Quote: (06-23-2014 01:37 PM)speakeasy Wrote:
Quote: (06-23-2014 10:14 AM)Parlay44 Wrote:
Soccer is the most mind-numbingly boring sport to watch second only to curling. Why is the world so silly with it?
If the entire rest of the planet is wild about it and we aren't, I think it's safe to say something is wrong with us. And what's funny is that not only do many Americans find no interest in it, they seem to take pride in not finding any interest in it. The attitude is that "we are Americans, we are above soccer, it's a stupid game for kids." It's almost as if soccer is anti-American. It really is political. The more right-wing and Republican a person is, the more they despise soccer. Who do I see going wild in the bars? Usually urban liberals. I really do think that a large part of the American resistance to soccer is a reaction to the fact that the world loves it and we just want to be contrarians and go it alone. And as someone else said in this thread, you just have to develop a taste for it. My dad is a big sports fan(NBA,NFL), he just started watching the WC and he's now hooked. Says soccer is a great game. Never seen him watch a soccer game in my life till now. It took him 64 years but he's finally acquired the taste for it.
I find the World Cup interesting, because like the Olympics it is only once every 4 years and it is country v. country. Unlike the Olympics you just have one team per country in one sport. So it is pretty intense.
I just wish soccer was a little more popular here so we had better athletes to show case some of the athletic freaks we have in this country. But as football dies out in popularity from becoming just too brutal, maybe soccer can pick up some of those athletes.
And you do have a point, a bunch of the old timers in the USA are very anti-soccer to the point it is almost political.