Why the Yanks hate Football (oops..soccer)
Posted by Z on August 20th, 2006
10. CANNOT accept a draw. Need overtime, Double OT, Triple OT.
9. There are no Cheerleaders
8. Average Yank: “What? I LOVE football. Every year I tune in to watch the Super Bowl!”
7. Not enough goals. Yep, unlike baseball where there is a home run every TWO minutes.
6. Football is a dirty, filthy sport played by the commies.
5. Cannot understand how a WORLD cup has teams from all over the world participating. (Unlike this)
4. They didn’t invent it.
3. The offside rule is just too damn hard to understand.
2. Football is boring. They rather watch Golf.
1. They suck at it.
Z
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August 20th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
and how the “world champion” is always a national team!! and not some franchise which hardly worldly in its status
August 21st, 2006 at 3:09 am
August 21st, 2006 at 5:03 am
….and the winners world champions!!
August 21st, 2006 at 11:08 am
Their football isn’t even a ball.
August 21st, 2006 at 12:13 pm
… and they run, throw and catch!
August 21st, 2006 at 2:20 pm
…and wear oversized shoulder pads and helmets!
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:28 am
With all due credit to soccer, I dont think american football is something to be ridiculed.. Baseball I can understand (pretty much like cricket), its either boring or its a passion.. I seldom rebut opinions for the sole fact that they are opinions and not rules, but for the sake of sports I had to do it here.
The reason american football is not played with a rounded object is because it has to be thrown long distances and at the same time has to be caught with a certain degree of difficulty.. How far do u think you can throw a soccer ball with precision and accuracy.. you have to appreciate the people that were able to think out of the box to come up with such a design and be able to still call it a ball…
As for wearing shoulder pads and helmets.. I would love to see one of you guys trying to play the game without it..
There is no point in comparing american football and soccer, just cause of having identical names.. Sports is about competing to the best of ones ability and entertaining the audience.. Soccer and football are wonderful games that do both..I guess by now you mught have deduced that I am a huge fan of american football as well..
Wonder what the site moderators think about this post..
August 23rd, 2006 at 1:17 am
@panchos, well i would love to play rugby (no helmets & shoulder pads) except for my body is err not upto the mark for a contact sport.
i am not going to try and put down american football as might end being shown up due to my ignorance towards the sport.
either way i am sure the worlds big enough for both to happily co-exist
August 23rd, 2006 at 3:48 am
@Ravi, Haha.. I do agree that rugby players dont use shoulder pads and helmets but football players need them because the contact is far worse.. There are certain tackles in rugby that are illegal but allowed in football and these variations in rules require body protection..
Well I am not Anold to be trying out either of them.. You said it right ‘the world is big enough to peacefully co-exist with multiple sports’… hopefully people can learn to co-exist with each other similarly..
August 23rd, 2006 at 11:35 pm
How nice!
August 31st, 2006 at 9:03 pm
I grew up watching American Football (I will call it gridiron) and I will always love it. Every play is a 30 second chess match combined with the collisions of a car crash. But I am growing to love English Football as well. I think more of us would grow to love it if we could get some decent TV coverage. Fox Soccer Channel is supposed to be our answer, but this Saturday they have no EPL games at all and there are eight being played. That’s crap!
Americans love passion and pageantry resulting in large stadiums filled with loud fans. EPL has that and I think more of us would get exited about it if it was only available. Baseball is a relic from the days of sweatshops and radios. It is not fun to watch and requires very little athletic ability. College and pro gridiron has full stadiums for every game. College and pro Ice Hockey as full arenas. EPL games are always sold out, but what do we get on ESPN. Hours and hours of poker?!?! When the hell did playing cards become a sport?
What is my point? We would grow to love it if it was only on. Our sports networks are dropping the ball (a gridiron term) on this one big time. ESPN and Fox Sports need to get it together or Sky is going to swoop in and take over, I hope. I can only take so much more of hitting my refresh button to get the text from the match.
September 1st, 2006 at 11:46 am
I hope somebody out there is listening to you. And yes I totally agree with you regarding Baseball! And yes ESPN is notorious for giving too much airtime to sports such as darts, poker and pool!
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:00 am
Y’all forgot that ESPN also shows DOMINO tournaments! (Does anyone else see a correlation between the sedentary lifestyles the majority of Americans supposedly lead & a “sports” channel basically glorifying games that require no athletic ability–& almost no movement–whatsoever?)
Seriously, though, you’re right on in saying that more Americans would probably grow to love football if it was on TV more often. I try to watch FSC as much as possible, love Steve & Nick, think Fox Sports World Report & Sky are excellent, & am thankful for the live matches that are occasionally on, but I still yearn for more.
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:36 am
Yeah, i can see that americans, if they are willing to loosen their purse strings, get enuf of footie on their tele. i too get FSC and ESPN deportes.but the commentary is soo american. For example. Barcelona offence has been very potent. They are double teaming ronaldinho……all examples of americanised commentary. it may be endearing to americans but for me it’s very annoying. But no more whining , I’m just happy that i get to see so much football
September 23rd, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Whatever you Europeans, your soccer players would get owned by our football players in a fight. Thierry Henry would be owned by an A.J. Hawk, easily. Ha, I’d like to see David Beckham play american football!!
September 24th, 2006 at 5:30 pm
@inVINCEable - i guess you havent come across the likes of vinnie jones as yet
September 24th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
LOL@ Ravi..yep…Vinnie Jones rocks
What InVINCEable says is hilarious.. ! Wonder if he will come back here.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
@Z, lol true.. also theirs the pests in the form of robbie savage, paul dickov and dennis wise who do not consider size as a disadvantage!
December 11th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
this is probably the most closed minded blogs I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading
~a Canadian
July 23rd, 2007 at 4:53 am
I would never love soccer to be honest, if fox, espn, or any network that showed any sports decided to air soccer instead of american football, there would be shootings, hangings, castrations…many many bad things would follow. Choose another season, because I don’t see us accepting soccer anytime soon.
August 21st, 2007 at 6:57 am
I think/hope that soccer is becoming more popular in the USA. I am not referring to the media craze around Becks, nor the mediocre MLS league. I am a young American (22) and among my friends I have seen a huge increase in enthusiasm for worldwide soccer. I do concede that my friends are a minority. However, the United States are already a consistent competitor in world soccer play and (in my belief) will be a frequent top ten team soon. As America creates more stars soccer will continue to grow here.
Another boost to soccer is coming from the USA’s large Latino population. Even if soccer is slow to come to “european-americans” there is a huge demand for soccer among Latino-Americans. Mainstream American culture is already becoming influenced by South and Central American culture-think burritos and reggaeton for starters. Futból will become mainstream too!
September 18th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
American football sucks, its a sad excuse for a sport, their pansy’s, covered head to toe in pads, a bunch of fat bitches pushing and grabbing each other. anyone can throw a football to one another, but can anyone take a real football and bend it into the top corner passed a keeper. NO. why do you think its the fastest growing sport in America… because its the best. look what happened when the NFL tried to take American football to Europe… they laughed in their faces and the league lasted a season. the world knows what sport it wants, most Americans like yourself are just slow.
Joga Bonito
October 28th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Football (American Football) is boring as hell but only because 1. the commercials and 2. the lack of creative plays (they stick to one pass which is really boring)
Soccer (Football) is boring as hell because it is simply a boring game to watch. It is moderately interesting to play, but god, i would rather watch golf than soccer.
Rugby is fun to play and fun to watch. It doesn’t stop, it’s full of amazing physical feats. The english are trying to fuck it up with Jonny Wilkinson and the reliance on kicks, but the IRB will eventually address it with new rules.
Hockey is the most fun of all sports, as it has speed, agility, finesse and physical strength all at once.
There is NO excuse for soccer being the most watched sports in the world. None.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Hmm, interesting comments. Here’s my 2cents. I think American’s hate soccer for 2 big reasons:
1. They play not to lose rather than playing to win (to us)
2. Every soccer fan loves to show disdain for anything American (ok, “every” is a stretch)
Personally, I don’t see what the big deal is. Why does it matter to everyone outside the US whether we like soccer or not? Does it bother you that we don’t care about your sport? It doesn’t bother us that you don’t care about ours. We always hear about “Why American’s don’t like soccer like the rest of the world…” but you very rarely hear about “Why the rest of the world doesn’t like football like american’s…”. Are you gonna keep trying to force feed us soccer?! For the most part, I’m indifferent to soccer. I love playing, but you’ll have to shoot me before I watch a match again.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Why are people taking this post so seriously!
November 19th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Just as cricket is given much more coverage by the media and that’s where all the money is in India, the U.S. gives much more importance to its own sports like American football, baseball and NBA. They fear their traditional sports would take a severe hit (commercially, at least) if a global sport like soccer is promoted. Otherwise, how would one justify ESPN showing poker matches while interesting soccer matches are on!
November 19th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
It stems from the very self absorbed nature of americans. They create a sport, become good at it and then call themselves world champions. However, its gone to a stage where the rest of the world has caught up that they can no longer claim to be world champions in certain sports.
Americans from my interaction with them hate to embrace mediocrity, unless its from their children(you don’t want to hurt the kids’ self esteem). It has reached such ridiculous extents that they filter out games they suck at.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:45 am
It’s not that Americans hate soccer. It’s just that we don’t care for it. We like to see action. In soccer, to the majority of us, it’s a bunch of guys running around, back and forth, for 90 minutes without a stopping clock, on a field or pitch or whatever the world calls it that’s way to big, without even a guarantee that any points will be scored. Snoozefest. Also, draws. We don’t want to see any draws. That’s why in our sports we abolished tie games long ago. Other problems are fake injuries, the game being labeled as foreign, and yellow/red cards. In the USA, we are fueled by capitalism. Soccer won’t ever be a major sport alongside the NFL, NBA, MLB or NHL, because there is no break for commercials. Also, us Yanks see uniforms as sacred. There are no logos on our unis from sponsors like “Carlsbad”, “Toblerone”, or “Vodafone”.
Soccer is the world’s game, yes. America’s? No. It never will be. I grew up on American Football of course. In some regions of the US, it’s a right of passage for young men; especially in the Rebel South. Just as soccer may be in most parts of the world. It all comes down to boredom. Americans don’t mess with boredom. We run on action. We don’t care for what we don’t understand, and quite honestly we never will. We all know that soccer players need endurance, speed, skill, etc. But when a player gets kicked in the hand, flops down on the ground like he was just prison-shivved, and gets back up like nothing happened, when Yanks see that, (I don’t mean to piss of the soccer world) what immediately comes to mind is “What a f**king pansy.” Now I know at least one of you, will quip back with “but you Yanks wear pads!” Thing is, we need to. Getting blindsided as a 68 inch, 156 pound man, by a 82 inch, 280 pound beast, is not exactly fun. You won’t see that in soccer. Another thing we can’t stand is if you slide tackle in soccer, you’ll get carded. Sorry, but Yanks want to see collision, bone-crushing hits, delrailments. Not someone kicking another person in the shins for 90 minutes. So when it all comes down to it, we have the World…well (American) Series in baseball, the Super Bowl in Yankball, and the Finals in Basketball. You have the World Cup. We’ll stick with what we’re good at, and you stick to what you know and love. Besides, why would you want to see us in the World Cup anyway? We’re horrible. We only participate because there are people in out country that actually care enough to. But most of us don’t. Sorry.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:37 am
As an American, I grew up on American football. It is my childhood, and first sports-love. However, against seemingly all conventions, I have become a huge fan of football, aka soccer to us Americans. It is possible to be fans of both am. football, and football, as my friends and I have proven. I avidly follow both seasons. I would love to see more coverage on our tv stations. ESPN only shows Champions League, one game per day. Currently, I have to go to a local pub to catch any action in the EPL. It’s impossible to see any La Liga or Serie A games. I personally do not enjoy watching MLS games. They seem boring, and almost staged when compared to a European game.
We yanks have not exactly thrived, but have at least managed to get a footing in the EPL, with players like Brian McBride, Giuseppe Rossi, DaMarcus Beasley, and Jonathan Spector. I hope that the American fanbase for soccer/football will continue to grow, and that American tv companies will realize the potential for showing live games, even without commercials every five minutes.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:07 pm
i am a “yank” and i LOVE football… AND american football. those points are only valid to the (sadly) large percentage of ignorant americans.
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Arguing over an opinion. How f***ing futile… and stupid. All sports will have different fan bases, some much larger than others.