I don't Like Soccer Sorry bout that Soccer Fans

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Up until 10 minutes ago I was watching the Women's World Cup. I thought I would give it a go since I had nothing better to do until 60 Minutes was on TV. I understand the game but I just can't get into it, doesn't matter if it's men / women or my grand children in years past. I feel the same about baseball. I am a lousy spectator and prefer to play sports instead of watching and that is my problem. The exception though is American Football. That I can stand to watch.
 

I was watching women's soccer a few times over the last week or so, until they started in with the political interviews - "We want to be treated the same as the men's team", blah, blah, blah. They can't just play the game - they have to make "statements".

Fine - you can use the urinals in the locker room. :rolleyes:
 
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I watched a soccer game once, when I was 11. Decided I didn't like it and never watched it again.

That severely limits your sports options in the UK!
 
I find watching golf only slightly preferable to watching paint dry. If it's the right paint, sometimes the paint drying is more interesting.

Now for sheer riveting excitement, I recommend watching cross country/5-10K's and marathon races. Everyone takes off, there's some cheering and shouting, then you sit in the sun sweating and swatting flies until they start showing up again anywhere from 20 minutes to a couple of hours later. I have 14 years of experience in being a footrace spectator and the lawnchair-waffled butt to show for it.
 
last year I went to a nearby college to watch a women's soccer game,it was interesting but I got kinda worn out watching those gals running, running all the time. I might enjoy it more if they shorting the length of the field and make that ridiculous goal net smaller, it looks big enough to drive an 18 wheeler thru.
Still trying to figure out the timing of this game like the clock goes foreword instead of backwards and the guy with the yellow flag,he looks like a signal man in the navy.
 
jujube said:
I find watching golf only slightly preferable to watching paint dry. If it's the right paint, sometimes the paint drying is more interesting.

You're right about golf....you use a stick to hit a ball and then go chase after it, hell I can get a dog to get that ball.
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Players that are skilled at the sport make the game interesting. South Americans and Europeans are generally the better soccer players. I enjoy watching those types of matches, but the games my grandchildren play are also worthy of my attention, if for no other reason than for them to know that I am supporting them. My son was a minor league baseball player that made it to AAA. I traveled extensively to watch and support him through his career. We thought that he had a shot at making it to the SHOW, which is what the pros call major leagues. He did play 14 games in the majors, but tore his Achilles tendon in practice, of all places and was never quite the same, so he was released.
 
Davey Jones said:
jujube said:
I find watching golf only slightly preferable to watching paint dry. If it's the right paint, sometimes the paint drying is more interesting.

You're right about golf....you use a stick to hit a ball and then go chase after it, hell I can get a dog to get that ball.
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Isn't it the same with all sports.. You are either hitting a ball (or a ball-like object) with a stick.. OR you are running back and forth with the ball trying to get it past the other team.
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Old joke: After watching her first football game, somebody asked her what she thought about it.

She said, "What a cheap game! It starts with somebody flipping a quarter, then the rest of the game its everybody yelling
'Get the quarter back', Get the quarter back'"
 
Whoever said that ''Golf is a good walk spoiled''...would have had my vote. Gawdsakes what a boring spectator sport that is, and I can't ever get my head around how even the players can find it exciting..hit the ball with a little stick, walk a mile and hit it again, ..then walk and hit ..good grief just put it 20 feet from the hole and the first to get it in is the winner...good game!! :D
 
I love NFL football and I can watch baseball. People who find baseball boring don't understand the finer points of the game. I hate basketball, soccer, and I don't even consider golf a sport.
 
My nephews play golf and also watch it on tv. And they have the nerve to call soccer (footie) boring!

My husband grew up playing footie (soccer) probably just after he learned to walk. All the kids did. And they could play in the street as hardly anybody owned cars. Hubby played on various university teams and community teams until he was in his 40's. He'd be a great coach now as he's always telling the players on tv what to do!
 
I can't watch spectator sports of any kind, so totally boring to me, even hockey. How about chess or snooker? Snore!
 
"How about chess or snooker"

I worked with a guy, we knew he hailed originally from Canada (some said he swam the Detroit River at 16!), he was an excellent machinist, but very temperamental. When we were assigned a big job out of town, requiring overnights in motels, we often spent evenings shooting pool. Some places even had a snooker table. Roy was unbeatable on our regulation size pool tables, we quickly learned. Why? Because he had grown up playing snooker, that game having curved entrances to the pockets, instead of straight. Plus, the balls used were only very little smaller than the width of the pocket entrances. A ball entering a snooker pocket, and grazing the side of the entrance is invariably returned back out onto the playing surface! Roy was good enough, he should have been an instructor, or something. imp
 
Thank goodness I don't have to hear the sounds of sports TV in my home anymore. My ex and his whole family were tv jocks, and because I wasn't one, I joined the ranks of sports widows (like golf widows), into the kitchen I went then. LOL
 
I hate soccer. Perhaps if I had been brought up in a soccer environment I would feel different. Same with hockey. When I was a kid, you just didn't see hockey in the south. If I had been born in Canada, I might love it.
 
Not everyone in Canada is into hockey. I know many men who never played hockey as kids and neither my son nor any of his friends played either. In fact professional hockey seems very dangerous with many serious closed head injuries. I imagine that soccer also has its share of injuries too and am appalled by news reports about hooligans rioting during soccer games in some countries.
 
"All the kids did. And they could play in the street as hardly anybody owned cars."

Like I said, not liking soccer in the UK severely restricts your sporting options, either as participant or spectator!

"Perhaps if I had been brought up in a soccer environment I would feel different."

Don't bet on it; it wasn't for me!

 
Laurie said:
"All the kids did. And they could play in the street as hardly anybody owned cars."

Like I said, not liking soccer in the UK severely restricts your sporting options, either as participant or spectator!

"Perhaps if I had been brought up in a soccer environment I would feel different."

Don't bet on it; it wasn't for me!
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My brother lives in the middle of a sports-centric area - SE Michigan. Lots of football, baseball, hockey, basketball fans in the family. But he has zero interest in sports.
 

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