World Cup Thread.

Kontradiction · Jun 27, 2014

1960Pats said:
Wow! This thread was a whopper. Here are the thoughts of this non-soccer fan.

I don't care to be told that I should like soccer when TO ME it's the most boring thing on earth to sit through.

America could put it's greatest athletes from all sports on one soccer team and I still wouldn't watch. It's the sport that's lousy, not the players.

If the field was smaller and there was more scoring I could possibly grow to like soccer.

The rest of the world is entitled to their opinion of american sports, and I'm entitled to mine of soccer, especially when the topic is being discussed on an NFL message board.

The SB lasts about 3 hours and the World Cup lasts about a month. Which has more viewers?

Rugby is much closer to football than soccer, yet the soccer fans want to lump it in with their sport. How does that work?

I don't follow soccer, but I know that I like the player called Ronaldo because he was named after Ronald Reagan.

All that's missing from many of the soccer fans now are their pink hats.

Thank you for the utterly useless post.

AzorianPats · Jun 27, 2014

1960Pats said:
Wow! This thread was a whopper. Here are the thoughts of this non-soccer fan.

I don't care to be told that I should like soccer when TO ME it's the most boring thing on earth to sit through.

America could put it's greatest athletes from all sports on one soccer team and I still wouldn't watch. It's the sport that's lousy, not the players.

If the field was smaller and there was more scoring I could possibly grow to like soccer.

The rest of the world is entitled to their opinion of american sports, and I'm entitled to mine of soccer, especially when the topic is being discussed on an NFL message board.

The SB lasts about 3 hours and the World Cup lasts about a month. Which has more viewers?

Rugby is much closer to football than soccer, yet the soccer fans want to lump it in with their sport. How does that work?

I don't follow soccer, but I know that I like the player called Ronaldo because he was named after Ronald Reagan.

All that's missing from many of the soccer fans now are their pink hats.

According to the 27 million viewers that tuned into Sunday's game, Soccer doesn't need nor want your kind. ....

Thanks for your input though

Major ********** · Jun 27, 2014

1960Pats said:
Wow! This thread was a whopper. Here are the thoughts of this non-soccer fan.

I don't care to be told that I should like soccer when TO ME it's the most boring thing on earth to sit through.

America could put it's greatest athletes from all sports on one soccer team and I still wouldn't watch. It's the sport that's lousy, not the players.

If the field was smaller and there was more scoring I could possibly grow to like soccer.

The rest of the world is entitled to their opinion of american sports, and I'm entitled to mine of soccer, especially when the topic is being discussed on an NFL message board.

The SB lasts about 3 hours and the World Cup lasts about a month. Which has more viewers?

Rugby is much closer to football than soccer, yet the soccer fans want to lump it in with their sport. How does that work?

I don't follow soccer, but I know that I like the player called Ronaldo because he was named after Ronald Reagan.

All that's missing from many of the soccer fans now are their pink hats.

I'd call you an attention whore but that would be offensive to whores and possibly against the rules of this forums so I won't do it.

JackBauer · Jun 27, 2014

Cool story, bro.

Major ********** · Jun 27, 2014

TonyTucker said:
Soccer doesn't want my kind, either. And I don't want soccer. Both sides win. The only things worse than soccer are maybe golf, fishing, and car racing.

Thanks for clicking through a thread specifically about soccer to let us know that you don't care about it. We were dying to know. I'm breathlessly looking forward to your contributions in the golf, fishing and car racing threads.

shmessy · Jun 27, 2014

From here on, anyone who wants to talk about their dislike of soccer can start their own thread (we can call it Jurassic Park). But from now on, the obnoxious act of entering a thread to ***** and moan about the subject of that thread will be effectively blocked. Best wishes to the members of that generation and let's all wish them a nutritious lunch, a competent nurse and good luck with their hip replacements.

Mike the Brit · Jun 27, 2014

shmessy said:
No one has "told you to like" anything.

YOU came in HERE to register your dislike of soccer. No different than the pathetic wailings of Shank Shaughnessy, Anne Coulter and John Dennis.

If you don't like it, go somewhere else. It is an active and obnoxious move to inject yourself in someone else's discussion to register your dislike of what they are discussing.

People who enter threads to complain about the subject discussion deserve all the abuse coming to them.

I don't "dislike" posts and I try to keep my snark in check (not very successfully, as family and co-workers will confirm) but I have got to "like" your post, Shmessy. The perfect response.

SB39 · Jun 27, 2014

JackBauer said:
The SB lasts about 3 hours and the World Cup lasts about a month. Which has more viewers?

I don't agree with that logic; you're comparing a single game to an entire tournament. Using your logic, we could say the Super Bowl lasts 1 month because of all the playoff games to determine who plays in the Super Bowl. Heck, extend it even further, and we could even say the Super Bowl lasts 5 months.

Kontradiction · Jun 27, 2014

SB39 said:
I don't agree with that logic; you're comparing a single game to an entire tournament. Using your logic, we could say the Super Bowl lasts 1 month because of all the playoff games to determine who plays in the Super Bowl. Heck, extend it even further, and we could even say the Super Bowl lasts 5 months.

A good way to compare and contrast the two would be the actual Super Bowl vs. the World Cup Final.

condon84 · Jun 27, 2014

shmessy said:
From here on, anyone who wants to talk about their dislike of soccer can start their own thread (we can call it Jurassic Park). But from now on, the obnoxious act of entering a thread to ***** and moan about the subject of that thread will be effectively blocked. Best wishes to the members of that generation and let's all wish them a nutritious lunch, a competent nurse and good luck with their hip replacements.

I get enough of these "soccer sucks" complaints on FB. We don't ****ing care you don't like it. Just like people don't care you got a grande latte machiano machismo collatta at Starbucks. If you don't like it, don't watch it.

Zeus · Jun 27, 2014

This has been a terrific tournament and the best is undoubtedly yet to come. It has also been a godsend for local sports fans with the Bruins and Celtics in hibernation, the Red Sox suffering through a difficult transition to younger talent and our boys in Foxboro just getting warmed up.

There's a reason that this is such a popular event world wide and it's not too hard to figure out if you give it a chance. Too bad there's no game today ...

Major ********** · Jun 27, 2014

Usually the group stage is filled with boring match ups and sometime downright mismatches. I usually skip a lot of the group stage games and really tune in for the KO rounds. This tournament though has had a fantastic group stage. Entertaining high scoring games? Check! Good match ups? Check! Great upsets? Check! High drama? Check! Very few duds so far. Even one of the 0-0 games was highly entertaining. That Brasil-Mexico draw was more entertaining than the high scoring France-Switzerland or even Germany-Portugal games. I am almost sad that the group stage is over.

Kontradiction · Jun 27, 2014

Zeus said:
This has been a terrific tournament and the best is undoubtedly yet to come. It has also been a godsend for local sports fans with the Bruins and Celtics in hibernation, the Red Sox suffering through a difficult transition to younger talent and our boys in Foxboro just getting warmed up.

There's a reason that this is such a popular event world wide and it's not too hard to figure out if you give it a chance. Too bad there's no game today ...

That's basically one of the main reasons I am watching and watched in 2010. There is literally nothing else on, sports-wise. And, like I said, it's a good excuse to head to the bar.

italian pat patriot · Jun 27, 2014

congratulations to US team to be in the 1/8

tomorrow i will try to see both games
Brasile-Cile
Colombia-Uruguay

AzorianPats · Jun 27, 2014

italian pat patriot said:
congratulations to US team to be in the 1/8

tomorrow i will try to see both games
Brasile-Cile
Colombia-Uruguay

An all South American showdown!

italian pat patriot · Jun 27, 2014

AzorianPats said:
An all South American showdown!

yes - the games anyway i prefere in the 1/8 are:
Mexico-Holland and Belgium-Usa

upstater1 · Jun 27, 2014

Mike the Brit said:
I'm sure you're right, Shmessy. You know much more about this strange and beautiful country than I do! Still, even if she isn't serious, there are people paying her money -- presumably because there are people dumb enough to read it.

And serious people -- OK, people who take themselves seriously -- like Gasper and Ryan in the Globe write stuff that's nearly as stupid. So Ryan wrote a column saying that it was obvious the U.S. doesn't care about soccer because, if it did, it would be bound to triumph -- all it needed to do would be to convert some 6'3", 6'4" basketball players to soccer. I kid you not!

In my long and extensive experience of human imbecility I've come to the conclusion that when people say stupid things -- particularly when they say them loud, long and persistently -- it's because of money, sex, religion or politics. In this case, you say, it's just money. I'd bet on politics.

She once said this about Pat Tillman: "He is virtuous, pure, masculine like only an American male can be." She said this before she realized he was a big Noam Chomsky fan who was anti-Iraq war.

JackBauer · Jun 27, 2014

SB39 said:
I don't agree with that logic; you're comparing a single game to an entire tournament. Using your logic, we could say the Super Bowl lasts 1 month because of all the playoff games to determine who plays in the Super Bowl. Heck, extend it even further, and we could even say the Super Bowl lasts 5 months.

Please do not tarnish my good name by attributing any part of that magnum opus o' crap to me.

Mike the Brit · Jun 27, 2014

upstater1 said:
She once said this about Pat Tillman: "He is virtuous, pure, masculine like only an American male can be." She said this before she realized he was a big Noam Chomsky fan who was anti-Iraq war.

He was also a friend of Bill Belichick (who, characteristically, kept their relationship very discreet). Pat Tillman is high on my list of Americans I would like to have met. (Ann Coulter is on the list of those I hope I never do.)

Mike the Brit · Jun 27, 2014

Major ********** said:
Usually the group stage is filled with boring match ups and sometime downright mismatches. I usually skip a lot of the group stage games and really tune in for the KO rounds. This tournament though has had a fantastic group stage. Entertaining high scoring games? Check! Good match ups? Check! Great upsets? Check! High drama? Check! Very few duds so far. Even one of the 0-0 games was highly entertaining. That Brasil-Mexico draw was more entertaining than the high scoring France-Switzerland or even Germany-Portugal games. I am almost sad that the group stage is over.

So which were your favourite games?

I agree about the Brazil-Mexico game. The games with the US, Germany, Ghana and Portugal were first-rate. And the more I think about the Van Persie header the more unbelievable it seems. I was also very impressed with Tim Cahill's goals for Australia. Were there some other excellent games that I missed or have forgotten?

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