know and I don't care.'

David Holwell (Hurricanes) when asked about the upcoming season: "I want to reach for 150 or 200 points this season, whichever comes first."

"Andy Ellis - the 21 year old, who turned 22 a few weeks ago"(Murray Mexted)

"Colin has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator." (Ma Nonu)

"He scored that try after only 22 seconds - totally against the run of play." (Murray Mexted)

"We actually got the winning try three minutes from the end but then they scored." (Tana Umaga)

"I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body." (Jerry Collins)

"That kick was absolutely unique, except for the one before it which was identical." (Tony Brown)

"I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father." (Tana Umaga)

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in rugby - but none of them serious." (Doc Mayhew)

"If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."(Anton Oliver)

"I would not say he (Rico Gear) is the best left winger in the Super 14, but there are none better." (Murray Mexted)

"I never comment on referees and I'm not going to break the habit of a lifetime for that prat, Kaplan." (Ewan McKenzie)

Murray Deaker: "Have you ever thought of writing your autobiography?"
Tana Umaga: "On what ?"

"Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw."(Murray Mexted)

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer."(Murray Mexted)
 
  • #93
shmoe said:
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.

Artgentina boast some of the finest actors in football, all from the Maradonas academy of fooling the ref, the frequency with which they go to grass leaves me wondering if they are in fact akin to worms or snakes as they appear unable to stay on there feet if a tiny wind from a player 3 feet away desturbs the fragile aura around the player. Most memorable acting I've ever seen was when some player got a light tap on his calf in admonishment from a player he'd jut fowled and fell to rolling about and screaming with such vigour that the ref assumed he was about to die and carded and sent off the player on the ground, which put pay to any chance of us winning the game, damned cheats!
 
  • #94
Schrodinger's Dog said:
Artgentina boast some of the finest actors in football, all from the Maradonas academy of fooling the ref, the frequency with which they go to grass leaves me wondering if they are in fact akin to worms or snakes as they appear unable to stay on there feet if a tiny wind from a player 3 feet away desturbs the fragile aura around the player. Most memorable acting I've ever seen was when some player got a light tap on his calf in admonishment from a player he'd jut fowled and fell to rolling about and screaming with such vigour that the ref assumed he was about to die and carded and sent off the player on the ground, which put pay to any chance of us winning the game, damned cheats!

Yeah well Beckham should have known better... England, always excuses ehh?
 
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  • #95
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?

The Hugging is called scrumaging.. And it can be a tad wee bitty soar. And yes there is a lot of testosteron beging unleashed, you shouldn't probably play..
 
  • #96
Anttech said:
there just corrected some spelling, I know you are from the midlands so I'll excuse that fact you brain is rather small
Manily isn't a word my little scotsman :-p. I presume you meant to say mainly, we shall have to make exceptions for your poor grasp of the english language, perhaps if we spoke in gaelic for you?
 
  • #97
Scots actually me sasinak mucker.. I'm fea glasgie, they spreaken gaelic in the highlands.
 
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  • #98
fi said:
Sorry Anttech (and rugby playing friends), I wouldn't normally post these things that do the email rounds, but they might be apt here -
The Super 14 quotes of the year...

"Nobody in Rugby should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." - Jono Gibbs - Chiefs

...

"Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer."(Murray Mexted)
Wow, Joe Theismann and Jono Gibbs must have been Siamese twins, only born in different continents. And David Acfield, the soccer commentator, was also perceptive enough to notice things seem to happen slower in slow motion replays. :smile:

Still, the best image I've heard was provided by Barry Davies about the Netherlands team, "'The Dutch fans look like a huge jar of marmalade". :smile:

Well, second most. George Hamilton's description of Madrid was better, "Madrid are like a rabbit dazed in the headlights of a car, except this rabbit has a suit of armour, in the shape of two precious away goals."

If only Greece were playing in the World Cup, we could hear comments like Gerald Sinstadt's, "If ever the Greeks needed a Trojan horse, it is now."

And, of course, who could forget that high scoring game that inspired Ian Darke to observe, "And with just 4 minutes gone, the score is already 0-0."

Although Moonbear and the other football-haters may tend to agree with Alistair Alexander's sentiments, "Four minutes to go... four long minutes... three-hundred and sixty seconds..."

But the one quote that just seems depressing enough to turn me off of soccer completely is, "The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose." :frown:
 
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  • #99
Best line in the whole thread. I think I'll post it in the favorite quotes thread. :biggrin:

Julian Dicks is everywhere, it's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field.

:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile:
 

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