Avids annual "Any soccer fans out there"? poll

[Guest avid]

Howdy Bassers.

With the American game erroniously called football drawing to it's dramtic conclusion, I once again query the membership to see if there are any REAL football fans out there.  You know International football aka soccer.

The seasons in Europe are in full swing.  Barcelona with it's all start roster was edged out by Real Madrid, Arsenal finds itself atop the English Premiere League with Chelsea and Manchester United slipping.  And with a growing number of Americans playing in excellent European and South American clubs, we may be able to field a competetive World club team next time around.

Question.  Why do they call American Football.....football?

Is it because the ball is shaped like a foot?

[fourbizz]

i'm not really a fan of sports,    or soccer. ;D

[Chad.]

Barcelona for spanish league

Ac milan for premiere

[Cajun1977]

nope

[jeremyt]

Why yes I love futbol, the playoffs start this weekend right. ;D

I am not a big fan of the sport, but one of the civilian employees in my shop is a soccer nut, he coaches 13-16 yo, ref's for the younger kids and has soccer on the net everyday.

[Daniel My Brother]

Only if my kids are playing. Otherwise, not so much...but it's growing on me.

[Sam]

No way.

Dumbest game I have ever seen.

All the guys do is run back and forth and kick the ball all over the place.

I know why they go nuts when they finally score.  It's because they don't score very often.

I will admit that the some of the pros are very good with the ball but overall I just can't see watching a bunch of guys run all over the field and not accomplishing anything.

[fourbizz]

Soccer is like watching a physical version of the classic childhhod argument:

Can too...can not....can too.....can not.....can too.....can not.

[Redlinerobert]

Soccer and boxing. Those are the only sports I watch on tv, thanks to dad. Soccer not so much lately though.

"GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll"

[fish-fighting-illini]

Absolutely hated soccer until I played it. Then and to this day I love it. I don't follow certain teams per se but I'll flip it on and watch a game ( match ). I didn't start to play untill I was around 30 and haven't for a while!

 1st team I was on we had 2 Nicaraguan illegal aliens on it. You could just about stand still smoking a cigar and drinking a beer in front of the goal. One of the 2 "real" soccer guys would dribble around the 32 other guys on the floor ( indoor) and send a perfect centering pass for you to kick in LOL! Man they were fun to watch!

[Raul]

Wellllllll, I 'm Hispanic, I live in a Hispanic country, theoretically speaking I should have soccer riveted to my genes and I swear, I just can 't stand soccer.

I prefer American Football.

[Bassboy15]

OH ARSENAL

[KYbass1276]

I'm along with Fourbizzle on the not much on sports,  however if I had to watch a game on Tv it would be soccer over football.  More skill, endurance and stratedgy  involved in my opinion.  Plus I haven't heard of any soccer players with criminal records making millions for being what most of them are street thugs.   Plus they do have some pretty cool moves out there on the feild.  I would be lucky to kick a ball and have it hit my house let alone kick it to another player across the feild or into the goal

[mjhutch1116]

Can not stand soccer.  Would much rather watch american football.  I am very very happy that my son decided to play football and not soccer.  Indoor soccer is not all that bad though, kind of like hockey without the ice or the sticks.

Matt

[dave]

I enjoy watching little kids play.   Maybe professionals are too good and there is just a lack a excitement.  There is a Simpson's episode from a few years ago when pro soccer came to Springfield.  The American announcers were very boring and dull.  The Hispanic announcers are freaking out crazing announcing.  Action on the field was the same,  next to nothing.  Just shows how the different cultures view the same game.

[Guest avid]

I can understand how those who know nothing about the game, see it as "a bunch of guys running around accomplishing nothing"  

but as one's sophistication grows, the subtleties of the game (yes sports fans, SUBTLETIES) become more apparant.

It is the quintessential metaphor for war.

Two sides, attack, get repelled, attack again, get counter attacked in a non stop war of attrition.  No "huddle" to decide what to do.  No "time outs" to break the opposing sides momentum.   It's a non stop ebb and flow of power, strategy, skill, and creativity.

God, I love that game.

[Raul]

You still don 't convince me Avid, I can 't stand the game even though I played the game as a goalie, when you live in an hispanic country it 's either soccer you play as a child or soccer you play as a child, there 's not much from where to choose, our schools don 't have american football or baseball fields specially when you live in a city, good basketball courts are expensive to build and most schools don 't have them and if they happen to have them they are on the outdoors and with concrete floor, besides that, none of your buddies wants to play basketball, soccer is all what they have in mind all the time.

The only time I "enjoyed" the sport was when we played salon soccer in, guess where ? the basketball courts nobody used to play basketball.

[RiskKid.]

I agree with Avid that most of us do not know soccer nearly as well as our  traditional sports that we were raised with. Although I am not a soccer fan due to lack of exposure to the game I do not dislike it either. I just think we enjoy what we know best. Like it or not folks it is the most popular sport worldwide